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  1. Hello guys,

     

    I'm planning on playing skyrim again, but I want to play it with graphics mods :smile:.

    My question is: Is there a difference between Skyrim modded and Skyrim special edition modded.

    Is it better to mod the special edition, will it look better? Or does it make no difference after modding?

     

    Thanks in advance!

    I'm in a similar boat, I'm currently reinstalling Skyrim with a new mod list.

     

    However, I am not at the moment using Special Edition simply because of mod support. To expect the same level of mod support for SE as what we have for Skyrim is unrealistic at best; it took the modding community five years to get Skyrim's modding scenario into its current state.

     

    Simply put, I will not be touching SE for at least a year, unless I'm wanting a vanilla playthrough.

  2. Hello,

     

    I have always had troubles with playing a modded Skyrim. However I've had a taste of the good life and can never return to non modded! I suffer from constant CTD and unlimited load screens. I have applied memory fixes, cleaned my main files using TES5Edit and tried maintaining a relatively unheavy mod load. Some one please help me! I need a knowledgeable and kind soul to deliver me from CTD evil.

     

    In particular it crashes in cities or populated settlements. I cant even get near Solitude without a CTD. Game mostly plays fine in dungeons and in the Wilds.

     

    My mod list is as follows:

    0 0 Skyrim.esm

    1 1 Update.esm

    2 2 Dawnguard.esm

    3 3 HearthFires.esm

    4 4 Dragonborn.esm

    5 5 Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch.esp

    6 6 Falskaar.esm

    7 7 OSA.esm

    8 8 hdtHighHeel.esm

    9 9 SomeguySeries.esm

    10 a ApachiiHairFemales.esm

    11 b ApachiiHair.esm

    12 c AOM.esm

    13 d Lanterns Of Skyrim - All In One - Main.esm

    14 e SkyTEST-RealisticAnimals&Predators.esm

    15 f Inn Girls Resources.esm

    16 10 ClimatesOfTamriel.esm

    17 11 CompanionArissa.esm

    18 12 Auto Unequip Ammo.esp

    19 13 SkyUI.esp

    20 14 RaceMenu.esp

    21 15 RaceMenuPlugin.esp

    22 16 FNIS.esp

    23 17 EnhancedLightsandFX.esp

    24 18 ELFX - Exteriors.esp

    25 19 CollegeOfWinterholdImmersive.esp

    26 1a SkyRe_Main.esp

    27 1b ELFXEnhancer.esp

    28 1c Skyrim Immersive Creatures.esp

    29 1d Helgen Reborn.esp

    30 1e RealisticWaterTwo.esp

    31 1f Undeath.esp

    32 20 Breezehome_Fully_Upgradable.esp

    33 21 Immersive Wenches.esp

    34 22 SoS - The Wilds.esp

    35 23 dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp

    36 24 Improved Combat Sounds v2.2.esp

    37 25 The Dance of Death - Ultimate Edition.esp

    38 26 Lost Art of the Blacksmith.esp

    39 27 Schwertleite Set.esp

    40 28 DeadlySpellImpacts.esp

    41 29 Lieyes_v1.0.esp

    42 2a KS Hairdo's.esp

    43 2b Beards.esp

    44 2c dD - Realistic Ragdoll Force - Realistic.esp

    45 2d BarenziahQuestMarkers.esp

    46 2e When Vampires Attack.esp

    47 2f RealisticWaterTwo - Waves - Falskaar.esp

    48 30 RealisticWaterTwo - Falskaar.esp

    49 31 CalienteVanillaArmorTweaks.esp

    50 32 Hothtrooper44_Armor_Ecksstra.esp

    51 33 BetterDarkBrotherhood.esp

    52 34 OBIS.esp

    53 35 SoS - Civilization.esp

    54 36 Skyrim Immersive Creatures - DLC2.esp

