Looking for upgrade advice

Wrenches said:

Don't bother with upgrade, just get an OEM.

Microsoft GFC-02050 Software - Newegg.com

I think the memory and drive upgrades will improve your system greatly but I see you already ordered the SSD but will it work in IDE? I don't think your BIOS has the option from going to AHCI from IDE.

It may be ok as I don't know that much but seeing that you have an older system raised the question.

The mobo has sata inputs. I just used what I had lying around when I built it. I would not be surprised if its a 5400 rpm

Thanks guys it worked great. I set it up in diskpart and cloned the cdrive it went smooth. I very happy with the speed. I'm not sure I completely understand the deal with the bit locker. I followed the SSD alignment instructions but this small partition is not visible and the size appears the same, so I’m not sure it is setup correctly.

Datman said:

Thanks guys it worked great. I set it up in diskpart and cloned the cdrive it went smooth. .

As always I spoke to soon. I was getting a few weird issues. I was getting a blue screen of death as I shut it down and would always reboot and have to be manually turned off. Moving the wireless usb adapter would cause a blue screen. I did a fresh install and the drive disappeared during the install and caused an error. I moved the sata and power cables around and that seemed to help with the SSD staying stable and the blue screens with the wireless adapter. I also updated the bios and chip set drivers today. It still will not shut down and a get a blue screen for a few seconds right before windows would normally turn off but it cycles back on. I haven't really used it yet to tell if it will run OK but it definitely will not shut down.

One of 2 things must be bad. The SSD or my PS.

I forgot to set the bios from sata to AHCI so I thought that must be it. Then windows wound not boot but if I switched it back to sata it would. So I thought I must need to install windows again with the bios set to AHCI and it seemed to work. I installed all the mobo software, SP1 and 2 restarted several times everything was looking good then I opened Internet explorer and it prompted me to install IE9 and I did. When it rebooted I am back to BSOD everytime I reboot. I have to hold the power button and the next time I boot I get a ctrl alt delete to restart error and if I go into the bios the drive is gone again. I give up.

Golden said:

Please follow steps outlined here to get BSOD help:

https://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-d...tructions.html

thanks for the link Golden.

I will study it later when I have more time. As it turns out the problem is my USB wireless adapter. It has been on this computer for years and as far as I can tell it is still good but for some reason after I hooked up the SSD I started getting ther BSOD but if I replace it with a different unit everything works fine.

That's why I thought I was all good at first then after I installed the adapter and did all the updates is when I had problems. I never dreamed it could be the adapter, weird.

Maybe not so weird. Usually something tries to use the same resources as the others thus causing a conflict. Changing the unit usually solves that.