So far, so good. The computer has been up and running for 2 days now, and CoreTemp is recording a low/high of 19*/58*. The high is a little higher than normal, but my room has been pretty warm over the last two days, and I'm too cheap to buy an Air Conditioner for the last two weeks of summer, so I'll deal with that (since it's still well below TJMAX).
If I don't crash tonight, I think I'll reintroduce the 6700 card and test that.
I've also updated Windows fully, and installed my Steam games. As of right now, the only other weird thing that I have happening is that my external HDD keeps going into "Write Protected" mode.
Try taking ownership of the drive...
right click on the HDD
go to properties > security
Click Advanced
Click Owner
Click Edit
Select your username and dont forget to check the "Replace owner on subcontainers and Objects"
Click OK ( you will 2 warnings ... but click ok to go ahead )
This process would take sometime depending on the number of files on the drive...
I've already done that (was in the process of doing it as I types).
Still no crashes, decent temperature. Gonna adjust my RMA for a single RAM instead of the whole machine.
Looks like you are good to go Drakon
If it had to BSOD....it would have done that long ago...
i can see a big sigh of relief plus a big ear to ear smile on you right now...
In any case.... RAM's dont cost much.... buy a new one if you can... waiting for RMA to work is going to take a long time...
I'm in no absolute rush with the RAM to be frank. I've still got four gigs so I can afford to wait a bit. And maybe I can get them to give me a voucher from Best Buy or something and I can just exchange there.
And yes- very relieved. It would have bothered the bejesus out of me had I sent it in, since I would never figure out the issue. Ironically, I was going to just build it myself, but I didn't want to wait.
I was gone all weekend, and everything seems to be running well. I think it's safe to say this can be marked as solved.
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