    55 37 SoS - The Dungeons.esp

    56 38 marriagemod - alpha v3.esp

    57 39 dD-DG-DB-Immersive Creatures EBT Patch.esp

    58 3a Hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp

    59 3b Guard Dialogue Overhaul.esp

    60 3c zMirai.esp

    61 3d Ambriel.esp

    62 3e RealisticWaterTwo - Legendary.esp

    63 3f Better Vampire NPCs.esp

    64 40 Inigo.esp

    65 41 Run For Your Lives.esp

    66 42 Immersive Weapons.esp

    67 43 AOM.esp

    68 44 Cloaks.esp

    69 45 ELFX - NoBreezehome.esp

    70 46 UFO - Ultimate Follower Overhaul.esp

    71 47 SMIM-Merged-All.esp

    72 48 SofiaFollower.esp

    73 49 Immersive Patrols II.esp

    74 4a BosmerArmorMATY743.esp

    75 4b AMB Glass Variants Lore.esp

    76 4c Armored Circlets.esp

    77 4d Differently Ebony.esp

    78 4e aMidianborn_Skyforge_Weapons.esp

    79 4f Bijin NPCs.esp

    80 50 Bijin Wives.esp

    81 51 WetandCold.esp

    82 52 WetandCold - Ashes.esp

    83 53 DeadlyDragons.esp

    84 54 SkyRe_SIC Crossbowfix.esp

    85 55 Marriable Serana.esp

    86 56 HothFollower.esp

    87 57 Marriable Serana HF.esp

    88 58 SFO - Dragonborn.esp

    89 59 Bijin Warmaidens.esp

    90 5a UFO - Dawnguard AddOn.esp

    91 5b Brothers.esp

    92 5c BloodOfTheNord.esp

    93 5d Orcrist.esp

    94 5e AncientTonguesSword.esp

    95 5f AncientTonguesGreatSword.esp

    96 60 Unique Uniques.esp

    97 61 UFO - Heartfire AddOn.esp

    98 62 Minerva.esp

    99 63 HothFollower UFO Patch.esp

    100 64 Viconia.esp

    101 65 kimono's witcher silver swords.esp

    102 66 SexLab-AmorousAdventures.esp

    103 67 Skyrim Flora Overhaul.esp

    104 68 SkyRe_StandingStones.esp

    105 69 SkyRe_Races.esp

    106 6a ForgottenCity.esp

    107 6b SkyRe_EnemyAI.esp

    108 6c DovahBlingJewelryReplacer.esp

    109 6d NN_ArwenWBDresses.esp

    110 6e MageBackpack_byTumbajamba.esp

    111 6f R18pn - lingerie Set.esp

    112 70 skyforge_map_marker.esp

    113 71 SabreFurBag.esp

    114 72 Black Viper's Will.esp

    115 73 AesirArmor.esp

    116 74 RabbitHole.esp

    117 75 TemptressVixen.esp

    118 76 The Paarthurnax Dilemma.esp

    119 77 Better Vampire Weapons.esp

    120 78 Sweet&Sexy Lingerie.esp

    121 79 Doomhammer - Johnskyrim.esp

    122 7a vMYC_MeetYourCharacters.esp

    123 7b IceBladeOfTheMonarch.esp

    124 7c Apocalypse - The Spell Package.esp

    125 7d TheEyesOfBeauty.esp

    126 7e DanarielStormbow.esp

    127 7f Insanity's Sorrow.esp

    128 80 Cassandra Frost Witch.esp

    129 81 Celes Nightingale Armor.esp

    130 82 GDZZJJDH.esp

    131 83 Gwelda Armor Pack.esp

    132 84 Sovngarde Steel Armor and Weapons.esp

    133 85 Merta Black Rose Armor.esp

    134 86 nordicrangerarmor.esp

    135 87 ScarletDawnArmor.esp

    136 88 TERAArmors_CBBE.esp

    137 89 TW3_femaleArmors_zzjay.esp

    138 8a KKSDGWeightSliderFix.esp

    139 8b KKSDrBWeightFix.esp

    140 8c DHuntress.esp

    141 8d KKFur.esp

    142 8e FullBootForKKSA.esp

    143 8f FlameAtronachArmor.esp

    144 90 ClimatesOfTamriel-Interiors-Warm.esp

    145 91 ClimatesOfTamriel-Nights-Level-1.esp

    146 92 ClimatesOfTamriel-Dawnguard-Patch.esp

    147 93 ClimatesOfTamriel-Dragonborn-Patch.esp

    148 94 Alternate Start - Live Another Life.esp

    149 95 ReProccer.esp

     

     

    Did you follow this guide: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50244/?

