Recent content by stevexyz

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    2500K/Asus P8P67 board - cooler compatibility issues

    is the mugen2 fan hanging above the first memory slot? if it is, then what's the height clearance below the fan? regular ram stick might fit under it. but how about ram stick with a little taller heatsink like the g.skill ripsaw? its heatsink is about 1cm taller than regular ones. do you think...
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    problem solved

    it turned out that the had drive was password protected (i totally forgot about setting the password:p). after i unlock it from my laptop's bios, the drive and data can be seen from usb port now:D
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    problem solved

    hi guys, i have a problem. my laptop currently has a seagate 2.5" 500gb hard drive (model #st9500420as). i wana upgrade to an ssd. so i took the seagate out and tried to convert it to an external usb hard drive. but when i plugged the drive into usb, windows saw it as an unprepared hard drive...
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    Asus P8P67 DOES NOT recognize second Western Digital Passport USB 3.0 Drive

    my system is pretty much the same as yours: 2500k, p8p67, 8gb ram. but i dun have a WD passports to test with. i only have a 16gb usb 3.0 flash drive. it works perfectly on both of the usb 3.0 ports. so maybe it's just your mobo that has a defective port? asus is shipping out replacement...
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    Kingston V100 vs V Series SSD 128GB, huge difference in MHDD scan!

    update: looks like this "brand new" ssd was not "prepared" when shipped to me. after i did some more research about ssd, i decided to do a secure erase on the v series with parted magic. then boom, the speed is up! now mhdd scan takes only 1m9s to finish! altho still a tad slower than the v100...
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    Kingston V100 vs V Series SSD 128GB, huge difference in MHDD scan!

    thx to all for your input. so maybe mhdd use some old dos algorithm that's different? and should not be used on ssd? even so, it still surprised me because the difference in the scans between the two are so big. hans007, mine is the v 425 series. so it has the same controller as the v100? you...
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    Kingston V100 vs V Series SSD 128GB, huge difference in MHDD scan!

    i just received the kingston v series 128gb ssd i ordered from buy.com today. so i went ahead did some scan to make sure it doesn't have any problem. the program i used was the low level hd tool mhdd 4.6. to my surprise, it took much longer than my old v100 128gb to finish the scan: 13m40s vs...
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    Plz Help! Abit F-I90HD and Sata drive problem

    but i use the same ghost in other systems like new am2 (nv6100 chipset), it works fine in native sata mode.
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    Plz Help! Abit F-I90HD and Sata drive problem

    Hi all, I found a very strange problem with my I90HD motherboard. When I set the onchip Sata mode to "Native IDE", some of the natrual DOS based software like "Ghost" will not be able to see my Sata Drive. When I set it to "AHCI" mode then the drive can be seen but the files in the drive cannot...
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    HELP! what's wrong w/ my computer???

    yeah, thx! i have norton run virus check every week, so my computer should be free from virus:)
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    HELP! what's wrong w/ my computer???

    yeah, you guys are right about the overheating. summer is coming, it's getting hot now. and dust has been building up for months but i've never cleaned it before. i just did the clean up on the heatsink and fans. now i also have a house fan blowing on the laptop too. my laptop has been running...
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    HELP! what's wrong w/ my computer???

    yeah, you guys are right about the overheating. summer is coming, it's getting hot now. and dust has been building up for months but i've never cleaned it before. i just did the clean up on the heatsink and fans. now i also have a house fan blowing on the laptop too. my laptop has been running...
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    HELP! what's wrong w/ my computer???

    but my laptop doesnt show temp in the BIOS tho... one question: the P4 throttling down function happens at high temp, rite? but will cpu keep throttling down itself even after it cools down later? if that's true, then maybe the P4 throttling is indeed the causing the problem here:(
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    HELP! what's wrong w/ my computer???

    oic, but i dun think overheating cause the problem tho, cuz after i quit the heavy load program and let my laptop sit there for a long time w/o shutting down the system, even after the extra thermal control fan shuts itself down automatically (which means the laptop is cool enough), but the...
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    HELP! what's wrong w/ my computer???

    thx for ur suggestion, do u think it's the software problem? i have tried different os, even fresh installing the os, still cant solve the problem. and i didnt have this problem before... any idea? thx!