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[Layback Bear]

Thanks for the pat on the back.

I think I will tinker awhile. This Motherboard has so many possibilities, their will be a learning curve.

My bios sees both M.2 but when I select raid it doesn't see but one M.2.
Their is a ton of information about raid (0) for x79 and other motherboards but very little on a X99 Deluxe II motherboard.
My dealer had a usb thumb drive that had Window 7 Pro with the need NVMe drivers which made the install on one M.2 possible. Windows 7 see both M.2 and they are both formatted with a drive letter.
Still can't get the bios to do raid (0).

I have read so many things and watched so many videos on raid my brains is scrambled.


Jack

 

[essenbe]

Jack, did you read the link I posted? It was on an X99 board. The only way I know to Raid M.2 drives is through Disk Management in a sort of software raid. Samsung SM951 512GB M.2 PCIe SSDs in RAID 0 - Hitting 4.5GB/s - Legit ReviewsSamsung SM951 M.2 PCIe SSDs in RAID 0

 

[essenbe]

Layback Bear here is another article on the Z170 chipset. I am sure you have evrything plus more that they have. Intel Skylake / Z170 Rapid Storage Technology Tested - PCIe and SATA RAID *updated* | PCIe RAID Results It should be worth a try though.

 

[eightbruce12347]

all of you guys with your nice setups haha, i can barely play low end games with my laptop such as that old school halo combat evolved

 

[eightbruce12347]

anyone know if i can upgrade the ram and get a new cpu for my laptop? ram is 2gb atm

 

[essenbe]

anyone know if i can upgrade the ram and get a new cpu for my laptop? ram is 2gb atm

Your manual should tell you the max ram for your laptop. But Your specs say you have a 32 bit OS, so the max ram your OS can address will be about 3.5 - 3.7 GB. I wouldn't get more than 4 GB, if your laptop allows it.

 

[eightbruce12347]

i got my laptop from the supermarket haha no manual, but everything i have on it seems decent, its an acer aspire 5610z imma take a look at how much ram it can hold, but if i were to get more where would be a good place to look?

 

[eightbruce12347]

yup 4gb of ram and i found a pricing on ebay for 2x2gb ram cards, $30 sounds like a good deal ill order them sometime this week

 

[essenbe]

Good. Just make sure you get compatible ram for it. You can use Crucial system scanner, which is very good to make sure. You don't have to buy from Crucial if you don't want to, but note all the specs and you can buy any ram with those specs, pretty much.

 

[Layback Bear]

I got about 40 hours in this raid thing. Tried many things that didn't work.

I'm going to plan (B).

I have installed Windows 7 Pro/64 on one M.2 and when I get in the mood I will install W-10 on the other M.2 and just dual boot.

Steve, I could use a suggestion on which W-10 to get. I see you have Enterprise.
Please explain why.

Jack

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Looks as though he likes to rent an os
It does have the most ways to restrict MS from doing a lot of it's questionable practices that ilk most people but you pay yearly for those features instead of one payment like any prior os has been to normal people oem/ retail.

 

[A Guy]

He's a MVP...suspect it's a perk

A Guy

 

[essenbe]

He's a MVP...suspect it's a perk

A Guy

That's exactly why I have it... free. If I was going to buy it, I would get Pro. I really don't know about any yearly fees, but Pro will do most anything you need to do.

 

[Layback Bear]

Thank you Steve for your opinion.

I'm having fun installing Windows 7 Pro again. Once again I was dumb. I tried Asus AI-Suite 3.
I figured that by now the suite would work properly.
All I did was install it, but I did not use it and it locked my computer in Safe Mode without the use of mouse or key board. Using the Windows 7 DVD and comd prompt and this forum I got out of safe mode and back to Normal boot. Still no mouse or keyboard.

The joy of building your own computer.

Jack

 

[essenbe]

It's always something isn't it? Some systems will run AI Suite and never have a problem, some won't even run with it installed. One of those unanswerable questions I think. IRST is the same way for some, I have no idea why.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Yep ai suite 3 well I skipped that crapware personally along with the rest of the asus crapware they supply with the chipset driver package
Not exactly sure where the chipset driver actually is to tell the truth all of it seems like is crapware

 

[essenbe]

I loved AI Suite on their Z77 boards. It was very good and useful. The X99 AI Suite, I tried for about 10 minutes when I first built the rig and uninstalled it. Mike, the Chipset drivers are necessary and have nothing to do with AI Suite.

 

[Layback Bear]

Windows 7 on one M.2. and bios at default.





Jack

 

[essenbe]

Nice scores Jack.

 

[ThrashZone]

Mike, the Chipset drivers are necessary and have nothing to do with AI Suite.

Hi,
Yea it was tough to spot which was needed and which ones were just fluff..