Recent content by shakedotazz

Not a real big review as this is my first time building a computer... but I picked up an MSI Z77A-G45 and was booting up in about 20 seconds, from pushing the power button. It's a starting point at least... Unfortunately, I returned that and grabbed a different board with better hackintosh...

Thanks Destiny... I may have solved it... somehow lol. I just decided to reinstall Windows again from scratch. Before I did though, I found a BIOS update for my board. So I updated my board from F8 to F10. Also, during installation, I "pre-installed" the Intel AHCI driver I got from their...

Any tips Seven? I'm not really sure what else to change in the BIOS to make it fast... I've already enabled AHCI, as well as the quick boot thing... Don't know what else to change. thanks

It's pretty fast... I just wish the boot up was the same. This thing is driving me crazy.

I have... after switching the mobo, I reinstalled Windows 7 -- 2nd major install on this SSD -- and then installed the drivers from the new mobo's DVD, and video card's DVD.

It now feels like I'm booting Windows up on a regular HDD, not SSD... and after logging in, it just shows a black screen for about 20-30 seconds, with CoreTemps program and a functioning mouse cursor before the rest of the desktop (wallpaper/taskbar/icons, etc...) would show up. After all of...

Yes, I installed over the original install of Windows 7 after switching the motherboard.

yup.. and here's a screenshort of AS SSD Benchmark I ran yesterday, just in case it helps.

Can you guys please help me? I don't even know where to start... I switched my motherboard -- from MSI z77a-g45 to GA Z68XP UD3 -- for better hackintosh compatibility that I'll be trying out in about a month or two... Since I've switched motherboards though, Windows 7 takes so much longer to...