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repartition 4g Gizmo?

frankjbrown — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:42:16 GMT

One of the Gizmo's recently purchased in a 4 pack seems to have a problem. Looking at it in XP Disk Manager, it has a 1.12 gb partition and a 2.61 gb partition. I can not delete the partitions to create a single one, and I can not Format the 2.61 partition. Any suggestions as to how to proceed? Thanks!

Memory

Ralph — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:56:23 GMT

Hello, I'm searching for a pair of 512MB for a Dell Dimension 8100 at a reasonable price. Dell wants $600 for the pair. Help! Thanks.

Baisse de performance en écriture M225 64 Go firmware 1819

Seth-01 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:44:15 GMT

Bonjour,

j'ai fais l'acquisition d'un SSD Crucial M225 de 64 Go. Il fonctionne sous Windows 7 x64 avec une carte mère ayant un chipset AMD 790GX. Le mode AHCI est activé dans le bios.

J'ai flashé avec le firmware 1819 apportant le TRIM et tout allait très bien depuis 3 semaines. Depuis hier par contre j'ai observé à l'aide du logiciel ATTO version 2.41 une baisse importante de l'écriture qui est passé de 150 Mo à 100 Mo. J'ai essayé malgré tout un wiper 5.25 mais rien à faire, l'écriture reste bloqué à 100 Mo alors qu'au début, j'avais bel et bien les 150 Mo en écriture. La lecture n'est pas affectée par ce "bug".

Avez vous déjà rencontré un cas similaire et comment l'avez vous résolu ? Merci de votre aide.

Seth-01

Ballistix Fails in ASUS Workstation

jawsurgeon — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:01:53 GMT

Ballistix memory fails to work in ASUS P5E-WS Pro Workstations. I installed 8 GB of 2 different types of Ballistix memory modules in 2 brand new MB. Both experienced intermmittent crashes, data corruption, OS failure over a period of 4-5 months. RMA'd MB's to ASUS, replaced drives, reinstalled OS'....ran complete burnin diagnostics. you ge the picture. Finally I just bought new memory; Crucial memory. Once installed and Ballistix was removed these systems have run continuously for almost 6 months without a single failure.

I would NOT recommend this memory ..buy something else.

However, I would recommend Crucial..they have been great !!! they took back all of the memory and credited my account !

SSD and Windows 7

CptDobey — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:41:02 GMT

Hello,

I own a Crucial SSD M225 64 GB and I have some questions about it. I browsed through the forums but I did not find definitive answers to them.

I am using Windows 7 Family Premium 64 bits. I installed the latest bios on the M225, the 1819, before installing W7. I formated the SSD during W7 installation.

In order to maximize the drive speed, do I have to enable the AHCI controller or can I just use "IDE" controller?

If I use "IDE", will the trim function be enabled automatically?

As Windows 7 seems to be "SSD aware", do I have to deactivate anything like files indexation or automatic defrag as it is suggested into some tutorials about SSD with XP or Vista?

Is there any way to be sure W7 is seeing my M225 as a SSD and not as a usual hard drive (and thus activating trim)?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

Regards,
Philippe

Memory Maximums?

upnrunin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:49:12 GMT

I'm trying to keep two old HP Pavilions running well by appropriately upgrading the memory. I have an xt983 which according to the HP site has a maximum memory of 512MB. The crucial site said the max was 1024MB? I had bought a Crucial brand 512MB card locally and added it in the second slot. After a few boot ups the system crashed. I've restored the system but am concerned about how to correctly expand the memory. Also, I've noticed there may be several memory cards with the same specs but will have different part #s and prices. The one I bought locally was a different part # than the Crucial site recommended (but all the specs matched). I know one mistake might have been adding the 512 behind the factory 128. I open to expert advice??

On the same note my other model is a xt948. HP list the max at 1.5GB with a recommended 512MB. I don't know whats best based on that.

These are PC133 (168 PIn DIMM) although the HP site says the xt983 "(runs at 100)". Hope this makes sense.

Black Screen Syndrome

alfcrosby — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:51:33 GMT

My Compaq Presario laptop had two 512M memory modules and having upgraded to Windows 7 (from XP) this 1GB was the minimum - so I thought I'd upgrade to its maximum. Crucial Mem Scan CE49374E31D926C3 said I could upgrade to 4GB - but also recommended that as my 32 bit OS would probably ignore anything over 3GB I decided to order a 2GB and a 1GB stick. Duly arrived, read the online advice, swapped the memory sticks. Absolutely nothing happened - well, the fan ran for 2 seconds. Completely black screen, no signs of life from the hard drive indicator. Online via our netbook, started reading other people's experiences and lots of quality advice.. Numerous attempts. Even had problems after I had re-installed the original 2x512MB sticks. Tried again - one new stick at a time. By themselves, both the 2GB and the 1GB worked in either slot. Put the 2GB in the bottom slot, put the 1GB in the top slot - not a peep (except for my trusty fan). Back to square one. Re-installed the original sticks, several unsuccessful attempts to restart, then success. Able to shut down correctly, took out the two 512 sticks, put the 2GB in the bottom slot and booted up. OK, and the computer properties said "2GB RAM". I'll settle for 2GB of RAM and now have a redundant 1GB stick. Advice, please!

