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#4123572 - 05/22/15 10:22 PM Well damn.. (update)  
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it happened to me.

I see posts occasionally of people saying their gaming rig is down. Well after just over 5 years my Alienware has somewhat given up the ghost.

I have 3 sets of memory sticks and not one of them works. Computer keeps freezing up anywhere from 5 minutes up to 30.
Two vehicles i need to keep running right now and don't really want to flood more money into memory sticks.

My only backup is a POS Toshiba laptop that can't play any games.

...and i just got GTA V too and can't play it because computer won't stay on long enough to download game.

Such is life i guess. matrix mycomputer

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#4123575 - 05/22/15 10:24 PM Re: Well damn.. [Re: Stormtrooper]  
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Sorry to hear that man, so annoying when the computer craps out.

Oh and ...
#4123592 - 05/22/15 11:03 PM Re: Well damn.. [Re: Stormtrooper]  
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Sounds like it could be heat. You cleaned out the dust bunnies and scrubbed the cpu and gfx fins and fans?
#4123603 - 05/22/15 11:46 PM Re: Well damn.. [Re: U-96]  
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Originally Posted By: U-96
Sounds like it could be heat. You cleaned out the dust bunnies and scrubbed the cpu and gfx fins and fans?
That is a good start or might be a bad hard drive sector
#4123719 - 05/23/15 08:02 AM Re: Well damn.. [Re: Stormtrooper]  
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Last few days have been fixing a bad HDD! We had a lightning strike close by and since then the PC HD controller has been acting up, my DVD drive and Bluray writer are both fried and one of the HDDs is reporting it is failing, I tried cloning it to an identical 2TB HDD but it wouldn't start so after a CHKDSK on Thursday I have now got the cloning software to run, it started at 08:00 yesterday and it is reporting it is 93% finished just now.

I'm thankful that the day before I took a full backup of the HDD on to my file server - must have had a premonition!

Chlanna nan con thigibh a so's gheibh sibh feoil
Sons of the hound come here and get flesh
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#4123745 - 05/23/15 10:05 AM Re: Well damn.. [Re: Stormtrooper]  
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Oh the PC just shut down... hope that is a good sign...

remove old HDD and reboot....

Edit: And up and running again... now for all those software updates I missed during the last week smile

Last edited by Alicatt; 05/23/15 10:29 AM.
Chlanna nan con thigibh a so's gheibh sibh feoil
Sons of the hound come here and get flesh
Clan Cameron
#4123943 - 05/23/15 08:45 PM Re: Well damn.. [Re: Stormtrooper]  
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Ok so i observe comments made and decide to put Win7 Pro on empty hard drive and try again. Oh and made two BIOS tweaks.

Weird but works

Some guy hit me so i hit him back. I run from the cops right into a police station lol.
#4123949 - 05/23/15 09:04 PM Re: Well damn.. [Re: Stormtrooper]  
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Looks like you are in Baltimore...

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#4124038 - 05/24/15 12:26 AM Re: Well damn.. [Re: Timothy]  
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Originally Posted By: Timothy
Looks like you are in Baltimore...


Or Waco TX...

Glad you got your problems resolved Stormtrooper, I was going to suggest you run memtest86 on those mem sticks to confirm if there was a bad stick or something else.

i7-7700k@4.5ghz, GTX1080Ti,BenQ XL2420G-g-sync,Oculus Rift
#4124218 - 05/24/15 03:03 PM Re: Well damn.. [Re: Stormtrooper]  
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Yup, you would be surprised how a bad HD can make everything else look suspect. When in doubt, always check the components w/ moving parts first.

"You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til ya understand who's in ruttin' command here."

- Jayne Cobb, "Firefly"

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