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Headshot wrote: »

Anyone stock a 10m ethernet cable? (not online)

Maplins probably. Yours for only €150!

just ordered 256gb samsung ssd!

they are getting them in stock tomorrow. thats going to be a LONG week now . i hope it will come before steam sale!

Uh oh I've messed something up! I put the windows installation files on a harddrive, booted to that and began installing, selected ssd to install to, it did it's thing, then I removed the hdd with the installation, restarted and all of a sudden no more windows - I need to have the hdd connected and boot from it for windows to run, but all the windows files seem to be on the ssd. What should I do?!

Serephucus wrote: »

Reinstall, with only the SSD plugged in. That's what you should be doing with any new Windows installation; only have one drive installed. Windows likes to throw random files on other drives for some reason.

Damn, I'll go see if I can find a hdd enclosure so I can install via usb. I don't have a disk drive so that's why the extra drives in it :P

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Serephucus wrote: »

Nice! I'm debating between 256 and 512 for my laptop... My brother's in the US at the moment, so he could get me a 512GB drive for... wait for it... €314! :P

Yah, decided to bite the bullet. It's a sin not to get one for those prices!
Will be my pure steam and Diablo 3 ssd. I will still keep my old one for bf3, program's and windows.

314eu is a great price. I would just get it m8. It's still 379eu for m4 512gb on komplett

Btw they did not had sata cables in sock FFs will have to rob one from dell again!

Rob one from Dell? How do you do that?

deconduo wrote: »

Huh? Did you put the windows iso on an internal hard drive and boot from that or something? Do you not have a 4GB flash drive?

I have no flash drives :P, I did a win2usb install onto an internal hd then booted from that. It seems to have been fixed by reinstalling with the drive connected by usb . Installing drivers now so hopefully it will stay working

A bit sparse on details! I didn't know that CRTs actually had monetary value.

Some of the bottom end AMD boards still have serial ports. This is probably because they can still use some very old chipsets in their boards. It's probably were all those leftover bits go.

Shinobi XL
3930k @ 4Ghz (1.2v, 100 x 40) no speedstep
MSI Twin Frozr III 580 1.5gb (Doing a lot of work with mercury engine so no 680 for me)
H100
Sabertooth X79
8 dims of G.Skill RipjawZ 1600mhz 9-9-9-24 1.5v
Corsair 850watt
128gb Samsung 830
1TB WD Black
500gb x 2 random-reused HDDS

Had a 500gb old WD black just randomly stop working a while ago too, that would have been in there as well :'[




Here it is though, so messy inside I'm a bit embarrassed to show it


Having a weird problem where windows keeps downloading the same 100 or so updates and then fails to update -- then downloads them again the next time it's on, and repeats. I've 'hidden' the updates now like what a few forum posts have said but it doesn't seem to have stopped it, for the moment I've just turned off windows update. I'll try to remember to check manually sometimes but I don't want to put up with waiting 15 minutes for my pc to shutdown..


Also I've realized that I have another little problem - my eircom router is only letting me connect at 100mbps, trying to fix that I found an old 8 port switch but that is only connecting at 100mbps too, would buying a 1gbps switch let me have faster internal traffic? Main probem is sending and receiving 200mb files between this computer and the printer (Konica Minolta C220, don't know what it's fastest transfer speed is either and I can't see it in any of the documentation.) Getting about 1 MB/s transfer to the printer at the moment so waiting 5 minutes for something to print isn't very fun! Was looking at this switch, too. Looks cheap and seems to do what I need.


Oh oh oh also; high res pictures to come of the new build once I've cleaned the room and re-arranged some things.

Monotype wrote: »

Seems to have good reviews on amazon anyway:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-Gigabit-Unmanaged-Desktop-TL-SG1005D/dp/B000N99BBC/
It should do what you're asking.

Isn't there a windows setting where you can downloaded them and then install. I find that some of them don't work without a clean restart.

Edit: Your printer supports 1000Mbps. Product brochure page 8.
http://kmbs.konicaminolta.us/wps/portal/web/home/products/office-systems/color-mfps/bizhub-c220

All of the ones being downloaded are 'important' so only happen when the computer is being shutdown - takes ages and then when it's turned on again it gets stuck at something like configuring windows updates then eventually just boots straight into windows and starts downloading again.

Thanks for checking that for me, I read over that and missed it!

frozenfrozen wrote: »

Quite a few are failing :P.

When I use windows update, I do get a fair few updates that fail to install, but not as much as that:

http://gyazo.com/41b36e15d8622f030186c6cbb55533ce

Perhaps try the troubleshooter. Unlike in the previous version of windows, the W7 troubleshooter actually does fix problems :eek: :pac:

Feck. It still does not say that Samsung ssd is back in stock in komplett . No sign of dispatch letter too. So I guess it will be dispatched only Monday, so I will be lucky to get it by then end of next week.
**** I hate waiting for deliveries!!!

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Feck. It still does not say that Samsung ssd is back in stock in komplett . No sign of dispatch letter too. So I guess it will be dispatched only Monday, so I will be lucky to get it by then end of next week.
**** I hate waiting for deliveries!!!

heh I ordered an 830 256gb along with all my other stuff from hwvs, was out of stock till 11th July at the time, but I got an e-mail today to say the order had been dispatched, guess they managed to get them sooner than expected. :pac: