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If a system boots in less time, doesn't mean it works practically works any faster. If the computer is rarely shut down at all, the boot time is a small fraction of its operating hours. I only turn off my PC because of the current heat wave in the afternoon. Also any new system will feel somewhat faster due to low fragmentation and small registry, depending on how much the previous system was used. 3x would break Nathan Myhrvold's and Wirth's laws of physics.

These hard drives are still working but are relatively new. 320 AAJ was used in a plastic Gigapod enclosure in the past, and therefore has a temperature reading of 61 °C. HDD VN is "new" but shows very low power cycle and load/unload cycle count. I used HDAT2 to lock the DCO where it accidentally saved the power management setting that prevents it from parking the heads. Apparently Crystal knows how to access smart over a RAID controller where other software fails.

How did you quantify the phenomenal 3x speed increase? Windows keeps growing in size, and yet every new version is reported as being faster. It is always some tricks, like delayed start of services (that still have to start) or suspend memory to disk, which was possible in older systems as well.

I researched this problem some more and found a SOLUTION. It has to do with sector addresses in CHS that exist alongside LBA. The workaround is to set the end sector of the system partition to the highest possible value FE FF FF. For LBA 8388608 I had h,s,c: 42,32,522. I am not sure if the sector value was correct, or if it should have been 33. I used BootIce, which is able to commit edits to bootsectors. The speed of the flash memory has much improved. https://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?topic=8585.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scenario 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Error ------- - BIOS is set to AHCI native SATA Mode BIOS > Integrated Peripherals > SATA AHCI Mode = AHCI SATA Port0-1 Native Mode = Enabled - HDD is connected - the primary partition start offset is 2048 sectors, which is equal to 1.048.576 bytes (1 * 1024 * 1024), this is an alignment value normally used for SSDs to improve read / write speed - Windows 2003 Server x86 with integrated SP2 is used to install the HDD - you press F6 to choose an AHCI driver floppy disk during setup - we use the already present partition and do only a quick NTFS format or we choose "Leave the current file system intact (no changes)" if available - the OS installs and on the 1st reboot directly after the AHCI Controller device scan you read one of the following error messages: - A disk read error occurred - Unable to load operating system - Error loading operating system Solution ---------- - turn computer off - connect the HDD which caused the problem and a 2nd HDD for launching XP - turn computer on - set BIOS to IDE Legacy Mode for XP to start - in XP use a hex editor and open the PhysicalDrive of the HDD that you installed Windows Server 2003 on - in the MBR set the 3 bytes starting at offset 0x1C3 to FE FF FF and save the changes to the PhysicalDrive - turn computer off - disconnect XP HDD - turn on computer - switch BIOS to native AHCI Mode - now Windows 2003 Server / Windows XP Setup will boot and continue - you will now have a properly aligned partition starting at sector 2048

I experience an invalidation of my previous login made on the same day when I log onto the board from a second computer on the same IP address. Can this be avoided?

If the system needs more than 4 GB of RAM, new processor instructions and a new motherboard with UEFI and a Treacherous Module, 64-bit makes the most sense. For compact installations or legacy hardware the newest OS is never the best choice.

This is strange. I tried writing a boot sector with bootsect.exe /nt52 C: /mbr. No go. Then tried installing Windows while connected to ICH8. It would not boot from either port after this, until I ran an installation another time now connected to JM. I don't believe there is data in the bootsector about the connection method. But the second installation made some change that allowed booting. The error loading operating system definitely comes from the disk. mbr-xray.bin pbr-xray.bin

I never reinstall, and accumulate many helper utilities and registry tweaks when I discover them. Most 3rd party software require tweaking, such as web browsers, where most settings are heavily obfuscated. I feel quite uncomfortable on a fresh, naked installation of Windows. The system disk and registry do get slower over time, but can be defragmented by copying over to a new disk or files. To reduce fragmentation, I move temp, browser caches and swap to a separate partition. Programs and System should separate. This allows to wipe the system, but keep programs. I avoid installing large programs that write to the registry, except for ones that I don't have an alternative for. If I see Windows Installer or .Net Framework, I steer clear of those. No updates, except when they extend functionality. The last time I reinstalled, I copied most off %appdata% and most of registry Software branch for both machine and user, except Microsoft values, to the new OS, and all file associations from the registry HKCR. This preserved most settings, and reduced the stress of the transition. Even if some big programs needed to be refreshed by reinstalling, their settings generally carried over. This is for old Windows though. WinNT 10 makes this approach difficult.

