thlnk3r

Everyone, just spoke with Joe and apparently the early Seagate 7200.11 drives were shipped with bad firmware. The negative indication was the drives were displaying as 8MB cache drives as oppose to 32MB of cache. For more helpful details check out this dslreports.com link: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r195...h-bad-firmware

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boonie2

Hi guys and ladies , I have a quick question , just installed another motherboard , CPU cooler , and G_SKILLS .......... Is it against the rules here to offer the components I replaced for sale here before I list them in the for sale section ?

nategr8ns

it is not

I'm curious, but what programs do you guys (joe in particular) use to test for HDD errors? I think one of mine may be going bad...

jeez boonie, you get all the cool toys to play with

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boonie2

I use Seatools to test my seagate HDD - I thank the tax man for the upgrades , and Karen for letting me , and alittle luck on Ebay buying and selling

txtmstrjoe

Good programs I use for benching and testing HDDs:

• HDTach
  
• Diskeeper
  
• SeaTools (for Seagate and recent Maxtor HDDs)
  
• Data Lifeguard (for Western Digital HDDs)
  
• HD Tune

I've used every one of these tools at one time or another. They're all a good part of your system maintenance toolbox.

Hope this helps!

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vwgti

Hmm wheres guardian, Im getting a tad worried now. Hope all is well G.O.

nategr8ns

http://www.overclock.net/album.php?albumid=183

How do these HDTune benchies look? They look a tad slow to me, but I don't have anything to compare them to.

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txtmstrjoe

Just to have a basis for comparison, nate, here are my hard drives.

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“Give a man a fish; you have fed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you have fed him for a lifetime.”—Lao Tzu (thanks to Blitz6804)

Today's "thlnk3r's thoughts": "You may fire when ready."

GuardianOdin

I fell asleep...sorry.

I disassembled the entire rig, cleaned it and reseated the CPU once more. I took the yellow DFI bracket completely off except for the back behind the motherboard. Now I have no issue with the heatsink firmly touching the CPU.

Now before I took the rig apart. I was able to run OCCT for 20 minutes and never exceeded 58c at 2.9Ghz ...then it crashed. I'm up and running again and am starting the process over again. I will post back later.

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pioneerisloud

I also use Seatools. I even use it on Western Digital HDD's (I don't own any newish HDD's...my sig is the newest we've got). And it has yet to fail me yet.

GO:
Sounds to me like you've pretty much gotta start your overclock all over again. That sux . Good luck on that .

boonie:
I don't see any reason why you couldn't offer your old 939 equipment up for sale here. You've got MORE than enough rep count, no? And 99% of us here in the club would trust you to be a good trader. I see no problem with it either.

This sux....stuff's going up for sale, joe's got a deal for me, and we've got no freakin money!

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