Recent content by Mencius

Hi everyone, I've got a 500GB seagate drive in a vantec dock. Although that's the enclosure I'm using right now I've actually noticed this behaviour with every external USB drive that I've ever used. Basically when writing to external drives I get speeds within normal USB 2.0 ranges but...

Just a quick followup here, I used Easy Recovery and I guess I was really lucky or something because I seem to have got everthing back. Can't find anything missing. Is this normal? Does it mean maybe that the drive was only moderately damaged or something?

You're absolutely right unfortunately. Getting a big backup drive has been on my "to do" list for too long, so sadly I may have lost some stuff in this failure. I think I'll be able to get a fair bit back though and it is a wake up call. I'm just really glad it wasn't my OS/Email/Critical Apps...

"He's worse than dead Jim... HIS BRAIN IS GONE!!" *gasp* Ahhhh well yeah you're probably right. I just really wondered if this could have been something to do with it being a dynamic disk. At least for the price I paid for it a couple years back I'll be able to replace with one 3-4x the size...

Hi all, Well, the dreaded happened, one of my drives has carked it. A 160GB Samsung which has been running just fine, SMART indicators all within normal operating ranges. One morning windows didn't boot up properly, it just hung on "Windows is starting up" I forced a reboot and when I logged...

Hey guys, I have a weird problem with an external 400GB WD SATA drive connected by USB 2.0 that I'm trying to get a few files off. I plug it in, it gets detected as a 400GB WD sata/usb, then it gets mounted as G: on my system. However, it has no volumes listed and generally appears...

Yep I think I'll stick at 2T 400Mhz. Thankyou very much once again for your help. Everything seems to be running a lot better now and is more responsive (which would make sense if I've had misconfigured settings for all this time).

Some further progress: It is stable at 400Mhz at 2.5-4-4-8 at 2T but not at 1T. However at 2.5-4-4-7 at 333Mhz it is stable at 1T. I assume I'm better off using 2T at 400Mhz?

Hmmm passed one pass of memtest at 3-4-4-8 at 400Mhz but sadly wasn't stable in Windows after a little while. I guess I'll just keep running at 333Mhz for now. Any other timings I should try?

Thanks very much for the reply! Fortunately I have made some testing progress. When scaled back to 333Mhz the memory will pass memtest and seems to run fine with both sticks. So could the problem be that the timings configured by the BIOS at 400Mhz are causing conflicts between the two...

Hi Folks, My apologies for posting a few very basic questions here but while my technical knowledge is semi-competent (emphasising the semi) the situation I find myself in at the moment is taxing me quite a lot. I'm using an AMD 64 3400+ on an Albatron K8X800 Pro II (v.2.0) motherboard...

I think you're right that cool and quiet is the problem... and if I hadn't been up so late at night I would never have installed these drivers because my motherboard doesn't support cool and quiet. Could this be the source of the problem? Also I cannot even boot inot safe mode, the screen...

Hi All, I recently installed the AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor Driver for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Version (exe) 1.2.2.2 from this link http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_ty...ties/amdcpu.exe After I installed these drivers the PC boots and goes through POST fine. However after...