The "New Toys" Thread - Page 261

Solberg · June 3rd, 2008, 02:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lilleput

fail

Care to elaborate?

Lilleput · June 3rd, 2008, 03:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Solberg

Care to elaborate?

You're fail / You fail / Failing is second nature / Sir Fail-A-Lot / Boogie down / Failure / Opposite of success (Succeeding)

Solberg · June 3rd, 2008, 03:23 PM

Lilleput you are being an absolute cock.

What's your problem?

Anyway, about the RAM tests, Lilleput is most certainly mistaken.

Many ram sticks are faulty and having a faulty ram stick in your computer can casue many problems such as: data loss, spontaneous reboots, blue screens, program failures and wrong data will end up being written to the hard disk. Also, a RAM malfunction can cause correct data to be written to an incorrect location on the disk, thus overwriting some other piece of data. In the end your HDD will be completely screwed up and you won't even notice all this happening. All the other annoying things I mentioned, will probably not be taken seriously and you will think it's just some random error. I doubt you will even consider the faulty RAM the cause of all this.

Anyway, why take a chance?

I urge you to just download the free software - memtest and burn it to a CD.

Then boot from the CD run the test overnight and you will be sure of your RAM condition. Why take unnecessary risks?

You may think 'It won't happen to me', but It can, I encountered over 6 faulty RAM sticks in various computers over the last few months.

Kip_6666 · June 3rd, 2008, 03:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Solberg

Many ram sticks are faulty and having a faulty ram stick in your computer can casue many problems such as: data loss, spontaneous reboots, blue screens, program failures and wrong data will end up being written to the hard disk. Also, a RAM malfunction can cause correct data to be written to an incorrect location on the disk, thus overwriting some other piece of data. In the end your HDD will be completely screwed up and you won't even notice all this happening. All the other annoying things I mentioned, will probably not be taken seriously and you will think it's just some random error. I doubt you will even consider the faulty RAM the cause of all this.

You're kind of right, but also quite wrong. Go read some good sources on how RAM + computer systems work before spewing some sudo facts. It's stuff like this where other people form incorrect opinions from.

Solberg · June 3rd, 2008, 03:41 PM

What part of what I said is wrong?

Quiky · June 3rd, 2008, 04:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Solberg

What part of what I said is wrong?

Most of it.

If the ram is faulty, it just usually BSOD, NOT corrupt your hard drive.

MadCow809 · June 3rd, 2008, 04:53 PM

Faulty ram does corrupt data, but not the physical drive.

I agree with Solberg on this matter. I always memtest my ram, it takes less than 5min and can save you so much hassle in the future.

The OCZ ram I bought from newegg was faulty, it booted without any problem, but couldn't install Vista properly and gave me lots of weird random error messages. Ran memtest and it picked up the problem within 20seconds.

Nabster · June 3rd, 2008, 05:52 PM

I had some new ram off newegg as well. All worked fine for about 2 weeks, then things started randomly popping off errors and bluescreening which finished in corrupting nearly all my data on my stupid raid 0 setup (ever try to rebuild one of those after it corrupts?). Of course as soon as we try a ram test, the source of the problem is quite obvious.

If ram is going to fail, it will fail early on. You should always run tests on new ram to see if they pick up anything rather than just popping it in and risk losing years of data. If it passes the tests then good, you know you have good ram, if it fails, you've just saved a huge headache and possibly prevented loss of lots of things you haven't got backed up. I think to not test it just because it's new is quite the wrong idea, I wouldn't be trusting my computer to people who thought like that.

Solberg · June 3rd, 2008, 05:59 PM

So, it seems I was right after all.

MadCow809 · June 3rd, 2008, 06:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Solberg

So, it seems I was right after all.

Indeed.

Now it's an appropriate time for you to have a smug smile

Kip_6666 · June 3rd, 2008, 06:31 PM

Meh he was all over the place with his post. It's clear he has no idea how those parts work. I'm not going into detail because that is way too much work. But basic knowledge of how recent computer architecture works would be nice.