     

    Also, install ENB (even if you're not using an ENB preset) and enable the ENB's memory patch as detailed here: http://enbdev.com/ctdfix.html

    The stability guide that I've linked also details some additional things in ENB to configure as well. Follow both guides and you should be set.

     

    Also, grab this to fix the bouncy cart at the opening scene: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/65538/

  3.  

     

    What I did with my fiance's computer was I paired the SSD with a 1 TB magnetic drive. All the data goes onto the 1 TB drive and the OS and the applications, such as your games, go onto your SSD. This frees the SSD of some data load. A 500 GB SSD will be more future proof than anything else, but it's still very pricey. Me personally, I would use a 256 GB SSD with a 1 TB magnetic drive.

     

    Thanks, man. Never heard of the magnetic drive, but I'll look into it. Does it replace the HDD? I recently ordered a 1 TB Hitachi 3.5 HDD which was recommended to go with the build.

     

     

    Magnetic drive is the same thing as a HDD, just different terminology.

  4. What I did with my fiance's computer was I paired the SSD with a 1 TB magnetic drive. All the data goes onto the 1 TB drive and the OS and the applications, such as your games, go onto your SSD. This frees the SSD of some data load. A 500 GB SSD will be more future proof than anything else, but it's still very pricey. Me personally, I would use a 256 GB SSD with a 1 TB magnetic drive.

  5. My biggest suggestion for you is that before you start heavily recruiting people, sit down and put together a "Game Design Document." A quick search on Google should come up with some templates for this. Then set your strategic goals, and then your day-to-day goals for the project. Then set a schedule for the project (gannt charts help immensenly with this). Then recruit.

  6. He's right, you need a laptop in the $1500 - $2000 range. But, for development, you don't need a gaming laptop. You need a type of laptop called a mobile workstation, which are typically used for 3d development and autocad. Lenovo has a "Thinkpad W530" that has a i7 processor, 8 GB of RAM, and a Quadro graphics card with 2 GB of VRAM that starts at about $1200. Link here: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/w-series/w530/.

  7. I actually built a system for a friend of mine a couple of months ago for about $1000. Currently, she is playing Skyrim on "Ultra-High" settings. It had an 3rd gen i5 processor, 16 GB of RAM, a GeForce GTX 660, a 128 GB solid state drive with Windows 8 loaded on it, and a 1 TB drive for all of her crap. Oh, her boot times is in the range of thirty seconds.

     

    Now, that is with a custom built. You're not getting that good of a system pre-assembled from manufacturers such as Dell, HP, or Lenovo, who are known to overprice their systems. My recommendation is to build your own system, as your dollar will go the furthest with a custom built system.

  8. I have a request, and I would be very grateful for this. I'm looking for any kind of city overhaul mods, both that are either currently released, or are still in pre-release development. This is not neccesarily for my own enjoyment, but it's for research into a possible project.

     

    Thank you.

  9. Erik005 is right, you can save some money by switching to a different power supply. You might want to look at a 620 watt or maybe a 750 watt to save anywhere between $30 tp $70 depending on what you pick.Take a look at Corsair's lineup.

     

    Honestly, I'm an ATI guy right now. However, the Geforce lineup is currently benchmarking higher than the Radeons, so your money is better invested with nVidia. Now, with that being said, take a look at the Radeon HD 7950. It's fifty dollars cheaper on Newegg than the 7870 and it has 3 GB of video memory (versus 2 GB on the 7870 and the 670). Plus, it inches past the 7870 on the Passmark benchmark. It can't quite compete with the 670 in regards to raw power and speed, but its got more video memory.

