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    Samsung hard drive keeps disappearing

    I've been having this problem for a few months now. When the computer wakes from a sleep or hibernate state, my data drive (a 1TB Samsung Spinppoint) occasionally fails to come back with it, and the operating system no longer recognises that it even exists. This only happens when the drive is...
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    AHCI failing or am I missing something else?

    For the last ten months I have been running an ASUS P5K Premium WiFi AP board with two Samsung Spinpoint drives operating in AHCI mode. Everything has been fine until about a month ago when a number of problems began to appear. These included: - the system randomly freezing for up to half a...
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    New drive operating in wrong mode

    My Vista-based PC contains two disk drives, one for Windows and programs, the other for my data. A couple of weeks ago I replaced the data drive with a new 1TB Samsung Spinpoint disk. I have just noticed that it is running in PIO mode 4 instead of UDMA mode 5, and the DMA box in Device Manager...
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    Unsure what to do following hard drive diagnostics

    For the last few weeks my PC has been intermittently freezing for anything up to half a minute when loading applications. I was initially convinced that my motherboard was the problem as Vista's event viewer is reporting regular controller errors on an IDE Port that has no disk attached to it...
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    Problems running diagnostics on Samsung drives

    I have two Samsung Spinpoint drives: the HD103UJ (500Gb) and the HD501LJ (1TB). I am trying to run the latest version of Samsung's diagnostic tool, HUTIL, but am having no success. I get as far as 'Tools>Self Diagnostic>Test Loop Count Number', then when I hit enter I am returned to the...
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    Does this sound like my MB is failing?

    I'm running an ASUS P5K Premium WiFi motherboard A few weeks ago my computer started to freeze occasionally for anything from ten to thirty seconds. This is now happening with annoying frequency. On checking the Vista event logs I see that there have been an awful lot of errors with the...
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    Asus P5K Premium, Vista, and power saving

    I'm using 64-bit Vista Home It had been running for almost a year on a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R motherboard with no problems. That board died so I replaced it with an Asus P5K Premium, and carried out a fresh installation of Vista. Since then I have been unable to put the PC into sleep mode, either...
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    Bizarre IE7 behaviour

    'm running IE7 on Vista 64-bit. It is definitely set as my default browser. As of a couple of days ago, URLs will not longer work outside of the browser. If I type a URL directly into the Start Menu's "Run" box I am told that: "This file does not have a program associated with it...
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    Is this a Soundblaster problem?

    I have a system that has been running without any problems based on the following components: - Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (overclocked to 3.0 GHz). - Gigabyte GA-P35 DS3R motherboard - nVidia 8800GT graphics card - 4 x 1GB Corsair PC2-6400 XMS2 RAM - Vista 64-bit. I have been using...
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    Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L motherboard

    I'm about to build a system based on an Intel E6750 processor and a GA-P31-DS3L motherboard. I currently have two 1Gb sticks of Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400 RAM to go in it. I'm also considering installing the 64-bit version of Vista Home Premium, in which case I will purchase a further two...