Recent content by StolenToast

I like playing Planetside 2 but it requires a powerful CPU and my stock i7-2600K just wasn't cutting it. Luckily, it's an i7-2600K and I was easily able to find a stable overclock of a solid GHz. The mobo is an Asus P8-Z68-V PRO and the CPU is cooled by a Thermaltake Frio and powered by a...

Ok, I have tried with 3 different BIOS versions now: The newest, the original, and the one I had before the update. None of them seem to have worked, but I am suspecting that the USB stick could be a problem. I tried another stick though with the same results. Every time I feed in a "new"...

Thanks for responding. I did try to clear the CMOS earlier by removing the battery and it had no effect. I tried again with your suggestion of a minimal boot and unfortunately no change. I also tried shorting the CMOS resetter. I think the problem is that I am simply doing some recovery...

Sorry for double-post but the last one is too long already. I forgot to mention: I removed all of the PCI components of my motherboard ( 1 network, 1 sound, 2 gpu ) and the beeping stopped. The USB/recovery message behavior persists, though... I assume plugging the components back in will...

This is a long one. I have been trying to install Windows 8 on my machine (p8Z68-V PRO, i7-2600K) but it just doesn't work. It boots to the setup and crashes in the amount of time it took you to read this sentence. Real annoying. I did research about the requirements and what could possibly...

I have this exact problem. I built my rig and got a Rosewill wireless N card. It seemed to work well for a bit but then suddenly the speeds I got from it dropped WAY down. .5 mb/s or so in Steam, down from 6 mb/s. And it can't be the router because my laptop (RIP) until recently could easily...

It definitely wasn't a drive failure. SMART and tests and everything indicate both drives are in peak condition. Best I can figure it was a partition error. I ran some tests and things in linux most based around fixing the MBR or partition errors, and after all that everything is up and...

Windows just loaded. wat. I have changed nothing. So it loads sometimes in a timely manner and sometimes not at all.

(NOTE: I am using the term 'forever' in this post in its literal sense, not the hyperbolic sense.) A few days ago my < 1 year old P8Z68 gaming rig began to take a long time to shut down, maybe 10 minutes or so. Then it started taking just as long to start up. These startup/shutdown times...