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Mobo, hard drive, or maybe rogue app?

My OS Win7 64bit is installed on a crucial SSD. I had an old 2TB Samsung drive connected to my Gigabyte H97M mobo and it would frequently freeze the boot process on the gigabyte logo or prolong the windows logo for a good minute or sometimes appear or not appear in windows. There was also a...
- chocobosandwich
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- Jun 21, 2014
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Motherboards
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Installing drivers for onboard video too?

Under display adapters, I have both my Nvidia GTX 750Ti listed, as well as a standard vga graphics adaptor. I am guessing this is the 4600 on the i3 processor. Do I need to install drivers for it? Will installing drivers for it conflict with the current Nvidia drivers?
- chocobosandwich
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- Jun 20, 2014
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Hard drive acting funny at boot

I'll have to do a full erase/zerofill later. It says fail in seatools for windows. I think I have to make a bootable DOS version to do that without win7 running. Seagate says smart fail as well, but gives me no other info. Crystaldiskinfo says BAD. There's a red circle next to spin up time and...
- chocobosandwich
- Post #4
- Jun 17, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Hard drive acting funny at boot

I recently built a new machine with a new SSD and toshiba hdd. Both the SSD and toshiba hdd work fine. I also transplanted my old 2TB samsung hdd full of stuff. With it connected in the system, the gigabyte logo at boot would restart several times, then the windows logo would hang for over a...
- chocobosandwich
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- Jun 17, 2014
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Samsung Galaxy S II - First Look (video)

There are issues with superAMOLED, sure, but many of them can be overlooked because of the deep blacks and far superior contrast. The saturated colors is a problem, as well as the blue tinge, but those are less hardware defects and more design choices. Samsung wants to emphasize the contrast, so...
- chocobosandwich
- Post #33
- Feb 17, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Just played with a WP7 phone, what a treat!

When people openly say they are ignoring my posts, I would think there is more than just a little ignorance going on. I've also linked and defended my arguments thoroughly enough about the lackluster WP7 climate. And referring to early adoption. When you have people like dougp defending the...
- chocobosandwich
- Post #66
- Feb 17, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Talk me out of Samsung Fascinate a Galaxy S

I'm glad you got the Samsung. I would get one, just to p*ss all over most of the rabid Samsung haters who regular this board, as well as the xda-developer and android sites. Same goes for anti-Apple buffoons. Grow up. It's just a phone. No one in the real world cares that you didn't get your...
- chocobosandwich
- Post #53
- Feb 17, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Verizon iPhone sales - Good but less than expected

The $600-700 pricetag is quite normal for any high end phone like the Galaxy S and HTC Desire HD as well, particularly outside the US. I also don't see why you are complaining about US cellphone contracts. Have you seen the prices for voice, text, and data in European countries? No...
- chocobosandwich
- Post #31
- Feb 17, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Is an SoC basically a fancier motherboard?

So is the only difference the materials? Aren't they both silicon? I also find it kind of hilarious that people bicker about which Chip performs better, Tegra 2, Omap, Exynos, etc. when most of them use the same ARM9 processors and are near identical. At least with motherboards they bicker...
- chocobosandwich
- Post #6
- Feb 17, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Motorola: We won't make WP7 phones because WP7 is a closed system

Why focus on other platforms when you already have a free, customizable, and popular one you've been working on for over a year and that single-handedly brought your company back from the dead with the original Droid? Especially when WP7 lacks any definingly astounding features that would sway...
- chocobosandwich
- Post #7
- Feb 16, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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People seriously excited for the Thunderbolt?

Well if you don't need LTE, there are plenty of cheaper alternatives. But if you want LTE NOW! Go for it. I was hoping HTC would change their design paradigms, but it seems all the new HTC handsets look almost identical to the old, and the rehashes even more so.
- chocobosandwich
- Post #49
- Feb 16, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Meet the Galaxy S WiFi... Samsung taking aim at the iPod

Not too big as a PMP. Archos has been dishing out 5" and 7" PMPs for ages, so this falls in line with the rest of the market. I don't see much appeal in a device like this, since smartphones are already 4.3" and an extra 0.7" isn't gonna make the viewing that much more dramatic, but a 7" of a...
- chocobosandwich
- Post #7
- Feb 16, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Just played with a WP7 phone, what a treat!

I know some of you diehards are ignorant of the facts. But really, no one in the industry is rooting for WP7 right now and its track record isn't so good for how big and gamechanging its supposed to be. You keep on saying 1.0 software is suppose to be like this. It is 2011. The iOS was released...
- chocobosandwich
- Post #47
- Feb 16, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Is an SoC basically a fancier motherboard?

So what's the difference between a motherboard and a chip? One is green and the other is...not green?
- chocobosandwich
- Post #3
- Feb 16, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Dual core on smartphones... why?

Jeesuz. If you don't like dual-core, buy a single-core phone. There are tons of those out there. Sony-ericsson doesn't even have a dual-core phone in its new lineup. The second core is used for multitasking. If you don't multi-task, don't use it. It's not gonna suddenly rev up to full speed and...
- chocobosandwich
- Post #39
- Feb 16, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Samsung Galaxy S II - First Look (video)

And it will probably sell millions as well. I'll be one of those, or maybe get the Optimus 3D instead. If anyone has actually read Atrix reviews, they will know that the screen can look pixelated and the quality of the screen and viewing angles are pretty subpar. BGR even said the Droid X...
- chocobosandwich
- Post #28
- Feb 16, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Touchwiz 4.0 is garbage!

You know when you sell 10 million Galaxy S phones, the number of lunatics bitter about their own purchase and latching it onto your company forever just goes through the roof. The iPhone has it better, since all the fanboys help counteract the haters. Sadly, Samsung doesn't have that magical...
- chocobosandwich
- Post #43
- Feb 16, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Is an SoC basically a fancier motherboard?

A really tiny one?
- chocobosandwich
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- Feb 16, 2011
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Just played with a WP7 phone, what a treat!

I'm surprised most of the tech blogs I've read or skimmed over never really criticized WP7 for no-show features that should have been standard on a 1.0 release and like to praise the stark blue GUI, which really turns off a lot of people in the consumer market who aren't "professionals". Things...
- chocobosandwich
- Post #43
- Feb 16, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices

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