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So, after leaving the computer alone for a couple of days, thinking about what could possibly be wrong, and not hearing back from NCIX over the weekend (I expected that, they don't do RMAs over the weekend) I decided to try a different approach - after several consultations from people like ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
scruloose, kinnonyee and a few people off Facebook and MSN, I surmised that it's the memory (and that was my first guess, since one of the two sticks was faulty right off the start).
So, today when we finally have a nice heavy snowstorm, I decide that after dropping Christine off at work, to brave to storm and visit a Canada Computers, where I pick up a pair of Kingston DDR2-800 RAM sticks (on the advice of the clerk not to go to 1066 since "it may require overclocking" and 800's are apparently native, price isn't that much different anyhow, I got a good deal), stuck them in, and the system booted without a single hiccup!
Just to quell my paranoia, I ran MemTest for 2 hours to make sure everything was on the up-and-up, and the only problem I saw was that the clock never actually ticked off each second as a second - which kept giving me mini-heart-attacks :P
I also ran my PCMark tests with both the Onboard Video (Radeon HD 3300) and the PCI-E card (NVidia GT7600 OC) and found that the external card gave a small boost in performance (6300 PCMarks vs 6060 PCMarks) - probably because the onboard video took 400MB of the 2GB memory, even though the external card is only a 128MB card - I'm not running anything that punishing graphics-wise, anyhow.
Now all I've gotta do is get the system back to where I was a few weeks ago - return TVersity to its former state (so long, Vuze! Don't think I'll be needing to pre-transcode anything now), get the laptop talking to the Desktop, return the bad memory, and start playing the games that I keep purchasing but never get around to playing :P
scruloose, kinnonyee and a few people off Facebook and MSN, I surmised that it's the memory (and that was my first guess, since one of the two sticks was faulty right off the start).So, today when we finally have a nice heavy snowstorm, I decide that after dropping Christine off at work, to brave to storm and visit a Canada Computers, where I pick up a pair of Kingston DDR2-800 RAM sticks (on the advice of the clerk not to go to 1066 since "it may require overclocking" and 800's are apparently native, price isn't that much different anyhow, I got a good deal), stuck them in, and the system booted without a single hiccup!
Just to quell my paranoia, I ran MemTest for 2 hours to make sure everything was on the up-and-up, and the only problem I saw was that the clock never actually ticked off each second as a second - which kept giving me mini-heart-attacks :P
I also ran my PCMark tests with both the Onboard Video (Radeon HD 3300) and the PCI-E card (NVidia GT7600 OC) and found that the external card gave a small boost in performance (6300 PCMarks vs 6060 PCMarks) - probably because the onboard video took 400MB of the 2GB memory, even though the external card is only a 128MB card - I'm not running anything that punishing graphics-wise, anyhow.
Now all I've gotta do is get the system back to where I was a few weeks ago - return TVersity to its former state (so long, Vuze! Don't think I'll be needing to pre-transcode anything now), get the laptop talking to the Desktop, return the bad memory, and start playing the games that I keep purchasing but never get around to playing :P
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