  10.  

    When Windows Vista was Microsoft's newest thing on the block, I was really big into Linux and was pushing everyone I knew to go to Ubuntu Linux. And Ubuntu, for the most part, is a pretty good operating system. Especially if your main line of work is programming. However, in this day and age, I personally think that Linux has no business being on a gaming rig. Linux cannot run games (outside of Bastion), and installing it, even as a secondary OS, just simply adds complexity that I think is unneccesary. I prefer a gaming rig to have one OS (Windows 7) loaded on a fast drive (either a 10k rpm drive or a SSD). It's simple and it works.

    Personally, I recommend Linux as a second OS just in case, the ext4 filesystem can't be read by Windows (even with required software, ext4 is read-only) so it can't be screwed up unless you wreck it's partition with crappy partitioning tools. Even better with reiserfs or reiser4, they can't be read by Windows at all.

     

    Also good for backing up/restoring your files if Windows fails to boot of if NTFS goes to hell (happens to any OS), my data is worth to me more than 10GB free space and 3 seconds faster boot. Linux/Windows dual-boot won't slow down your system other than the 3 second GRUB2 countdown during boot time, won't affect gaming performance at all. I don't recommend Ubuntu though, ever since Unity got out it turned into a huge pile of unstable horse dung. Mint 13 is decent, based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and easy to use for a Windows user. No fancy Compiz effects on Cinnamon but it's a decent, stable DE.

     

    Also, you're wrong, Linux can run native games as good as Windows. Some even better, read up on Valve's results while porting L4D2 to Linux. The lack of games for Linux is a different thing entirely, though that might change if Valve indeed releases a Linux-based Steam Box (good for me).

     

    Home Premium limits you to 16GB of RAM, which is sufficient.

    Wait, Windows has a RAM limit on a 64-bit OS? What's the point of that? :blink:

     

     

    I'm sorry, but I disagree on having Linux as a secondary OS. Maybe for someone who knows what they're doing, then yes, I can see the benefit. But for a gamer who doesn't know the difference between Linux and Windows, let alone how to use Linux, it's a waste of time and effort imo. Just load Windows and be done with it. Linux or no Linux, my phone's gonna ring.

     

    Although I will admit that my favorite distro at the moment is Fedora 18.

     

    And yes, Windows has a RAM limit. Windows 7 Home Premium limits you to 16 GB. And either Home Starter or Home Basic (forget which one) limits you to 4/8 GB. Professional does too, but that limit is in the neighborhood of about 192 GB. Basically if you need more than 192 GB of RAM then Microsoft is going to be asking you why you are not using a Server edition of Windows ($600+ depending on edition). There are also other limits that people are not aware of, such as that no more than 10 computers can connect to a shared folder on Windows 7/8 at a time. Again, Microsoft wants you to use a Server edition for that purpose. The long and the short of this is that it's a big marketing scheme that's enforced by the OS.

     

    And please do not jump to conclusions that I'm wrong on something. The gist behind my comment "Linux cannot run games (outside of Bastion)," basically meant that there is a very poor library of games available for Linux, except worded in such a way that someone who does not know much about Linux will come to the conclusion that they're most likely are not running their Windows games on it.

     

  11. I personally think that Nintendo's current marketing strategy with the Wii U is the byproduct of a... I won't finish that sentence.

     

    My point being is that I think the Wii U's strategy to attract back proper games is simply a knee jerk reaction to the fact that Nintendo knows there's a shotgun pointed at their head.

     

    What I wish they had done was a full feature console similiar to the PS4 instead of an update of the Wii, with the marketing focus on hard core gaming. Bring in a digital game store (like Steam) with good support for indies, and also bring your NES, SNES, N64, and Gamecube games available for download. One thing they could had done to make it more attractive for developers was to add native support for majors game engines such as Unreal Engine.

