Recent content by GracieAllen

I hadn't thought about that... It gets stranger... If I do a cold boot from powering up the power supply, it boots fine. No 99. If I do a "normal" shutdown/restart I get the 99 and it sits for about 80 seconds. BUT, if during the time its sitting there I hit reset, it does a warm? boot and...

I have a system that's several years old, built with an ASUS X99 Deluxe motherboard. Works fine. Windows 10 Pro. EXCEPT, for the last few weeks, about 75-80% of the time (NOT 100%) it's been VERY slow to boot. It starts, displays the logo and "hit Del to enter BIOS, then sits. I watched the...

Yes, we know that now... Not so much 24 months ago... What's discouraging is that with so many of these drives failing, that Seagate refuses to do anything to replace their defective equipment, regardless of age in this case. But, I reckon Seagate figures there are enough new customers that...

I have TWO Seagate ST3000DM001 hard drives on my desktop. Or should I say, had... About 2 weeks ago, one threw up it's electronic arms and started puking bad sectors. Tried Seatools, and it wouldn't even find the drive. Ran CHKDSK and it found a few hundred bad sectors. Took 'em out and...

Hello? Anybody out there?

I know there are a lot of discussions in here about overclocking (I've read several), but I'm trying to understand what I'm seeing in the BIOS of the X99 as well as overclocking to some reasonable level... System is an ASUS X99 Deluxe, 5820K, Noctua NH-D15 (2 fans), rear case fan blowing out, 2...