Problem flashing bios 4102 and 4206

[sandro_c]

Hi people, A little help please.

Twice I tried to flash both the bios 4102 and 4206 8 in bios cip 1) and both times after a reboot, gave a double boots with the messages updating UEFI-1 and UEFI-2.... but after the complete setup of the new bios, the PC make a long sound and does not load the Sys OP .....apparently has difficulty also to read the original DVD WIN 7.
Two time the same results...very strange .
If I go back with the 3602 bios, everything it is OK. Of course i live the bios 3602 in the Bios cip 2!

What appen now and what can I do?

sandro c.

[Nodens]

Other software installed may actually be running services in the background without you knowing about it. Services in Windows mostly run under the Svchost.exe process so they're not even visible normally with the task manager (some run processes on their own directly too though). With SysInternals Process Explorer you can see what each svchost.exe instance is running (they are split up to instances according to running user -- eg NETWORK SERVICE, SYSTEM, etc, etc).

You can compare with the other OS installation but the other operating system will also be a factor in the scores. Win8 is faster/more efficient than Win7 in underlying Windows engine.

[sandro_c]

Hi Nodens ,

I thank you for your opinions and letting me know SysInternal Suite ... a very interesting collection of utilities to investigate the operating system , of which I only knew a couple of them. I kept an eye on the services active forever in the past ( ... at least seventy ) and the processes active that run on my win7.. ( exactly 49 ... almost, as many as those in progress on my ex - premier) .
I tried to make a kill on at least ten of them ( ... but always remain 12 svchosts active) and repeat the test but the score is always low compared to my original score .
However, it is certain that something has changed in my Sys Op!
I do not know if there are tools that can test the performance of windows system , or if after 10 months of various installations and uninstallations , the system is polluted and installation should start over with a "virgin" .
What do you think about this? Consider that the test is made ​​with win8.1 on a system where people are few installations.
It is worth re-install win7 and all apps . ?

Ciao
sandro c.

[Nodens]

sandro c wrote:

I do not know if there are tools that can test the performance of windows system , or if after 10 months of various installations and uninstallations , the system is polluted and installation should start over with a "virgin" .

Depending on what exactly you install and uninstall, an operating system can get cluttered with junk. Something the majority of people do not know for example is that the majority of uninstallers out there do a really mediocre job at entirely removing an application.
The registry can get cluttered a lot by leftover entries, programs leave shared components installed that are unused, other uninstallers leave services running (notice that not all running services appear in the "Services" MMC snapin--a lot of those, specifically driver related, can only be seen in the registry), SxS folder slowly gets bloated as you install software that require different versions of libraries (Windows 8.1 has finally a nice feature that cleans this particular folder over time), etc etc.

While it is possible to keep a windows installation in a top notch performing condition, unfortunately there is no automated tool for this job. It takes knowledge and time to do it manually. Personally, I spend an hour monthly doing maintenance, cleaning everything that needs cleaning by hand. Tools such as registry cleaners etc are entirely useless. They can be used as a way to do certain things faster but it implies that you're actually know what you're doing. Blindingly using registry cleaners CAN and WILL cause you trouble because they rely on heuristics in order to figure out what's wrong and how to correct it. Much like an Antivirus can give you a false positive, a registry cleaner is far more prone to do the same for a particular registry entry, or even worse fix it in a way that it should not.
As a fairly standard example, a registry cleaner may detect an empty software registry key and put it up for deletion without knowing that this key is actually being used by the application in order to figure out if it's running in installed or portable mode.

My personal advice is to refresh the OS every now and then and avoid unnecessary installation of software. If you want to test something to see if it's something that you actually want to use, use a virtual machine to do it. VMWare Workstation or VirtualBox, which is free, are good solutions for this.

[sandro_c]

Hi Nodens,

In the waiting for your opinion .... I have installed Win 7 again and I redid the test Realbench.
The result is before our eyes now. Old score 730 surclassed! What do you say?
Too bad the tread is closed, but I am satisfied especially for the solution of the mystery.
Now I wait all the work to install all apps. on this system.

score 739- Cpu i7 3930K @4702 Mhz- Mem 2133 C9 @2230 Mhz- sandro c.


Ciao
sandro c.

[HiVizMan]

Correct what I do is the same but from a different angle, instead of doing a fresh install I simply clone my OS once I have done my base line install of all my drivers and applications. Then every six months or sooner (if needed) I use that image to produce a virgin OS with all my stuff just as I like it. Takes about 10mins to do.

[sandro_c]

Hi Nodens, hi HiVizMan,

X Nodens
Good point .. which explains the difference in performance between my old system and virgin just installed .... I think the time that I have always spent to uninstall programs you no longer needed with Revo Uninstall , and clean registers with Wise Reg.Clean , it was a waste of time . Thanks for the advice.

X HiVizMan ,
What you do is what I do with Acronis True Img 2013 and once I did with N.Ghost a vergin installation complete with all the basic drivers , utilities, and most used programs " indispensabili " to which done a backup and I kept aside to be used for any eventuality . This time , I do not know why unfortunately, .....Acronis has refused to do a restore (! ?) and I had to reinstall everything ... I've just redone the new backup again.
Thanks anyway .
Greetings to all

sandro c .

[Nodens]

Agreed Viz! That's the best way to do it unless it's not convinient. For example my dev system has a LOT of installed software. From developer tools, to music/audio production software, to image manipulation software, encoders and a million other things that I utilize. The complete fresh installation + installed software is over 1TB and some of that software is installed in the second RAID 5 mechanical drive array (the system drive is another RAID 5 array with SSD's though). To maintain (which includes updating) an image of the system array + installed software on the mechanical array would be so time consuming it's not even funny. Taking once a month an hour to clean everything by hand is far more convenient for this system allows me to only take backups of the absolutely critical data (which are still a lot on their own) in case of some catastrophic failure.
The rest of my PCs though are imaged regularly with double copies of the backups on my linux boxes so I can restore any of them via the network and even remotely if I need to. Imho, imaging is a must, it saves a LOT of time and headaches! And if you can't afford or don't want to spend money for a tool like Acronis, you can always use Windows dism: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825072.aspx