Alright, 1. Never used EFI outside of servers and even then the EFI portion of installation goes smoothly, its normally prior RAID arrays which cause problems.
2. It is possible that you are sucking a little to much power out of your system while overclocking that cpu, laptop PSU's are very limited in their capacity to supply power to anything but the board and its components in a native state, hussam and I Discussed this in a earlier thread I believe. remember that overclocking is bound to cause strange results unless it is within normal parameters, and even then lol. 3. Why are you wanting to use AHCI? Are you a developer? I dare say that the extra listing you unlocked is a more direct interface between the OS and the controllers firmware that is normally hidden. Similar to DMA I'm guessing however I couldn't say for sure. 4. Haha that is a curious question now that you mention it. I surpose it is much the same as that board that nvidia developed for laptops that suported the GPU being removed without having to shutdown or power off. I can see the advantages from a engineers point of view but it holds very little purpose to a everyday consumer looking for a good little laptop to use for everyday puproses. 5. This one is just weird, the first thing that comes to mind is a driver issues, try cleaning and then reinstalling your driver for whatever GPU is in your new laptop. Other than that I would say that it is a limitation of your GPU in the same way that 7000 series nvidia cards often had issues with AA pipelines causing insta-lag for anyone who dared turn it on in their favorite high end game, or like the early 3000 series ATI GPU's that suffered from a bug in games using HDR+ High quality Shadows would freeze suddenly and then when it unfroze the app would experiance weird graphical artifacts until it was restarted. I suggest you also look for the latest patch for the game and do some searching online to see if you can determine wether it is a bug only prone to happen on your GPU or if other people on different GPU's get it. Hope this helps. THEfog On 21/06/2010 3:00 PM, "Espionage724" <[email protected]> wrote: - Anyone ever try installing windows in EFI mode? My BIOS lets me use EFI mode (UEFI) and I can apparently install windows like this. I'm still giving this a try now, but it is different from what I've seen so far... interesting though... (idk how this would affect my "means" of activation or anything though... - When trying to overclock my new laptop (compaq 515) CPU voltage, my laptop's usb keyboard and mouse stopped working, however I was able to move the touchpad mouse around. I couldn't do anything though. Upon reboot, windows error reporting service says I had a Blue Screen event, which was weird. I had the same thing happen to me when I tried running SpeedFan as well... Strange thing was, I never actually got the "blue screen"... - To install XP with AHCI enabled, I had to get an external floppy drive with my SATA drivers on it (most people would know this though). For 7 though, I didn't have to do this. However when I did do it, I noticed an extra section in my device manager. - Can anyone here think of a reason why I would want to remove my wireless card on the go? I've seen a few laptops (even my new 1) that allowed the wifi card to be safely removed from within windows, yet the idea seems pointless? - On StarCraft 2, I noticed that on my new laptop, I could max everything out except Shadows, lighting, and something else. If I did that, then it would look very similiar to what it would look like on the 950GMA (minus the post processing stuff). When I took the lighting to medium, the entire enviroment changed significiantly, and thats when the lag was introduced. But the differences in high to extreme weren't much different then medium. -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
