One of my computers lost it's attachment to seti at home for the 3rd time and dumped all the wu's . I'm currently running chkdsk during boot on it right now, ran up to 11% and has hung there for the last 45 minutes. I was going to post the event log, and I have it saved as a txt file, but I don't have access to it at the moment as it is stuck doing it's thing.

A guess as to what has happened, somehow a file got misplaced (or written to a bad sector) and caused boinc to dump everything.

The computer in question is anise.

I'm getting a new ssd for anise, I think the old HD is failing.

Any recommendations for something in the 128 GB range?

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One of my computers lost it's attachment to seti at home for the 3rd time and dumped all the wu's . I'm currently running chkdsk during boot on it right now, ran up to 11% and has hung there for the last 45 minutes. I was going to post the event log, and I have it saved as a txt file, but I don't have access to it at the moment as it is stuck doing it's thing.

A guess as to what has happened, somehow a file got misplaced (or written to a bad sector) and caused boinc to dump everything.

The computer in question is anise.

I'm getting a new ssd for anise, I think the old HD is failing.

Any recommendations for something in the 128 GB range?

Dunno if they come in 128GB, but I have a couple of Samsung 850 PRO series that have been excellent.
I have a 256GB and a 512GB.
Samsung has Data Migration software that flawlessly copied my old HD onto the new SSD. Plugged the SSD into a SATA port, rebooted as though nothing had changed and carried on. I did stop Boinc and all Boinc processes before the copy process, and there were no problems when I restarted it.

Kitty tested, kitty approved.

EDIT....
Yes, they do come in a 128GB size.
from Newegg.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

my main cruncher has a crucial ssd which has been running for almost 3 years now, without any issues. my laptop has samsung ssd which has been running since 2010.

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EDIT: Hmm, my tag isn't working :(
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I didn't want to start another "Apologies to wingies..." thread for it so was waiting for another one to appear to use... this machine has been dead since New Year's Eve. I should be picking up the replacement motherboard tonight and it should be up and running by tomorrow morning at the latest.

Caveat: ASUS has an (overly?) good reputation for motherboards, but on some of them they used bad capacitors. This is the second M5A78L-M LX I have had fail due to a blown 5KT38 270μF 16V (Chinese-made capacitors get a bad rap but these are made by Samwha in SK.)

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I didn't want to start another "Apologies to wingies..." thread for it so was waiting for another one to appear to use... this machine has been dead since New Year's Eve. I should be picking up the replacement motherboard tonight and it should be up and running by tomorrow morning at the latest.

Caveat: ASUS has an (overly?) good reputation for motherboards, but on some of them they used bad capacitors. This is the second M5A78L-M LX I have had fail due to a blown 5KT38 270μF 16V (Chinese-made capacitors get a bad rap but these are made by Samwha in SK.)

7 of my 8 crunchers are on ASUS mobos...........the 8th was gifted to me and is on an EVGA. Which has also been a good board. (Thank you,)

My first rig ever.........my core2duo, has been running almost 24/7 for many MANY years........on an ASUS P5K Deluxe.
My daily driver is also on a P5K Deluxe, although it is on it's second one. The first one started getting flaky after many years of abuse and I found a brand new one on ebay from overseas.

If I ever buy another mobo, it shall most assuredly be an ASUS.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I don't doubt they make many fine boards, but they definitely do have a few lemons in there as well.

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I don't doubt they make many fine boards, but they definitely do have a few lemons in there as well.

I am sure you are correct.
But I have never had a bad ASUS. And I abused the hell out of them in my overclocking days.
The Frozen Penny was done on an Asus platform if I recall correctly.........and you all know the things THAT board endured.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I ordered a Samsung evo 850 256 gb as it was on sale just a little cheaper than the 128 gb one.

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I ordered a Samsung evo 850 256 gb as it was on sale just a little cheaper than the 128 gb one.

Excellent choice.........I did not shop for the drives, only posted the link for the 128 because that is what you were asking about. Glad you found a better deal.

You shall be very happy with it, I assure ya.
The kitties test drove one for months before the upgrade due to space constraints.
I still have the 256, after many months of service.
I would never ever buy another Seagate HD, although 7 out of my 8 rigs are still running on them.
No diss on Seagate, but, as the song goes...........those were the days.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I ordered a Samsung evo 850 256 gb as it was on sale just a little cheaper than the 128 gb one.

Excellent choice.........I did not shop for the drives, only posted the link for the 128 because that is what you were asking about. Glad you found a better deal.

You shall be very happy with it, I assure ya.
The kitties test drove one for months before the upgrade due to space constraints.
I still have the 256, after many months of service.
I would never ever buy another Seagate HD, although 7 out of my 8 rigs are still running on them.
No diss on Seagate, but, as the song goes...........those were the days.

I've got a couple of other Samsung ssd, one is an evo 850 M.2 in martouf

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But I have never had a bad ASUS.

