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Precisely why I maintain that statistics are BS because you can easily twist them to prove anything with anything.
-Stoic Joker (January 20, 2013, 01:37 PM)
The author seems to miss the point about what a tablet is for. Some decent criticisms for the iPad mini though.-Renegade (January 09, 2013, 05:27 PM)
Press it against your ear, I've yet to hear a completely silent HDD
Plus you should feel it vibrate.-4wd (January 06, 2013, 10:07 PM)
I've yet to see an external HDD, (2.5" or 3.5"), not spin up when first plugged in, (doesn't mean they don't exist), but I did have a external Seagate, (and others), that goes to sleep after inactivity.
The flashing LED you mentioned above normally indicates to me, (in the case of a 2.5" external), a lack of power to spin the drive up, (which sometimes results in a soft clicking).
BTW, we are talking about a 2.5" external ?
Also, does the computer in question have any USB3 ports ?
That said, the lite on the drive flickers, so there is something happening-Target (January 06, 2013, 05:43 PM)
That seems to me like the drive isn't spinning up, when you plug it in do you hear the drive spin up ?
Or, do you hear nothing or a soft clicking ?-4wd (January 06, 2013, 09:11 PM)
BTW, with most modern computers any USB storage device should show up in the Boot list, (when you press F11 or F12 usually at boot instead of Del), does it ?-4wd (January 04, 2013, 04:34 AM)
Does the machine react (installing USB device) to the drive being plugged in at all? I've seen several storage devices try to grab the same drive letter as a mapped drive, which causes both to try and show up under the same letter. If that's the case the disk management console will let you force it to an accessible drive letter.-Stoic Joker (January 04, 2013, 06:49 AM)
It's generally not recommended you plug an external HD into a hub.-40hz (January 04, 2013, 10:50 AM)
Something easy to try, plug the drive into a USB 2.0 port on the suspect computer and boot off of a Linux LiveCD - it will at least isolate it to software or hardware.-4wd (January 03, 2013, 11:04 PM)
Something easy to try, plug the drive into a USB 2.0 port on the suspect computer and boot off of a Linux LiveCD - it will at least isolate it to software or hardware.-4wd (January 03, 2013, 11:04 PM)
From things I'm hearing here and there I don't think W7 64 bit is as solid as Vista64. I did a custom install of 32 bit W7 over Vista 32 bit. It worked out fine. I tried the same thing only with W7 64 bit on top of Vista64. I had to restore from my saved image to put Vista64 back on. The system would boot. But it was too flaky to use like that.-MilesAhead (January 03, 2013, 01:38 AM)
...I don't really have a strong preconceived notion of what I want the site to be.
I think there has to be a way to build on what is good and keep the spirit of the place but breathe some new energy into the site and maybe fix the things that are a drag on the site..-mouser (December 20, 2012, 03:49 PM)
Is WSOD linked to graphics card type : ATI or Nvidia ?
I guess its antimalware - graphic driver interaction, esp Nvidia.
I think it may not happen with ATI cards.-SKA (December 13, 2012, 08:04 PM)
@Target anything useful in the logs?-cranioscopical (December 13, 2012, 06:29 PM)
An old chat room quote from Martin:
</\/\artin> I'm going to make an esoteric programming language based off sexual positions only, I think it'd be fun... and the result could either be executed, or used as a guide in bed-app103 (December 13, 2012, 05:27 PM)
I'd like to see that language ... compiled Kama Sutra
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-barney (December 13, 2012, 06:16 PM)
surely, if you are running a laptop, you must have the opportunity to exit the security program(s), and test if things are improving by this way. Your problem #sounds# like the one I had some years ago when my Agnitum Outpost / Eset NOD32 security combination wasn't working well together.
Also, it sounds as if the laptop needs some more / new / better memory.-Curt (December 13, 2012, 05:12 PM)
Also, wild guesses here, but perhaps could be related to GDI object leaks or (perhaps a bit less likely?) desktop heap memory size.-f0dder (December 13, 2012, 05:12 PM)
If you were half as drunk as I am ... You'd be laughing right now.-Stoic Joker (December 13, 2012, 04:42 PM)
The only white screen I have seen using laptops is connector (or power) related. Flaky connection to LCD. If at boot could mean a power draw it can't handle.-rgdot (December 13, 2012, 04:49 PM)
or perhaps bad some bad anti-malware stuff.
