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Ah, of course, I wondered when WD suddenly became an Enterprise heavy-hitter. Anyone know if this is true?

Just checking that you didn't have 3 high-powered fans plugged into a single motherboard fan connector. If your result means anything, it's that either your motherboard or PSU is flaky. :) Wrong way around - power supplies are supposed to vent out the back. Check that the PSU fan is actually...

We've been waiting for your results. :) Exactly how many case fans do you have running off that motherboard connector? Are they big or small, slow or fast? Also, you promised: "I'm waiting for my first freeze, after disabling the 2 WD drives in my case. I will take no other action before...

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I was trying to show you that the symptom is not that uncommon, and that we practise what we preach. It's the second oldest of my 9 PCs, so not exactly a high priority. I'll be upgrading the motherboard and CPU rather than wasting time and money completing the diagnosis down to the last component.

http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php/9286-Desktop-pc-freezes-when-using-either-Win-XP-or-Win-7-OSs#9 In other words, borrow a power supply (and ideally a graphics card and maybe even a network card) off someone and try swapping them. You also have the drives to be going on with...

I may have misunderstood what you meant here: I got the impression that the drive was new to the PC since you started having your problem. If not, you can still eliminate the drives, but more tediously. If it still freezes, you will need to disconnect the Win 7 drive and reconnect the...

Just in case some sage heads here are doubting my sanity in listing the CPU as a possible cause, I have actually seen "freezes" due to a faulty i5. The problem manifested when the CPU tried to disable unused cores to conserve power. You could actually stop the hangs by keeping the PC busy...

I'd rather thank Doug for the quality of some of his posts, particularly the extra miles he's gone to try to help solve VM questions and problems. That and the fact that he looks after the behind-the-scenes drudgery that keeps this place on the air. Cheers, Doug. :salut:

Do you need help downloading and running Memtest? I think you should give that a try before we spend any more time on this.

apairofpcs: CougTek pointed out that a hard drive can also cause your problem. I had considered it, but thought that among the reams of text that you have posted, you had changed hard drives. :) Try physically disconnecting all except the latest Windows 7 drive before ruling out your drives.

BingBangBop, lost CMOS settings are not necessarily anything to do with the condition of the backup battery. Many modern motherboards try to support overclocking by reverting to 'safe' (or default) settings when they think they've detected a failed overclock. Last year, a bunch of Gigabyte...

While I agree that you would be taking a risk buying one off Ebay (or from NewEgg for that matter), buying something proven from someone trustworthy is a great way of avoiding problems. You really have no idea how we came to acquire the knowledge that you're now asking us to share with you...

Our posts crossed. Jtr1962 has a very, very old PC; there really is very little in common with yours. Communication between your modem and router cannot halt your PC so that even the mouse doesn't work. Similarly, I have never heard of a network problem causing a PC to actually halt. Why do you...

You haven't said how often it freezes, or how consistent the behaviour is. If it freezes only once a day or less, how can you be sure that running in safe mode or with networking disabled is truly okay? I know you're hoping it's just a driver issue or some other software glitch, but I'm...

Circular polarization

Are baseball bats effective against zombies? The main thing I care about is the NBN (National Broadband Network), to my mind the most important piece of national infrastructure in my lifetime. Given the small-mindedness that prevails in Australian politics, only someone like K Rudd could have...

68 is pretty low, so low in fact that medication might be contra-indicated - from what I've read, it could actually increase your risk of a cardiac event (although ACE inhibitors are supposed to be compatible). Some possibilities to explain the high pulse pressure: 1. You've been exercising or...

Firstly, "prehypertension" is an imaginary condition without empirical support. AFAIK, studies that have shown benefits from lowering BP involve subjects suffering from significant hypertension. Secondly, your BP rises with age, particularly the systolic. Again, this makes "prehypertension" a...

It's even easier with Opera; you just create multiple shortcuts with the "-pd" (Personal Directory) switch. The user that caused me to reactivate this thread also had Opera as well as Firefox. It took about 30 seconds to backup bookmarks and passwords through Opera Link, including automatic...

Which one? I only use it very occasionally.

It's not just you. She's an amazingly bad speaker for a politician, let alone the leader of a country. She's also highly unpopular, with an approval rating of about 36% and a disapproval rating of about 56%. Her government is certain to lose the next election by a considerable margin. Her...

I'm pretty sure I've seen >100MB/s with spinning disks and USB 3 (reads rather than writes). Stereodude, what aspects of performance are important to you? Reads vs writes, large files vs small files? You can see results of different testing profiles here. Writing small files shows up the...

FF Sync has a 'pairing' paradigm. It wants the 'key' from the other device. When I tell it the other device is lost, it gives me another key, but then turns around and tells me the key is wrong. :dunno:

I made the mistake of trying to use Firefox Sync as part of migrating between two PCs (one was remote). As a web search confirms, boy does it suck. Only now do I understand why people were so stricken when Xmarks looked like folding. :( Has anyone managed to do anything useful with the built-in...

