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I was using World in Conflict when I heard a slight click from the computer and the computer blank screened. I reset the system and it booted up normally, but I'm not sure if it's a hd problem or something else? I had ran a diagnostic on the hd after it suffered a partition crash several months earlier, the program hadn't detected anything, so what could be the cause of the issue? The hd is an ATA133 Maxtor 250GB drive with 16mb cache.
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Sounds like it's most likely memory related. Maybe you were using up too much ram so it froze?
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General Zod wrote:Sounds like it's most likely memory related. Maybe you were using up too much ram so it froze?
Good point about the Ram, I turned down the settings of WiC, things seem to be working now. I'll keep check to make sure that it stays ok. Thanks.
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The clicking is worrying, I'd back up everything ASAP, starting with the most important stuff.

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Pu-239 wrote:The clicking is worrying, I'd back up everything ASAP, starting with the most important stuff.
Yeah, I didn't realize how serious the problem was until I did a hd diagnosis. It now appears that the master drive is failing, so I'm getting a new drive to transfer stuff over.
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