I have a Latitude D830/140M with A17, 8GB RAM, T9300, XT409 (Blu-ray/DVD/CD) and WD 750GB hard drive. The Latitude is running a fresh copy of Windows 7 Pro SP1 64bit.
The laptop has pretty great performance and even plays Blu-ray movies via TMT5 without a hitch, just amazing for a 8 year old PC.
I recently became interested in the FCM (Flash Cache Module) from Intel and purchased one (2GB chip). I put the module in the WWAN slot next to the WLAN slot (Dell 1505 802.11n) and made the 2 changes in the BIOS to enable the FCM (I was already running in ACHI).
I know the FCM ultimately shows up in Device Manage as another drive and I/O controller, but first the PC boots into Windows and the FCM shows up only as Other Device/Unknown device.
Not to worry, I run the latest Intel FCM driver/Matrix Controller installer (INVM110ENU.exe) and the FCM "drive" shows up in Device Manager as does the Matrix Controller.
I restart the PC and the Matrix Controller shows that Ready Boost and Ready Cache are enabled and sure enough, the PC boots faster and seems more peppy. Not to bad for a $20 module, but it turns out that Windows Update Service (WUS), Search and BITS are all knocked out. I remove the Intel FCM software from Programs and Features and the 3 services come back except that WUS has lost it's installed update history list.
Has anybody got the FCM to work on a D630/D830 AND retained WUS, Search and BITS? The PC has better than good performance without the FCM, but I'm a geek and would like to know if FCM really does work. Is the large drive (750GB) the problem due to it's 4K physical file size (512 logical) and the 2GB FCM's physical file size is 512? Or do I need a newer FCM driver/software?
Thanks for any reply.