Being right isn't as usefull as knowing why you're right, and how would you know if you're right anyway (which he didn't)

Knock yourselves out:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw...ecture&x=0&y=0

Derek · June 3rd, 2008, 06:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lilleput

fail

Lilleput · June 3rd, 2008, 06:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Derek

Care to elaborate?

Speedtouch · June 3rd, 2008, 06:58 PM

^ Er maybe that hes on the wrong side of the road?

MadCow809 · June 3rd, 2008, 07:00 PM

^

read the above few post and you will understand what this is all about.

and Lilleput :

lol, glad to see you have a great sense of humour.

bafranksbro · June 3rd, 2008, 07:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

6 hours so far according to Xfire. Pretty fun game. There's a crazy amount of... content to the game though.

There's actually someone who has been in a lot of my classes that worked on the PC version, he works for EA and is going to school to try to move up in the ranks.

prizrak · June 3rd, 2008, 08:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Solberg

I hate to be the one to give the bad news, but there is going to be a price drop on the ipod touch in about two weeks.

One thing I learned with tech is don't bother too much with price drops or latest stuff. There are price drops all the time and stuff is obsolete 5 minutes after after it comes out. Besides it's a birthday present so I'm on a time frame

Maybe I'll get me one after the drop

Quote:

he works for EA

I'm really sorry to hear that. I hope he can go to a company that doesn't treat their coders as slaves.

bry789123 · June 3rd, 2008, 11:03 PM

No pics, but I got a new Acer 19" LCD monitor for my PC a few days ago!!!!!!!!

June 3rd, 2008, 03:23 PM	#5203
Solberg Joined: Apr 24th, 2008 Last Online: 12:01 AM Posts: 1,161 Rep Power: 23	Lilleput you are being an absolute cock. What's your problem? Anyway, about the RAM tests, Lilleput is most certainly mistaken. Many ram sticks are faulty and having a faulty ram stick in your computer can casue many problems such as: data loss, spontaneous reboots, blue screens, program failures and wrong data will end up being written to the hard disk. Also, a RAM malfunction can cause correct data to be written to an incorrect location on the disk, thus overwriting some other piece of data. In the end your HDD will be completely screwed up and you won't even notice all this happening. All the other annoying things I mentioned, will probably not be taken seriously and you will think it's just some random error. I doubt you will even consider the faulty RAM the cause of all this. Anyway, why take a chance? I urge you to just download the free software - memtest and burn it to a CD. Then boot from the CD run the test overnight and you will be sure of your RAM condition. Why take unnecessary risks? You may think 'It won't happen to me', but It can, I encountered over 6 faulty RAM sticks in various computers over the last few months. __________________

June 3rd, 2008, 03:41 PM	#5205
Solberg Joined: Apr 24th, 2008 Last Online: 12:01 AM Posts: 1,161 Rep Power: 23	What part of what I said is wrong? __________________

June 3rd, 2008, 04:53 PM	#5207
MadCow809 Joined: Feb 23rd, 2006 Last Online: 02:20 AM Location: Durban, South Africa / Los Angeles, California Age: 23 Posts: 3,117 Car: 2007 E87 BMW 130i LFS Status: Rep Power: 32	Faulty ram does corrupt data, but not the physical drive. I agree with Solberg on this matter. I always memtest my ram, it takes less than 5min and can save you so much hassle in the future. The OCZ ram I bought from newegg was faulty, it booted without any problem, but couldn't install Vista properly and gave me lots of weird random error messages. Ran memtest and it picked up the problem within 20seconds. __________________ Supporting : A.Priaulx, Kimi Räikkönen, J.Button, R.Kubica, P.Solberg, M.Hirvonen, J.Plato & M.Jackson FinalGear's Car/Bike Register 08/09 Currently looking for a car, got any suggestions? 08 Honda Civic Coupe 06 BMW 130i 05 Subaru Impreza 2.5RS 05 Ford Bantam 1.3i 95 Mercedes Benz E320 Sportline Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 @ 3Ghz (333 X 9 @ 1.44v ~ 35°c with ZEROtherm BTF90/92mm Cooler) \| DFI INFINITY P965-S \| Corsair XMS DDR II 800 6 Gb \| GeCube ATi HD3850 512mb @ 800/1000Mhz \| Seagate 500Gb + 500Gb + 750Gb + 1000Gb\| LITE-ON 20X DVDRW \| XION 600W PSU \| Logitech Z-2300 \| Logitech MX1000 \| Logitech G25 \| Dual 22" LCD Display @ 3360 x 1050 + Toshiba 40" HDTV @ 1920 x 1080 \| CoolerMaster Centurion 590 \| Vista 64 Ultimate \|

