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  1. J

    About to buy a new SSD...advice please :)

    Hi all, I've had a lot of problems with my computer lately and think it's the SSD, which is an OCZ Vertex 2. I'm about to replace it and would like your opinions. It looks like the viable candidates are: Crucial MX100 256GB (£76)...
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    Time for a new build! Been out of the game for a while.

    Thanks for the help guys :) It looks like I'm going to push this build back a bit though - especially now that I've found the cause of the problems I was having on my current PC. I'll let you know when it does happen though. Thanks again, Jez
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    Time for a new build! Been out of the game for a while.

    Hi Cerb, please can you expand on "Win7 SP1 aligns new partitions to 1MB on pretty much any storage device"? I would be installing an old version of windows 7 and then updating it with SP1 after the install. Also..do you think I should consider windows 8?
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    Time for a new build! Been out of the game for a while.

    Ha, ok I thought there was more to it than that. Thanks Cerb.
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    Please help...I've re-installed windows three times in the last three days!

    I think I've fixed the problem. I changed my windows drive sata cable and mobo sata port (the ports are difficult to access so I had to just swap it to another one cable that was already plugged in). It's been running fine since then, no hanging or pausing at all. I remember a while ago I had...
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    Please help...I've re-installed windows three times in the last three days!

    Right...computer is hanging quite frequently tonight, every few minutes or less it seems. And now I'm getting this message up in itunes when it's just playing music: "The itunes library file cannot be saved. The disk could not be read from or written to" Hd Tune says health is fine on all...
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    Time for a new build! Been out of the game for a while.

    Not quite there with the list yet, but I'll finish it soon and post it up. Please can someone point me to some detailed threads for setting up a fresh installation of windows 7. I've done it loads of times but there are always things I forget (like AHCI) and I'd like to get it right first time...
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    Please help...I've re-installed windows three times in the last three days!

    Thanks ketchup. I swapped the molex connection on my PSU last night to a different socket (modular PSU). No crashing/freezing last night or today so far. But the computer is hanging and pausing sometimes, even just from changing tab in firefox. I think this mess is possibly a combination of the...
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    Time for a new build! Been out of the game for a while.

    Some great responses here, they're very appreciated. I'm not going to go through everyone's posts, but I'm going to spend some time now speccing up the new build and post it up here. I know I don't really need a new build with what I use my computer for but I need a new psu and potentially new...
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    Please help...I've re-installed windows three times in the last three days!

    It's not definite...but I might I have found the culprit! I was rummaging around my case to see which fans were getting noisy (I'm thinking about changing them along with other upgrades), and I brushed the molex output going to my hard drives...I heard them stop spinning and then spin up again...
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    Please help...I've re-installed windows three times in the last three days!

    Hi sm, I always make sure that my other hard drives are unplugged when installing windows. Are you saying get rid of the vertex drive based on the performance graph or other reasons? Thanks
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    Time for a new build! Been out of the game for a while.

    Hi guys, thanks so much for your replies, you've given me a few things to think about and a lot of helpful information. A few things I've learned then :) (also checklist for myself when buying) 1. Go for a Z97 chipset 2. Get a motherboard with a PCI slot at the bottom for my sound card 3. DDR3...
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    Huge memory leak from Firefox and Flash Player causes computer to slow to a halt

    Funnily enough a friend of mine recently said he switched from firefox to chrome because firefox uses too much memory. I sent this screenshot to him last night...but then I did have 35 tabs open whilst looking at computer parts!
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    Please help...I've re-installed windows three times in the last three days!

    Hi silicon, thanks for your help. I ran HD tune and have posted the benchmarks below. All the drives show as OK on the health check. I ran the error check on the SSD and no errors were shown (all green blocks). I'll run the other two now, but when I was getting the problems they were not...
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    Time for a new build! Been out of the game for a while.

    Hi all, my current computer is 7 years old and in need of a refresh. My current build Intel E8400 3Ghz dual core Asus Rampage Formula (http://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/RAMPAGE_FORMULA/) 4GB DDR2 OCZ Reaper RAM 60GB Vertex 2 SSD Plus HDDs for storage Sapphire Radeon HD 7750 Ultimate...
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    Please help...I've re-installed windows three times in the last three days!

    Thanks for that, I'm pretty sure this is my CPU cooler. http://www.scan.co.uk/products/thermalright-ultra-120-extreme-intel-bp-silent-120mm-6x-heat-pipe-heat-sink-cooler-fan-intel-775-115 http://www.thermalright.com/html/archives/cpu_heatsink/u-120_ex_1366rt.html I like the idea of a media...
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    Please help...I've re-installed windows three times in the last three days!

    Thanks ketchup, it's still ok so far tonight. But I'd rather that I actually worked out what it was rather than it mysteriously disappear, just to ambush me when I really need my computer..lol. At least I've now got windows installed on a second drive as well to rule out the SSD. I don't think...
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    Please help...I've re-installed windows three times in the last three days!

    Hi Burpo, I'd like to believe that it's the PSU...easy fix. But it's been happening for over a week, pretty consistently until last night when for some reason the problems stopped. I live in a fairly big city, no power outages or fuses blown elsewhere in the house, etc. I'm not ruling it out...
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    Please help...I've re-installed windows three times in the last three days!

    I've now got windows installed on a second drive so can switch between the two. The problems seem to have gone away now, and both drives are booting and are running fine. I haven't changed anything though. The fact that the problems are now intermittent, does that suggest one component over...
  20. J

    Please help...I've re-installed windows three times in the last three days!

