Posts by rustydriver22

neonsurfer18 said:rustydriver22, tone it down a notch—I've dealt with this stuff before!

Is that an order?

I’ve been using WinZip 351 CEU for a while now, and honestly, it’s never once given me any trouble or even bothered me with those annoying licensing prompts...

I have to say, I’m finding it a little hard to believe that this Prescott is actually hitting > while staying at just 51 degrees.
A buddy of mine has one of those processors, and even when he's just sitting at >, it's running at 48 degrees...

McAfee is actually solid....

To be honest, I'm running Norton Antivirus right now, and before that, I was using Norton or whatever else... It's all basically the same stuff...
Any one of them can let you down when you need them most...
But if I have to pick? I say go with McAfee!

Kenneth White17 rustydriver22 said:And just to touch on that other issue—the one you didn't actually bring up over there, by the way...

Man, go back and give it another read—I mentioned right there in my opening post that this was exactly what I was running into.

So, you're trying to get that CD out after you restart your PC?

What kind of nonsense is that? Seriously, what kind of logic is that—telling me I shouldn't have a disc in the drive when I reboot?

...or you can just hop into the BIOS and flip the priority settings.

So, here’s the deal: every time I try to reboot, my system just completely ignores my hard drive. It won't even acknowledge that the disk is there! Since I've set the boot priority to hit the CD drive first, it tries to pull something from the disc, fails miserably, and then just spits out a "DISK BOOT FAILURE" error. It's like my computer is totally blind to the drive.

I’ve got a bad feeling about this... I honestly suspect there might be something wrong with the motherboard itself, God forbid.

Kenneth White17 said:First off... I already gave you the answer... even if you didn't really earn it (or maybe you just completely missed it, which happens).

Wait, what answer did you give me???
Here, take this damn link and tell me where exactly you answered my question! Look, sure, once I disabled that nvraidservice.exe, the error message stopped popping up in Windows, but I’ve still got a problem. Every time I try to restart the computer—and I don't mean a hard crash, just a normal reboot—it won't recognize my hard drive. It tries to boot from the CD drive instead and gives me a "DISK BOOT FAILURE" error. You haven't actually addressed that part yet...

Look, man, you can joke all you want, but neither you nor amberorca192 actually answered that thread about the Raid setup. Instead, we got a much smarter group from a way more high-end hardware forum giving us the real deal... (well, except for a few people there, though I saw the same thing on that forum too—just not you.)
And honestly? End of discussion!

If you’re just pretending to be polite now, then you’re being just as stubborn and difficult as amberorca192.

Instead of actually answering the guy's question, you all seem to be having a contest to see who can land the nastiest insult... (though, to be fair, even back in my hometown, the hardware geeks were always just clueless salespeople). 👍

Cheers!

Tom hasn't even bothered to reach out yet...............
but honestly, I doubt anything will come of it................
Stupidity really is bulletproof............

I mean, what can you even say to posts like this?!
Seriously, where are the moderators...👍

Hobo Soccer is such a blast... as long as there are at least two of you 🙂

He really knows how to stir the pot with his posts... 😢

And honestly, I’m hoping it isn't actually THAT bad... It's not like I'm trying to power a whole data center with it either...

amberorca192 said:Well, I guess 😁

Honestly, you guys have nagged me so much about it that I’m just going to leave it alone. 😎
If it isn't broken, don't fix it, right? It's doing its job just fine...

So, how long before I can finally offload this MS? Not looking to get some ridiculous, unrealistic price or anything, but I’m hoping to get enough of a foundation to put toward something actually decent...

Since we're talking power supplies, I’ve got some random MS 450W unit in my rig. I've heard rumors that these things are absolute junk—is there any truth to that?
I'm running an Athlon 3000+ @ 244x9.0

Trying to overclock a PC with a power supply like that is asking for trouble. It could easily blow a fuse, scream under the load, and take every other expensive component down with it. Definitely not worth the risk.

Man, now you've got me worried that something's actually gonna blow up on me...

I was wondering if anyone could lend me a hand here. I'm running into some trouble getting my SATA controller properly set up. I've got a DFI Infinity NF4 socket 939 motherboard paired with a Maxtor 6V250FO 250GB hard drive, but every time I finish installing Windows, that little green "Safely Remove Hardware" icon pops up in the bottom right corner of the taskbar. When I click it, it actually gives me the option to safely remove the drive itself.

I'm actually using that exact same drive, and I've been dealing with that same annoying "safely remove hardware" notification in my system tray constantly too.
Do you think this might be related to that idea that SATA drives are designed to be hot-swappable while the PC is still running? (amberorca192, please don't roast me if I'm totally off base here!)

Does this have anything to do with this specific subforum?

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