Not long ago when I first run the Windows Experience Index (WEI on Windows 7) on my Computer, and after about a 10-minute run (or so), I got frustrated that Windows reported an error about hardware and that it cannot rate my system.
I tried basic efforts at that time, like updating my drivers, but no avail.
Fast forward to 6 months later. I was window-shopping for a notebook, and due to comparison, I took a look at the Windows Experience Index on some models.
When I arrived home, I got back to my old problem on how to get the WEI rating of my desktop PC to compare to the notebooks I have seen. I searched at google and read through some forums where, just like searching for a coin in the dark, I tried several suggestions for nothing.
I sat back and, maybe a bit of intuition, I decided to set the BIOS to default settings.
I ran WEI again, and alas, I got the rating finally.
Going back to the BIOS, I was really curious what setting in the BIOS that it prevented from WEI to rate my PC. After almost two hours of trial and error approach, changing settings from IDE to AHCI modes, disabling virtualization, disabing E-SATA/G-SATA, and all those other settings.
Finally, I found the culprit. JUST DISABLE QUICK BOOT. Yeah, you read it right.
Quick boot option in my motherboard seems like it skips deep RAM test, if I am not mistaken (gotta find this out when I have time).
I think WEI is so deliberate in knowing your system first before rating it, and by doing a QUICK BOOT, it may have skipped some information needed by WEI.
My hardware specs are shown below.
CPU: Core i5-750 @ 2.67 GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte P55-UD3P (BIOS version: F3)
RAM: A-DATA 2GB x 2 in Dual Channel
GPU: Powercolor Radeon 4850, 1GB GDDR3
Hard Disk: 320GB Western Digital Scorpio 7200 RPM
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
On my next blog, I will show (based on my experiments) that incomplete information on CPU-Z is somewhat related to WEI.
Till next blog....
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Quantum Physics
I bet an average educated person probably heard about Quantum Physics - the physics of the sub-atomic world.
At first, when I heard about Quantum Physics, I was a "detractor" or so to say, a critic for this gimmick, which I thought to be only about theories and no scientific explanation to support it.
But, after I started reading (and got addicted to it), I realized Quantum Physics is the real thing. Our generation should probably be thankful to the geniuses of the past 19th century because of their contributions - Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Neils Bohr, and so on.
When I started reading about Quantum Physics, I was really amazed of it's development, especially about Max Planck's initial ideas which led him to the Planck's constant. Glad that he did not gave up on his initial theory after his experiments from assumed light as a wave that later persuaded him to "initially" change it (light) to a "quantized" energy to simply support his theory. I think that was the birth of Quantum Physics. For centuries, it was thought that Light is has all the characteristics of a wave alone, until Planck came, where he stated that Light particles (late named "photons" ) were radiated in quanta.
So here we go, the applications of Quantum Physics now are actually amazing.
I wondered before how did they started the Periodic Table of Elements, only to know that Quantum Physics was the foundation of it. Modern machines in the industry and medical fields benefits from the development pf Quantum Physics.
The Electron Microscope, MRI, EEG are all the products of Quantum Physics. Of course, Quantum Physics is a broad knowledge yet to be discovered and "fully" understood. The debates continues up to this day, simply due to the empirical nature of the theorized ideas because of the sub-atomic essence of Quantum Physics.
The Higgs boson's existence or non-existence (which in turn, realized the construction of the most expensive scientific instrument ever made - The Large Hadron Collider. This might ultimately explain the theory of our universe.
Till next blog. Probably I'm gonna update this...
At first, when I heard about Quantum Physics, I was a "detractor" or so to say, a critic for this gimmick, which I thought to be only about theories and no scientific explanation to support it.
But, after I started reading (and got addicted to it), I realized Quantum Physics is the real thing. Our generation should probably be thankful to the geniuses of the past 19th century because of their contributions - Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Neils Bohr, and so on.
When I started reading about Quantum Physics, I was really amazed of it's development, especially about Max Planck's initial ideas which led him to the Planck's constant. Glad that he did not gave up on his initial theory after his experiments from assumed light as a wave that later persuaded him to "initially" change it (light) to a "quantized" energy to simply support his theory. I think that was the birth of Quantum Physics. For centuries, it was thought that Light is has all the characteristics of a wave alone, until Planck came, where he stated that Light particles (late named "photons" ) were radiated in quanta.
So here we go, the applications of Quantum Physics now are actually amazing.
I wondered before how did they started the Periodic Table of Elements, only to know that Quantum Physics was the foundation of it. Modern machines in the industry and medical fields benefits from the development pf Quantum Physics.
The Electron Microscope, MRI, EEG are all the products of Quantum Physics. Of course, Quantum Physics is a broad knowledge yet to be discovered and "fully" understood. The debates continues up to this day, simply due to the empirical nature of the theorized ideas because of the sub-atomic essence of Quantum Physics.
The Higgs boson's existence or non-existence (which in turn, realized the construction of the most expensive scientific instrument ever made - The Large Hadron Collider. This might ultimately explain the theory of our universe.
Till next blog. Probably I'm gonna update this...
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