[GUIDE] G55/G75 Upgrade Notes

[rewben]

Its windows 7. I plan on swapping out the old traditional HHD with the SSD, THEN use the old HDD as my data drive, removing all of the old windows files.

I am also going to up my ram from 8 to 16, but I will do later after i get the system stable.

Thanks for the help rewben.

no problem. you are all good to go hehe

ssd is the single most important upgrade for our machines imo. the apparent bottleneck for systems today is hdd as a boot drive.

[tower42]

no problem. you are all good to go hehe

ssd is the single most important upgrade for our machines imo. the apparent bottleneck for systems today is hdd as a boot drive.

So I was reading over the original posts from this thread, and I had a question; so install the drive in the secondary bay then upgrade the firmware for the drive. Once done I then will run the Advanced Token Manager so that I can keep my current key for W7. I pop the new SSD in the primary bay leaving the old one out for the moment, doing the clean install of W7. My question is after going to the website for Advanced Token Manager and reading the basic info from the site, is it run off of a USB stick? If I run ATM to back everything up and its on the old HHD, how can I use it to restore my Key when the HHD is no longer installed? What Am I missing in the steps?

Thanks for the continued help!

[rewben]

So I was reading over the original posts from this thread, and I had a question; so install the drive in the secondary bay then upgrade the firmware for the drive. Once done I then will run the Advanced Token Manager so that I can keep my current key for W7. I pop the new SSD in the primary bay leaving the old one out for the moment, doing the clean install of W7. My question is after going to the website for Advanced Token Manager and reading the basic info from the site, is it run off of a USB stick? If I run ATM to back everything up and its on the old HHD, how can I use it to restore my Key when the HHD is no longer installed? What Am I missing in the steps?

Thanks for the continued help!

you should run atm in your current windows prior to the upgrade. just extract the app and run it, save the app and data generated in an external storage like usb stick.

after the fresh install, with all drivers are installed properly, use the app to restore the tokens. (it's best to disconnect from network before the restore)

there is another tool posted by our member here. you can try it out also. (imo it's safer to save the activation tokens with atm also for backup purposes)

[guo1d]

Hi rewben,

Thanks so much for the guide.

I'm wondering is it possible to replace optical drive with a 2nd identical SSD to enable RAID 0 ? Compare to mSATA it is easier that doesn't need to tear the whole machine apart


Regards

[rewben]

Hi rewben,

Thanks so much for the guide.

I'm wondering is it possible to replace optical drive with a 2nd identical SSD to enable RAID 0 ? Compare to mSATA it is easier that doesn't need to tear the whole machine apart


Regards

i'm afraid you cannot do that. the sata port for optical drive is sata2, not sata3. i was hoping for the same but no luck.

[Mcblazer0]

Hi;

I don't mean to be a pain. I was wondering if the file names for the BIOS on C:\ could reflect their version and if there could be more than one on C:\?

Example;

C:\ G75VX201.BIN

C:\G75VXAS206.BIN

[Clintlgm]

I'm not sure about this but I think you can use the 201 or 206, but the file on the root drive needs to be G75VX.bin So you can rename any of them to G75VX, Hopefully some one else will jump in on this I'm pretty sure it going to be looking for G75VX.bin