Recent content by agogley

I'd clear the CMOS and run at memory SPD plus .1v. I'd then run Memtest86+ overnight on each individual stick of memory. I'd also check the harddrive for failures.

Nevermind, now hard-drive is failing every test. go figure. Thankfully, I continued to put every component through a battery of tests.

I had a couple BSODs in windows 7 that caused me to suspect a hardware failure. I did some testing including harddrive and RAM. I've determined that I have one bad stick of RAM. However, my Seagate 7200 drive came back with an error on a Long test using the proprietary Seatools test (must use...

Ok, I've tested all four sticks in again and it came up with an error after the sixth run. So one or two at a time no errors. 4 ...errors. I have the cover off the case so I doubt heat is now the issue...although you never know. I'm going to increase the voltage by .1 and see what happens.

I received an error when testing my RAM. I'm trying to diagnose the problem because as I will explain, I can't narrow it down to a particular stick or a particular slot. I'm trying to figure out what my next step should be. A couple weeks ago my computer BSOD.It recovered to windows but it...

That makes sense, but Vista formats all discs to be used for drag and drop (to be used similar to flash drive except you can't rewrite over a CD-R). Anyways, turns out the problem is probably a SATA cable. I replaced the cable with another one I wasn't using inside the case and the drive works...

How can I tell in Vista what speed it is running at when ripping files? I put in a CD and it seems slow. It takes around 45 seconds to transfer a 25 MB file folder. Way slower than when pulling of a USB drive.

No, I am using CD-R and DVD-R, the same media I used on my older machine with XP professional. EVen with CR-R and DVD-R, the media goes through a formatting process before it writes the data to the disc (at least that is what always happened with XP...Roxio would label CD, format CD, burn...

I recently put together a new computer. I didn't think to test the Samsung 183L SATA DVD burner (since it reads fine) until now. When I insert either a CD-R or DVD-R, Vista detects the media and provides autoplay options. When I choose the format the disc option it starts the process, the...