Well died, or was corrupted, or was something. Point is, it got locked up. Ran a DPS self-test thing and got great news: A HDD replacement was my best course of action!
Conspiracy theories abound, but I think the reason this happened was because my power supply wasn't powerful enough to give power to my Ducky shine mechanical keyboard (recently added), mouse, and other hardware components that I added w/o upgrading the PSU (queue merciless laughter at my expense). As a result, the computer would shut off w/o warning and error messages every so often. I'd just restart it, and it'd run no problem for some time. But as we all know, Murphy's law states that if something can go wrong, it will. I can prove it, too! Because one time, after the computer did it's usual turn-off-without-warning thing, it did that same thing again while it was trying to load Windows. After this, I was unable to access the hard drive, or even interact with it in BIOS.
My first question is this: Do you think that I am sort of right in guessing at what the problem was? From what I've read on the www, it seems like that's what went wrong.
Second thing:
Going forward, I'm planning on running two drives: an SSD for the operating system and tf2 and whatever else I decide I'd like on it, and another typical HDD for all the other stuff. If anyone has done this before themselves, are there any potential issues I should be looking out for that I'm likely to run into? Seems like the process is rather simple in and of itself, but you can never be too careful. . .
Also, just a friendly reminder: If you're like me and completely lack foresight/reason/caution, be sure to back up your data. Nuff said
Thanks
Well died, or was corrupted, or was something. Point is, it got locked up. Ran a DPS self-test thing and got great news: A HDD replacement was my best course of action!
Conspiracy theories abound, but I think the reason this happened was because my power supply wasn't powerful enough to give power to my Ducky shine mechanical keyboard (recently added), mouse, and other hardware components that I added w/o upgrading the PSU (queue merciless laughter at my expense). As a result, the computer would shut off w/o warning and error messages every so often. I'd just restart it, and it'd run no problem for some time. But as we all know, Murphy's law states that if something can go wrong, it will. I can prove it, too! Because one time, after the computer did it's usual turn-off-without-warning thing, it did that same thing again while it was trying to load Windows. After this, I was unable to access the hard drive, or even interact with it in BIOS.
My first question is this: Do you think that I am sort of right in guessing at what the problem was? From what I've read on the www, it seems like that's what went wrong.
Second thing:
Going forward, I'm planning on running two drives: an SSD for the operating system and tf2 and whatever else I decide I'd like on it, and another typical HDD for all the other stuff. If anyone has done this before themselves, are there any potential issues I should be looking out for that I'm likely to run into? Seems like the process is rather simple in and of itself, but you can never be too careful. . .
Also, just a friendly reminder: If you're like me and completely lack foresight/reason/caution, be sure to back up your data. Nuff said
Thanks
That might be the case, although I would think that the motherboard would be designed to cut off power to the USB ports before the HDD. Seems kinda weird that it would do that.
I run both a SSD and a HDD and I would say it's worth it. Windows boots up so fast now, and everything on the SSD starts up quickly. You should get at least a 120 GB SSD though, as you run out of space fast. I have mine partitioned for Windows (80 GB) and Linux (40 GB) and I've quickly approached those limits on both. If you want to dual boot then you should probably get at least a 240 GB SSD.
That might be the case, although I would think that the motherboard would be designed to cut off power to the USB ports before the HDD. Seems kinda weird that it would do that.
I run both a SSD and a HDD and I would say it's worth it. Windows boots up so fast now, and everything on the SSD starts up quickly. You should get at least a 120 GB SSD though, as you run out of space fast. I have mine partitioned for Windows (80 GB) and Linux (40 GB) and I've quickly approached those limits on both. If you want to dual boot then you should probably get at least a 240 GB SSD.
I don't plan on dual booting. I have purchased a 128 GB SSD. I expect that should be enough. I can't really think of what I would fill it up with beyond TF2 and the OS anyway lol
I don't plan on dual booting. I have purchased a 128 GB SSD. I expect that should be enough. I can't really think of what I would fill it up with beyond TF2 and the OS anyway lol
You really don't need more then TF2. You can use Steam Mover and/or install games in a different directory with Steam now. Enjoy your SSD!
You really don't need more then TF2. You can use Steam Mover and/or install games in a different directory with Steam now. Enjoy your SSD!
Make sure to redirect your User folders (Documents, Downloads, etc). Right click on them, click Properties, Location, and then switch the path to the HDD.
Make sure to redirect your User folders (Documents, Downloads, etc). Right click on them, click Properties, Location, and then switch the path to the HDD.