Recent content by MehmetN

Hello, Thanks for your reply. No, I did a SE, clean install, CMOS, remove battery, the whole over nine thousand yards. I will flash the FW on OCZ again tonight or tomorrow, they have a new one available, and use Intel drivers instead of MS ones as recommended. Since I keep my games on another...

Hello, As I explain here, I have a brand new and most probably cursed build. My guess is, the components were manufactured at a plant constructed on a long forgotten tomb (yes, each and every one of them :P). Now, here's the setup: Win7 Ultimate x64 i5 2500k on Asus P8Z68-V Pro 8 GB...

Always plan my rigs to go like this: Mainstream high (as bought) --> First upgrade up CPU or GPU (may CF) with the other one OCd --> Second upgrade up the other one --> rinse / repeat Around the second upgrade rig becomes medium. Each upgrade time I check to see if the technologies (or the...

Update. I am very happy that I decided to take the Caviar Black to the vendor today. By tomorrow, they would have sent it to the distributor but today they told me that they will check to see if it is a "soft" problem and fix it or (most probably) give me a replacement. They will do one or...

OK, new BIOS. Although no change. Bios and OS can see the disk but it says (when I try to initialise it) "Request cannot be completed due to I/O read error" or some such. Stumped. I think I'll have to go to the vendor. Like I said, I do not care about the data, I just need to initialise...

Ah, I see what you mean. I've got the second more recent BIOS rev. New one does not seem to address my issue but I will flash it anyway. If this doesn't solve my problem (WD lifeguard thinks the drive is healthy but can't wipe it by the way - lol) I'll go spend my kid's college fund on a new...

ADD: Partition Recovery Wizard on the Minitool Partition Wizard is going through the disk. It can see the number of sectors. GOing thorugh them in an extremely slow manner to find something. It sees a "deleted/lost" partition there. It can't be the controller then, can it? If I'd lost the...

What do you mean? BIOS sees the disk (the WD 1 TB where everything other than OS resided) but everything says it is a bad disk and cannot create a partition. Not really bothered about the data (sets me back a day at most, only games etc.) - can't initialise the disk. Also Win7 takes forever to...

Oh dear. I think this rig is cursed. Got a power failure and now my Bios and Win7 can see but do nothing on my WD. I am a very unlucky bloke. Cheers for your helps mate, I think I'll go and kick something now.

OCZ drives (especially those with SandForce 2 controllers, to be fair I do not know about the others) do not play ball with platform. My brand new Agility 3 has loads of problems from wildly off temperature reads to life expectancy swinging to extremes from one wipe to another (had to wipe it...

Thank you stargzr. I have most of my problems sorted out now. Got my new set-up going. Although, the core of my problems was not boot sector in weird places (a symptom actually) - it was OCZ Agility 3. As it turns out there is a dark (or rather blue) side to that product. I've flashed the...

OK, please bear with me, not a native speaker, apologies (also, I quite often have this pitfall, you know, thinking I understood some basic issue involved while being off by a million miles all along). I am going to do a clean install now since the boot structure is messed up. I was...

Thank you stargzr. This answers a lot of my questions - especially the physical arrangement ones. However, for my OCZ Agility 3, a lot of people say I'd be much better off using AHCI and I cannot find any drivers for that mode (again, people say Win7 would sort this out). I am starting to...

Cheers for that. I will do this. Would it matter re the physical sequence of drives on the SATA controller? Never have been prompted for them. What do you mean? They have always been in AHCI mode. Could this be the problem? Maybe when it tries to garbage collect or TRIM or something? Should I...

@Karl Agathon Actually, I think the bottleneck could be your SSD itself rather than SATA 3GB/s (around 350 MB/sec) bandwidth. I seem to have an unusable system (BSOD every couple of days with lost Bootmgr) with a beautiful 7.6 on CPU and 7.9 on everything else. I have a friend whose...