* Asus N61JQ Owners Lounge *

[scias23]

Even the thermal dorks have calmed down. Life is good, let the games begin!

Well, not yet!

[Risco]

Great news Risco! With you and Tony fixed all is well in the N61JQ owners lounge.
Even the thermal dorks have calmed down. Life is good, let the games begin!

Cheers! I have been keeping an eye on this forum. But as you may have noticed my replies had many typos due to using my iPhone as my main source of internet lol.

Currently copying over 250gb of data back to the HDD. Oh joy!

[NEX_SASIN]

Even the thermal dorks have calmed down. Life is good, let the games begin!

Not sharing anymore tips of cooling it down since most people doesn't care anyway.

@Risco Game on!

[ledl2048]

Hi all,

I have finally got my SSD order put in, it was out of stock. I am finding info on how to get it set-up completely and correctly and I was learning how to make a usb bootable drive for my windows 7 ultimate. In the instructions, it says to make sure that your computer can boot from a usb. Does anyone know if it is possible on this laptop? I figured it was when you boot in bios but am a newbie and wanted to confirm with others that were more knowledgeable on the subject. Thanks

[NEX_SASIN]

Hi all,

I have finally got my SSD order put in, it was out of stock. I am finding info on how to get it set-up completely and correctly and I was learning how to make a usb bootable drive for my windows 7 ultimate. In the instructions, it says to make sure that your computer can boot from a usb. Does anyone know if it is possible on this laptop? I figured it was when you boot in bios but am a newbie and wanted to confirm with others that were more knowledgeable on the subject. Thanks

It is possible with this laptop. Make sure USB is on top of HDD boot priority in BIOS Setup and, i know some USB drive doesn't support boot. Most should work.

[ledl2048]

It is possible with this laptop. Make sure USB is on top of HDD boot priority in BIOS Setup and, i know some USB drive doesn't support boot. Most should work.

I downloaded the program just a while ago from here (do you think this will work fine?)

Make Bootable Windows 7 DVD or USB

and I am going to pick up a 4gb flash drive after work. Also from another forum from OCZ they gave me the following instructions when I get my SSD.

Have AHCI enabled in the bios prior to installing the OS. Then on the part of the Win7 install that goes to detect your HD and says "load driver" in the corner, that's where you point it to your USB stick with the Intel Rapid Storage Technology drivers (9.6.0.1014)....the (F6 on install version not the .exe) and it will then see your SSD and load in the proper drivers for AHCI usage. Which you want AHCI on as it enables NCQ and other functions and generally runs faster than just having the drive in IDE mode in the bios.

Does this mean I need to have two different flash drives? One with the OS and one with the drivers from intel? http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Deta...18859&lang=eng

[NEX_SASIN]

You could use that or follow microsoft's way (their guide)

Microsoft Store: Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool Help

The red marked guide is simply telling you to install extra driver to make your SSD visible so can install W7 on it. I think you should make W7 bootable USB and then copy the Intel Rapid Storage drivers to USB for later install use. It can be download from intel website.

EDIT: Oh yes i see you got the Rapid Storage driver link already.

[ledl2048]

So you recommend just running the IRST drivers' .exe file after I install w7 and I am up and running?

Also by looking at device manager and seeing our storage controller currently is in ACHI, I won't have to change anything in bios prior to installing my SSD will I?


EDIT: Sorry this is what I just read in the installation readme for the IRST driver.

5.1 General Installation Notes

1. If you are installing the operating system on a system
configured for RAID or AHCI mode, you must pre-install
the Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology driver using the
F6 installation method described in section 5.3.

[NEX_SASIN]

From the red marked guide says, the installation will ask where do you want to install W7 to. There you can see 'Load Driver' link below and select where the Rapid Storage driver is, in which i recommend you copy the driver to the same USB drive so you can load from USB easily.

EDIT: If you see the W7 installation bootup prompts for F6 press it and see if you can install the driver from there.

[ledl2048]

From the red marked guide says, the installation will ask where do you want to install W7 to. There you can see 'Load Driver' link below and select where the Rapid Storage driver is, in which i recommend you copy the driver to the same USB drive so you can load from USB easily.

EDIT: If you see the W7 installation bootup prompts for F6 press it and see if you can install the driver from there.

The reason I asked about using two different USBs is because some things I have read says that it will read as a "generic" drive, will I be able to differentiate between the OS usb and the IRST usb? This is from the microsoft site.

If I have other files on the USB flash drive will the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool delete them?
This tool requires the USB flash drive to be completely blank before the Windows 7 files are copied. This helps ensure that the device is bootable after the copying has completed.