You know how the expression says that problems come in 3’s ? I get 3 lots of 3’s most of time but this week I think I have managed to get rid of 3 problems.
I was posting about my woes at Comluv and just a few days later I finally managed to track down the random freezes on my AsRock M3A790GXH – 128M motherboard and OCZ DDR3 Gold Series RAM
Random crashes on Vista/7 – AsRock M3A790GXH/128M with OCZ DDR3 Gold RAM – Solved
Shiny, SHINY! RAM!
The crashes were driving me crazy, I could never repeat the action that caused the crash and there was never any entry in the event log except for after the reboot. I tried removing one stick and running it with that one to see if it was a faulty stick, it crashed on the first try so I thought that was it but after swapping it with the other stick, the pc crashed within a day.
It turns out that OCZ DDR3 RAM needs 1.9v instead of the regular 1.5v that it would get from the motherboard. A quick visit to the bios and I switched the DRAM voltage to 2.0v and the pc has been up and running for days without a problem. yey!
Dedicated server non responsive after high traffic – solved
They put the fast in, um, ukfast 
Another problem was my server, it is fast and a nice bit of kit but it was getting overloaded at times with so many requests to the CommentLuv API. I had a word with UKFast explaining to them that I expected my server to be able to stay up if a lot of traffic came in. They did their utmost to help and sent me a very nicely priced invoice to beef up my server with an extra 1 GB of RAM.
It’s been up for 7 days and the CTM graphs are showing me that my CPU usage and system load are down a lot from what they’ve been.
Monthly view upgrade shows better performance
Looks more dramatic on the 1 year chart
My last issue was my laptop charger, it went poof! I did a search online for a universal charger and the best price I could see was over 60 quid! luckily, I was able to buy a Toshiba charger from ebay for 9.99 for next day delivery.
sorted! (for now)
