Hi all
I have managed to Clean Install Win 7 onto my new Samsung 840 Pro SSD (It wouldn't recognise my product key at first but this site http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/31402-clean-install-upgrade-windows-7-version.html worked when I downloaded the .bat file for registry workaround)
Initial impressions are very good, the boot up times much quicker and no lag when opening programs and an overall much quicker experience. That said I've done my first benchmark test and although I don't think my MB BIOS supports AHCI and I'm using SATAII should I be getting better results than this;
I initially had problems using the Magician software; each time I boot up I get the prompt 'Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer' and have to click YES each time before I can do anything in Windows - also I then get a window popping up stating that 'Magician cannot communicate with the below Samsung SSD"...so rather than using the OS optimization Maximum Performance, Capacity & Reliability options, instead I followed Sean's Optimization guide here http://www.overclock.net/t/1156654/seans-windows-7-install-optimization-guide-for-ssds-hdds reducing Page File, System Restore, Hibernation, Turning off search Indexing, disabling SuperFetch...etc...etc...
I'm unsure about downloading latest Motherboard & Chipset drivers though, the procedure for this and any potential issues that may cause or weather Windows Update would have already done this? How do you check what version chipset you have and if you need to update it?
This is my motherboard... http://www.asrock.com/mb/NVIDIA/Penryn1600SLI-110dB/
All I know is that I have the latest 1.40 BIOS.
So in summary I know my motherboard isn't all singing, dancing latest (it was when I bought it in 2008!!) hardware out there, but do you know anyway I might be able to boost my read/write stats....other than that at least I will have the SSD when at some point I buy another PC.
I have managed to Clean Install Win 7 onto my new Samsung 840 Pro SSD (It wouldn't recognise my product key at first but this site http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/31402-clean-install-upgrade-windows-7-version.html worked when I downloaded the .bat file for registry workaround)
Initial impressions are very good, the boot up times much quicker and no lag when opening programs and an overall much quicker experience. That said I've done my first benchmark test and although I don't think my MB BIOS supports AHCI and I'm using SATAII should I be getting better results than this;
I initially had problems using the Magician software; each time I boot up I get the prompt 'Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer' and have to click YES each time before I can do anything in Windows - also I then get a window popping up stating that 'Magician cannot communicate with the below Samsung SSD"...so rather than using the OS optimization Maximum Performance, Capacity & Reliability options, instead I followed Sean's Optimization guide here http://www.overclock.net/t/1156654/seans-windows-7-install-optimization-guide-for-ssds-hdds reducing Page File, System Restore, Hibernation, Turning off search Indexing, disabling SuperFetch...etc...etc...
I'm unsure about downloading latest Motherboard & Chipset drivers though, the procedure for this and any potential issues that may cause or weather Windows Update would have already done this? How do you check what version chipset you have and if you need to update it?
This is my motherboard... http://www.asrock.com/mb/NVIDIA/Penryn1600SLI-110dB/
All I know is that I have the latest 1.40 BIOS.
So in summary I know my motherboard isn't all singing, dancing latest (it was when I bought it in 2008!!) hardware out there, but do you know anyway I might be able to boost my read/write stats....other than that at least I will have the SSD when at some point I buy another PC.
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