In Windows 2003 SP2 I cannot make an association to an executable file without specifying its full path. I have programs in "d:\apps", which has been added to the PATH variable. Some of them are referred to in associations. It is also not possible to run executables with *.sfx extension (WinRAR modules) to preview how they look, or save a module's name in a WinRAR preset without a path. Possibly other programs are affected in a similar way. When I call up a right-click menu that worked before on WinXP, the Open With dialog pops up instead. FileMon shows that the program (such as flac.exe) is searched only in C:\WINNT\system32 and C:\WINNT . This change smells very much like the "Safe DLL Loading" enforcement for NT6. However, that only changes the priority of directories, and both path and current directory are still searched. Can this feature be disabled? %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;d:\apps;d:\plugins;d:\apps\sox;d:\apps\fhgaac;d:\apps\qaac;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\AGL

The drivers work. However I am not able to boot from ICH8 after installing on JMicron. I wanted to avoid disturbing the existing disks. I get the error ""Error loading operating system"". I believe this message comes from the "disk" itself. But it does not parse the boot.ini. It fails to boot on any port, and with BIOS boot order set to prefer this disk. I haven't experienced this before when moving disks. How to fix without reinstall? The partition layout is unusual 3 primary NTFS partitions aligned to 2048s: 4G(system), 24G, 91G. My old installation of XP SP1 was picked up, but of course didn't go past the logo without a hdc driver. The JMicron JMB363 driver is useless. Speed is the same SATA I at 120 MB/s. No SMART unlike in IDE mode. Apparently no NCQ. And the disk is considered removable, and shows in the system tray. Any way to hide it from there? The Intel driver with a HDD also doesn't bring any benefit. Random 4K reads with HDD rose from 0.8 to 1.4 MB/s. I've not a chance to measure XRayDisk flash memory yet, except the sequential speed of 240 MB/s on Intel.

Thank you for the hints. I see that Hiren's has associated an old 6.1.0.1002 with ICH8. E2B has several drivers with correct chipset names, but they are not signed. Fernando's driver actually does contain DEV_2824 and probably can be used. I was confused and did not see it. My modified driver was finally able to detect discs. Win-Raid talks about their own certificate. Do I need to integrate it for Windows 64-bit to accept the driver? I will probably install 2008 R2 after an SSD arrives and XP is working well. I don't know much about new Windows. I wonder if the following method could work to skip the driver integration and messing with text files. Install Windows on Intel in legacy mode, install JMicron AHCI via Device Manager, plug disk into JMicron, install Intel AHCI, plug into Intel. I previously did this with VIA VT6410 before nLite existed.

I've started downloading videos using YouTube-DL, and watch them in Media Player Classic with nVidia PV acceleration at 1920 px and 60fps for free. SMPlayer has finally abandoned his downloader, and on-the-fly streaming no longer works for me. Even low resolution videos stutter all the time, because of the CPU load from drawing the page. It's much much better on a G2030 system in the same Pale Moon, but on Conroe-L is unusable. YouTube might stop offering H.264 soon because perceived progress trumps the installed base of decoders, and we're not supposed to use them outside of the browser at all.

I looked into a few versions of Rapid/Matrix and they don't have this device ID number. And neither does Fernando 11.2.0.1006. His set includes a lot of spam of his name in place of models. I can see attached discs in Hiren's Boot CD Mini-XP, which means that one of the included drivers is probably working. The support site for GA-965G-DS3 only offers a JMicron driver for supplementary ports where I don't want to connect the system disk to. At the time of making this motherboard there wasn't a working driver. I hope that I might be able to connect a disk with over 2 TB capacity if I have a 3rd party driver. I'll burn a disc and try an unsigned driver, and maybe forget about NT6.1.

This is a waste of time. Google must be seen as a modern company. Bigger and flatter software serves that goal. The polymer is getting slower every month. It's not even HTML, but a monolithic blob of script, where parts of it cannot be blocked for speed. It wouldn't have to be the exact old layout. But anything lighter. At one point they had a basic interface called "Feather" that loaded instantly, but lacked most basic functions such as commenting.

I plan to install a new OS on a 965G PC with ICH8 (without R). Its device IDs are 2025 in compatible mode and 2024 in AHCI mode. I downloaded and integrated driver 10.1.0.1008, but could not detect any harddisks in Windows Setup. This driver doesn't have my IDs and only supports ICH8R/DH/DO/M-E/M. I also downloaded a series of other versions, and none had my ID. The stickified and closed thread claims that an official, good driver exists for XP. But the link for that driver is no longer valid on Intel's site. Does a signed driver exist for this part? (I also want to install an NT6 64-bit with the awful driver signing.) If I understand the instructions right, the modification involves adding an entry without any device ID, but with CC_0106 ? Is there a reason why the Intel driver shouldn't be used, or the ACHI mode shouldn't be used?

