Recent content by awott10

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    Is my hard drive DOA?

    Yeah I can't even get it recognized at all now.
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    Is my hard drive DOA?

    I have the drive unplugged at the moment but I'll look at it in a moment, if the software will even be able to see it. But Amazon had it in a small box with two plastic holders on the end. It was in the box quite snugly and did not move around at all when I had a hold of it but that was all...
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    Black Screens Under Load

    Oh and to clarify, my old card, the 460, went through the benchmark without a problem. Obviously it scored significantly lower, but the screen never froze or went black.
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    Is my hard drive DOA?

    I tried what you suggested but got no prompt to initialize the disk myself, so I went into the disk management where it showed the drive as there, but any time I attempt to initialize it, I get a window saying the drive is not connected. So I restarted and tried a few times, but got the same...
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    Is my hard drive DOA?

    I recently purchased a WD10EZEX from Amazon and today I installed Windows 7 on it without any problem whatsoever. I got the drivers installed, computer rebooted fine, etc. Then I went to check my email real quick, but the screen froze. I could still move the cursor, but couldn't use the keyboard...
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    Black Screens Under Load

    As the title says, I get black screens in games that last for around ten seconds or so that then go away to bring the game back up again. Here are my specs: MSI 790FX-GD70 motherboard AMD Phenom II X64 965 3.4ghz quad core F3-12800CL9-4GBRL (x2) ram Galaxy GeForce GTX 670 Rosewill...