  12. First things first, reinstall your audio drivers.

     

    Then try listening to music with headphones plugged into the computer's headphone jack. If the problem persists over headphones, and after reinstalling drivers, then you're looking at a soundcard problem, just as others have suggested. If, however, it sounds perfectly fine over headphones, then there is nothing wrong with your soundcard.

     

    The next thing to check is your speakers themselves. A loose speaker plug will do it everytime. Also check the speaker cables for places where the cable may have been pinched or damaged. If you're using an optical SPIDF cable, check for tight bends in the cable (optical cables are not suppose to be tightly bent, as this breaks the glass inside). In fact, try it with a replacement SPIDF cable to see what it does. And if all else fails, just get new speakers.

  13. A lot of people have already mentioned that Windows 7 would be the better platform for a gaming machine, and I would be inclined to agree. I personally use Windows 7 on my own desktop rig that is used for light to medium gaming.

     

    Me personally, Windows 8 is not horrible. Sure, Microsoft made some mistakes in the UI design, but that is something that I've learned to work around. The Windows 8.1 update is suppose to address some of the UI concerns. I use it on my Lenovo ultrabook, and it does everything I want it too. Of course, I'm not gaming on my ultrabook either.

     

    When Windows Vista was Microsoft's newest thing on the block, I was really big into Linux and was pushing everyone I knew to go to Ubuntu Linux. And Ubuntu, for the most part, is a pretty good operating system. Especially if your main line of work is programming. However, in this day and age, I personally think that Linux has no business being on a gaming rig. Linux cannot run games (outside of Bastion), and installing it, even as a secondary OS, just simply adds complexity that I think is unneccesary. I prefer a gaming rig to have one OS (Windows 7) loaded on a fast drive (either a 10k rpm drive or a SSD). It's simple and it works.

  14. first we saw bandwidth never matter (P4 Extreme)now the number of cores nor cache, I say its only matters the Architecture :rolleyes:

     

     

    That is exactly correct. When I took my digital logic design course here at the engineering school we were required to design and build a an actual, working microprocessor using TTL components. Now, these were little squirt guns; they were the size of a dinner plate and they ran anywhere between 2 Hz to 12 Hz and they had a 4 bit front sided bus with about 8 bytes of memory. The running joke in the class was they might be able to run Windows. The fastest clock in the class was the 12 Hz unit. The fastest and smoothest running processor in the class however, was a 8 Hz unit where the student was smart enough to use fast switching NAND gates from Texas Instruments that could switch on/off twice as fast as anything else that we had in the lab.

     

    Point being is that we found at that CPU speed is not about clock nor the number of cores, but the true determining factors in performance was architecture and the speed of the gates used. In fact we had an engineering teacher state "How fast can you get a computer to go? Well how fast can you get a NAND gate to flip?"

     

    Right now Intel has the better digital gates and the better architecture, so guess which chip is benching higher?

  15. i know of Newegg.com and tirgerdirect.com

     

    but im trying to fan a couple of Scythe Gentle Typhoon 120mm fans and newegg is out of stock and tirgerdirect doesnt come up with anything period so ya.

     

    thanks

     

     

    There is also CDW. They are catered more towards the business side of computing, but they should take an order from a private individual without a problem.

     

    Frozencpu.com is also another reliable site that caters towards modders and overclockers. They should have the fan you're looking for. This is the site that I personally prefer to buy liquid cooling parts from.

  16. i recently purchased an ati hd 6850 graphics card and i saw written on its box about power supply requirements it demands 500W and 40 A.

     

    the thing is that my PSU (corsair 500cx) supplies 500W and only 34 A.

    as i am using it for a week no i see no major problems .

     

    all i want to ask is that is as i see it i guess i am not getting the 100% of the cards features?

     

    You're stressing your Corsair power supply way too much. If a power supply is a 500 W at 34 amp on the twelve volt rail, then it means that the unit has been rated to continuously and reliably run with a 500W @ 34 A load for as long as the warranty lasts. It can support a higher load than that, but the components inside the power supply will be running hotter and with more electricity than what they are designed to handle; when you go past the max load, you risk the components burning out. A diode rated for 34 amps will destroy itself when presented with a higher amperage. Resisters will literally burn up (you'll smell a staunch burning smell in this case) when presented with a higher amperage.