I misremembered the name of the created preset. It is called "Limited Power Management". I believed it to affect the power of the processor when idle, but I doubt it. In PowerCfg, when I change the setting for "Turn off monitor," the setting becomes blank when I load PowerCfg again.

What does the profile Minimal Power Management added by NLite do exactly? Is it essential? I installed a Windows 2003 SP2 system where the power management has become broken. I did check MPM before setup because it did not cause issues with other XP systems. Currently I cannot edit the power profiles on that system. No matter if I create a new one, use an existing as a base, the monitor shuts off after a couple of minutes, which is not good for its health, the settings I choose are dropped. Apparently profiles cannot be imported from XP because they have a different length. But it is not serious issue enough to reinstall the system, which won't necessarily solve the problem. The issue could also be unrelated to NLite.

Sometimes I come across a site where I may not right-click to copy, or for any purpose. Usually I want to extract an image and view it in a separate tab to scroll it more comfortably, or view it in IrfanView if it is enormous or I need to compare 2 images without flicker. In Opera I can press F12, choose Enable JavaScript, do my clicks, then Enable JavaScript again for normal use. This is possible without reloading the page or abandoing its current state. Disabling JavaScript entirely is not what I want, because then most pages are not functional. What is the closest analogue achievable with Palemoon? This is a very useful function (among many in Opera).

Are there restrictions for an atypical number of reserved sectors or cluster size for the system partition with old Windows? I seem to recall that it didn't boot with with an aligned partition start, but last I formatted a disk years ago and have forgotten the details. I also ordered a flash memory for replacement of the system disk. Is this a legit check: create a file system, write one file, find its start address in a hex editor, divide it by 4k? I don't think I can use RMprepUSB for an internal disk.

What would a 1 MB alignment of partition start achieve? Files would still align to much smaller clusters. Is there a program for testing the performance of a series of possible alignments, in increments of a logical sector, to determine by how many sectors the system needs to be shifted?

For testing pure single-connection network speed, use a plain HTTP or FTP transfer, so that the performance isn't bottlenecked by SSL, scaling of graphics or Javascript. For example, http://speedtest.tele2.net/ Upload can be tested on its FTP (not all of the are up). Browsers usually spam many connections, and wouldn't be as affected. The default TCP settings are definitely artificially limited. Adjust according to the speed & memory of the computer. Probably no need to go as high as the optimizer would suggest, as it assumes all servers of interest are somewhere in Australia. 128K to 512K windows, no more.

Is it normal that the Palemoon 28 interface becomes unresponsive while executing high CPU JavaScript on single core? Often I encounter a heavy webpage and want to press the stop button or close the tab, but cannot do that until the page has finished running its code. Then sometimes I close multiple tabs or the entire window once it starts accepting input. I also generally feel that the browser milks every bit of system power to itself with other programs feeling sluggish during a full speed file download over SSL. Lately I started running it at /belownornal priority, but that doesn't address the unresponsive GUI. I "upgraded" from Opera and Firefox 27 which felt better, compatibility aside.

With the current trend of pure white interfaces, pinned topics are annoying to scroll past to find actual new posts. Traditionally stickied topics used to be shaded darker or a different color, and easy to ignore. At "least" here the pin icon is still green, but it's barely visible being so small. On the Vista forum there is a warning about a paradox, which nobody has used or needed for years. The XP section will now look better if the redirects go away.

You've done a lot of work. But I'm afraid the effort doesn't produce good and lasting results. The site is still broken, slow and they will change it again in a year. And this is just one forum of many. Roytam's Palemoon makes the site browsable. People won't like this, and I will keep it short. The MSFN management appears hypocritical when they complain about Microsoft and other websites, and then do similar updates. Maybe I am misjudging the proportion of content dedicated to legacy software support, because those are the only sections I visit as they are unique to this resource. I think I've made a typo while gathering the style snippets because my colors are all green. But it's so much easier to skim through with shaded Quote boxes. Could you concatenate all the fixes into one block? hxxps://i.imgur.com/XBaW5gw.png Even inserting a link now requires a special dance.

I will use the operating system for as long as I have old computers compatible with it where XP is the best fit, and the increased resource consumption of anything newer would be felt. To throw out a working computer as out of date, or cripple it with bloat to make it so, is an unreasonable proposal. Old applications run on WinXP, and are also much faster. As long as I don't need to exchange bleeding edge file formats with other people, this software serves me better because, in addition to its speed and efficiency, I have also learnt to use it well. It does not require new redistributables or frameworks, or mandatory online components. If I have a goal of using a spreadsheet or encoding video, I default to the oldest tool that can accomplish that. The files produced will also be compatible with the most computer systems, either old or new.