I reboot this monster daily, and even with that I have had more BSOD's in the year and a half I've owned it than I did even with Windows for Workgroups 3.1 or Windows 95. I am really growing to hate this machine.
I purchased this PC from Falcon Northwest last June - a Mach V, top of their line. I did not want to go with a Dell or HP POS again - I wanted something with full, top line, retail components instead of the self-specked junk that the big manufacturers usually throw in their PC's. I would have built another myself, but I became disabled and have lost a lot of the use of my left arm - didn't want to try building my own because I didn't know if I could finish it. The Mach V gets rave reviews all over, for the most part. But this one started crashing about a week after I received it and has never gotten any better. Hard drives failed, memory failed, and now I am waiting on a new nVidia card because my GeForce 7900 GTX is throwing nv4_disp.dll crashes almost every day. (A lot of users are suddenly seeing this - not sure why, but nVidia has no solutions for it other than replace the card).
Every time I get it all fixed up something else fails. Can't win sometimes - no matter how good you buy. And my old HP Pavilion Media Center PC and a Dell Dimension - one four years old and the other... gulp... 9 years old, are running perfectly!
Jim
I purchased this PC from Falcon Northwest last June - a Mach V, top of their line. I did not want to go with a Dell or HP POS again - I wanted something with full, top line, retail components instead of the self-specked junk that the big manufacturers usually throw in their PC's. I would have built another myself, but I became disabled and have lost a lot of the use of my left arm - didn't want to try building my own because I didn't know if I could finish it. The Mach V gets rave reviews all over, for the most part. But this one started crashing about a week after I received it and has never gotten any better. Hard drives failed, memory failed, and now I am waiting on a new nVidia card because my GeForce 7900 GTX is throwing nv4_disp.dll crashes almost every day. (A lot of users are suddenly seeing this - not sure why, but nVidia has no solutions for it other than replace the card).
Every time I get it all fixed up something else fails. Can't win sometimes - no matter how good you buy. And my old HP Pavilion Media Center PC and a Dell Dimension - one four years old and the other... gulp... 9 years old, are running perfectly!
Jim
- carpe noctem
To me, that's a good sign. The sign that everything is perfectly stable.
