Really? Would HP know I OC'd? I mean right now my laptop still works fine and passed RAM/HDD Tests as well.
And about EFI, I installed Windows 7 in EFI mode. Heres what I had to do. - Set BIOS to use UEFI - Go to startup list and boot an EFI file (in this case, it was EFI\Boot\bootmrgx64.efi or something like that on the win7 ult x64 dvd) - Install 7 normally for the most part (in order to use EFI booting, I have to have a partition called HP_TOOLS in fat32. Nothing has to be on it though, but it has to exist. I had to make my drive also GPT prior to doing this from Ubuntu's Gparted. While creating partitions, I had the normal system reserved partition, and a different partition that was MSR reserved (EFI partition). Then I had my main partition and my hp tools) My windows 7 doesn't have the fancy boot screen anymore (it reverts back to vista style with the bar) but I only see the loading screen for maybe 3 seconds before it boots into windows, whereas if I was using BIOS mode, it would take 30secs or more to go from the boot screen to windows. Also I wanted to test out XP because I just assumed I might get slightly better performance (not that it's bad in 7). In the end, I just said forget it and then went back to 7. If I kept AHCI enabled without proper drivers on install of XP, it would BSOD and restart instantly. If I enabled AHCI after installing XP in IDE mode, it would BSOD and restart as well. And isn't AHCI better then using IDE mode? My stuff still works fine in AHCI mode from what I noticed anyway, and plus there was some reason why it was better to use that over IDE, something that allowed more commands or something i forget what it was called. And some more about EFI. It's the thing that mac's use to boot OS X. It's better then BIOS (for some reason that idk how to explain) though. There are some OEM's that also use EFI as a total replacement of the BIOS as well. The advantage of this is, a way nicer looking BIOS-like interface. For instance, in my bios, I can use my mouse (which is amazing for not even booting fully), and it actually has a GUI instead of a blue screen with words and stuff. Also this makes dual booting easier as well, and it might even make hackintosh OS X installations go easier. But so far, using Windows 7 in UEFI mode doesn't seem to have THAT much of a performance difference inside the OS itself. It does make the boot faster though by far. Also I heard I could boot EFI applications like QuickLook (aparantly, if I read correctly, I can read my email before I even boot an OS) On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:44 AM, hussam aulaian <[email protected]> wrote: > yeah , and one more thing can i add to ur page , that bluescreen > troubleshooter software ,, its free ,incase if u dont mine here is the link > again > http://cid-b0ec9a9e9e20660f.office.live.com/self.aspx/Software/bluescreenview%5E_setup.rar > > -- > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS > -- Espionage724 Has A Signature... -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
