I need help. I'm trying re-install a copy of XP onto my machine after it started acting up. I saved the licence key in a .cab file on the machine as I knew I'd lose the bit of paper - which I have.
It is saved on a seperate partition of the drive, my backup, to the one XP is re-instaling on but...
I have installed a twin fan to the bottom of each HDD and the system, fingers crossed, appears stableish at the moment and they're down to 26degrees now. (89p each!!?? WOW). Only problem is they double the size iof the disks so one is living in a 5.25" bay and screwed on one side.
Hoping that...
I'm trying to resurrect my earlier question because I have discovered further problems. Even once my hard drives are nice and cool my system continues to periodically freeze and occasionally but rarely it will reset or give a BSoD with an error about IRQ greater than or equal to something or...
Thanks for that, I think I will have to look at the cooling options - it's trickier as I'm going to need one for each HDD.
Seems strange that the system became so unstable desptie only being about 5 degrees above the maximum recommended temp. Is this normal - I.e. are system freezes what you...
I have just bought a new system with 2x200gb Diamond Max plus 9's in a RAID array and it has been unstable from the word go. When I looked at the temperatures I found out that the disks are running at 56degrees!
To check if this was causing the problems I ran the system with the disks out...
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