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In Reply to: RE: Thx. Those 2 options should remain. Windows does require activation (esp with h/w changes). posted by cics on April 03, 2008 at 05:29:31
Dear cics,
Does "activation" enhance sound quality by removing whatever it is that keeps telling the "computer" that activation is required?
The short comment confuses me, please explain.
Also, what would be the effect of running cMP in SAFE MODE? Does this eliminate any processes? Or would it actually be worse?
I have not tried it for myself since I am in the process of getting all of the settings SET (most stayed in effect, but one must check anyway).
Holding my breath that I do not screw up MINLOGON, again!!!
Another interesting thing: upon repairing my XP installation, with AUTORUNS, the "things" that are disbled are not re-enabled upon repair they are copied, so on some of these I have three entries, Should I delete the superfluous entries or leave them alone? Are they wasting any space on the hard drive?
At your leisure I would appreciate hearing what you think (otherwise known as THE WAY).
THANKS!!!
Rick McInnis
Follow Ups:
Activation is just a MS way to check your installation is legal - no sonic improvement whatsoever.
Never tried running things in Safe Mode - I just fixed what was wrong and went back to normal boot.
What you see in Autoruns is the result of repairing - I prefer doing a reinstall. You should be able to reapply the changes in Autoruns.
I have been following this thread for a while and am facinated but yet overwhelmed by the complexity of the stuff you are doing here. Don't tell me it's simple, it's not. You don't do yourself justice.
But here is my question. I am a newbie to audio and not young and do not have the pc skills of many who romp through these parts. I have learned a little about pc-audio but certainly not enough to take on this project. But what can I do with my current pc (I can't afford to buy a dedicated to audio pc)to get some of the benefits of the Memory Player? I understand to not run any apps when ripping or playing through j river but what else can I do to lower my pc power usage w/o giving up too much (still need to webb surf and email plus upload my grand kid pics)?
Appreciate any help, direction you could provide.
You can run cMP on any computer. In your case you'll want to keep networking functionality as is. Documentation tells you which items must NOT be done when you need networking. All hardware optimizations can be implemented (including 2nd dirty power inlet).
I reset Windows to System Cache (so I no longer have to run my audio files off a usb 4 gig memory device. Very nice I think it might even sound a little cleaner than the scan disc Cruzer. So thank you for this freebie!!
I am very interested in runnning the 'dirty power' input to to the cd/dvd drives, display and hdd's. This is a brilliant suggestion and the occilograph traces (and the one customer comments on the audio effect) are capturing my attention--big time. I think this is a significant sonic opportunity and all pc audio guys should look into this. To implement this I must obviously disconnect the internal (is it IDE?) power feeds to these devices. Is each esaily identifiable within my pc? A lttle more explanation of this would be appreciated. Are there 2 feeds to each device(by device I mean cd/dvd drive, display and hdd's)? Also if I do not implement a wireless mouse is it really necessary to add more usb (dirty ps fed) ports? If so do II only need some of the granite ps hardware? How can I tell how much power each of my devices draw so as to not exceed the 1.5A?
To implement this I must obviously disconnect the internal (is it IDE?) power feeds to these devices. Is each esaily identifiable within my pc? A lttle more explanation of this would be appreciated. Are there 2 feeds to each device(by device I mean cd/dvd drive, display and hdd's)?
Power connectors are either Molex or Sata - they originate from the PSU (this is best way of identifying them). Yes each device has 2 connectors - one for power (wires: red, yellow, black and orange for sata) and other is data (this varies by device, eg. IDE, Sata, eSata). USB devices carry both power and data wires. Unfortunately Sate power and data connectors have same names but they are very different in appearance.
Also if I do not implement a wireless mouse is it really necessary to add more usb (dirty ps fed) ports? If so do II only need some of the granite ps hardware?
Wireless mouse is not necessary - any mouse will do. Those additional USB ports would be useful only if you have USB devices connected to your PC. Make sure you have one GD PS per HDD.
How can I tell how much power each of my devices draw so as to not exceed the 1.5A?
Each device has a label giving power figures - these are typically given by voltage and current. P=VI.
Forgot to ask about the cd/dvd drive. Does this take a Granite Power or equivalent too?
