AHCI for SATA after installing Windows – ASUS P5Q

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Jul 072009
 

Typically, AHCI drivers are loaded during the initial Windows OS installation process by hitting F6 at the SCSI driver request prompt. Well, many people (like me) didn’t know anything about this, or what AHCI was for that matter, prior to buying a new motherboard and building a new computer.

In my case, the motherboard is the Asus P5Q with the Intel P45 ICH10R Chipset. Up until tonight I’d been running the SATA 3 drives as IDE Enhanced.
Well, I’ve figured out a way to get everything SATA working as AHCI for improved performance without reinstalling Windows!

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 Posted by Jens at 06:06

Burn ISO Image to USB Flash Pen Drive (Kon-Boot to USB)

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Jul 012009
 

When I discovered Kon-Boot and posted it in this blog, I got many request in forum on how to put Kon-Boot ISO image file to USB. I seldom boot a computer using USB because only modern computers is able to support that and a lot of my client’s computer are still old enough to only support booting from CD. Booting up a computer with USB is very convenient because USB is small, cheap and convenient. Imagine carrying a small pendrive with Kon-Boot and you can virtually login to any password protected Windows or Linux computer…

Many of you tried to extract the Kon-Boot ISO image file but ended up seeing that it’s blank. The image file is NOT blank and even the coder of Kon-Boot mentions that. It’s just that you can’t see it in Windows. For those that are having trouble in putting Kon-Boot ISO to USB, I will show you how easy it is to do that. Continue reading »

 Posted by Jens at 08:21

Access Hulu outside th US

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Jun 222009
 

Hotspot Shield is software that encrypts your internet traffic between your PC and their servers, purportedly to avoid snooping at open WiFi hotspots (a purpose for which it works great). My main use of it (being outside the US) is to access the multitude of US only sites and services (Hulu, Lala and Pandora to name only a few).

Unfortunately it comes bundled with a TUN/TAP driver that is not 64-bit compatible – it doesn’t even fail gracefully during installation, rather you end up with this error: Continue reading »

 Posted by Jens at 21:52
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