Originally posted by creaky:

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i tend to install Windows first, then one or more linuxes, the grub bootloader can be edited easily after the fact if partitions/OSes are added/removed. The only things to beware of with Windows/linux multiboots is that Windows (surprise surprise) can destroy linux partitions out of the blue and at random, plus the time on a multiboot has to be configured properly in linux, again due to Windows.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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The original OCZs perform like garbage regardless of what you do, it's not a matter of optimisation, you can't make a drive without controller cache and expect the system it resides in to run properly, it just doesn't work. This is not a Vertex, which uses an Indilinx barefoot controller, it's a Solid Series, which uses a JMicron controller, without any storage cache. This means, try to read and write at the same time, and the write has to wait until the read has finished, since there's no cache, the write sits in the southbridge, which means the PC will hang until the previous operation has finished, so if you multisession a 500MB download, your PC will not respond until it's done - hope you've got a fast connection!

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Originally posted by creaky:

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I'll have to post some pics at some point, the bloody things took long enough to setup.

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Originally posted by MGEdit:

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I have since put in for a refund of the PSU. I will not kno until about a week.

I have already tried two psu's and still the same problem. Every time I try to play the sims (with all updates installed) on the computer I get a blue screen with an error message. I think it could be the GPU, that it's incompatible with the mobo.

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Originally posted by shaffaaf:

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Originally posted by MGEdit:

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I have since put in for a refund of the PSU. I will not kno until about a week.

I have already tried two psu's and still the same problem. Every time I try to play the sims (with all updates installed) on the computer I get a blue screen with an error message. I think it could be the GPU, that it's incompatible with the mobo.

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it wont be incompatible, it might just be broken.

try the GPU in another PCIE slot.

which PSUs did you try?

does this happen with any other game?

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Originally posted by MGEdit:

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Originally posted by shaffaaf:

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Originally posted by MGEdit:

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I have since put in for a refund of the PSU. I will not kno until about a week.

I have already tried two psu's and still the same problem. Every time I try to play the sims (with all updates installed) on the computer I get a blue screen with an error message. I think it could be the GPU, that it's incompatible with the mobo.

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it wont be incompatible, it might just be broken.

try the GPU in another PCIE slot.

which PSUs did you try?

does this happen with any other game?

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I took the GPU out of the top slot and put it in another slot. They are both blue on the mobo. Nothing, still wont power up.

I tried a Colors cit and it didn't work and then the current one which is a coolerMaster silent pro 600W. The second one worked for a while and then now the computer wont power up. I took it out of the computer and set it to the side with the power cable attached for about 20 mins and the fan didn't spin. It's a PSU that the fan only works when it is too hot.

I tried to play the sims 3 and get a blue error screen and then to see if I could fix it by underclocking the GPU I used the provided ATI catalyst and ran a auto test on the graphics part of the program and left the computer for a while so it could run it's tests. When I went back to the computer it was shut down. I tried to turn it on and it wouldn't turn on at all.

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