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by hugoc
Thu Jul 08, 2004 5:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: BP6 shutdown crash problems?
Replies: 8
Views: 11654

OK, right before you shut down, please open the task manager and see what processes (not applications) are running. My suspicion is that you have an errant process, perhaps spyware, that's not terminating cleanly and causing the system to hang during shutdown. You should download, install and update...
by hugoc
Thu Jul 08, 2004 5:01 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: boot from atapi cdrom: failure
Replies: 13
Views: 19000

the cdrom is connected to ide 2 as the master. Try connecting it to IDE1. That way you can eliminate a hardware fault on IDE2. Also, it sounds stupid, but check that your onboard IDE controllers are actually enabled in the BIOS (onboard peripherals menu). Sometimes flashes reset little details like...
by hugoc
Thu Jul 08, 2004 4:53 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: WinXp pro not booting at all on bp6
Replies: 20
Views: 28025

OK, if your temps are lower when the case is closed odds are case cooling is fine. If your heatsinks are hot (not the CPUs, the heatsinks), heat transfer from CPU slug to heatsink is fine, and heat transfer from heatsink to outside air (case airflow is fine), so... what are your ambient temps? Do yo...
by hugoc
Tue Jul 06, 2004 2:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: BP6 shutdown crash problems?
Replies: 8
Views: 11654

Did you turn on the power-management options in the BIOS? Check in your device manager - under "Computer" it should say "ACPI Multiprocessor PC." If it doesn't, enable APM/ACPI in the BIOS and then reinstall Windows XP. Does it say "It is now safe to turn off your computer", or just hang at the "shu...
by hugoc
Sun Jul 04, 2004 9:06 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Screen Resolution
Replies: 27
Views: 37566

Dual monitors. 1400*1050 on my 21" Sony natural-flat and 1152*864 on my 19" Samsung FST.
by hugoc
Sun Jul 04, 2004 4:57 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: WinXp pro not booting at all on bp6
Replies: 20
Views: 28025

Creative sound cards have a lot of those kinds of problems. Their drivers don't even know what "SMP" means. I had an SB Live, and after fighting with it for a week after I first got my BP6 I just got rid of it. original heatsinks overheat sometimes without OC or is it just Malaysia temperature? cann...
by hugoc
Sun Jun 13, 2004 3:31 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: WinXp pro not booting at all on bp6
Replies: 20
Views: 28025

Can you strip your system down to CD-ROM, hard drive, and graphics card (i.e. pull out any SCSI card, sound card, NIC, etc)? This would eliminate a problematic piece of hardware. Try an AGP and a PCI graphics card, if possible. I'd even suggest laying your hands on an ISA card and trying that. Also,...
by hugoc
Fri May 14, 2004 3:20 pm
Forum: News & Announcements
Topic: Tribes 1 & 2 For Free!
Replies: 15
Views: 24058

It used to be published by Loki, but they stopped selling them. I don't know if you can just download an executable for a win32 version, some Linux games you have to buy. :(
by hugoc
Thu May 13, 2004 9:28 am
Forum: News & Announcements
Topic: Tribes 1 & 2 For Free!
Replies: 15
Views: 24058

Thank you, Derek! No waiting and a 250KB/sec download - beautiful.
by hugoc
Wed May 12, 2004 10:10 am
Forum: News & Announcements
Topic: Tribes 1 & 2 For Free!
Replies: 15
Views: 24058

I'll second that. FilePlanet makes me wait for an hour and then is really slow, and I can't even find Tribes 2 on the site.
by hugoc
Tue May 11, 2004 10:21 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: Dual Celeron 400s and Linux
Replies: 10
Views: 14573

You should make sure your MPS is set to 1.4, not 1.1. This gives better SMP support. The board and BIOS will both support SMP if two processors are installed. However, to actually have SMP your O/S needs to support it. That's why the BP6 manual says SMP is for "testing only". :) The POST will tell y...
by hugoc
Mon May 10, 2004 6:54 pm
Forum: Distributed Computing + Mining & Crypto
Topic: What makes a processor good at SETI?
Replies: 3
Views: 14351

