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Post by ken on Apr 4, 2009 15:16:18 GMT
bios
Trusted computing / TCG / Support / Yes or No? Thats an Intel thing, I wouldn't worry about it.
Raid Mode is IDE ? I am not using IDE ? As you are not using a RAID setup, the computer recognises it as IDE. Thats how it should be
On chip IDE controller enabled? Yes or No? Yes
PCI IDE busmaster Yes or No? Yes
In frequency / voltage control /Intel EIST is Disabled ? Auto
Wakeup event setup / resume from S3 by PS2 keyboard disabled? Yes if you allow the computer to go on standby.
These 2 are not important if your computer stays awake. Wakeup event setup / resume from S3 by PS2 mouse disabled? Yes if you allow the computer to go on standby
Primary graphic's adapter/ set to PCI-E ? Q: PCI-E or Internal? PCI-E, as you are using a graphics card now.
KC
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 4, 2009 19:06:12 GMT
"Primary graphic's adapter/ set to PCI-E ? Q: PCI-E or Internal? PCI-E, as you are using a graphics card now." No i am still using inboard i forgot to say that so i set it to Internal.
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Post by ken on Apr 4, 2009 19:26:53 GMT
Thats OK then Elvis. It should switch itself over when you put the card in.
KC
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 6, 2009 12:57:01 GMT
Well i got round to putting the power supply in to day i have to reinstall XP as it will not let me repair it will let you know how i get on KC ;D
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Post by ken on Apr 6, 2009 15:21:34 GMT
Your getting there Elvis. I was reading something the other day about the repair option is only available in XP Home and not XP Pro. I think I have got that the right way round. You need to get yourself a restore image with all your programs and drivers on it. Then you can reinstall in 5 minutes instead of 5 weeks.
I was trying to tidy up the cables at the front of The Beast yesterday, got a kink in one of the SATA DATA cables and lost Windows 7. Kinky Cable Syndrome will knock a hard drive out quicker than anything. Yet you can tie knots in an IDE ribbon cable and not hurt anything. These new DATA cables must be making a fortune for repair men.
KC
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 6, 2009 19:29:13 GMT
H! KC, I got XP install again, i think you are right about, "You need to get yourself a restore image with all your programs and drivers on it." as it just come up with insert floppy into A drive but i did not read the rest just reinstall XP again. ;D i will have to see if i can find out about it. Thy always do that's why i try to fix my own computers mostly with a little bit of help off you and others from CIT and NHI. i once got conned into buying 128 pc100 for £150 by a repair man i must be very green looking back
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Post by ken on Apr 6, 2009 22:12:07 GMT
That Insert Floppy, is if you push F6 to install SATA/RAID drivers. It doesnt matter with modern BIOS; but some of the early boards with SATA connectors, would only read IDE drives without installing drivers. Unless you were putting the system on an IDE drive, Windows would say you didn't have a hard drive installed. I even had that, when I put a brand new hard drive in my Aspire laptop to upgrade it to XP from Vista and that was only 18 months ago on a new machine. It could read a USB floppy drive, but not an internal SATA hard drive. Acer just bung images on the drives before they install them, they dont have to go through the installation BS.
KC
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 7, 2009 19:26:39 GMT
Yes i have been looking up on it and i am going to give it a miss i can always use the backup program i have and do it that way ;D Well i put Linux Mint on today it went on ok the computer seems to be runing ok touch wood Had it on for over 2 hours and 15m not been over that yet i don't want to push it yet
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Post by ken on Apr 7, 2009 21:59:22 GMT
If its going for 2 hours and the temperatures are within normal limits, it can run forever Elvis. If you not running anything to give you the temperatures, you can always reboot into BIOS after running for a while and check the temperatures there.
Make sure the shutdown temperatures are set to a safe level in the BIOS, at the same time. Then at least if you get any overheating, the machine will shutdown before any damage is done. The manual will give you the safe temperature for your processor. They will run much hotter now than the old ones, just make sure the shutdown is a bit lower than the top temperature. You have probably got an alarm to warn you as well, which should be set a bit lower than the shutdown. You will think its a nuclear reactor melting down if it ever goes off. I have Asus PC Probe II running with the dashboard showing on The Beast. It don't have a chassis fan and the probe didn't know that. I nearly died when I first put it online to set it up. The 10 inch top fan and 3 inch front fan, are not on the probes circuits. I think I would notice if the lights went out on the top fan. The motherboard alarm would warn me if I didn't notice anyway.
