Speccy Forum 20Nov2010.txt - 20Nov2010 18:09
I have reported a similiar problem about the hard drive data stopping at the last (in my case 2nd) hard drive. See forum post My link
I then started to do some more troubleshooting/analysis . . .
With regards to using Speccy to view files from another PC, or earlier saved snapshots from the same PC, it appears that data from other PCs can be loaded and displayed with version 1.07.205 or 1.06.191 OK. I have found out, however, that 4 different releases of Speccy I tested (1.07.205, 1.06.191, 1.05.183, and 1.02.156) were NOT able to load ANY Speccy snapshot created by 1.07.205 or 1.06.191 from PCs that had more than one hard drive AND could not successfully save their complete data in text format (.txt). I know that sounds confusing, but I created a .Speccy snapshot on a Dell 2400 system with 2 hard drives and was able to load its snapshot OK. The same Dell 2400's text snapshot was complete; it showed both hard drive data and all subsequent data. The .Speccy snapshots created by 1.07.205 or 1.06.191 on both a Dell 4600 with 2 hard drives and a Home-Built P4 560J Intel Mobo PC that has 3 hard drives and a IDE ZIP were unreadable by Speccy, giving the error message:
"Error loading data: Incorrect Speccy data file"
With the Dell 4700, the text snapshot data was truncated in the middle of reporting the second hard drive's data:
WDC WD800BB-75CAA0
Manufacturer Western Digital
Form Factor GB/2.5-inch
Serial Number WD-WMA8E8746485
[NO MORE TEXT DATA REPORTED]
With the Home-Built P4 560J Intel Mobo PC, the text snapshot data was truncated in the middle of reporting the first hard drive, an IDE ZIP-100:
Hard Drives
IOMEGA ZIP 100
Manufacturer Unknown manufacturer
Serial Number
[NO MORE TEXT DATA REPORTED]
I don't know if this is related to the problem, but both the Dell 4600 and the Home-Built have multiple hard drives and dual monitors; the Dell 2400 that gave good text snapshots has 2 hard drives and a single monitor.
Another funny thing was seen in the first text snapshot that I did with 1.06.191 on the Home-Built PC, but not on the second snapshot with 1.06.191. The text snapshot (only) said the PC had 4 used memory slots but then continued to show only 3 ram modules:
RAM
Memory slots
Total memory slots 4
Used memory slots 4
Free memory slots 0
Memory
Type DDR2
Size 3072 MBytes
Channels # Dual
DRAM Frequency 280.9 MHz
CAS# Latency (CL) 4 clocks
RAS# to CAS# Delay (tRCD) 4 clocks
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 4 clocks
Cycle Time (tRAS) 12 clocks
SPD
Number Of SPD Modules 3
Note: There was no restart done between these two snapshots.
One feature of Speccy that really helped out while doing this troubleshooting:
THANK YOU
Speccy programmers for providing the label at the top of the snapshot display window giving the file name of a loaded snapshot and the label at the bottom of a saved snapshot giving the current Speccy revision level and the label (Snapshot created with x.xx.xxx). It would be nice if this same useful information could also be included in the saved snapshot text files.
I tried to upload the .Speccy file, but got this error message:
Error You aren't permitted to upload this kind of file ![:angry:]()
Found a work-around - see post by me that follows below . . . ![:D]()
DELL4600 Speccy 20Nov2010 1715 1.07.205.txt
2005P4XP 20Nov2010 1548 1.06.191.txt
2005P4XP 20Nov2010 1608 1.06.191.txt
2005P4XP 20Nov2010 1552 1.05.183.txt