Samsung 840 EVO 500GB and dv7-3188cl are they compatable?

Hi there,
Would the SSD work with my laptop? if it does what accessories do I need to get with the drive? Any help is greatly appreciated.. Thanks in Advance..
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Hi there,
Would the SSD work with my laptop? if it does what accessories do I need to get with the drive? Any help is greatly appreciated.. Thanks in Advance..
Hi,
It's the first Intel generation chipset and a Corsair Force plus a Corsair Force GT worked for me well. However, the Samsung is a brand new drive and I can't guarantee it will work on your laptop. Perhaps it may work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb-zgFKVAZA
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How did you go about installing Windows?
It looks like the first time you used some software that ended up cloning it from the HDD to the SSD. That's a no-no in general, and I'd never trust it to work well.
Then the next time, you say you restored it. But you don't say if that was from the SSD/HDD or from recovery media that you had generated.
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Quote from: Bernhard on 25-October-13, 18:33:41
Did you disable Secure Boot in the BIOS? If not, then Win7 won't load.
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Found it in some screenshots, I cannot recall from the top of my head wether it was enabled or disabled, allthough my gutt feeling says it already is disabled.
http://cdn.pcper.com/files/imagecache/article_max_width/review/2013-05-31/09-MSI_SnapShot_23.gif
http://cdn.pcper.com/files/imagecache/article_max_width/review/2013-05-31/10-MSI_SnapShot_24.gif
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I have been using the drive as a system drive for one year without enabling the TRIM, which I did yesterday. Are you suggesting that enabling TRIM does not remove the garbage filled blocks? Should I format the drive and proceed with a fresh install, or will the blocks clean with regular use?
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