Recent content by chris1759

Thanks for that info. Guess nothing comes for free and as HPET seems to be put there by manufacturers to help Microsoft its a bit of a tall order to expect them to come up with a fix for it. Anyway I've tried music and video and it seems OK, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be better] However...

Thanks guys. I too was baffled why something as simple as a floppy disk wouldn't run on Windows 7. I thought it was the disk drive so I spent a tenner on finding that the new one did exactly the same. Having read this thread, I've disabled HPET on my Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4 and hey presto, the...