FiddyP » windows http://fiddyp.co.uk The personal blog of Andy Bailey Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:02:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 They go in 3′s too http://fiddyp.co.uk/they-go-in-3s-too/ http://fiddyp.co.uk/they-go-in-3s-too/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:44:23 +0000 Andy http://fiddyp.co.uk/?p=1533

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!

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 :)

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

Monthly view upgrade shows better performance

Looks more dramatic on the 1 year chart

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)

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Grrrr! I got virused the other day using an infected keygen, serves me right eh?

dammit, I wasted 2 days trying to put my system back the way it was but the virus was too deep and it kept making my pc logoff as soon as I had logged on, in the end I managed to backup my outlook and (hopefully) my source code and reinstall windows from scratch.

Now on to the wonderous journey of installing all those apps again, maybe this time when I’m done I’ll actuallly get around to making a ghost image of the drive :-/

I’ll be back soon when the operation is over….

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