Recent content by bbinnard

Get in touch with people like James Cameron or anyone in the moition picture production business - you have re-invented mocap (motion capture) which is a well-proven technology.

I just made the upgrade 1806 ==> 1908 with no problem. I downloaded the BIOS so the file would be on my system and then used AI Suite II to do the update. The only odd thing was my system rebooted twice after the update - first reboot never even showed the BIOS screen -it just immediately shut...

I use the Intel one on my P8Z77M system. Device Manager shows it as Intel(R) Series/C216 Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller I too wonder why it says C216 Chipseet - but that's what it installed.

I'm going to be taking all the drives out of my current PC and putting them into a new system who's parts (motherboard, PSU, CPU, RAM, video card, fan) arrived next Tuesday. But the new case doesn't arrive until Friday. So is there any problem with putting the parts together on my desktop and...

Raincity - yes,, I've read that but it seems to me that Sysprep does more than I need and it does not avoid the need to re-validate Win7 during the first boot. So I think I'll only do the Sysprep thing if I can't get a regular boot to work. Kinger - I am aware I'll have to re-validate my copy...

First boot on new board in Safe Mode is a great idea - thanks for that. Here's hoping it all goes smoothly.

My current system is Win7-64 SP1 running in an ASUS P6T motherboard with i7-920 & 6GB RAM. My boot drive is a Samsung 840-Pro SSD. I'm planning on building a new system with an ASUS P877-M board running an i7-3770S with 8GB RAM so I can get SATA3, USB3, a faster CPU, and a smaller form...

Coup27 Excellent explanation -thanks. The intelligence built in to the latest CPU chips certainly makes the benchmarking process more complex that simply running a piece of software and looking at the results. It will be interesting to see if the developers of benchmark software start...

After reading this thread I just installed the RST 11.7.0.1013 drivers on my W7n7-64 system running on an old ASUS P6T motherboard. My boot drive is an 840 Pro and the installation of the updated RST drivers went smooth as silk. I ran the installation from the EXE file as a regular Windows...

I'm not so sure that it is. On a HDD Windows reads the FAT to determine which parts of a file are where. On a HDD the FAT is a table that identifies where files are. But on an SSD the SSD firmware relocates blocks of data based on where is thinks is best. Moreover, it (the SSD firmware)...

Samsung just put up their own SSD cloning tool. Unfortunately for me it was about a week late - I had to use something else to clone my drive. But the 840 Pro is a great drive and I would certainly recommend it. You can get the Samsung clone software at the 840 Pro download site. There is...

Notice that Samsung has just put up their own SSD cloning software. Too bad it arrived a week too late for me.

Thanks Hellhammer, you have done a nice job on identifying and explaining the Samsung SSD firmware problems. I held off buying my 840 Pro pending resolution of this issue - I've had the drive for a couple of weeks now and it's terrific. Your info should help a lot of people decide on what...

Brahmzy Good info - thanks. I think I'll wait to update my 840 Pro firmware.

I installed am 840 Pro 3 days ago and have had no problems once I got through the cloning process (where I did have problems.) I did NOT use GPT because I had read somewhere that GPT can cause problems with certain aspects of Win7. Once I got my system in a position where it could boot OK from...