     

    Basically what I am trying to say is: yes it may be running fine for now. But your power supply will not be able to support that load for a long period of time. You will need to plan for an upgraded power supply. I personally recommend a higher rated Corsair or a PC Power & Cooling unit.

  17. This is more of a open cities style idea, except for things like taverns, shops, and houses, and even castles. I find that open cities made a great addition to the game, however, I feel it was sort of incomplete. I always wanted to be able to walk into the taverns and such without a loading screen. Another point I'd like to make about taverns while on the subject, is the amount of space in them, it just doesn't really seem like a tavern if it's small, just a side request, but I'd like to see bigger taverns.

     

    So my request is for a non-OC or a OC version of a more open world version of taverns, houses and shops. And if possible, a bit more space in the taverns.

     

    An OC version of interiors is simply too difficult to do because simply because of how Oblivion handles the weather. Rain and snow is simply a photoshoped image that is superimposed with your current view, which is why it rains underneath an arch in the IC. It is one of the limitations that modders have to work with, and is one of many reasons why Oblivion does the interiors the way it does.

     

    Now what is possible is the bigger taverns. Now I hope that when you ask for all the taverns to be bigger inside, that it is quite a bit of work to go through and increase the size of these taverns, as it requires some major interior rework. Tedious, but very possible.

  18. I think you can reset it simply by unplugging the computer while it is off and removing the button cell battery from the mobo for 30 seconds. If that doesn't do it, or if it is indeed the wrong method then go into the bios and reset all things to default. If no option is exists because everything is default then it sounds like you fried your CPU. This is why I don't overclock. Too much risk, too many things to worry about, too many things can go very wrong very easily. Not to sound rude but let this be a lesson. You should never Overclock unless you absolutely know what you are doing and you know what every thing you change will do and how the computer will degrade over time. Because that is what you are doing. If a Stock CPU at 3.2ghz will last for say 10 years, the OC CPU at 4.5ghz at the correct settings will last two years. It burns the chip to hell and back, and generally is not good. I would rather spend more for a factory stable clock that is powerful then overclock something to get more power; which lets be honest, unless you are doing huge amounts of graphic design, is 4.5ghz necessary? Or even 3.9? Did you even notice a change in performance in your games? Most games only take advantage of two cores anyway..

     

    Removing the CMOS battery is exactly how you reset the CMOS. Some motherboards, such as HP business class workstations and some older Dell XPS systems, have a yellow button on the motherboard that does the exact same thing.

  19. As you have probably found out already, the amount of memory on a graphics card is not the silver bullet in regards to performance. But before you do anything, I would go out and reinstall your nvidia drivers. The geforce 6200 was not a terrible card like everyone makes it out to be; it's an entry level card that is designed solely for pushing out a display to two monitors and not particularly gaming. Somehow that makes a video card suck, haven't been able to figure out exactly how yet.

     

    You are not bound to a specific brand of card as far as ATi and nVidia are concerned. Now ATi did support the AGP slot a lot longer than nVidia did, so they would have a much better selection for that slot. I believe there some Radeon HD2000 series cards that were made for AGP, but don't quote on that. I would look on ebay and see what's being tossed around.

     

    A lower rated power supply won't cause lag per say, but it can damage the graphics. Probably why your 6200 died.

  20. Hey guys, the error code is above (The one thats is forcing the bluescreen to happen). Now my major issue is, I cannot reformat my computer. I do not have a disc set of Windows XP Media Center edition thanks to Best Buys lovely marketing scheme.

     

    The video card I am running is a nVidia 9800 GT that was produced by..Asus I think? It was given to me by a friend after he switched to a ATI Radieon 4450.

     

    Any help will be appreciated!

