Why I never do the Tweaks

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Well I should have my head examined, I had settled in with Ssd drives in both pcs I use the most and everything was running well. I am not quite sure where I read this but I think it was on the LinkedIn business owners forum about a marvelous tweak for Ssd drives called "tweak ssd". The hype about what it does really sounded good too.

After a week or so I started getting freezes on most browsers and the unit with Windows 7 was taking forever to boot up. Then even normal open windows such as Control Panel began to freeze. I ran checkdisk and it made no difference. I removed some things from startup to no avail. Needless to say I looked to restore the most recent Macrium image file after System restore did nothing and the closest I had was August 5. So I restored it and at first things seemed ok, but then the same things started happening. So I began to believe the issue could be the bargain PNY 240 Gb drive so I restored the image file onto my older Crucial 128 Gb drive and all is well after I caught everything up. I suppose the only way I will know now is to install another system on that PNY drive

http://www.totalidea.com/products/tweak-ssd/
 
I have never tweaked my SSD Drives. They perform great as they are.
I like the Intel SSD's.
If it ain't broke don't try to fix it.:)
 
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Good read Dougie, I have never had any use for Kingston or PNY, I should have "held my powder"! And I know better too. This Crucial drive I am now using is the first Ssd I bought and is running like a charm. The tweaking sure didn't help but I bet the drive sucks also as I have never had much good to say about PNY in the past anyway. The price ($89 for 240) bagged me and I know better.
 
What a day I have had. At 2am this morning my new rig died.It stopped like it was shot. Everything dead. Done all the usual checks including temp hooking up another PSU.
I took the rig to my computer shop and they rang me some time later that the Asrock Z97 extreme 4 had died. This is about 2-3 weeks old. They wanted to give me a new motherboard. I said I bought the parts on your recommendation, You fix the *&&^%^&&** thing. They did replace the Mobo and picked it up and now working great again.
They have seven shops and sold around 400 of these Mobo's and this is only the second that has failed and it had to be me.:angry:
As you know, Rich even quality hardware can fail. Just the luck of the draw.
 
Rich-M said:
Good read Dougie, I have never had any use for Kingston or PNY, I should have "held my powder"! And I know better too. This Crucial drive I am now using is the first Ssd I bought and is running like a charm. The tweaking sure didn't help but I bet the drive sucks also as I have never had much good to say about PNY in the past anyway. The price ($89 for 240) bagged me and I know better.
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I don't have any hate for PNY or Kingston. I have used PNY GPU's in the past, and memory (not SSD's) and used Kingston memory many times - no issue.
 
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I run one Kingston SSD and had no issues. Never used PNY products so can't comment.
I had a Crucial SSD and all the front plastic broke away. I took it back for warranty and they refused.
Said I was too aggresive changing the connectors. I said "Pig's Arse"
 
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I am surprised at Crucial, they will usually take anything back as I have sent ram back many times. I just sent 2 sticks back today.
 
Rich-M said:
I am surprised at Crucial, they will usually take anything back as I have sent ram back many times. I just sent 2 sticks back today.
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This wasn't Crucial, Rich. This was the Computer shop who were too lazy to send it back and advised me Crucial would not give me a replacement. I wasn't happy about it. I binned it.
 
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What a day I have had. At 2am this morning my new rig died.It stopped like it was shot. Everything dead. Done all the usual checks including temp hooking up another PSU.
I took the rig to my computer shop and they rang me some time later that the Asrock Z97 extreme 4 had died. This is about 2-3 weeks old. They wanted to give me a new motherboard. I said I bought the parts on your recommendation, You fix the *&&^%^&&** thing. They did replace the Mobo and picked it up and now working great again.
They have seven shops and sold around 400 of these Mobo's and this is only the second that has failed and it had to be me.:angry:
As you know, Rich even quality hardware can fail. Just the luck of the draw.
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Well the new Rig has died again. Not 2 weeks after the Computer shop replacing the Motherboard. Working fine and switched it off as normal.
Just hit the Power button and frozen on Bios black screen. Options dead.This is starting to become a nightmare.
 
I got the computer working again. Reset the Bios and gave it a kick into the bargain out of frustration.
See how long it goes for now.:grr:

PS. 44.1c here at the moment. Dam Hot.
 
^How is it going now? It's true though about the luck of the draw even Asus boards fail at times.
 
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^How is it going now? It's true though about the luck of the draw even Asus boards fail at times.
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One ASUS board fail in 7 yrs so can't really complain. I have always liked ASUS. I also have 3 ASUS HDMI Monitors which also are my pick of all the monitors I have bought over the years.
Been running now for about 20hrs after the hiccup and all seems normal at the moment.
 
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