Vista X64 AAM adjust?

zoob · Post by **zoob** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 1:16 pm

Hey guys,

I have an Asus board, and as many threads mention, I am unable to permanently enable AAM.

I am running Vista X64 so NHC is out of the question. HD Tune Pro gives me "Error setting AAM."

What other options do I have besides switching motherboards?

My Hitachi 1TB seeks are VERY loud inside a hard-mounted Scythe Quiet Drive.

Tez · Post by **Tez** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 1:40 pm

Hey, i also had the same problems under vista 64 with an Asus board. Currently i have Winaam in the startup folder which successfully enables aam but is not ideal since you have to manually set it each time you restart.

Would like to know of any other solutions.

zoob · Post by **zoob** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:01 pm

WinAAM.. better than the nothing I had previously. Thanks!

zoob · Post by **zoob** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:12 pm

Weird, seems that WinAAM set it and kept it at quiet mode for my Hitachi 1 TB and WD 1 TB on an Asus P5K Premium in Vista X64.

I'm happy

Tez · Post by **Tez** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:32 am

zoob wrote:WinAAM.. better than the nothing I had previously. Thanks!

Your welcome. Glad it works, mine definately doesn't stick though

af9pk · Post by **af9pk** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:46 pm

Tez wrote:
zoob wrote:WinAAM.. better than the nothing I had previously. Thanks!
Your welcome. Glad it works, mine definately doesn't stick though

Create (with notepad) a file ending in .bat instead of .txt (i.e. a bat file) containing the following text:

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winaam -Id:all -Level:128 -Quiet

Place it in the winaam folder. Create a shortcut of the bat file in the windows startup directory. Done!

Tez · Post by **Tez** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:40 am

Thanks af9pk, it works great.

ktriebol · Post by **ktriebol** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 7:20 am

I have two WD5000AAKS, an Asus P5K-E motherboard, and Vista Home Premium x64. I installed WinAAM and did the .bat thing that AF9PK mentioned. I was happy to see that AAM remained enabled and satyed in "Quiet" mode even after rebooting. The only problem was that WinAAM apparently makes a change to the registry that caused my wireless networking icon to disappear from the notificatin area. Wireless networking still worked normally, but the icon in the notification area disappeared. I then tried to change the registry back but was not successful in getting the icon to reappear. I guess I want the icon more than AAM so I deleted WinAAM, changed the registry again, and now I have my icon back. I really liked WinAAM so I wish there was a way to have WinAAM and keep the icon too.