Intel Turbo Memory with Windows 7

Has anyone gotten their turbo memory to work on windows 7 beta? every driver i've tried has failed...and it was a clean install, on the laptop in my sig

 

I think UI have it working , I stuck my patriot 8 gb usb drive in and it asked if i wanted to use it as turbo drive and how much of it to use . I used the suggested 4024mb and that was it . I take it is working as the blue light is flashing on the drive once in a while . Does it make a difference ? Not that I notice

 

I got mine to work using the compatability install. Everything installed as expected.

 

It is a totally different matter at hand between sticking a usb drive in and using it for ready boost and getting the ITM to work. No luck getting the 4GB chip to work here either. I've been keeping tabs on this in the windows 7 forums, here's another post of people having the same luck. http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/1595-intel-turbo-memory-driver-windows-7-a.html

Also, good luck creating home groups that work!

 

I put a 16GB Sandisk USB flash drive and it works great with Ready Boost. Windows 7 recommended that I use the entire drive for its use and it has been fine since.

The 1GB Intel Turbo Memory now is used as a scratch drive for whatever temporary operations the OS wants. Saves using the C drive for the same purpose. The only thing I can't get to work with Windows 7 is the hot key assingment software but other than that everything seems to work well.

 

How did you get Windows 7 to use your Intel Turbo Memory as a drive? That would rock to at least have it enabled. I could just manually set it to use that as the page file that way.

 

I am not thinking this is possible... If it was, I'd love to know about it.

 

While off topic, with a massive 8GB already in your box, does 16GB of ReadyBoost really do anything for you?

 

In the case of 4,6 and 8 gb configs, readyboost only decreases the amount of time it takes to cache data from the page file and frequently used apps on the hard drive.

 

hey emike09 where did you get wn 7 ver 7025? I've been running it for about a month and I (then and now) could only find 7000.. BTW I have tried just about everything and evethough I got TurboMemory drivers to install I have an error in Device Manager stating the device failed to start.

 

I'm running build 7000, since I cannot find a newer x64 build. Build 7000 is stable enough for me right now, I am thinking I'm going to hold off till RC to redo the system.

How did you get TM to install?

 

Set it to run in Vista Compatibly mode and then ran as administrator but it did little good. Even though I got it to install there is still an error in Device manager that states it failed to start. I keep getting notifications from Action Center that a solution has been found but it points me to the same drivers I have loaded.

 

Well I've done the same as you, but it won't get past installation. The system is already running much better in 7 with no TM than it did in Vista with TM. Maybe intel is waiting for RC to release beta TM drivers for 7?

 

Try running the new ITM driver with the troubleshoot compatibility set to XP. I read it in another forum that got it installed but the guy still didn't get ITM working. There also is a new compatibility Windows update. I'm about to restart to see if it's fixed. Good luck!

UPDATE
Didn't work. Thinking though, anyone have the drivers from a Vista install, like the dll's that are installed they could post for download. I'm almost thinking if we had the disk, rather than the .exe, we could manually set the driver to work in this case. I don't have a driver disk.

 

For certain Intel exe's you can try running them with the -a command, i.e. "setup.exe -a" that will just extract the files from the exe and not run it. I have found that they go in the temp dir and once u click finish they auto erase, so I would suggest browsing the the temp folder, copying the files and then clicking finish.

 

With the new 1.9.0.1006 driver ( http://downloadcenter.intel.com/fil...rating+Systems&lang=eng&strOSs=All&submit=Go!) I successfully installed the driver on Windows 7 build 7100. However, only half of my 1GB Robson device seems to be used (in Disk Management an "IMD-0" of 513MB shows up).

 

SD memory, even 'class 6' cards, is way slower than the slowest hard drive. Forcing turbo memory to run on devices slower than your main hard drive is not a good idea in terms of performance.

 

Ah I see now that 513MB is used for ReadyBoost and 384MB for ReadyDrive for my HDD. That's a bit odd, though, since it now uses only part of the entire Robson module...

 

Yes. I have just installed successfully the ITM driver on last Windows 7 RC1 O/S without any problems, that is free available from Microsoft TechNet Tips: to run properly the installation, you must set up a compatibility mode in file properties to "Windows XP (Service Pack 2)" before proceeding! It don't work with option "Windows Vista (Service Pack 1)"!!!

 

I didn't have to do that (compat. mode). What version did you install?

 

I get a not supported OS error. Will this go away if I use XP compatibility mode?

