Hi Peter,
The size of W8 is : 13,414,401KB and the copy has identical size (I attempted 2-3 times with the original disk and was starting again with a fresh copy from "MyWin8 - Copy.vhd").
Win 8 is bigger by approximately 102Mb compared to the 3 different Win 10 OSes (all are 13,312,001Kb including the copies).
There are 2 green round stickers at 2 corners of the HDD. Just in case: there is also a tape with "ram os" printed on it.
I disabled the graphic card 2 days ago in BASE mode but I suppose that this is not enough ? I should remove it physically ?
It is probably what you mention (something in the BIOS). I could start from scratch, reset the BIOS for "factory settings" and retry ?
In the BIOS I have attempted to (with success):
- reduce CPU clock speed (1.2ghz is the lowest possible with the Asus Sabertooth x79)
- disable the "C1" and its siblings
- turn the spread spectrum of the CPU and PCIe OFF
- disable some fan controls
- shut the virtualization and some other details of that order.
Apart from this, I did not disable anything else as I am walking into that like a blind person...
Side notes (Windows 8 ):
- I loaded the correct driver for the "Simple PCI communication" at some point but I also tried without it first
- I increased the minimal CPU speed from 5 > 100%, while modifying the XXHE settings. At next boot, I put it back at 5%
- in "Control Panel > System amount of ram is exactly 16Gb, no decimal, no less.
Side notes (BIOS)
- The Sata config is in AHCI mode (just mentionning - I did not touch it)
- I do not recall seeing a "shadow" something, but I will check if there is.
That it about it. NO personal adjustement in Windows. The lesser, the better
Regards,
Alain