    I don't understand what's going on now... Last night I plugged in another HDD to check what was on it before I formatted it for windows. No freezing occurred (still booted form SSD). Took a couple things off the HDD. Then unplugged that HDD, plugged my other storage drive back in, thinking...
  21. J

    Please help...I've re-installed windows three times in the last three days!

    My computer runs very cool and is quite clean inside, therefore I don't think this is cooling related? The problems would also appear from a cold start.
  22. J

    Please help...I've re-installed windows three times in the last three days!

    Hi boomerang. When it has frozen and I've reset it, or sometimes it has just reset itself, it would often display the "select boot device" message. At the start, it had only changed the order in the BIOS so I changed it back and then it booted ok. But then as the problems have become more...
  23. J

    Please help...I've re-installed windows three times in the last three days!

    My current GPU apparently draws a maximum of 75w, my PSU should have heaps of headroom at the moment (that is, if it's still functioning ok). http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/Sapphire_HD_7750_Ultimate/
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    Please help...I've re-installed windows three times in the last three days!

    Thanks for the replies. This is my power supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817171022 It's about six or seven years old. It was actually one of the components that I was hoping to put in my new build, when it eventually happens. It's a quality unit, never had any problems...
  25. J

    Please help...I've re-installed windows three times in the last three days!

    Hi guys, I really need some help. I'm currently typing this on my computer and praying that I can submit it before it freezes and crashes again. Here are my specs: Windows 7 64 bit Asus rampage formula Intel E8400 OCZ Vertex 2 60gb SSD (system drive) OCZ reaper 4gb Other storage drives I...
  26. J

    IPS/PLS Monitors - Samsung websites drives me crazy!

    Anyone?
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    IPS/PLS Monitors - Samsung websites drives me crazy!

    Ok guys, I know my previous post was a bit long... One question though - can anyone think of a good reason not to get the S24C650PL for my home PC? It's got height adjustment, tilt, speakers, hdmi input, usb connections, and a fairly low response time for PLS/IPS screens of 5ms...
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    IPS/PLS Monitors - Samsung websites drives me crazy!

    I'm looking for a 24" monitor and I don't game on my PC, so don't need the low response time of a TN panel. I've been looking at IPS monitors and bought the LG 24EA53VQ but it had 2 dead pixels and quite bad backlight bleed so I sent it back. I'm now looking at Samsung PLS monitors, they're...
  29. J

    Please help...Very strange problems. Screenshot Included.

    Oh no....Here we go again. I have 3 hard drives + 1 system drives which is an SSD. The storage hard drives randomly dissapear from My computer and from disk management at which point I cannot access any info. on them (like music through winamp). They seem to be there more often when the...
  30. J

    Please help...Very strange problems. Screenshot Included.

    lol thanks. All been fine since!
  31. J

    Please help...Very strange problems. Screenshot Included.

    Thanks for your help. Fingers crossed it's another couple years before I have any more problems...then it'll be time for an upgrade anyway :)
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    Please help...Very strange problems. Screenshot Included.

    Lol Steltek, you're right - I've never updated the bios...always read that it's something that you want to avoid... I've got 2 mice, 1 keyboard, not sure why it shows up like that. Somehow though...I turned it on today and it posted normally, GPU fan is back down to slow speed!!! I literally...
  33. J

    PC failing to boot (Asus Rampage Formula)

    Not what we want to hear :( I've had a look and it does pretty much seem that only MATX boards supporting socket 775 now... Except this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-Rampage-Formula-Socket-Motherboard/dp/B0012EKB2A/ref=sr_1_7?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1358711428&sr=1-7 lmao It sounds like...
  34. J

    PC failing to boot (Asus Rampage Formula)

    I've got the same motherboard and I've had problems arise after the computer has been off for a few days!! http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2296687 Maybe these motherboards develop problems after a few years...mine is about 4 years old now.
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    Please help...Very strange problems. Screenshot Included.

    Thanks Murloc. I just tried EVGA precision X and like many other programs I've tried I can't see the gpu temperature or control the fan, however I think fan control might not be possible with my gpu. I've disconnected all the HDDs and booted ubuntu from USB and the GPU still doesn't quiet...
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    Please help...Very strange problems. Screenshot Included.

    Another update: I tried moving the GPU to another PCI slot. All that happened was the computer wouldn't boot until I set the SSD as the boot drive in the bios again. Should moving the GPU change the HDD boot order?? Then when the computer started with the GPU in the different slot it was as if...
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    Please help...Very strange problems. Screenshot Included.

    Update: I tried switching the SATA cables, and now it boots without the "No IDE Master" problem. It boots in normal speed aswell with no hanging anywhere, but the GPU fan still remains at 100%. This does sound like SATA issues...
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    Please help...Very strange problems. Screenshot Included.

    Okay. So I disconnected all hard drives sata connections (at hard drive end, the mobo connections are hard to get to, I assume that's the same thing). The bios then showed up the USB and I booted from USB. The computer hung like normal at this point: But then...I realised the CD sata...
  39. J

    Please help...Very strange problems. Screenshot Included.

    Thanks I'll try that in the morning
  40. J

    Please help...Very strange problems. Screenshot Included.

    Dammit. My motherboard can't boot from USB. And I checked in the bios and the CD drive isn't in there! hmmmm
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