Hey everyone, I was just wondering how to get my PC to "see" my second hard drive. I've tried looking in disk management, but it doesn't show up there. It DOES however appear in BIOS. I was able to format it by tearing apart an old external, and using the USB to SATA thingy to format it with disk manager, but after I plugged it back in, no dice. I even tried swapping the drives around, to no avail.

Specs:

ASUS G50vt laptop

Windows 7 home premium 64-bit

OCZ Vertex 2 120GB (OS drive, currently working)

WD 320gb mobile black version (The problem)

4 GB RAM, 2.26ghz duo core, 9800m GS 512mb

Please let me know if you have any suggestions. All I've heard so far is that I should format my SSD and get a fresh install of windows and hope that works. Obviously, I'd rather not have to do that, but if nothing else works, so be it. Thanks

[QUOTE="Roggirek"]I made sure my GPU was doing any PhysX work.Bikouchu35

Turn off Physx!!

Hello

I just got Skyrim on steam, and started to play when my laptop started to stutter and the video lagged. As far as I can tell, the audio kept going normally, but everything else seemed to slow down to a crawl. Normally, after waiting a few seconds or pausing (no lag whatsoever while paused, but I'll unpause and have the same issue), but not always. I tried setting everything to low, and that didn't help. If anything, it may have made it worse. I've played other games with no issue, TF2 on high, Fallout: NV on a mix of mediums and highs, 400 man fleet battles on EVE with graphics on (some lag, but serverside, not me) and the first Mass Effect. I DID notice that the second Mass Effect runs even worse than Skyrim has been.

Specs:

Windows 7 home premium 64-bit

2.26 GHz Centrino duo Processor

512GB 9800m GS nVidia GPU (I know these are getting quite old, but they're still above min. specs)

4 GB RAM

120GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD and 320GB 7200 rpm HDD (Steam and skyrim are on HDD, OS and some apps are on SSD)

Any ideas? Thanks.

I'm currently looking at updating my drivers. Nvidia is okay to install over right? Or should I do the old uninstall, reboot, reinstall, reboot, try method?