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  1. jeffa123

    A disk read error occurred... :(

    Your problem could be something as simple as a loose Sata cable on the Motherboard or at the back of your drive. After checking that I would recommend doing a scandisk on your boot drive, but I stress only if you have eliminated a faulty lead, because I have seen so many people go down...
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    Crucial M550 SSD

    You will find that most of the current SSD's on the market fall down after a certain amount of writes but strangely they pick up perfectly after a firmware update, espescially for those with no prewrite buffer. The samsungs have a read/write buffer unlike most other manufacturers. This goes for...
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    Spec me a motherboard please

    You have a speciality project which gives you cost and age issues. I had my ASUS P5N32-E SLI MB go down last spring which has an Intel Q6600 and 4GB of Ram. I replaced everything including the PSU. Except the CPU which I knew was good. It came down to the Motherboard in the end so I had to go to...
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    First time SLI what to expect?

    Games have an independant graphic flow. Benchmarks often mislead people into believing they have the most brilliant piece of hardware on the planet but as so often it is the working environment they have to work withing that controls them. Sometimes the flashing of a new bios for both the cards...
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    First time SLI what to expect?

    I have heard all of the cr*p about SLI by Crossfire fanboys and the opposite by others. All SLI is is a serial interface which operates like an internal hardware network, this is why identical cards are needed for the purpose. I suppose the same happened at first when NAS was introduced, and for...
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    Everything has just gone?!

    First of all have you got a local profile or just your online profile. Windows 8 installs 2 profiles to your system, one that goes to your local desktop and the other profile is stored online in the cloud. Unless you have duplicated your online profile you will be unable to restore it unless you...
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    Samsung Magician

    The one thing I would be wary of in using Rapid Mode is that it uses system Ram as a disk Buffer. If the PC crashes or you have a powercut you have more chance of losing data than if you didn't use Rapid mode. All your data gets cached onto a ram disk before writing to the SSD so if the crash...
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    New to SSDs - opinions on this?

    Personally I don't consider the data write and read range of the drives all that much different in real terms. You pays your money and get what you get. The major problem I have found is the difference between one motherboards SATA controller over another. I can install an O/S on a small SSD and...
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    Budget SSD

    Trim aligns the drive with a 1024kb cluster for less garbage and more efficient data storage, this just means that data can be easily rearranged and executed. When you currently boot from your HD your system looks for cluster 63, as does Windows Vista. This for the present time should be...
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    New to SSDs - opinions on this?

    All SSD's are reasonably fast as long as they are SATA 6GB/s, the only criticism is the choir I hear from false figures. On this board I have seen the so called update in action to the buffering on the Samsung which is nothing more than a drag on resources as it basically sets up a Ram disk as a...
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    New to SSDs - opinions on this?

    Excellent choic. The HyperX 128GB is what I run Windows 8.1 on and it boots very fast and keeps its trim very well. The Plus point I found with it was that it came with its own 2.5 to 3.5" caddy. Since purchasing it some six months ago I haven't found it error on anything and it responds well...
  12. jeffa123

    Microsoft Windows 8.2 Scheduled For January 2014

    I am sorry you seem to find the Start menu so restrictive but the filesystem in general needs updating. It needs to be able to access larger drives than 3TB without resorting to GPT and have a routine that is able to formulate around previous MBR and the proposed FFS which was originally setout...
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    help needed please

    Just something simple. When booted you may have installed the drive but you may still have to take ownership when moving or copying data. This is the reason a backup is restored so much quicker because paths and permissions are of the ame Admin phase.
  14. jeffa123

    SSD & HDD Both Failed?

    Sounds like a CMOS SMART failure to me. Check there is no dust under your MB causing a short on your Motherboard. Often when cleaning we don't clear dust in an enclosed area we merely move it somewhere else. Basic entropy.
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    Best email client?

    The major issue with Windows 8 and 8.1 is that it no longer believes that POP mail exists. It is silly really because POP is good at transporting small files very quickly and securely. Webmail is not very secure and is open to abuse. I buy something over the internet and on POP you get a secure...
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    Stop using CNET for windows software

    All free downloads come with some type of add ons now because that actually pays their bills more than the software itself. Remember free advertising on Google and a prime position in the advertising market on a search engine gets you and them more custom. So in other words its like the Ass...
  17. jeffa123

    Windows 7 or 8

    Either your monitor is not setup to receive from the source you have it physically connected to or you have a graphics conflict if your integrated graphics is interfering in the EFI with your PCI graphics. Check your monitor setup first though.
  18. jeffa123

    Stop using CNET for windows software

    On installation of 99% of software even from CNET now you get these added downloads like Google etc. but you can either remove the tick from installing the added software or to decline it at install. you will still install the software package you want it just means you have to decline...
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    Windows 7 or 8

    no post Beeps?
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    Windows 7 crashes/freezes randomly

    Sometimes things like Video hardware drivers can cause this sort of error. If you have Nvidia drivers installed go into MSconfig and remove the tick from nTune and the Nvidia hardware accelerator software and do the same at startup. You may also have issues with Security software which may also...
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