Recent content by paradigmArchitect

I updated my original question to include details on the issue and listed the components of the build in question. I'm pretty confident everything else is working on my end, so hopefully after this I can start solving problems for the community instead of creating them :love: Thanks!

Z87 classified mobo, intel i5. motherboard gives undefined error (FF) when I try to restart.. Any ideas at all? UPDATE: Sorry for the delay in this reply, I've been busy with school when I'm online. I'm just hoping to learn of some generic possible causes to this problem, it might be unique to...

With no onboard video, one needs a video card. With a video card, one needs video card drivers. How does one install said drivers without having them already installed to see? EDIT: MY SCREEN IS BLACK. I have never seen a pixel from this system, it has never had video drivers installed. FIXED...

I've tried it a couple times, I recommend: French toast bagel, vanilla frosting, maple syrup. (toasted) Cinnamon raisin bagel, vanilla frosting.

If your going to try this manually, I've heard a command line utility called "robocopy" can be made to perform incremental and full backups. Maybe you could work this into a batch file, one for full and another for incremental. I assume you could also work compression into the scripts. You could...

I don't have an easy solution, but if I were you, I would look into using a bootdisk (UBCD, HBCD, or linux) to either troubleshoot the drive or format the drive.. Assuming you can get it to show up. I'm not sure what you mean when you say: "I have tried plugging it in after boot and everything...

I have a DVD burner, HDD, and SDD to connect to a motherboard. I have 6 SATA ports on the motherboard, so running 3 cables (1 to each SATA device) from SATA ports 1, 2 and 3 would be simple. I have some good looking SATA cables, but at one end they have 3 plugins. Is there anything I should be...

There are lots of opinions being given to you here. The Samsung 870= Sustained Sequential Read: 540 MB/s Sustained Sequential Write: 520MBps 4KB Random Read: 100,000 IOPS 4KB Random Write: 90,000 IOPS The Crucial MX100= Max Sequential Read: Up to 550 MBps Max Sequential Write: Up to 300 MBps...