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| Thread ID: 132672 | 2013-05-19 02:12:00 | Annoying intermittent buzzing and slight pause when playing games. | ChazTheGeek (16619) | Press F1 |
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| 1341981 | 2013-07-05 05:11:00 | My problem was that my game would stop and stutter and the sound would buzz (like when you put your fingers on a active speaker jack). On a side note, I bought an SSD and I want to put everything I have on my 80GB Boot drive on the SSD. Then make my SSD the C:\ drive. Thanks again guys :) |
ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1341982 | 2013-07-06 05:32:00 | On a side note, I have an SSD and I want to shift everything off my boot drive onto that so I'll be able to boot off the SSD. Any ideas on how to do it? |
ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1341983 | 2013-07-06 08:18:00 | If you have a SSD, do a fresh install. Its painful but its definitely for the best. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1341984 | 2013-07-06 11:47:00 | +1 for Chills suggestion but if you must then; Step one - check your BIOS to see if you are in AHCI mode - if not google how to change to AHCI - it involves a registry change and a driver install or your system won't boot after the change. Not strictly necessary but for best SSD performance you should use this mode. Even if you reinstall windows from scratch do this first. next depending on size you may need to reduce the amount on C:, even if you can fit it all clearing the excess will speed up the rest of the process. Uninstall everything you don't need/ want to keep of your C: drive, backup/move any data files, pics, etc onto another drive or external storage if you can and remove them from C: (leave them on C: if you have to) Run CCleaner and remove whatever you can, probably not a bad Idea to do a full virus scan also. Install both hard drives, clone the old one onto the new one using cloning software such as Active@ (my 1st choice) or Acronis or Ghost etc, Active@ has a trial period, Acronis is often available free from the HDD manufacturers website in a cutdown version. Shut down and disconnect the old drive, reboot and see if it works. If not try again using a different cloning program, if there's an option to make a boot disk and use that for cloning it's the best option (it's tricky to reliably clone windows from within itself while running but does work most times). Once up and running, tweak your system for an SSD. There may be a utility with it or on the website to do it for you or you can google it and do it yourself. The main one is to make sure defrag is disabled for the SSd as it does no good and adds wear to the drive. Also usually drive indexing is disabled and the page file can be moved to a data drive (some people disagree with this but I personally recommend it). I think there may be a couple other settings also (a fresh install does most of them by default when an SSD is detected). Leave your old drive disconnected with windows on it for a few days until you are happy everything is sorted out just in case you need to go back or start over, once you are happy you could wipe it and use it as a storage drive or something. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1341985 | 2013-07-07 03:56:00 | Thanks guys. I ended up downloading the free version of EaseUS Todo backup and just doing a drive clone to my SSD. Pretty painless and easy. Works great and the system is quite speedy. |
ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1341986 | 2013-07-08 05:28:00 | I think not in this case but nearly suggested something similar at one point, I had a XFX GTX260 once that had a high pitched whine that altered pitch as you moved the camera around in game. I figured it was some component under stress but it never played up apart from making the noise and it wasn't too annoying. Didnt bother reading the whole thread, my fault.... |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1341987 | 2013-07-08 06:46:00 | Oh well. :) | ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
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