Correct drive setting in Bios

Allattar — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:40:10 GMT

I was trying to use the wiper tool, and I thought I had the drive set up correctly in my BIOS. Wiper doesnt recognise the drive though.

I have the BFG 680i motherboard, so its an Nvidia nforce 6. I am using Win 7 64Bit, just in case it isnt the bios setting I am supposed to change, and it is actually in windows.

Still on the 1571 firmware.

Now I have tried looking for the EHCI mode in bios, but nothing jumped out at me.

Anyone know the correct settings on these boards?

Thanks.

Missing RAM

johnchap — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:03:13 GMT

My Medion computer with Athlon 64 3200 processor and Nvidia NF-CK804 motherboard has, apparently, 1.5 Gb of usable RAM. That's what shows on the boot-up test. But when I run a Belarc audit, it reports that there is a 1024MB stick in slot A0, 1024MB in slot A1, 512MB in slot A2 and 512MB in slot A3. In other words, I should have 3 Gig of memory. Can anyone explain this? Are the sticks incorrectly placed? Might one or more sticks have failed? Can I do anything to regain the lost memory? (I have not at this stage 'opened the box' - I wanted to see if any advice was available before doing anything that might put the machine out of action.)

John

Very interesting behavior with my M225 128GB SSD.

johnyeah2 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:47:08 GMT

So here's what going on with my SSD.

I have updated the firmware to 1819 the first day it came out. I have also ran the wiper tool and checked for proper disk alignment. However, my sequential write performances have been terrible, even after the wiper tool (seems like the same problem has been plaguing many other 1819 firmware users). It was originally at 100 mb/s. I used crystaldiskmark to test this.

I have noticed though, I haven't performed wiper for a week, and my write performances (sequential write) went up to 115mb/s. And now I haven't used the wiper tool for two weeks, and my performances have been up to 138 mb/s. Of course, it's still far from the advertised 190 mb/s. But at least the benchmarking performances have been increasing. I was wondering if anyone had an explanation to this weird phenomenon.

Ballistix Tracer on EP45T-UD3LR

charlesshoults — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:58:35 GMT

I started acquiring parts about a month ago and started setting everything up today after my power supply (Antec TruePower New 750w) came in. I'm facing continual crashes. My configuration is a Gigabyte EP45T-UD3LR with a Core 2 Quad Q9400 and 4GB of Ballistix Tracer (BL2KIT25664TR1608). When I turned it on for the fist time, I entered the bios and after just a few seconds, the lights on my USB keyboard and mouse went out and the system apparently froze. The clock in the bios stopped ticking but the lights on the memory sticks continued to cycle. Per directions on the mobo, the memory was placed in slots 1 and 3, thereby activating dual channel. I tried loading failsafe defaults and also loading optimal defaults, but the computer still freezes within a seconds after post. I plugged in a PS/2 keyboard as I've had problems with USB on other systems, and disconnected all SATA devices, disconnected network, unplugged sound, essentially getting rid of anything not essential to booting. The next time it locked up on me, I noticed that while the lights on the USB had been failing, the lights on the PS/2 keyboard were now blinking on and off. Doing some forum hunting, I found extremely similar issues with other models of Gigabyte boards. Using they're attempts, I set CPU Host Clock Control specifically to 333 instead of Auto and Performance Enhance to Standard instead of the default of Extreme. Although the memory was being detected as 9-9-9-24, I set these specifically instead of leaving them as Auto. MCH Core, which I read was the Northbridge voltage, was set to 1.100V. Per suggestions, I tried raising this to 1.200V and for the moment, didn't change the DRAM voltage, detected as 1.5V. When the system starts up, I do get further, but it normally freezes while trying to boot from the Ubuntu 9.10 live CD. As a hunch, I moved the second memory module from slot 3 to slot 2, effectively forcing the system into single channel mode. It works better, as I can get fully loaded into Ubuntu but after several minutes, it still usually freezes. The next time I restarted, I launched memtest86 and let it dig through the 4GB of configured memory and it started reporting errors after about 10 minutes. I tried adjusting memory timings to what the memory is rated for, 8-8-8-24 at 1.64V as 1.65V isn't an option (1.64V or 1.66V), but when I save and exit, I get continual short beeps, indicating a power issue. The next time it went back into the bios, it told me that there was an overclocking issue and set the values back to what they had been previously. I shut down and removed the second stick of memory entirely, booted from CD and launched Memtest86 again. This time around, I'm now 32 minutes into testing and so far, no errors reported from the single stick of memory. If it still has not errored out after an hour, I'm going to shut down and repeat the tests on the other stick.