     

    Do what lv000 says and delete, scrub, and reinstall your video drivers. Also reseat your graphics card and your RAM (always reseat your RAM when you have hardware problems, everything passes through RAM at some point in time) and verify that the fan on the graphics card is running and is free of any kind of obstructions, such as loose wires and dust. I would get some canned air and blow that graphics card out, and I would also make sure it's getting plenty of cool air.

     

    If none of that works or helps, then you're down to one of two options, reinstall Windows and/or replace the graphics card.

  21. Reset your CMOS and turn your overclock off. If it still does not detect the fourth core then your CPU and/or motherboard is permanently damaged. Looking that chip up, I've found that it's a 140 watt cpu, which is pretty dang hot (also the reason why I don't like AMD cpus right now, they run too blasted hot for not enough performance). If your cooling was not top notch, then it is very likely that the fourth core on the chip burnt itself out.
  22. I have some additional info thanks to the bluescreen viewer - (THANKS!)

     

    ntoskrnl.exe ntoskrnl.exe+1918a0 fffff800`02046000 fffff800`0255e000 0x00518000 0x4cb7275f 14/10/2010 11:53:03 AM ----------->This came up as a highlighted event

     

    RTL8192u.sys RTL8192u.sys+4ec42 fffffa60`04af4000 fffffa60`04b7f000 0x0008b000 0x49af508e 05/03/2009 12:09:50 AM ------------>So did this

     

    Maybe this will help with getting this sorted?

     

    Thanks in advance for any help...

     

     

    ntoskrnl.exe is, well, Windows; it's the executable file for the NT kernel. No surprise that's it's showing up. I'm still saying that RAM could be an issue. Anytime you see an memory address starting with "FFFF" memory is a suspect.

  23. Whatever you do, do not defragment your SSD, as it will do you no good (SSDs don't suffer from fragmentation) and defragmentation actually takes away from the life of the drive (because of the large amount of accesses).

     

    The symptoms you've described sounds like the 750GB is having issues. Yes, I've seen brand new hard drives be bad out of the box. I've also seen hard drives fail the day after getting a new computer. This is the nature of the beast; sometimes hard drive manufacturers do not carefully watch the environment the hard drive is being made in. This is important because if the humidity in their factory floor is slightly off, it can cause reliability problems with the drive (such as the drive suddenly dying). This is also one of the reasons why hard drives can only be opened inside a clean room.

     

    A mechanical hard drive, such as your 750 GB, can also fail from what's called a head crash. This is very common in laptops. A head crash is where the read/write head of the hard drive has physically contacted the platter, and a whirling noise and slow access times are symptoms of this. Head crashes are caused when the laptop is dropped, carried in a bag or backpack while in sleep mode (drives don't always park their read/write heads when in sleep mode), or from any kind of sudden shock to the system.

     

    Hope this helps.

  24. Ok, there is a few select possibilities as to what can be causing this. But first take a look at this: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/stop0x00000007.htm

     

    Stop code 0x0000007e is an error that is thrown when the CPU receives a bad interrupt. An interrupt is basically a piece of assembler code that causes the CPU to stop what it's doing and handle an I/O operation, such as a keyboard stroke for example. Normally, the address the BSOD occurred at (FFFFFA6004AD7661) is usually indicative of a bad RAM stick, and it could very well be possible that that is the case here. When the interrupt is passed to the CPU, the address that is stored in the CPU's program counter has to be temporarily stored in RAM.

     

    So one of a few things is going on:

     

    1) a piece of software, such as RTL8192u.sys, has passed the wrong address. Reinstalling the driver or reinstalling Windows will clear this up if this is the case. A virus can also cause this.

     

    2) You have a memory stick installed that has gone bad. Because the interrupt has to pass through memory first, it can become corrupted during the interrupt call if the memory stick is defective. Trying a different set of RAM in your system will tell you if this is the case or not by whether or not the system still blue screens with the different RAM.

     

    3) You have a defective wireless card. You'll know that this is the case if you've ruled the above two possibilities out.

     

    Hope this helps.

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