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hahah thought you'll like it since brian got hooked up with 2 pirate chick, just thought you needed some action too. did a little revision.

I´m currently coding in assembler with the PIC Kit2 for my evening school (electrical engineering) but honestly... I think I wont be able to modify a BIOS that way... xD

I posted this in NBR but I wanted to share the love here as well. It benefited me a lot since I don't have a need for an optical drive and my SSD is only 80 GB. This is the optical bay I bought... SATA Hard Drive Caddy Bay Macbook PRO 13" Unibody A1278 - eBay (item 260760330830 end time May-28-11 02:09:19 PDT) You do not have to buy the same optical HDD caddy but it does have to be 9.5mm in height. Anything bigger will not fit. Do this at your own risk. I take no responsibility for any mishaps you encounter along the way. Before you do this, install your SSD as you would normally, and install windows from the DVD with the optical disc drive still in the M14x. IF NOT THEN YOUR COMPUTER WILL BOOT FROM THE HARD DRIVE YOU HAVE WINDOWS OS ON REGARDLESS WHICH SATA SLOT IT IS IN. Step 1. Optical Bay I Purchase from eBay Step 2. Opening the bottom panel Step 3. This is the DVD optical disc bay that comes in the M14x Step 4. Removal of screws. (GO TO STEP 5 BEFORE REMOVING STRIP) Step 5. Careful removal of the SATA strip Step 6. Optical disc bay vs Optical HDD bay Step 7. How to remove the SATA strip from optical disc bay Step 8. The SATA strip Step 9. Removing the caddy from the optical disc drive Step 10. Attaching the strip on the optical HDD bay exaclty as it was on the optical disc bay. Step 11. The optical HDD bay with strip attached. Step 12. The gap filler provided with the optical bay. It's to fill the space between the HDD and the optical HDD bay. Step 13. What the gap filler looks like with the HDD in the optical HDD bay Step 14. Removal of black panel form optical HDD bay. * must be removed for it to fit inside the M14x * Step 15. Optical HDD bay with black panel removed. Step 16. Placement of optical HDD bay inside M14x Step 17. Drivers automatically installed. Step 18. Computer detecting secondary hard drive Step 19. HWinfo with the both the SSD the HDD in the info (Sata II 3Gb/s) I will fix it up and add any additional pictures if needed as time goes on. If you don't like the guide, please don't criticize. This is for the visual people out there who need help and want to enjoy the additional hard drive. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask

If you choose to post in other forums, Please have the integrity to list STEVENXOWENS792 as the solution... 1. Step 1, hit f2 on bootup and go into bios. 2. Choose Advanced tab. (Note also make sure you have stock bclk) 3. F10 to save and exit. 4. Boot into Windows 7. 5. Create a power option called GAMING ON BATTERY. 6. Choose advanced options for this power setting. 7. Set PROCESSOR POWER MANAGEMENT TO MINIMUM 90 AND MAXIMUM 90 PERCENT FOR BATTERY. (For Steady FPS) 8 Set Intel Graphic Settings to Balanced for Battery. 9 Set (Graphic Processor State) Nvidia Graphic Settings to Balanced for Battery 10. Save 11. Choose your new gaming on battery setting and reboot! Go have fun and game for approx an hour on battery. Your welcome... StevenX

Got to spend some time on the phones with Dell Engineering. My company, lets just say the contracts with Dell, HP and others are usually 100mil plus contracts. So the EPP rep called because I had sent an email about my base screws which are too short to fit (even with springs removed) and my palm rest (has little nick and I want a flawless one) and I asked about the optical port. By design it's a sata 1 port only, which would explain why my high speed sata 2 SSD hits 149.xx and stops. Their schematics don't show an additional Sata port so we only have 2. I will triple check on more time when I replace my palm rest next week as I asked them to just send me the parts and I will install. Thanks, StevenX

You can't expect them to reply so fast, and to be honest, it isn't very likely that we will have a modded BIOS anytime soon... they have tons of requests and it's a lot of work and time involved doing this. And before the M14x gets unlocked I want to see a modded M15x BIOS, hahahahah Anybody here with some crazy disassembling and hex skills?

well it has been 2 days and nothing. 30 views 0 replies... we need something else...

This has just became the funniest thead on T|I LMAO!!!

hahah sorry about that didn't spend much time on it. hope this makes up for it.

the real reason for heading to the bay, finding your long lost love?

awe!! did stam walk off with the ladies????

[MENTION=340]Alex Six[/MENTION] thanks for posting there... I'm sure it will help get some mods done to the M14x bios. Welcome to Tech | Inferno. I'm sure other M14x owners appreciate your effort too.

yea if you could get me your customer# I will see whats up and fix or get it to the right people to fix.

Honestly Stam I think that is an epic picture(not the one I made but the original one) It really capture the spirit of the moment. You are all enthusiastic & pumped up and Brian is like, "where is my triple Mocha frapuchino venti, cause I am waiting for my m18x and is been like 2 days since i order it and It should be already be here, the nerve of this people making me wait". -Really goes into hiding--

The said thing is.. he is NEVER going to remove the maid stamp from his license now. Even if he does kindergarten cop 2 or 3 the little kids in the movie are going to be like "hey mister are you the guy that pumped that ugly maid?" Who knows... Maybe she was the nicest person in the house and he just had a bad day with the predator and advisers and weirdos and he was just like "it's time for my schnitzel to get pufunkt"