It's a managed device - that's the management port, where you ideally have a separate network for management. That would be the notorious WD (or possibly Seagate?) 3Gbps SATA drives that failed to work reliably with enterprise-class controllers? Areca gained fame some years back as being the...

FFS, the effective pixel pitch is the same in both vertical and horizontal directions. If you want to think of a subpixel cluster as square, feel free to do so - it won't make any difference to you. The examples Mercutio gave are approximately 16:9 ratio displays, ranging from 1.6 to 1.7 and a...

If you read the article, it says the second vehicle only took 15 minutes to clear. The newsworthy aspect was the difficulty in moving a vehicle with locked wheels and steering - the Audi - which of course is also why I mentioned it in this thread. The story reminded a motoring writer of his...

Pretty bad. It was in a piggyback tunnel with only 3 lanes on each level. Eastern Distributor

Audi's electrical fault brings Sydney traffic to a halt

AFAIK your phone needs to be rooted to use something like cf.lumen. I assume you've tried the different screen modes such as 'Movie'? The blue tint is usually only visible when you're viewing the screen at an angle.

Foxit lifted their game a lot with version 5-5.1 (they badly needed to). It's still the fastest and uses by far the least memory. I haven't tried their authoring tool though (PDF Creator has been flawless for me - you just need to sidestep the 3rd party crapware in the installation).

Perhaps my email experience is more diverse? My accounts are spread across 3 IMAP providers and they all use different names for the 'core' folders: Inbox - a given, always exists. Drafts - pretty standard. Sent - could be 'Sent', 'Sent Items' or 'Sent Mail'. Junk - could be 'Junk', 'Junk...

Between Quebec and Australia, I measured pings of about 275mS through Hamachi, which is not shabby at all for a link over that distance. Based on scrolling and object dragging speed, I estimate it was 4 or 5 times faster than my CrossLoop experience between Australia and New Zealand, which...

Every business is different, but I think IT departments tend to be out of touch with what users actually need these days. You really need to test real-life usability with *all* your users. For example, Remote Desktop / Terminal Services / Citrix is fine for text-based documents, but terrible to...

I'm trying not to bring Thunderbird into this, because it keeps a bunch of internal aliases for mail boxes and tries its very best to accommodate the variations. "Sent" is NOT the relevant account on all IMAP servers. Wrong again. Gmail (and Google Apps) now uses "Sent Mail", not "Sent...

And where do you think Sent messages end up? You need to be able to control exactly what folders are used - otherwise the client will just create whatever it feels like, which will then show up as unwanted additional folders when you look through a different client or a web interface. I've...

Email is supposed to be a key application for mobile devices, so it's surprising how immature the current Android offerings are. The original bundled client has to be one of the worst apps that Google has produced. I persevered with it for 18 months because I only really used it to read emails...

Wow. :(

The scenario I was envisaging is that you download a document from the web so you can view it more than once. Ideally, you would be able to make edits and then upload the updated document to the web. So what you're saying is, no? Can you use SMB to connect to a server and edit documents that way?

How bad is the data isolation on iOS? For example, can you download a Word document from a website, save it to local storage, then open it with a 3rd party word processor app? And in reverse?

With a high latency situation like you get internationally, Crossloop is an absolute dog. I assume the culprit is chiefly VNC (not even TightVNC?). It's taken me more than 10 times longer to get stuff done (with the host connected via home DSL), and it's sucking the life out of the uploads I'm...

Thanks. And the contacts? I can't see how I can even copy them - they just appear when the right PST file is connected to the profile. :(

I still have the files, but no idea how to backup the profile, which I've probably ruined by deleting the one that I really wanted to keep. :( I think what you're saying is that you can't use the mailbox parameters from an existing PST file - you always have to create a new one manually? What...

I'm having my own version of PST hell at the moment with Outlook 2010. The PC started out using POP3, with the PST migrated from Outlook 2003 - that's PST #1. As a stopgap, I created a Gmail account and uploaded all the folders to it - that's PST #2. Now, I've finished copying all the folders...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer Create 'ThumbnailSize' as a Dword value. Value are in pixels and range from 0x20 (32) to 0x100 (256) with the default being 0x60 (96) - or possibly it defaults to the overall screen DPI? Outside the valid range, you just get...

Mercutio, does this sum up your concerns?

No, once I was satisfied that Crucial had actually admitted the cause of the problem as a software bug (in handling SMART values), and that the update worked for all normal people, I elected to get someone local to do it. Another plus was the support for both AHCI and IDE. Working around users...

Based on feedback in the Crucial forums, the firmware update appears to install successfully except for a couple of oddities such as a Macbook. It does not work with SAS expanders, and possibly not with any hardware RAID. We found that it also didn't work with Marvell SATA (had to move the...

And then of course, there's the NDAA. Much has been made about the effect on American citizens, but there's nearly 7 billion other people on the planet who could be detained anywhere, indefinitely, by the US military.