Fishface said:
I don't remember you mentioning it, but have you run memtest and
prime95 lately?
Yes, early, one pass with memtest. I probably should use prime95
too, or maybe just some SSD tester. Or maybe refresh the SDD
firmware.
I have had memory go south on me. I have also had memory and
CPUs that required a tad more voltage for stability. Can we
even expect a mass produced motherboard to accurately provide
voltages to the hundredth of a volt?!
Unless someone provides a good technical reason to doubt it,
voltages under load while within Windows reported by a utility
will remain IMO better than anything else, and safer than fumbling
around with metal probes inside of a live PC. I use a multimeter,
for other things.
Or maybe you really do need that big power supply!
At least 10,000 watts, usable for Christmas lights too.
That possibility has occurred to me, considering the fact that I
am using a many years old Antech 380 watt True Power 2 (TruePower
II) power supply. But not likely the SDD puts a strain on my
system. And the @#$! strange mixture of errors points to
something other than the power supply.
I have the same motherboard and CPU,
Try enabling (after making a backup).
C2/C2E State Support
C4/C4E State Support
I doubt that BIOS setting was my main problem, but the C4 setting
in fact causes Performance Monitor disk idle time to incorrectly
display. I might doublecheck with only the HDD connected, maybe
after things are known to be fixed.
but it is overclocked to 3.4 GHz, which did require some voltage
tweaking. Did your problems go away when you swapped-in the
Raptor?
I had one freeze when downloading and installing stuff from Steam,
maybe the same as before when downloading and installing stuff
from Windows Updates. But as noted in a prior post, the problems
stopped after removing the SDD drive, before reinstalling it. That
is when I noticed the C4 setting causes an abnormality in
Performance Monitor.
As noted before, I caught a glimpse of CHKDSK reporting bad
sectors on the SDD. After that, CHKDSK showed no errors. But
recently, running CHKDSK from within Windows XP SP3 debugging
mode, CHKDSK clearly showed about 32 kB of bad sectors on the SDD.
Using the SSD can cause things to fall apart immediately. The last
time, Windows would not even boot, same as happened many times
before.
My copies of drive C Windows could have been corrupted by the bad
sectors on the SDD. I am hoping that maybe it will be corrected by
reinstalling stuff.
I am meticulous with cables, so I doubt as Paul posed it is an
SATA cable, but will keep my eyes open and maybe test for that
possibility.
In a heightened state of awareness, I occasionally hear an
extremely short glitch sound through the speakers, like when
listening to text-to-speech or watching and listening to streaming
media, it sounds something like radio scanner stuff. But that
probably is not related to the cause, since errors also occur when
not using sound.
Other observations...
.... the HDD clicks around a lot when in the BIOS, but eventually
stops
.... the HDD gets relatively hot, maybe when doing stuff outside of
Windows like restoring a copy of drive C
.... when freezes occurred, they were followed by about 10 seconds
of HDD activity
That stuff might be typical. Hearing the HDD clicking might just
be strange after using the SDD for a year.
I have already had enough punishment IMO, so I hesitate to
reinstall the SSD for anything except maybe testing it. Using only
the HDD, I would expect things to fall apart again unless the SSD
(or conceivably the cable) was at fault. I might look for an SSD
tester. Or just wait until buying another to replace it. I miss
the quick bootup times of the SDD over the HDD, but restoring a
copy of Windows is faster on the HDD, even when copying to itself.
Thanks.
