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    QuietHDD won't start on startup

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by jerg, Dec 15, 2010.

  1. jerg

    jerg Have fun. Stay alive.

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    Hi,

    I don't know if in my case it's placebo effect or actually working, but QuietHDD seemed to have stabilized my framerates in certain games.

    However, I can't seem to get it to run on startup. I put the shortcut in the "startup" folder but it never actually runs when the computer boots up. Could anyone offer some suggestions / ideas as to how I might overcome that?


    Thanks.
     
    jerg, Dec 15, 2010
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  2. kizwan

    kizwan Lord Pringles

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    You can run it as service. Please visit this website for more information.
     
    kizwan, Dec 16, 2010
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  3. jerg

    jerg Have fun. Stay alive.

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    I tried this just now on the 5820TG I received today (already had 3 instances of computer freezing for several seconds), and the service does have quietHDD on startup, but it's "stopped" and any attempts at turning it on yields an "access denied" error.
     
    jerg, Jan 6, 2011
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  4. MahmoudDewy

    MahmoudDewy Gaming Laptops Master Race!

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    well you can always use the free version of HDDscan & manually set your AAM & APM and the changes persist even if you uninstall HDDscan .... as for the framerates thing I don't think the harddrive has anything to do with framerates the harddrive speed is related to the loading times (of maps and such) and thats all ....

    I think maybe what you are witnessing could possibly be reduced latency when using that program Vs when not using it and thats where the fps increase comes from because technically that program "slows you harddrive Access time by reducing the values of the AAM from 248 -> 128 to reduce the noise and increasing the values of APM to increase battery life)
     
    MahmoudDewy, Jan 7, 2011
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