Recent content by BoomerM3

Old... Do you practice being nasty - or are you just naturally good at it?

Not to trash you guys, but a smart person tries to benefit from others' experience. New hardware and software keeps coming out and things change. Why would I want to experience every mistake personally when I could read how someone else solved the problem. But, maybe that's not your method. The...

I'm thinking about adding a Crucial M4 64 Gb SSD to my recent build (ASUS P8Z68-V). I see so many questions, comments, explanations of the SSD, I wonder if it is ready for prime time. I am looking for a cookbook document. Something we might call installation instructions. I don't want to 'try...

I installed the drives on the SATA II connectors on the mobo and installed all the drivers. I Will look to see if there are any other Intel AHCI drivers. The hangs have only occurred 2 times in 5 days, so it is hard to know if I fixed the problem. I watched the system for about 5 minutes...

Ran the WD test - passed everything. Think it's a drive issue? Software? Controller?

I completed building my system last week - ASUS P8Z68-V. Two SATA (WD) drives. I loaded Win 7 and everything ran fine. Twice in the last 2 days, my system freezes - only the mouse moves. Looking at the drive activity light, it is on solid. I cannot reboot the system, but must do a hard reset...

My ASUS P8Z68-V has an 8-pin socket marked EATX12V. Four of the sockets are square - the other 4 are rounded. My Antec 480 PSU has two plugs marked CPU - each has 4-pins. One has 2 square and two rounded - it will fit into the EATX12V socket. But, the other plug has 4 rounded pins and...

This system will be used for Photoshop – editing larger images (now 20 Mb each). Other apps are standard business stuff. No games. No overclocking. Quiet operation is a big deal for me - it is a quiet area now! Reusable parts: 2 monitors, SATA drives, SATA DVD, and KB, mouse, etc. This...