OmegaAvenger
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- Sep 25, 2007
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I'm always avoided hard drives from newegg because I've heard of horrible shipping. Low and behold the hard drive I order from new egg comes in the OEM plastic with 1 layer of bubble wrap and enough packing peanuts to ALMOST fill the box.
This is a far cry from ZZFS solid styrofoam packing inside of brown paper or frys.com plastic suspended shock absorbant packing.
Anyway, I was ordering some parts for a computer we were building at work. All of the parts work, and the hard drive finally arrived yesterday. So I put it in and windows, and all of the updates and apps from our PXE server install fine.
However. any game or app from that point on throws me a CRC error.
Now this is odd because I know the PXE stuff hasn't been updated in 2 weeks, so its not a new app causing issues.
I have tried fallout 3 (on cd), the F.E.A.R. 2 Demo and 1-2 other demos I downloaded at home to my flash drive (after testing them on my home pc).
I checked the Event Viewer and..... HDD 0 (the only hdd in the system) which is the samsung 500gb hdd I ordered has a bad block!!
So im running the hard drive diagnostics right now to see what it tells me and I may try a reinstall of windows
However it seems the one time I decide to give newegg the benifit of the doubt, I get shafted. yay. Now I get to explain to my boss why our shiny new gaming pc we were gonna sell is gonna take longer due to an RMA i'm gonna have to request.
Edit: yay... 56 errors and counting (less than a minute after I clicked submit) and its clicking too.
This is a far cry from ZZFS solid styrofoam packing inside of brown paper or frys.com plastic suspended shock absorbant packing.
Anyway, I was ordering some parts for a computer we were building at work. All of the parts work, and the hard drive finally arrived yesterday. So I put it in and windows, and all of the updates and apps from our PXE server install fine.
However. any game or app from that point on throws me a CRC error.
Now this is odd because I know the PXE stuff hasn't been updated in 2 weeks, so its not a new app causing issues.
I have tried fallout 3 (on cd), the F.E.A.R. 2 Demo and 1-2 other demos I downloaded at home to my flash drive (after testing them on my home pc).
I checked the Event Viewer and..... HDD 0 (the only hdd in the system) which is the samsung 500gb hdd I ordered has a bad block!!
So im running the hard drive diagnostics right now to see what it tells me and I may try a reinstall of windows
However it seems the one time I decide to give newegg the benifit of the doubt, I get shafted. yay. Now I get to explain to my boss why our shiny new gaming pc we were gonna sell is gonna take longer due to an RMA i'm gonna have to request.
Edit: yay... 56 errors and counting (less than a minute after I clicked submit) and its clicking too.