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Old 29th June 2004 | 12:36
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Cool_Hand
 
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As far as I'm aware the harddrive is a standard IDE device. I only started getting the blue screen of death after the botched windows install.

I'm tempted to go for the deepest level of format I can find, I would rather be positive that the drive is completely fresh. As I'll always be wondering after the install whether any crash is due to not cleaning the drive thoroughly.

Would a memory check establish any problems with the memory or would I have to do the swapping around?

Thanks guys, I'll let you know how things go.


J.

I've just been looking at some hard drives, out of curiousity does a larger cache make a significant diference, most have a 2Mb cache but I've seen some with 8Mb. Does it really increase performance that much?

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