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  1. To be honest I think you are making it a bit more complicated than need be. You could just grab one of these (http://www.amazon.com/Lamptron-Controller-Provides-Channels-providing-300w-NEW/dp/B00K0VKEUK) a Lamptron CF525 with 50 watts per channel. Each channel would be more than enough to handle 3 of your fans at max watts and amps. Heck it would even handle 6 on each channel, if you wanted to do a push/pull down the road.
  2. In short, if you want to control the speed of the fan your safest bet would be to get a PWM fan. One work of advice though, many motherboards with 4-pin PWM headers do not offer true PWM control. They are instead voltage controlers with a forth pin. Why they forth pin is there I have no idea. Typically though, the CPU fan header is a true PWM controller.
  3. These little things are very cool. No pun intended.
  4. I agree with the above post. Install the motherboard VGA driver and run the display for a while via the intergrated GPU. If you don't get the error message with iGPU I would also run some 3D tests with the iGPU. MSI Afterburner is a good one.
  5. My recomendations for when a system gets "possessed;" Return GPU, CPU, motherboard, and memory to stock settings and speeds if overclocking, which you say you are not doing. Clear the CMOS Full antivirus scan Full antimalware scan If the above does not resolve the issue I suggest the following to test the basic functionality of core components. -Disconnect everything. PSU, GPU, Memory, the works. -Remove the disconnected components from the case. It might seem like a pain in the @$$ but it makes the following much easier. -Once the components are removed from the case give each of them a good physical inspection. Ensuring that nothing some how got damaged. Especially check power connection points for signs of short circuits. Ie melted wires or connection points. -Rebild a "skeleton" system. This will help to check for faulty hardware. -connect the following CPU, CPU cooler, one stick of memory, psu. -once the skeleton is built then power it up and get into the BIOS to make sure that everthing is registering correctly. -Continue until you have your full system put back together. Given the problem started with the display driver disconnecting I'm inclinded to think its a faulty GPU or psu. Try to run some very basic 3Dtests with the intergrated GPU.
  6. When I got my WD Black drive it was noticably louder that my WD Blue.
  7. As mentioned by FlakeyBanana have you updated the firmware for the drive? (http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/samsungssd/downloads.html)
  8. If you are having BSODs with clean installs of both Windows 7 and 8 it is not a software or OS issue. It's a hardware problem. The best way to troubleshoot these is to do a basic build and start adding pieces one at a time. Its a bit time consuming but can usually root out the problem hardware. Before we move onto that though lets check the logs. In eventviewer, under custom views right click and create a custom view. Select the event levels Critical, Warning and Error. Click the radio button "By Source" and in the drop down menu about half way down or so seleck disk and Disk. Click ok. On the second window name your custom view whatever you want and click ok. Over on the left under eventviewer select you new custom view. This will bring up all the errors related to your disks and which disks they are. This may clue you into the problem you are having. If it is your samsung SSD you don't have to stop using it. Set up an RMA with samsung and they will replace it for you. If the event viewer does not yield any results send me a PM and I'll do what I can to walk you through some more troubleshooting steps.
  9. So I understand you correctly your father had the drive plugged into to tv and recorded something and now you are trying to get those files off the drive and on to the pc? First thing is go to the manufactures web site and find the manual and read up on what the USB port is for. Some can be used with any USB drive, some can only be used with specific devices. What type and size is the drive? 3.5 in or 2.5 in? And what type of connection are you using? USB only? or USB and Power? The reason I ask is that USB ports are limited to 10w of power and most drives require more than that to properly operate. Was the dirve formatted properly before plugging it into the tv and recording? If it was and now it not formatted then there is a chance that the TV could have formatted the drive to some proprietary file system used only by that tv and any specific recording devices the company wants used, although I find this highly unlikely as tv do not generally have the processing capabilities to format drives. I would try to format the drive with a FAT32 file structure and then try to record that. Most drives are by default formatted with an NTFS file structure which is proprietary to Microsoft and many third party platforms do not wish to pay to use there file structure and will instead use FAT32 which is an open platform.
  10. If things are hanging and not transfering the first thing you should be checking is your memory. Go to http://www.memtest.org/#downiso and download the second option Download - Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.zip) burn the iso to a cd, dvd etc. Open up the bottom of the laptop and remove on of the memory sticks so you can test each stick individually. If for some reason it only has one stick then obviously leave it there. Boot from the disc you burned and follow the instruction when you boot to the disc (they are very simple) and let it run for multiple passes. If you receive any errors what so ever then you have a bad memory stick and you'll have to contact Dell for a replacement. Feel free to send me a PM if you have any other questions and I'll be happy to help any way I can.
  11. I agree with you about the PSU. When a person begins to have random restarts the first place I have them investigate is the PSU. If you want to double check your PSU before jumping the gun and buying a new one I would try the following; Test the PSU in a known stable system if availible. If you do not have access to another system then you can try checking the voltage with a voltage meter. This is the most reliable way to check the 12v, 5v and 3.3 v rails from the PSU. In regards to the voltages do not rely on software to give you accurate readings. I've tried numerous different types of software for voltage reading and have not found one to be 100% accurate. The best way is with a volt meter and the next best way is by checking your BIOS readings. Another thing I always tell people who are looking into a new PSU is to really evaluate the name you are buying. Not only is it important to buy a good name for quality parts but also for how they handle customer service issues in regards to RMAs. All hardware will fail given enough time and stress.
  12. When you say you got your "second" card does that mean you RMA'd the first? or are using two cards? Have you installed the drivers for the card yet? I'm sure you probably have but I just need to ask. Some people don't. But in case you have not, you should be able to leave the BIOS on iGPU plug in the card and boot the os to install the driver then disable the iGPU and switch ove to the card. Either way since you've taken care of the most common problem of not disabling the iGPU in the BIOS I would start with trying a second monitor or tv with an HDMI connection to check if your HDMI port on the monitor is working. If still no connection to a second monitor/tv then move on to the cable, i.e try a second HDMI or a DVI cable. If still nothing, and everything is properly connected, powered, and drviers are installed then you may have a motherboard issue. Give us a full list of your specks and we can see if we can try other things.
  13. As mentioned above if you do start to enconter problems I've found the easiest way is to re- download steam, exit the currently running version, and when you start the install process just point it towards the directory where steam (old version) is currently installed. It should recognize that there is a steam intallation already there and update any need files.
  14. Along with Blue Screen View another very helpful program is Who Crashed. It will analyze the DMP files to help you get an idea of whats going on.
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