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    BSOD and windows 7 restarts after a few failed attempts

    Memory that has gone bad on me include cheap generics, Crucial Ballistix and high end Corsair memory. I just run on stock, no overclocking or tweaking of timings. Never did my PC "die" on me. Sometimes the symptoms are very subtle, often memory will fail memtest while seeming to work just...
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    BSOD and windows 7 restarts after a few failed attempts

    Over the last 10 years I would say the average lifetime of a stick of memory in my computer has been about 18 months. There is no other hardware component with a failure rate as high. I also suspect that a good amount of problems blamed on Windows or software are actually caused by bad memory.
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    AMD Gray Screen of DEATH 10.2 Driver Poll

    I've had the 5870 since launch and the problem has remained the same, my computer will gray screen coming out of sleep. A few minutes in sleep seems to be ok, but a few hours or more virtually guarantees a crash. At first this was also accompanied by the strangest memory corruption errors...
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    Question about linux's basic graphics software that uses the "Q" command

    I know what he's talking about!!! At my school we use "Q" as a terminal command to compile binaries that use the ultra-primitive Horstmann graphics library in the book "Big C++." It may be used for other stuff, not really sure. Anyways, to the OP, you won't be able to use "Q" by installing...
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    Microsoft Denies it Built 'Backdoor' in Windows 7

    Sorry, the article I grabbed that quote from is from 2007. Got my dates mixed up. If you want to see it for yourself just google "Microsoft China source code."
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    Microsoft Denies it Built 'Backdoor' in Windows 7

    "Trust" doesn't come into this at all. Foreign governements don't trust Microsoft or the US government. Did anyone read what I wrote before? Microsoft shares their source code with governments. This is a quote from a CNN article back in 2003! "[Microsoft] began talks with Chinese security...
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    Microsoft Denies it Built 'Backdoor' in Windows 7

    Microsoft makes the source code of Windows available to certain governments (China, for example), to assuage their fears over potential backdoors. This is nothing top secret, anyone could find this out after just a few seconds of googling (or binging). This is a non-story.
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    ATI Catalyst 9.11

    I get the blank screen lockups right after waking my computer from sleep mode. 9.11 hasn't done anything to fix the problem.
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    5870 gray screen crash.

    I get blank screen crashes (usually blue in color, sometimes black) almost every time I wake the computer from sleep mode. This is really annoying because I tend to use sleep mode a lot. I've communicated with Sapphire dozens of times over the last few weeks and they've been of no help...
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    What's the longest you've left your computer on for?

    I don't get it. If I left my computer on 24-7 it would add at least $50 to the electricity bill. Does sleep mode count?
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    Is Windows 7 incredibly unstable for anyone else?

    I don't know if you're asking me or the OP but I took my computer apart and put it back together trying to fix this. Believe me, everything is plugged in correctly. I completely missed something important here. The OP and I have the exact same power supply, the Corsair HX520. I suspect...
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    Is Windows 7 incredibly unstable for anyone else?

    Do the blank screen crashes happen after using sleep mode? If it does then it's your 5870 at fault. The longer my computer stays in sleep, the more likely it is to crash (just a blank blue screen) after coming out of it. There are other glitches that accompany it like graphical corruption and...
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    Windows 7 64bit + 5870 locking up randomly

    I thought I was the only one but I'm on 7 64 bit with a 5870 (Sapphire) and my computer does that too. The screen just suddenly goes blue. Or I get a good old fashioned blue screen caused by the ATI drivers. In my case, it seems to be caused by some kind of corruption that happens in sleep...
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