Recent content by Angrypuffin

Hey, folks, just wanted to give you the news: I used an Ubuntu Live CD to run Memtest, and it failed spectacularly. So I'm going to send my RAM back. So remember that, next time someone has mysterious hardware failures: run Memtest!

Just to clarify- right now, I just want to boot up on any operating system to verify that my hardware is functional. Do you have any suggestions on what would be best to try? I have both Vista and XP. Edit: My BIOS version is 0506.

Hey, folks, thanks for your replies. It still isn't working. I tried using the Intel Raid configuration manager to configure them as a Raid 0, and it gave me the same message upon finishing the "Windows is loading files" stage. I went and deleted the RAID array, so that it treats them as...

I'm putting together a brand new computer, with the following components: Motherboard: ASUS P5Q Pro CPU: Intel Q6600 Video: 2x ATI 4850 (Crossfire) Hard Drive: 2x 500 GB Western Digital 7200RPM (I can provide other specs if they're relevant.) I want to set up my hard drives in a...