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Clarification On Write-Caching Policy, Its Underlying Options And How It Applies To Hard Drives And Solid-State Drives
In last week after doing more research on subject matter, I have been wondering about what I have been neglecting all those years to understand write-caching policy, always leaving it on default ...
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high end pc freezes at random intervals (low load)
BUILD:
CPU: 6770K with water cooling (not OCed)
GPU: inno3D GTX 780 (not OCed)
Ram: dominator 32GB
MOBO: Maximus XIII Ranger
SSDs: 2x 500GB plextor (raid0)
OS: windows 10 Pro
BACKGROUND:
Just ...
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Windows 7 x64 refuses to boot due to an SSD-related issue
This is my setup:
Motherboard: ASUS P5KC
Hard drive: Intel SSD 330 series connected via IDE
OS: Windows 7 x64
The thing is that after having installed the SSD, on each and every a cold boot, Windows ...
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Windows 7 freezing occasionally, Windows update or SSD issue?
I recently switched to an SSD drive (as my OS drive) which has been working fine for about 2 months now.
Now last week there was a Windows update, after that update, I noticed that Windows would ...
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windows 7 occassional freeze but mouse works
Here's an odd issue I'm facing lately.
Lately at times, while working, my Windows 7 machine freezes temporarily, although I'm able to move the mouse and even the hover effects on window titlebars ...
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Video driver (I think) causes computer to freeze up, then continue
Laptop: Dell Studio XPS1340; Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 @2.4GHz; 8GB RAM; Intel 120GB SSD SC2BW120A4
GPU: (stock) NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G, Driver Version 340.52 (up-to-date) [more info avail if needed]
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Even after reinstalling windows, why does explorer.exe like to hang?
I have an LT4009u. Which any sane person would regret buying, but damn it I'll make it work.
Anyways, I upgraded it by buying a 4 GB chip of RAM (up from its original 1 GB), and I put a (rather ...
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Windows 7 computer hangs for minutes at a time, brand new SSD
As a solution to a previous issue I had (Windows 7 computer hangs for a few seconds very frequently; disk I/O light stays on turing freezes), I replaced my presumed failing HDD with a brand new SSD (a ...
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New SSD freezing on older motherboard (intel G31)
I have an ECS G31T-M motherboard running a Core2 Quad processor, 4gb RAM, Windows 7 32bit, Geforce 9600GT. Bought a Sandisk Extreme III 120GB (SDSSDX-120G-G25) and installed today. I'm outputting ...
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