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Post by Vice Admiral Nyoko Honda on Aug 8, 2011 6:58:55 GMT -5
I am reformatting my machine today. I think it will take 6-8 hours of rebuilding. (Cause i never did any of that fancy imaging stuff). However I did keep good back ups, so for the sake of the registry time for little cleaning!
Don't worry. STO will be my second install. (after my drivers lol).
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Post by Captain Erys Murai on Aug 8, 2011 7:50:33 GMT -5
just for future reference, you can just copy/paste your STO folder in its entirety, and save yourself the trouble of reinstalling, then downloading the 5-6GB patch.
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Post by Vice Admiral Nyoko Honda on Aug 8, 2011 8:58:11 GMT -5
Yes. I did that for season 4, so I don't expect a 5 gig download.
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Post by Vice Admiral Nyoko Honda on Aug 8, 2011 17:56:12 GMT -5
So I am having a pc's tech nightmare today. So after a clear install my freezing issue has not been corrected. I suspect it's the mother board. Since I've tried installing the OS on another hard drive. If it is the mother board and in which case i'll have to swap it out per warranty. That means I maybe down for several days. I will attempt to install Star Trek Online on my old pc. (If it can run it)
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Post by Captain Erys Murai on Aug 8, 2011 23:51:52 GMT -5
What do you mean by freezing issue? As in, what exactly is happening?
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Post by Vice Admiral Nyoko Honda on Aug 8, 2011 23:54:43 GMT -5
Hard freeze. no keyboard response, no mouse, the desktop is frozen in time.
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Post by Vice Admiral Nyoko Honda on Aug 9, 2011 0:46:46 GMT -5
I'm currently setting up STO on this duo core machine. Though i *KNOW* it's not gonna be as powerful as like. -sighs-
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Post by Captain Joyaus Dalun on Aug 9, 2011 0:49:58 GMT -5
Well we need our captain for the sendoff.
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Post by Vice Admiral Nyoko Honda on Aug 9, 2011 0:52:24 GMT -5
STO is installing ... slowly.
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Post by Vice Admiral Nyoko Honda on Aug 9, 2011 1:03:26 GMT -5
Alright. It's late thanks for the advice John. I'll look into a new power supply to test it, and if not, I'll just have to buy new mother board and processor. As if didn't spend enough money on my car repairs. -sigh-
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Post by Lt Commander Marcus Aquila on Aug 9, 2011 7:40:07 GMT -5
Hard freezing is usually caused by processor or memory failure, at times it cna be caused by a failing memory controller on the board or processor(depending on amd or intel) or a heating issue related to the north/southbridge. Random shutdowns(computer turns off and back on) are usually caused by a faulty power supply unit especially if they are only occurring under load, for instance running sto. Were you getting a blue screen or just a lockup? It could also be your video card overheating that component has the second highest fail rate next to memory and causes hard graphical freezes when its overheating or memory goes bad on the card.
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Post by Vice Admiral Nyoko Honda on Aug 9, 2011 9:43:06 GMT -5
So this moring i unpluged all the power cables to the drives, and optics, and peripherals and left my master hard drive plugged in. Pluged the minotor into the onboard video. Then booted. Instead of getting a hard freeze, i got random power down.
Defently, considering now it's the powersupply.
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Post by Lt Commander Marcus Aquila on Aug 9, 2011 10:02:29 GMT -5
Sounds like it. The problem with machines is sometimes they suffer a cascade failure especially going on 4 years old which with modern computers is the normal fail rate for all components.
In my experience never go cheap on a power supply as when they go sometimes they can take other components with it.
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Post by Vice Admiral Nyoko Honda on Aug 9, 2011 10:08:04 GMT -5
I have STO runing on my old dell xps410. I had to update the drivers on the video card Nivida 9500 GT. So I think... it will run at good level of performace. We'll see. In all things, i will make the event tonight.
With or without powersupply. lol
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