Gateway FX laptop Series Thread *mods and upgrades*

[Se7eN]

Just ordered my 7807 off newegg

[bigal1542]

Originally Posted by martee

Here you go 9C.17.00 Vista x86 and 9C.17.00 Vista x64

Any real advantage going with these over what I have in the stock lappy?

[Se7eN]

Is anyone using WIndows 7 ?

[martee]

Originally Posted by bigal1542

Any real advantage going with these over what I have in the stock lappy?

Welllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll... ........................

Nope!........................ looks like the system is a bit snappier now.

[bigal1542]

Originally Posted by martee

Welllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll... ........................

Nope!........................ looks like the system is a bit snappier now.

snappier after the new BIOS?

[ritchwell]

Originally Posted by martee

Here you go 9C.17.00 Vista x86 and 9C.17.00 Vista x64

thanks bro, just installed it.

[cHIEFM]

Originally Posted by ritchwell

The only thing i can think of is a software raid by intel matrix console manager that was preinstalled in our fx7811. But the problem with software raiding is that it uses the cpu alot.

Your exactly right Martee,

I just picked it up and thats exactly what the tech told me "it just needed the BIOS updated" Too bad i saw your reply too late Thanks thou.

I will run some BMs to night and see if it did any good, I hope I can come close to shiftys.

[cHIEFM]

If Im trying to attain better performance out of my two 320GB hard drives. I have read before that the OS should be on on HD and the game on other. However Im thinking that if I have my configuration as RAID0 it wont matter because my HDD will be acting as one.

Which is the best configuration in you guys opinion?

I am googling this in the meantime

Thanks

[ritchwell]

Originally Posted by cHIEFM

If Im trying to attain better performance out of my two 320GB hard drives. I have read before that the OS should be on on HD and the game on other. However Im thinking that if I have my configuration as RAID0 it wont matter because my HDD will be acting as one.

Which is the best configuration in you guys opinion?

I am googling this in the meantime

Thanks

Since you have 2 of the drives in a raid 0 configuration the only other thing to do to get more perpormance but you will lose some storage space is to short stroke the array.

Or another option is what im doin is one drive i have a SSD and the other bay is my storage drive.

[The Mad Mule]

Originally Posted by masterwong

yeah mad mule i noticed that too, where'd u get the modified drivers?

Ergh, sorry for the late reply.

http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/top...n-7-and-vista/

More specifically, from this post, because the "original modded" ones absolutely don't work: http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/top...6&#entry119596

Watch out on this page though; it always freezes for a few seconds before FF asks you if you want to enable a script...I think it's because of one member's stupid signature animation. Just say "No" and download that file that's in the permalinked post.

But like I said, it really messes up the stability of Control Panel, mostly by crashing it within a few seconds to a minute.