Recent content by shadowspawn

Hard disk damage was the issue I suspected at first. I had bought a refurbed WD HDD from ebay. Was about to return it for an exchange. Ever since I unplugged that optical drive though, I haven't had a single issue with Win8. It was definitely not space on the drive, RAM, registry, or startup...

I may have just fixed the issue. Someone enlighten me if I am correct/incorrect. I've had this computer for about 6 years now. I've had to change out the RAM, the thermal compound for my CPU, the hard drive (twice), the PSU, and the NIC so far. Everything else has been reused. One of my two...

The first day I installed Win8, it was working relatively well. Boot times were about average and everything was running smoothly. After shutting it down and leaving it overnight, waking up the next morning yielded an exceptionally long boot time taking around 30 minutes to cold boot...