Posts by qwertymac93

You mean like a watermark?

Do you have your sata controller set to ide/legacy, ahci, or raid mode?

If you can, install windows completely first, then worry about drivers.

I liked it, after sp1 there was no reason to use xp in my opinion. I suspect the reason you saw mostly vista when working at the repair shop was because most people who had a pc old enough to be running xp likely just bought a new pc...

You will only turbo up to 3.2ghz if half of your cores are idle and underclocked. By using the "high performance" power profile you are not allowing the idle cores to underclock themselves. If you want to turbo to 3.2ghz you need to...

Quote:Originally Posted by nigel ... the power settings in windows is set to High Performance, i cant think of anything else to check.set it to balanced and reset the profile to default.

Try "optimizing" the drive. This should manually trim the drive.

Try showing system files and checking properties again?

are you in the balanced power profile? if it's set to high performance turbo runs at 50%

If you can't change the default HDD than you will have to get rid of the windows install on the HDD. Boot into the SSD and format the partition that had the old install of windows on the HDD, just be sure to copy any important files to...