KC
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 9, 2009 14:16:10 GMT
H! KC,
I had another play on my Nightmare today and i installed Everest Ultimate to keep an eye on my fan speed and so on, thy seem to be constant ;D i will have a look in the bios later and see what it says about temp and so on.
i will let you know what i find out ;D
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 10, 2009 19:30:26 GMT
H! KC, I have been running My Nightmare (Computer) from 13.05 this morning Fri 10.4.09 and i am going to run it till i go to bed just to see what happens i took a Piccy this morning at 13.05 and i will take one when i go to bed just so i can compare them and i will post it when i do it. <img src="http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/7646/fans113.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/><br/>By <a target="_new" href="http://profile.imageshack.us/user/stevejon">stevejon</a> at 2009-04-10[/img]
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 10, 2009 19:36:02 GMT
This is the first one ;D
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 11, 2009 0:21:54 GMT
H! KC, This is the one i did just before i turned My Nightmare off at 01.01. Sat 11.04.09 This morning, not a lot of difference that i can see. What do you say?
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Post by ken on Apr 11, 2009 6:37:59 GMT
Looks excellent to me Elvis, the cores look cold. You cant complain about them sort of temperatures, your processors are cooler than my motherboard
KC
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 11, 2009 14:49:57 GMT
Yes KC that's what i thort so it was not a heat problem, maybe it was just the power supply as you side before (The rails? or whatever) still if it will go for 12 hours with no problems and that's the only hardware i have change on it then it.
I am thinking of puting my New Graphic card in tomorrow and then start to put the rest of my program on it keeping my fingers cross of cores.
I will let you know ;D
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 14, 2009 19:40:21 GMT
H! KC,
I have been using my new computer with my New Graphic card in it and all seems well i am only using Linux Mint at the moment still got to put stuff on XP Pro when i get round to it.
but all seems well still got to tidy the cables a bit but theirs no rush yet i will post a piccy of it soon (My nightmare).
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Post by ken on Apr 15, 2009 5:06:27 GMT
I think your Nightmare will run like a dream, once you get it tidied up Elvis.
KC
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 16, 2009 23:24:28 GMT
H! KC, Well i got the blue screen of death today Thursday 16th at 4.00pm so i shut down the computer and restarted it but it was no go so i left it till 8.00pm and tried again, no go all i got was (see piccy) wear it says Ram R/W test failed?
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 16, 2009 23:26:16 GMT
Do you think it's my DVD that's failed?
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Post by ken on Apr 16, 2009 23:43:14 GMT
What happened when you pushed F1 Elvis, did it just restart?? Its an odd one that as its been working OK and everything else is recognised. You could try taking the memory modules out and putting them back in. Normally though; if it the damp weather causing it, it would boot and you would get low memory warnings. Swap the modules around when you take them out and check in My Computer, Properties and see if its reading all of the memory. Put the one from the first slot into the last slot, if thats faulty it wont read the rest. In the last slot it will read one short.
KC
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Post by ken on Apr 16, 2009 23:44:42 GMT
Its not the DVD, its not reading or writing to the memory.
KC
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 17, 2009 11:03:20 GMT
H! KC, I don't now what happens when i press F1 as i did not press F1 that was the part wean i nearly went an got my lump hamer to the S%$£"&*^ thing just when i thort my nightmare had finished this happens I will see what it dose when i start it up again and let you now. as for the memory i will give that a go later Thanks KC you must be getting fed up with this Nightmare as well?
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 17, 2009 13:25:57 GMT
H! KC, It started fine this morning in Linux Mint and XP Pro so i shut down and removed one stick of ram restarted in XP Pro and it says 1GB of ram when i went into Sys properties in Everest Ultimate it says 1023mb. For the second stick of ram it says System files corrupted so i tyred the other stick of ram in the other slot, same thing happened. so just out of interest i put both sticks of ram back in and it it is fine so i went in to Sys properties and it says 2 GB of ram and Everest Ultimate it says 2047mb. I am leavening it till tomorrow and i will put it in my kitchen and i will try again as i have fix my leak now and have more elbow room in their.