It's my own fault for buying memory that was not on Gigabyte's spec sheet, but I bought the memory that I wanted, that was within the parameters listed by Gigabyte. I would really love to be able to keep the components I've bought, and eventually take the board up to 8GB, but so far, it doesn't look promising.

Help, please?

Acer 6920G can it use PC6400?

g_tar_playa — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:57:20 GMT

Can anyone verify that the Acer Aspire 6920G will run 4GB of DDR2-800 PC2-6400 ram like the following link suggests?

http://www.crucial.com/upgrade/compatible-memory-for/Acer/Aspire+6920G/list.html

Most other findings on the internet to don't mention the ability to run anything but DDR2-667 PC2-5300 though I did find the following site that shows it will run the faster ram..

http://www.memoryx.net/acer2gb800s.html

I'm just looking for more solid info before I buy.

My Azza w/Crucial SSD's and Ballistix

AFracturedHand — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:40:42 GMT

Azza 1000 Solano Case
Asus P7P55 LX Board
Intel i5 2.66 Ghz Quad
8 Gb DDR3 1600 Crucial Ballistix
2x250 gb Western Digitial HDD Caviar Blue
2x64 gb Crucial SSD (RAID 0)
Arctic Freezer v2 Heatsink
XFX Radeon 5770
850w Thermaltake Modular
Windows 7 Professional x64
http://i49.tinypic.com/ixa5us.jpg
http://i50.tinypic.com/2l9349t.jpg
http://i49.tinypic.com/2v0ixav.jpg

The Ram and Video card will be in tomorrow. Post pics of final build if I get a chance

2 x SSD 64 in Raid 0 on an ASUS PQC (ICH10)

Destombes_Chris — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:26:07 GMT

Hi all,

My two SSD drives in raid 0 give me a very responsive win 7 system.

From other posts, I understand that the trim feature won't be functional on my system before long. OK, that may not be a big deal.

But :

- Any advice on how to keep my disk performance at his best without the trim function ?

- What is the most used software to measure disk's performance, to compare my results with others ?

Thanks for your help !

Chris

Wrong memory sent

thurls — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:46:47 GMT

Hi, I ordered ddr2 pc5300 memory a few days ago for an Acer Aspire L100. The memory that arrived was pc6400 - the computer I tried installing it in would not boot. I've raised an RMA - 41016120 - and will return the kit to you. This order was for a customer of mine who now has to wait for the replacement to be sent out. Is there any possibility the process can be speeded up? Thanks in advance, Thurls

Upgrading sata drive windows 7 pc

mranders — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:17:23 GMT

Can I replace the system drive in my laptop running windows 7 with a crucial 256 gb SSD without problems related to TRIM etc. I plan to copy the OS from the old system drive.

Crucial Wiper tool is now on the Firmware page

Crucial_Katana — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:25:04 GMT

I just wanted to let you know that in order to make it a bit easier to find, we have moved the Crucial Wiper tool to the Firmware Updates page. You can find it right below the firmware download links.

Question about pagefile - Help!

digby — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:38:00 GMT

Hi, I'm building a new PC which will be Win7 (64bit with 16GB RAM). After much research I decided to go for a 256Gb Crucial M225 as my OS boot drive. (arrived today). Now I did quite a bit of research on the use of a swapfile and I'm totally confused.

In the past when building nt/xp PC's and Win 2k servers I've always gone down the route of swapfile = 2x RAM on separate partition.

Now surfing the web about swapfile on Win7 I get 2 conficting views 1) if you've enough RAM you don't need one & 2) you MUST have one all the world will come to an end. Both these views have been expressed by so called "MS Experts"

Secondly regarding swapfile on a SSD again I've seen 2 conflicting views. 1) Keep the swapfile on the SSD & 2) Avoid putting the swapfile on an SSD because all the small writes will kill it, best to put the swap on a second IDE drive.

Thanks for any advice.

brand new flash drive- lost memory

azzurri4 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:05:31 GMT

I bought a 2 gig crucial flash drive so i can put movies on there and then play them on my xbox. i was able to put two movies on there and it worked no problem- but when i deleted one movie off of the flash drive, the movie was gone (which is good) but the memory never came back.

for example-

i put one movie on that was .5 gig of memory, and another on that was 1 gig.

i deleted the one gig off of the flash drive.

now i only have the .5 gig movie on the drive, and there is still only .5 gig of free space left.

please help me maybe i am deleting it wrong (just dragging file into the trash) but is there anyway i can just get the space back on my flash drive?

btw i am using a mac if that makes any difference

thank you all,

tony

Boot cd Error ssdchk.exe error

Darklands — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:00:18 GMT

Hi, i just got a 64gb m225 and decided to update the firmware my current is 1571, i made a bootable disk from the crucial dowload page for this drive, tried to use it and got the following error.

i got to the first screen press return to continue to boot from cd, next was a load of dos script to fast to read then

Please eject cd and reboot computer, ssdchk.exe read error.

can anybody help?