Hardware woes (update)
Posted 10-05-2009 at 08:13 AM by Poyzon
Ok, so I finally nuked my drives and installed Windows 7.
Bad
Bad
- Random reboots are still happening.
- To add more frustration to the reboot issue, Windows 7 has this wonderful "Windows System Repair" feature that pops up when you crash and reload. The default is to attempt a repair (with another option to start Windows normally). The 'repair' option gives you the option to cancel but gives you the message "You cannot cancel this operation". Seems pretty f'd up to me. Well, this wastes another 5-10 minutes while it looks for a problem that it can't find.
- WoW decides that it will kill my network randomly while playing. Seems to happen mostly when I zone into a new area, but once it starts, it's impossible to get away from.
- The new drive that I got on Thursday is dead. POST throws an error and 'clicking' noises when it attempts to spin up. RMA'd.
- Random reboot problem getting better, but I'm cautiously optimistic. I pulled and reseated the heat sink, CPU and video card. Seems better so far (cross fingers).
- The dropped network issue appears to be a known problem. There's a post in the WoW Technical Support forum that identifies a potential fix (which seems to be working for me). I don't know how people find seemingly random fixes like this, but God bless you!
- My hard drives are out of Matrix RAID (0/1) configuration and are now just 2 separate drives (would be 3, but see bullet in the "Bad" section about that). Regardless, WoW loads lightning quick, even with addons like Auctioneer loaded.
- RMA the bad drive and wait for the replacement.
- Pray random reboots are fixed.
- Move main WoW installation to 3rd drive when it arrives so that OS will have it's own drive.
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