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Post by ken on Apr 17, 2009 13:45:30 GMT
Them figures should be 1024 Mb and 2048 Mb, so I think thats just Everest giving a false reading. Maybe it was the damp weather and you have fixed it by moving them. I just have never heard of it bringing a computer to a halt before. It normally just brings up low memory warnings. So if you start getting them you know what to do, just swap the memory around. Next time it says push F1, do it. If there is something wrong with the memory settings, it might reset them for you.
KC
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 17, 2009 15:02:28 GMT
H! KC, Yes i will have another look Saturday i will be able to play more then as i just want to take a hammer to it at the moment
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 19, 2009 15:40:52 GMT
H! KC, Had a mess with the memory yesterday Saturday and this is what happened: Dim 1 in slot 1. Started the computer up at 14.53. Everest says 1023mb of memory, System Properties says 1.00GB of ram. At 15.28 the computer restarted it's self but would not go past the boot screen, I then turned it off I started it again but it just reboots it's self repeatedly. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Dim 1 in slot 2. Started the computer up at 15.40. I started the computer up and XP started then I got the blue screen of death and it just restarts. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Dim 2 in slot 1. Started the computer up at 15.50. Started up OK then I got the blue screen of death and I restarted and the same thing happened again and again and again. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Dim 2 in slot 2. Started the computer up at 16.08. Everest says 1023mb of memory, System Properties says 1.00GB of ram. Started up OK then it did a system check and reboots and then restarted, I left it running. 16.43 rebooted it's self and then just reboots it's self continuously. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< I have now put Dim 1 back in with Dim 2 and turned on the computer at20.25 and it's working OK Everest says 2047mb of memory, System Properties says 2.00GB of ram. 1.18 am I turned off the computer and it was working fine at the time I turned it off. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< This is an error screenshot
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Post by ken on Apr 19, 2009 22:02:21 GMT
Sounds a bit like a dodgy SATA DATA cable Elvis. Best to go and get one with locks on the plugs from Maplins, for the hard drive. Make sure its well smoothed out flat before fitting it. Depending on the location of the hard drive, sometimes it helps to get one with an L shaped plug for the hard drive end. It will behave just like a boot virus at times; but you haven't got one of them, or it wouldn't boot at all and keep cycling all the time. Sometimes them DATA cables can look OK when thay are cold and go out of shape when they get warm.
KC
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 20, 2009 0:53:57 GMT
H! KC,
I will look in to the sata cables.
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Post by ken on Apr 20, 2009 5:06:30 GMT
From what you have said back a bit, have you upgraded your memory speed Elvis?? I have just had to flash my BIOS. Since I put the new CPU in, my memory speed was cut to 800 MHz. When I rated W7 yesterday, I scored less than with the Phenom 9850 x 4 2500 MHz. My score then was 7.3, 7.3, 7.9, 6.8, 6.0. I got a terrible score on the HDDs a couple of days ago and had to defrag everything. Then this was my score yesterday: After flashing my BIOS this is my score this morning. As you can see I scored higher on the HDDs and my best score ever on the RAM. I think you should have a look at the available BIOS upgrades and see if you would be better off flashing them. That could be causing you to have to push F1 on boot up and memory dumps. Now my RAM is back to 1066 MHz the same as I was using with the smaller CPU. When I put the Phenom II 490 x 4 3000 MHz in, I didn't realise I had to flash the BIOS to get more than 800 MHz, but the CPU wasn't invented when the motherboard came out last year. I knew I was going to have to flash; but until I rerated the system yesterday, I didn't know just how bad she was running. I'm pretty sure you are either going to have to flash or get another motherboard. KC
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 20, 2009 16:20:56 GMT
H! KC, Just a piccy to sow you My Nightmares insides if you have a look at the Sata cables do you think thy are OK! It still needs tidying up a bit is the H/Drive cable OK?
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