 

used this one?
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Det...All&OSFullName=All Operating Systems&lang=eng

 

ok, i just tried to instal the latest drivers for intel turbo memory, and had to install in compatability mode for xp sp2, which hasnt actually installed it anyway. but in disk management, ive just had to activate it to show up, and its only saying 512mb anyway, when it should be 1gb. also, when i set it to have an mbr, so disk management could access it, it told me i cant set it to readyboost becuase my system drive is quick enough anyway. which is fine i guess, but wheres the other 512mb gone?

 

If you read through the topic properly, you saw that some of it (384MB) will probably be used for DriveReady (hdd caching), which you can see in the Device Manger when you go to the properties of your harddrive. I still can't imagine that you had to use the compatibility mode if you installed the 1.9.0.1006 version of April.

About ReadyDrive: in the power options, a new option pops up called 'Windows ReadyDrive Enabled Disk (aggressive) power savings mode': this basically turns off your hard drive after 1-2 minutes already, caching the most vital bits in Turbo Memory to save energy. That sure sounds nice, but does it really make sense? Spinning up and down the hard drive that much isn't really good for the drive now, is it? Or do you think it doesn't matter that much? And almost every normal operation requires some writing to disk. I turned it off for now, how about you guys?

 

ok, so yes, i see the 387mb of non volatile cache, but that still doesnt explain where the rest is? ive got 513mb showing up in disk management, so that makes 900mb, but why isnt it all used as its supposed to be.
and yes, i did install the 1.9.0.1006 driver, and it says its not compatable with the OS, so i ran the compat check and it said to install using xp sp2, which i did, but there is still no turbo memory options in my start menu, where they normally are.

 

Hmm, then maybe I forgot that I installed it in Vista Compat. mode, there are start menu items here for both SATA and Turbo Memory consoles. By the way, installing in XP compatibility mode makes no sense: XP doesn't support Turbo Memory.

About the size of TM used, I guess ReadyBoost is only capable of using either 512MB, 1GB, 2GB etc., portions of normal RAM sizes. Why there's only 387MB used for ReadyDrive beats me.

 

ok, well, i dont know how youve managed to install it, but it wont install in any vista compat mode vista, vista sp1 or vista sp2. i have nothing showing in start menu

 

I tired every compat mode. At one point the drivers installed but the device is not working properly. The software neverinstalled. Guess we need to wait for a win7 rc update.

 

I received my 2GB Intel Turbo Mini PCI-e card today and have not gotten this to workr. I have tried every compatibility mode and multiple drivers from all forums discussing this issue. I have Windows 7 RC1 X64 installed. Anyone figure this issue out.

I was able to install it on windows xp (SP2) compatibility but when I restarted I didn't see the drive. I can see it in device manager but it says to reinstall the driver.

HELP!

 

Just dowload the latest version from Intel and it will work flawlessly.

 

i installed using the latest drivers from the intel website about a week ago, which as stated, worked straight out the box, no compatability issue at all.

 

Do you have a link? Will these drivers you are referring to work with windows 7 x64 RC1? Do I need to use a compatibility mode?

 

I found this in another forum and made some corrections:

Download newest Intel Turbo Memory Driver from Intel's website:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?ProductID=2813&DwnldID=17574&lang=eng

If previous link doesn't work just google INVM19ENU.EXE and download it.

extract the driver with command line: INVM19ENU.exe -a -p
(the extracted files end up in program files in the intel directory)
overwrite the nvccoin.dll found in c:\windows\system32 with the new version found here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel Matrix Storage Manager\winall\INVM\x64\
Copy the new nvccoin.dll file into C:\windows\syswow64\ as well
Now reinstall the driver by just running INVM19ENU.EXE normally ...it should work now

 

New drivers have been up for about a month. But another question comes to mind... I'll make a new post as this one is a gonner.

 

Disable Intel Turbo Memory? It's practically useless. I know you might feel that if you paid for it you might as well use it, but it really does nothing unless you have little RAM.

 

If you use it as readydrive, saves battery life in my rig by about an hour difference. I've got the 1GB Turbo mem in as I didn't see much performance using the 4GB. Still I have yet to find anywhere that someone has done any benchmarks on using the 1GB vs 2GB vs 4GB. I am on this thing all day everyday, so something that extends battery life will let me spread my wings a bit. It's interesting that they had originally announced the 8GB chip and for obvious reasons haven't bothered with it. I have been curious about the SSD on a chip though. That's a whole different forum. I would much rather use a 32GB SSD Pci-e as the OS partition and use my HD as data backup.