Reserved and
someone should sticky this (thanks, Jim).
I'm trying very hard to keep this OS-agnostic (or to comment where it isn't). I'm not positive how SMF works, but it would be nice to have this "stickied" somehow (but to this thread, not a duplicate) over on that
other board. After I finish, and get some feedback integrated, and whatnot, I'll try (no promises) to methodically convert this into the Wiki as well. But I thought the best way to get it written and get feedback, would be to have it here, not there.
A few things I haven't addressed, but plan to are:
1. Malware removal (basics only).2. Basic hardware validation (memtest86+, Prime95, and 3DMark or something similar).
3. Many MC-specific little tweaks and gotchas, like the one suggested
by kstuart here.
A couple other housekeeping things I should mention, though... If you have good suggestions for additions, please speak up! I'll monitor the thread and add things that are valuable (probably via a short blurb and link to your post). If you can, do your best to write them up methodically and well, so that I can link to it and it is useful for regular users.
Along those lines, though... My goal with this is not for it to be a "MC Tweaking Guide". I'm trying to focus on problem solving, and common things we all encounter here over and over. If something happens and a weird esoteric thing fixes it that you've never heard of or thought about before, well, that's probably not worth adding (here, certainly post your own Thread about it, in case it
does happen more than once).
This is for the big, common cases. Hopefully, it helps us stop having to post the
same things over and over and over (with varying degrees of quality and friendliness of explanation).
Likewise, if you find links to good "definitive threads" where someone explained any of these steps (especially those that I gloss over above) in great detail, give me the links and a suggestion of where I should link/insert it above. I'd like to have many more links to these kinds of things, but I'm busy writing, not searching for exemplar threads.
I'm not done.