I have bought a i5-3570s 3.10 processer,and want to buy motherboard,and other stuff ill need.What all will i need besides motherboard,and tower?I know power supply,but how many watts?What kinds of wires ect?I have only been messing with laptops so bare with me.
Hopefully you guys,gals can direct...
I'm currently stuck in a somewhat backwoods part of the world, with my only source of Internet being a CDMA type dongle.
Webcomics are a slight pain in the rear, but work sloooowly, when they work at all. Some other stuff such as SU chat dosen't work at all. The dongle comes with some software ...
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I couldn't boot Windows 8 from the enclosure. So I enabled UEFI. But that removed my main OS from the boot menu for some reason. Anyway I was able to boot onto Windows 8 installed drivers etc. When I disabled UEFI to boot onto main OS I got "bootmgr is compressed" or similar.
I've long since fixed that. But now I want to know how to boot without enabling UEFI or compressing the bootmgr
@LewsTherin what does "enabling UEFI" even mean? if your system has UEFI firmware; it's always enabled; you can't dis-able it, or you'd be unable to boot anything, at all, ever
@LewsTherin it probably means to say, "should I try to look for and boot off of UEFI system partitions, or should I try to boot from bootloaders in the MBR of connected devices"
so let me get this straight: you enabled UEFI, got it to work, booted into Windows, installed drivers, and then you went and messed with the BIOS, disabled UEFI (for what reason I can't fathom), and now you consider that a problem?
if you had it working, why'd you go break it again?
@LewsTherin If you installed in UEFI mode then tried to boot in BIOS mode, it simply won't work.
Install the OS (or the bootloader) in the mode you wish to boot in.
You can perform a repair install (probably... or you'll have to manually fix it) if you ever decide to switch modes (which is a crazy thing to do anyway).
@allquixotic Lol wtf.. I'm sorry I asked now. It wouldn't work (boot from enclosure) without enabling UEFI. But it wouldn't boot on the original OS as the bootmgr had been compressed.
@LewsTherin your solution (should be) simple: both your OS on the internal drive(s) and your OS on your external drive(s) -- that is, every single OS you will ever connect to this system -- should be configured, at install-time (or repair-time, if you take Bob's suggestion) to boot to the same mode -- either BIOS-based, or UEFI-based
it sounds like you have them mismatched right now, which will always break one of the two OSes regardless of which setting you have it on (UEFI enabled or disabled)
you get your repair disk, you boot it up, you go to the recovery console, and with the proper sequence of commands, by the time you've rebooted, you've switched from BIOS to UEFI boot, or vice versa
and since it seems you have a choice of whether to boot in UEFI mode or BIOS mode, I'd echo Bob's recommendation that you make sure both are booting in UEFI mode
falling back to BIOS will introduce very old problems (problems which were created by design decisions made in the 1980s) about boot order and device initiailization order
actually if you buy a digital copy of the OS the ISO is still free, but you'd have to have bought it retail at the Microsoft Store to go retrieve the ISO
I haven't tried that article myself, but after reading the steps, it seems like it knows what it's talking about, and I've done something quite similar in the past (with success)
funnily enough, the procedure to fix a broken UEFI partition is the same procedure as installing a new one, provided you actually have a UEFI system partition already allocated
@Bob I'm booting in the best mode (I say this 100% jokingly) -- the system POSTs in CSM mode, loads the BIOS-only Option ROM of the hardware RAID controller, then boots Windows 8.1 in UEFI mode :D figure that one out! :D
@LewsTherin either way, fire up a partition manager program (there are many) and check which partition table type you have, if you don't already know what it is
@Bob well, up until I got an Ivy Bridge mobo, I was booting GPT disks on a non-UEFI system (a system board that didn't even have a UEFI firmware, period)
@LewsTherin if you go under Computer Management, Disk Management, and right-click your main disk, you'll see a "Convert to X" option where X is the partition table type you don't currently have
@LewsTherin you'd have to have a GPT partition table on both your external and internal disks in order to boot both of your OSes off of UEFI. from the sound of it, your external disk is already set to go and happily ready to boot in UEFI mode, but your main OS isn't.
umm... I guess, one way to fix your problem, is to boot to the OS on the external drive :D with it being the system partition, you should be able to tell Windows to convert the main disk to GPT
btw @Bob I looked up the passmark scores of my old ThinkPad X61T (with highest available clock on the Core 2 Duo) and the Ivy Bridge Pentium in my Yoga 2, and the Yoga 2, while costing about $2000 less, delivers about 15% better PassMark scores (mostly owing to the 4 hardware CPU cores; its single threaded perf is awful)
@Bob well, recall that the Ivy Pentium I have is basically an Atom (although "Atom", itself, is not enormously architecturally different from mainline Ivy, starting with Ivy microarch; it's just hugely cut down)
@Bob I wonder if my running Windows 8.1 has anything to do with the lower overhead? obviously for third-party (non-MSFT) apps the difference will be razor-thin, but for MSFT stuff, it wouldn't surprise me if they've cut down on thread count
I recall reading somewhere (though, maybe it was just marketing) that MSFT actually did some real engineering (not just their typical GUI redesign nonsense) in 8/8.1 to attempt to cut down on some of the background activity, because it makes a very measurable difference on battery-powered devices
my kernel and windows defender are using markedly fewer threads
according to my reading on Advanced Format, 512e reads should have very close to native 4kn performance... what will suck are 512e writes
especially if the writes can't be queued up and batched to hit a single RAID stripe at a time
I could probably get quite good performance even with 512e if I turned on write caching on the controller, but I don't have the balls for that... too much risk of data loss
I'm currently stuck in a somewhat backwoods part of the world, with my only source of Internet being a CDMA type dongle.
Webcomics are a slight pain in the rear, but work sloooowly, when they work at all. Some other stuff such as SU chat dosen't work at all. The dongle comes with some software ...
