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I found that my harddrives were connected with a 40-wire cable instead of an 80-wire one...My DVD+RW drive was connected to the 80-wire one, so I switched the wires and now windows sees my harddrives as capable of fast udma speeds..
Now a dikspeed utility shows my HD as...
Hey,
I was looking through device manager and when looking at the IDE controllers both the primary and secondary channel show as using "Ultra DMA 2" as the current transfer mode...
But, from looking at the SIS (my chipset) IDE_Utility, I find that my DVD+RW drive works at udma-2 and the...
I've fixed the overheating problem.
Got a Zalman CPU cooler, and some Artic Silver 5.
During the installation of the new heatsink, I noticed how tightly I had to place the heatsink--I was afraid to break the processor or something.
Anyways, the otehr heatsink I had was nowhere as tight (under...
I keep coming from work late everyday and going to get some thermal paste today.
No, I am using NO thermal paste as of now, and i'll get back to you if thermal paste helps or not.
Here's what I've managed to try so far:
Using a HUGE fan to blow into the computer...
Results:
Idle temperature...
ya, its 85 degs CENTIGRADE
On a fresh cool boot, he CENTIGRADE Temperature is 53
And I think my processor is slowing down to stay at a max operating temperature of 85 C. A game starts quicker than it did on my old 1.1ghz cpu, but when "loading scenario" the load time is MUCH longer than my...
I recently assembled a computer:
ABIT sg-72 mobo w/ onboard sis video
Celeron D 2.93Ghz CPU
512 mb Viking pc2700 memory
300W antec PSU
Seagate IDE barracude 80GB hard-drive
Maxtor IDE 160GB HD
Memorex IDE DVD+-RW
I had some problems installing XP:
It would get to the "Setup is starting...
I recently assembled a computer:
Abit SG-72mobo
CeleronD 2.93 ghz cpu
512 mb pc2700 memory
seagate 80gb hd
memorex DVD+-RW
and 300w antec PSU.
All are new except hd, memory, and cd/dvd drive. All old parts are known working.
BIOS POST shows up, with all correct info, with halt on no errors...
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