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well it's definitely the SSD. after it wouldn't even boot this AM, i swapped in my old Raptor and she booted up just fine. Do you think reformatting the SSD is worth a shot or should I just go ahead and get the RMA going?
well it's definitely the SSD. after it wouldn't even boot this AM, i swapped in my old Raptor and she booted up just fine. Do you think reformatting the SSD is worth a shot or should I just go ahead and get the RMA going?
for those of you keeping score at home, it turned out to be the power supply. i popped in my old raptor drive and my system continued to crash. PSU tester always read the right voltages without anomaly. eventually, nothing was working whatsoever. i was about to send in my MoBo and CPU which were still under warranty, but i wanted to test the PSU first since I wasn't convinced. well, the cheapo 400W from Best Buy fired her right up and no crashes since. it baffles the mind. I considered this problem 9 months ago when the crashes were very infrequent but since the PSU tester said everything was fine I wrote it off. now 70 crashes later (apparently the SSD keeps track), i finally have it figured out. hopefully those didn't take a big toll on my CPU and harddrives.