June 3rd, 2008, 05:52 PM	#5208
Nabster Joined: Oct 15th, 2007 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Laramie, Wyoming Age: 20 Posts: 323 Car: 1969 Mustang Coupe - 01 Grand Prix GTP Rep Power: 14	I had some new ram off newegg as well. All worked fine for about 2 weeks, then things started randomly popping off errors and bluescreening which finished in corrupting nearly all my data on my stupid raid 0 setup (ever try to rebuild one of those after it corrupts?). Of course as soon as we try a ram test, the source of the problem is quite obvious. If ram is going to fail, it will fail early on. You should always run tests on new ram to see if they pick up anything rather than just popping it in and risk losing years of data. If it passes the tests then good, you know you have good ram, if it fails, you've just saved a huge headache and possibly prevented loss of lots of things you haven't got backed up. I think to not test it just because it's new is quite the wrong idea, I wouldn't be trusting my computer to people who thought like that. __________________ █████████LegendZ live forever.

June 3rd, 2008, 05:59 PM	#5209
Solberg Joined: Apr 24th, 2008 Last Online: 12:01 AM Posts: 1,161 Rep Power: 23	So, it seems I was right after all. __________________

June 3rd, 2008, 06:31 PM	#5211
Kip_6666 I Bought This Title :o Joined: May 17th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: The Netherlands Age: 23 Posts: 2,967 Car: Saab 93 2.0t @ stage 3 now Rep Power: 31	Meh he was all over the place with his post. It's clear he has no idea how those parts work. I'm not going into detail because that is way too much work. But basic knowledge of how recent computer architecture works would be nice. Being right isn't as usefull as knowing why you're right, and how would you know if you're right anyway (which he didn't) Knock yourselves out: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw...ecture&x=0&y=0 __________________ http://www.internet-memes.com My Flickr

June 3rd, 2008, 06:58 PM	#5214
Speedtouch Joined: Jul 30th, 2006 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Kent, England Age: 16 Posts: 2,855 Rep Power: 34	^ Er maybe that hes on the wrong side of the road? __________________ Eyre Photography

June 3rd, 2008, 07:00 PM	#5215
MadCow809 Joined: Feb 23rd, 2006 Last Online: 02:20 AM Location: Durban, South Africa / Los Angeles, California Age: 23 Posts: 3,117 Car: 2007 E87 BMW 130i LFS Status: Rep Power: 32	^ read the above few post and you will understand what this is all about. and Lilleput : lol, glad to see you have a great sense of humour. __________________ Supporting : A.Priaulx, Kimi Räikkönen, J.Button, R.Kubica, P.Solberg, M.Hirvonen, J.Plato & M.Jackson FinalGear's Car/Bike Register 08/09 Currently looking for a car, got any suggestions? 08 Honda Civic Coupe 06 BMW 130i 05 Subaru Impreza 2.5RS 05 Ford Bantam 1.3i 95 Mercedes Benz E320 Sportline Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 @ 3Ghz (333 X 9 @ 1.44v ~ 35°c with ZEROtherm BTF90/92mm Cooler) \| DFI INFINITY P965-S \| Corsair XMS DDR II 800 6 Gb \| GeCube ATi HD3850 512mb @ 800/1000Mhz \| Seagate 500Gb + 500Gb + 750Gb + 1000Gb\| LITE-ON 20X DVDRW \| XION 600W PSU \| Logitech Z-2300 \| Logitech MX1000 \| Logitech G25 \| Dual 22" LCD Display @ 3360 x 1050 + Toshiba 40" HDTV @ 1920 x 1080 \| CoolerMaster Centurion 590 \| Vista 64 Ultimate \|

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