If you have a laptop HDD then one GD PS will be sufficient to power both CD/DVD ROM drive and the laptop HDD. Otherwise, you need another GD PS.
I suggest you order a GD PS - things will be much clearer. As it only provides power connectors (one SATA and one Molex), connecting them would be easy.
Dear cics,
I have had no problems with the AUTORUNS changes, and I do wonder if a re-install would be superior/cleaner, maybe I should back up my records/music and do this, but what I was wondering is if you could see any advantage in deleting the duplicated (copies) of the, I do nto know what to call them!, entries within AUTORUNS?
Which, as always, brings up another question: do you see any degradation from backing up your music files? Is anything lost when a back up copy has to be used? What is the best way to back up? An external hard drive? Or should I run RAID in the duplicate mode and simply get another HDD like the one I am using?
THANKS for your help,
Rick McInnis
There's no performance impact on backups. Best is to use an external high capacity drive which you can store separately.
On Autoruns duplicates - this is worrying as this should be as clean as possible. Your duplication is the result of a Windows Repair - is there any chance of doing a clean Windows install? I keep my music on alternate drives and just do a reinstall on the small C drive (2.5GB) if needed.
instead of a small HDD?
I remember something in those MINLOGON instructions about using these for loading WINDOWS. Will this work!
I am going to have to do a re-install since when I screwed up MINLOGON and tried to do a repair the machine is hung up and won't do anything.
Just like before, it keeps trying to continue with the repair and will not let me start over with a new install.
THIS TIME I am going to master going in and out of MINLOGON before I do anything else.
One part of me thinks my problem is from changing the name of MINLOGON to WINLOGON> EXE. I seem to remember just leaving it as WINLOGON when I got it to work. Does this make any sense?
THANKS for the help and sorry I am so NEEDY!
Rick McInnis
Not sure what you asking re USB memory - Yes you could use it to boot Windows but I won't recommend this as you're adding another device in the equation.
Take great care with Minlogon - when you change back, you MUST remove the 'config' registry entry and switch back to the original winlogon.exe file. Mistakes here will require a new install.
Dear cics,
The more I checked into the "memory stick" I see that it is not ideal.
And your comment makes it moot.
I am curious as to where you found a 2.5GB hard drive.
Would you mind giving a little more detail on how you have your hard drives configured?
Are you still using the TOSHIBAs in RAID 0? Is this "boot" drive attached to an IDE header?
Some guidance (as always) is needed!
THANKS, yet again!!!
Rick McInnis
I have SATA RAID 0 on the main system and the second uses normal SATA.
When you install Windows you have the option to create partitions - create a small partition of 2500MB (2.5GB) for system installation. This becomes your C drive which contains Windows and all other software. From Windows (disk manager), you then create and format another NTFS partition for the remaining space on the HDD. This new partition becomes drive D which would contain all your music. Additional HDDs will have new drive letters.
The advantage of doing this is you can do as many system reinstalls without affecting content in other drives. That is music data is unaffected.
Dear cics,
Finally got around to doing this last night.
Had to get a new hard drive. I wanted one anyway, but whatever I did was not going to allow me to reinstall WINDOWS and I hope it will work out for the best. I hope my music files are still recoverable from the other disk. What I read made me think I should just leave it alone.
Now I will have 1500 GB of storage.
As I am doing this I am trying to think what is the best order to implement the TUNINGS. This is what I am thinking:
1. disengage WINDOWS file protection.
2. try out MINLOGON and make sure you do it correctly. Then go back to WINLOGON.
3. Install BIOS software
4. Install FOOBAR, EAC, autoruns, cpuz, JULI@ soundcard, updated JULI@ drivers, cMP
5. Do autoruns changes
6. Inplement MINLOGON
7. Implement all of the (other than autoruns) ART OF COMPUTER TRANSPORT changes along with the additonal instructions with cMP.
8. Change the bios settings as per AoCT and cMP instructions.
9. Listen to music
I figured: if MINLOGON is going to require changing settings again after implementation why not wait for it to be installed to do "those" changes?
Does this protocol seem sensible?
I would appreciate your comments, as always!
THANKS,
Rick McInnis
Step 3, If you did this before, its not necessary. I'm assuming this is the BIOS update.
Step 7, other Autoruns changes are done - make these before Minlogon.
Otherwise it looks like it should work.
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