Mine went from bad to worse... received the RMA replacement, put everything together and then "the lights went on but no one was home": when it blew, it took out the AMD FX 8-core CPU. This is exactly what the MSI boards kept doing. And its warranty had expired.

So, about $300 (Canbucks) later as I bought a three-year in-store replacement warranty, I have a new CPU on the RMA board in case it dies the same way and fries another one. Funny... the fellow at the store mentioned just this, the some people just have more luck with certain brands of boards and swear by them whereas others have endless problems. I hope this was my only ASUS lemon.

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But I have never had a bad ASUS.

Mine went from bad to worse... received the RMA replacement, put everything together and then "the lights went on but no one was home": when it blew, it took out the AMD FX 8-core CPU. This is exactly what the MSI boards kept doing. And its warranty had expired.

So, about $300 (Canbucks) later as I bought a three-year in-store replacement warranty, I have a new CPU on the RMA board in case it dies the same way and fries another one. Funny... the fellow at the store mentioned just this, the some people just have more luck with certain brands of boards and swear by them whereas others have endless problems. I hope this was my only ASUS lemon.

I used to swear by ASUS boards and now I just swear at them. My lat Asus MB board was for a Core 2 Duo system ~2009. After replacing it with a Gigabyte MB & taking a hammer to the Asus MB I no longer had issues & felt better.
Over the years I've transitioned from Abit > Asus > Gigabyte. With the occasional Intel or Supermicro MB. I do have an ASRock MB I bought not to long ago and I have to say their quality has gone up quite a bit since Asus sold them off.

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I used to have a great feeling for ASUS boards. But when my Sabertooth Gen. 2 started flaking out and lost one of the PCIeX16 slots and I RMA'd it back to ASUS, I got the same board back in the same condition. It died just short of its 5 year warranty. They at first denied warranty on it by claiming their warranties are only 3 years now. I had to send them an image of the TUF 5 year warranty that was included in the box. They refused to repair it correctly or issue a replacement. My experience with ASUS product support is now sullied. The replacement board for that was a MSI board and it promptly died in the same fashion 2 months later. I got it back from MSI with an RMA but haven't tried to build another system with it. That replacement was a ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2.0 and has been great since. My original Rev. 1 ASUS 990FX Sabertooth is still going strong and has no issues. My ASUS Crosshair Formula Z board has been great though.

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Greetings

I am still running original ASUS P5Q PRO boards on my two main crunchers, but they are only doing GPU crunching (GTX 960 and GTX 770), and we know how old these boards are at the moment. Fingers crossed they will survive long enough to budget replacements.

The third PC is running an NVIDIA N680i SLI board, and with a GTX 580 onboard, that has been relegated to Home Theatre PC duties, until a cheaper to run GPU is slotted in for SETI duties. This board was acquired 2nd hand, but was still in its original box sealed up, previous owner had got the wrong board for his Case, and so was after a quick sale. That was over 3 years ago.

TBH, I want to replace the N680i, as it runs hot compared to the P5Q PRO boards.

This is my little story, am now down to two full time GPU crunchers, with room to add two more GPU's on those boards.

Regards.

One of my computers lost it's attachment to seti at home for the 3rd time and dumped all the wu's . I'm currently running chkdsk during boot on it right now, ran up to 11% and has hung there for the last 45 minutes. I was going to post the event log, and I have it saved as a txt file, but I don't have access to it at the moment as it is stuck doing it's thing.

A guess as to what has happened, somehow a file got misplaced (or written to a bad sector) and caused boinc to dump everything.

The computer in question is anise.

I'm getting a new ssd for anise, I think the old HD is failing.

Well, I installed the new SSD, and it worked about 24 hours. It rebooted while I was sleeping and dumped my attachment to Seti.

PS problems? I replaced the PS just in case. What was in there was a 430 watt Thermaltake, I replaced it with a Corsair CM750M.

The Corsair is about twice the weight of the other one.

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PS problems? I replaced the PS just in case. What was in there was a 430 watt Thermaltake, I replaced it with a Corsair CM750M.

Even 430W is plenty for that system, although with the larger PSU you could put in a more powerful video card with no problems.

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Grant
Darwin NT

I wouldn't say plenty, borderline at best.

115W x 2
75W x 2
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380W or 88% Load not including HDs and fans.

I was looking at the label on the Thermaltake TR2 430W and I see it has 2 12V rails. First one is 18 A, second is 17 A. I'll be buying only single 12 V rail PS from now on.

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I was looking at the label on the Thermaltake TR2 430W and I see it has 2 12V rails. First one is 18 A, second is 17 A. I'll be buying only single 12 V rail PS from now on.

I personally haven't had good experiences with Thermaltake... ironic that they make the "Dr. Power" PSU tester as their own PSUs are the ones I have most needed to use it on when they failed. :^p

I personally have had good experiences with Corsair, eVGA and Seasonic PSUs.... I'd recommend those brands.

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