[DrNip]

Somebody made the comment yesterday for me to try my XP install on my Sata 6 Gp/s ports and I owe them a big thank you. I initially had the HDD I was trying to install XP on in the 1st Sata 3 Gp/s port because it was a Sata II and had my Sata III SDD and HDD plugged into the two Sata 6Gp/s ports. Plugged my HDD into one of those this time and got XP to install and reboot without the error message. PS/2 and USB mouse still doesn't work no matter what but I had my Bluetooth mouse plugged in still by accident and found out that it worked! ROFL

So I loaded everything on the install, went to the garage were it was 5 degrees and ran all my 2D benches just for them to be worse than my Windows 7 runs. I couldn't figure it out, it was cold so I went back in as I wasn't trying to stay out there too long.

I then proceeded to load TaiServer and mission was accomplished. Started up CPUz and noticed my CPU was at 3.4ghz instead of the 4.5ghz I had it at in BIOS. I then realized at that moment that I didn't have Throttlestop running on my XP install during my benches so my CPU was downclocking therefor making my benches suck! WTF! Total noob I tell ya. After my TaiServer run in a minute I will be putting XP back on and going back out in the cold to rerun my benches.