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    Memory conflict? How to fix?

    Some specs: Phenom X2 550 unlocked into X4 B50 @ 3.1 GHz (no overclock) Asus M4A77TD Pro mobo Kingston 2GBs 1333MHz RAM stick I've bought a new DDR3 1333MHz RAM stick from Samsung a few days ago and once in a while (usually once per day) I was getting a BSOD with memory errors in its log. Now I...
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    Broken HDD?

    Tested with HD Tune (full error check) and Samsung's ESTool (full check 3 times) - no errors found. SMART also shows that HDD is in a perfect state. As it turns out it can be a RAM fault after all.
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    Broken HDD?

    Which HDD utility would you recommend? I've checked Samsung's web-site but it looks like they have utils only for old drives. Ran Window's Checkdisk on a new drive a few times (without 'scan for a bad sectors' option though) but it reports no problems. The disk is also almost empty so far...
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    Broken HDD?

    HDD is Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB HD502HJ I've bought it 2 days ago and had the following problems so far I've installed L4D2 on it. After finishing the campaign at the moment where the game returns you to the main menu my Win7 gave me a BSOD. And after reboot the other HDD (an older 160GB...
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    Making another HDD partition bootable

    The issue is as following: I have a first HDD with its first partition set as bootable, having boot manager that includes options to load WinXP (this HDD) and Win7 (on another HDD). I will be replacing the first drive with a new one - so what's the trick to make Win7 HDD bootable and boot...
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    Weird things with my BFG GTX260 OC Maxcore 55nm

    Yes I know. But it seems that I can't install it without installing Catalyst which is the problem.
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    Weird things with my BFG GTX260 OC Maxcore 55nm

    I was pretty sure I've cleaned everything. But I've decided to do a clean install of Win7 instead (just to have a very different environment to test). And then when installing motherboard drivers I think I could've found the source of problem. My mobo is a Crossfire one and so Asus motherboard...
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    Weird things with my BFG GTX260 OC Maxcore 55nm

    First my system specs: WinXP 32bit SP2 Phenom II X2 550@X4 "B50" 3.11 GHz 2 GBs RAM Kingston 1333 MHz Chieftec APS-500S 36A per 12V rails 191.07 drivers Videocard is running at BFG stock speeds (590/1296/1998) I got the videocard on friday and since then I'm experiencing weird problems. Note...
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