Grr.. well I hope I don't have to turn it in or anything... And yea whenever my laptop starts up, it starts up like any other computer (gives you options to enter BIOS settings, and boot from device), I just select a device and it lets me choose HDD, Optical, or EFI File, if I choose EFI file, it will then give me a list of all devices/partitions on the system and then I can choose an EFI file.
After enabling UEFI mode and installing 7, theres now a new boot choice called Windows Boot Loader. I choose that to boot into 7. Also I fixed my "means" of activation by using RemoveWAT. On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:18 PM, tribaljet <[email protected]> wrote: > You're on to something great. Unfortunately there aren't that many > laptop bios with uefi support so far. There are some tools (mainly > linux based, I think) that allow you to do basic things like playing > mp3, using webmails, and things like that. > AHCI is good, everytime. If you can enable it, do it. It is faster and > cooler, it's not a big difference but it's there. If you want to > enable it, read my guide a few posts back, and if you do let me know > if everything went well. IDE is like xp, ancient history, not > supported anymore and prone to compatibility errors, like AHCI which > is common ground nowadays. > After you set your BIOS to UEFI, it let you choose an EFI file for you > to boot from? > And yes, HP will know you OC'd, but it depends on what the situation > might be. > > On Jun 21, 5:05 pm, Espionage724 <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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/bluesc... >> >> > -- >> > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS >> >> -- >> Espionage724 Has A Signature... > > -- > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS > -- Espionage724 Has A Signature... -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
