Recent content by Teknic

That's correct on all counts: it is the stock Intel heatsink with the stock thermal paste that comes with it and it was the first time I've cleaned it out since I've built it a few years ago. However, the computer is not used every day, and I taped up the small holes in the case to drive all...

I could clearly delineate between the different CPU heatsink fins. Definitely pretty obvious which fins were which, and they were relatively shiny fins. To be fair, the CPU heatsink was the area which had the most dust in it, and had a few small "chunks" of dust in between some of the fins, but...

Okay, well 3 days later, I've started the computer cold every single day and no signs of any freezing or rebooting. I'm going to tentatively say it appears to have resolved! Though I'll admit I totally didn't think that cleaning the dust and reseating the RAM was going to work. I thought for...

Okay, so I got back from my trip. It was a nice day outside, so I took my computer outside and used one of those air blower things for DSLR that's used to remove dust from the cameras to instead blow out the dust out of the computer case. -There wasn't a whole lot of dust in the computer, but...

Thanks for the tips. I'll be going on a short trip soon; I will attempt to try most of these things when I get back and I'll update the thread at that time.:thumbsup:

Haha, this sounds like the voodoo behind blowing into a Nintendo cartridge to get it to work. Not saying I don't believe it, I just think it's kind of funny. When I have access to my computer again in about a week, I'll try this and update the thread. From the very beginning I've never...

Thanks for the tips. I think it's a hardware issue because it occurs even in the BIOS or on computer startup. I had checked for dust earlier, and while there's some dust in the system, it's not a whole lot. Earlier I had checked for obvious signs of blown capacitors, but didn't come up with...

I checked the BIOS, and there wasn't a section to turn off hardware pre-fetch. Like usual though, since the computer was cold when I just tried doing this, it froze several times while looking through the BIOS options.

I think the problem is something with my hardware. My computer will randomly freeze up on me. The screen displayed will be nonresponsive -- I won't be able to use my mouse or keyboard, and everything just pauses. It has even happened before on startup: the computer will freeze during the BIOS...

-ASRock x58 Extreme. -I'm not sure if they are the same controller chip or not, but they are next to each other. -No, didn't try switching back. Maybe it was a flaky connection, but it seemed solid to me.

Okay, an update. After a few hours of searching I came across some people who mentioned that switching their WD drive to another SATA port solved the issue. Well, I switched the SATA port from #4 to #3 and everything works fine now! All testing is normal, no errors on checkdisk. All I did was...

Any alternatives? I ran CHKDSK through Windows (Property-->tools-->error checking) which I think is the same thing. I began first thing in the morning. Now, 11 hours later it is approximately 1/10 done. That is slow! Any other ideas on how to fix it or is the drive just bad?

Okay, I am not great at event viewer, but this is what I found "The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume Personal Media." - A day or two ago I ran the error checking utility that comes from right clicking the drive...

Hi, I have two HDDs installed in my desktop computer, and both are the exact same model (Western Digital 1 TB Caviar Black). The one acting as C: drive I've had for about two years, and is running just fine. No problems. However, the second drive I bought seemed to be running really slow, so I...

I have a 1.5 GHz dual core Adreno 220 Android phone. Went to the store to play around with a 1st generation Windows Phone and was surprised to see that the Windows Phone was so much smoother. I had heard it was smooth but didn't know how smooth until I played around with it. It really was no...