Recent content by Spit-wad

Hello, happy new year

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. Good to see you're still around, PP.

I turned my old rig into a HTPC years ago. My 8800GT just died. Any recommendations for a replacement? I'm looking for something cheap. This computer is only used to stream 1080p video. Newegg links appreciated!

Just stoppin by to say I did end up sending the SSD in for warranty. I even got them to send me a free shipping label for the return. Haven't had any problems since installing the new one. Thanks for all who helped.

Tried running intel's ssd health tests a few times. Could never complete it before computer freezing, but it got pretty far without finding anything wrong. I'm gonna take your advice and warranty it this week.

Spoke too soon, just froze up hard with these errors. Also when I freeze up my internet cuts out -- I have Pandora on and it just plays the first 10seconds of a song, starts sounding like robotic aliens, then goes to the next song immediately. -- The description for Event ID 14 from source...

I don't want to jinx anything, but I switched the SSD to a different sata port and now everything seems to be going at lightning speed, with no issues.

That would be the smart thing to do.

Great! In that case I can safely procrastinate until I become so frustrated that I'm forced to deal with it in 3-4 months.

Already got a half dozen of "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0" since reboot, although computer has not frozen. I purchased the Intel SSD on November 23, 2012, so I guess I better start exploring the warranty process in case there's a 2 year window.

Not fixed. Computer just froze while I was using it. Rebooted and here's what I found in event viewer immediately before my reboot event: At 8:06:47 PM there are about 20 identical errors: Source: atapi The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0. At 8:06:48 there is one...

Did everything suggested in that thread, will report back soon.

No clue now. Didn't have any problems for a while, then it started happening again. I turned off all sleep options on monitors, hard drive, everything I could find. Didn't fix it. The most frequent case now is when I'm using my computer, especially soon after booting up, everything will freeze...

Alright I am 99% sure it's my SSD, although system mechanic came up with nothing. I replugged my sata cable, will see if it still errors.

Just happened. I was away from my computer for a while, watching a show on my HTPC when it suddenly lost its Internet connection. Sure enough, my computer was black. GPU temp is 44C. Here's a few errors from Event Viewer logs. Error: The driver detected a controller error on...