TheMightyEthan Posted September 4, 2012 Report Share Posted September 4, 2012 I've never had memtest give me a failure, even when I know that a specific stick of RAM is bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted September 4, 2012 Report Share Posted September 4, 2012 Okay, I couldn't get to desktop at all with my latest attempt for a normal boot. Resetting OS drive after I stress out my GPU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchikoma Posted September 4, 2012 Report Share Posted September 4, 2012 (edited) I've never had it pass a bad stick for me, but I've seen several Memtest failures... I dealt with a lot of Dells at work and it seems if they're going to fail, it's usually bad, cheap RAM - Hyundai or Hynix (same thing as I understand...) Actually it even happened with my mom's Dell that had been working for about a year. One stick just went bad after a while. It was under warranty though, so they shipped a replacement in no time. They're really good about quick and easy replacement of bad parts. Edited September 4, 2012 by fuchikoma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted September 4, 2012 Report Share Posted September 4, 2012 (edited) I derped. Derped really hard. How the fuck can I completely wipe a SSD so I can reinstall Windows? Â Oh, no access to OS since it is wiped but I can't seem to do a fresh install. Hence my previous question. Â Edit... I just might say fuck it and scavenge some money for a cheap build while scavenging parts from my current build. Edited September 4, 2012 by MaliciousH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchikoma Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 (edited) Won't the installer let you format and/or partition the disk again? If you can get to the recovery console from your install disk, you could use DISKPART, but that's a bit technical. Â I typed this part first, and it'll work if you're not that tech savvy, but it's less than ideal... Â If you want to wipe the only hard disk that's connected/all disks, you can grab DBAN and turn it loose - though I think that'd be a bit superfluous for an SSD (no sense overwriting what the disk will probably clean up anyway. Even then, it won't be physically overwriting the spots it says it is and it'll put more wear on the disk. BUT, the tool is simple and effective.) If you can remove the partitions from your disk, that's probably plenty... Â Â You could grab a tool like Partition Wizard and blow away all the partitions on your disk. It should be quick, and while it doesn't overwrite everything, nothing will know there was anything on there to begin with unless you specifically go looking for it. Just make absolutely certain that if you have multiple disks, you get the right one. Â [edit: "a" never works before "the"...] Edited September 5, 2012 by fuchikoma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 I think what is up is that my brother has an upgrade disk, not a install disk. I'll see if I can get hold of an install disk else this'll be a long week and a half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchikoma Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 Ugggg... I used to do that with Win98. Sucks even when you have the first OS base install disc since it takes forever... Â Well, if you really have a week and a half ahead of you... I'm still not really sold on desktop Linux, but... if you get lucky it'll like your PC and get the job done for a while anyway. It should last a couple weeks at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 Got it to work. Linux wouldn't do me any good since I'm so tied into Steam. Â Just one question... should I worry that this isn't genuine windows? It flashed a warning during install. I could work off this for now and reinstall later but that would be a pain in the ass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchikoma Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 It could get bad... I'd imagine you'd want to update your Windows components at some point, to avoid the many security holes that crop up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterDex Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 Got it to work. Linux wouldn't do me any good since I'm so tied into Steam. Â Just one question... should I worry that this isn't genuine windows? It flashed a warning during install. I could work off this for now and reinstall later but that would be a pain in the ass. Â There are a load er, ways around that if you look in the right places. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 I'm guessing I could just pop in my actual Windows 7 CD to be in the clear? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 Yeah, if you have an actual CD why didn't you just use it to start with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 Its 3 hours away at my place. I'm currently at my parent's place until the 17th or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 You don't need your disc (Seriously? You have it on a CD and not a DVD?) you just need your serial key. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchikoma Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 It's surely a DVD - I think it comes to >2GB... but cut him some slack. They look identical and it's practically the same thing these days since no one has a CD-only drive... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 (edited) I'll just call CD, DVD and Bluray as discs now. Edited September 6, 2012 by MaliciousH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 *discs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted September 23, 2012 Report Share Posted September 23, 2012 (edited) Oh fuck me. I'm stuck on "verifying DMI pool data". I was taking a lunch break after some ONLINE homework. Â Before it did this, I resetted my computer since first, Firefox stopped responding and secondly my desktop stopped responding. Â After a quick lookup... it could be that my SDD finally died (interesting considering what happened before...) or it is my mobo. Â Edit: Fixed it. Boot order was screwed up somehow. My SSD got put third on the list when it should of been the first so my computer can you know, boot. Â Edit2: Or no. My computer is hanging up again. It could be some bug... and it crashed plus restarted just now to only to go back to the DMI pool data screen. Â Let assume its a hardware problem, do you think its the HD or the mobo? I'll be trying to update the BIOS and such in the mean time. I may even wipe the drive again. All in good time... Â Safemode... its doing it too. Once I start up I seem to have only a good 5-10 minutes of use before it starts to hang. Oddly, my task manager is still updating. I'm going to sleep now to see if it'll crash. Â E: it did and my SSD doesn't even show up now in the boot priority menu. So... SSD died for good? It is the infamous OCZ Vertex 2. I heard a ton died within its first day or year. I'm near two so I though I was good. I might RMA this one and get another as well. I'll use the RMA for Steam or something... Â I restarted and it showed up again. Doing quick transfer of stuff. Edited September 24, 2012 by MaliciousH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted October 3, 2012 Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 So the r key stopped working on my keyboard and the q key acts like im holding down the left arrow key. any way to figure out how to fix this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luftwaffles Posted October 3, 2012 Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 Reboot? Unplug and plug the keyboard back in? Laptop? Desktop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted October 3, 2012 Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 Sorry, its a laptop. now w,r,u,i,o,p and the left and right arrow keys arent working either. Â and yeah, ive tried restarting and removing the battery and unplugging it too. nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luftwaffles Posted October 3, 2012 Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 Sounds like the connection between your keyboard and your mobo is going bad. Does your laptop run hot very often/all the time? Trackpad still work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted October 3, 2012 Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 if i cant fix it, i can hook up a usb keyboard to it, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luftwaffles Posted October 3, 2012 Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 Yeah. I would imagine that all laptops support USB keyboards, seeing as you have USB ports and it's still Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted October 3, 2012 Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 Unscrew some shit and see how easily you can access the keyboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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