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Im still thinking its a failing hard drive, Ive had this caviar HD for about 6 years It was the one I used to re-install win 7, Bc I wanted to avoid win 8 trying to boot in case my re-format didn't work. I do not remember placing a single win 8 file on this drive which is the perplexing thing why it came up in the first place. I couldn't even use my recovery file from the usb I had plugged in I made a recovery file as soon as I got win 7 to install. There MUST be some sort of shadow copy or something I missed on that hard drive. Started troubleshoot 1 stick ram, optical unit, same HD. gave me a 64 code. turned off tried different port first. back to 99 code, re-started about 3 times by itself HOLY SHIT I got bios!!!! What the hell?!? put in win 7 cd, said it was configuring win...... Win 7 just popped up with my new desktop background and all the zips I dled from asus sitting there?!? I did switch boot menu in BIOS to dvd first. So did I somehow screw something up in BIOS to where it only recognizes my OS on the dvd on boot? Hmmmm interesting apparently I traveled throught time as well the clock on the desktop says 11:20pm 12/31/2008 awesome.
 
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Already did I hit the button and I took out battery. I just got a you are not running a valid windows pop up

ok Ill give it a shot the re-boot thing I already adjusted date/time. This sucks I called microsoft and validated my OS with them last night or the night before it was a pain!!!
 
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so far so good, more updates to install, Im gonna keep it benched and running on 1 mem stick till I know shes stable. Not gonna say thanks yet. Ill let ya know if anything else goes awry.
 
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Ok this is weird all of the zips I dled from Asus wont install it keeps telling me the intel smart connect tech is either not found or not turned on. Running another Virus scan it wasnt turned on when I finally got back into windows Im looking for that malware utility I know I dled it but I dont have it on desktop
 
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Ill check it out, I saw youre going Haswell, Cheers last time we talked you where still thinking about it. 94% thru on virus scan only 1 generic adware so far, 54% on 2nd Asus update, then I got malbytes plodding as well, once AVG is done gonna dl win updates cause Ill probably have to reboot mal should be done by then
 
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ok well win is still installing updates it finally started over again dling them Malware looks like its only half done so Im gonna head over to the gasstation for a couple monster assaults while this is SLOWLY going forward.
 
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B4 I go I needed to ask where can I get a free BIOS updating app? With all this stuff going on I dont trust myself to do it manually and I know theres 1 or 2 updates since the version I have. I think that might be hurting the performance why its been going so slow.
 
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I know I know I keep harping on this but this HD is sounding like its having a hard time not loud but its clicking ALOT Im not even running any updates right now just sitting still. I checked on the amount and its at 887free of 931GB with about 20 extra programs/apps on it. I tried making a back up of win right now but it wouldn't let me copy over any system files. I right clicked c:\ copy, pasted in e:\ on a flash drive.
 
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