Are you running the command-line client? The screensaver uses more cycles. SETI does not use that much RAM (I found the command-line client used about 12000K regardless of how much I had free) so your PIII should crunch significantly faster than either Celeron. Run "msconfig" at the command prompt a...
by hugoc
Mon May 10, 2004 3:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How easy would it be to replace the power suppy connector?
Replies: 24
Views: 28157

My nearest shop is Radioshack. In fact, it's just about the only electronics shop in 50 miles. They'll just look at me blankly and try to sell me a cellphone. :)

I'll email MSI and ask them. They probably won't have a clue, but you never know.
by hugoc
Mon May 10, 2004 1:06 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How easy would it be to replace the power suppy connector?
Replies: 24
Views: 28157

Thanks for the link. They have the ATX connector I need there, but I can't find any toroidal inductors on their site and I have no idea what the spec is of the burnt one. I could clean the core and wind a new one with fresh wire but I have no idea what gauge it is. I hate winding cores! They always ...
by hugoc
Sun May 09, 2004 1:09 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Stability question
Replies: 17
Views: 20365

What other peripherals are you using in the computer? Creative sound drivers have terrible SMP support and often just won't work in a dual-CPU rig. This might be causing problems. What's the make/model and output of your PSU? Your voltages are not fluctuating by more than 5%, but you never know. A g...
by hugoc
Thu May 06, 2004 11:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How easy would it be to replace the power suppy connector?
Replies: 24
Views: 28157

Funny that I was just reading this thread. I got given an MSI 6163-Pro motherboard and a PIII-550 for free the other day, and when I got it I found out why it was free. About 15 of the caps on the board are bulged and/or leaking from the top. The power supply connector is scorched black around pins ...
by hugoc
Tue May 04, 2004 8:25 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Boot from cd-rom
Replies: 18
Views: 21721

It seems to me that it decides which optical drive it would like to use on an arbitrary basis. I have a CDRW on the ATA33 and a CD-ROM on SCSI, and if I boot from a CD on the ATA33 it will continue using that drive and refuses to recognise any media in the SCSI CD-ROM, but if I boot from floppy, it'...
by hugoc
Mon May 03, 2004 10:05 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: What Video card are you using?
Replies: 56
Views: 100530

I got a Creative Annihilator Pro retail boxed set (GeForce DDR) when it was first released. I'd actually bought a TNT2 about 6 months before, but the fan had started to whine, so I returned it as faulty, got my full refund and put it towards the GeForce. I'm not exactly sure when that was but it's b...
by hugoc
Sat May 01, 2004 10:07 pm
Forum: Overclocking / CPU Database
Topic: PIII-S 1400MHz on BP6 and working! pictures also... :D
Replies: 33
Views: 76589

Have you tried http://www.icetec-uk.com/ ? They're in the UK, might be better for you. Apparently they have/will have 274w TECs.
by hugoc
Fri Apr 30, 2004 7:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Boot from cd-rom
Replies: 18
Views: 21721

Where's your CD-ROM attached? If it's on the HPT366 controller, put it on the ATA33 controller instead - I've never been able to get an optical drive on the 366 to boot. Assuming it's on the ATA33, make sure the master/slave is set correctly and then set it to "auto" in the BIOS configuration (enter...
by hugoc
Fri Apr 30, 2004 6:57 pm
Forum: Overclocking / CPU Database
Topic: cpuidle rocks
Replies: 6
Views: 10401

Yes, it does. So do Win2K, NT4, and Linux. BeOS doesn't by default on SMP systems but it's really easy to enable. The moral of the story is: run a real OS! :)
by hugoc
Thu Apr 29, 2004 8:47 am
Forum: Software
Topic: NICs not working in PCI slot 5
Replies: 5
Views: 9353

Just resurrecting a thread here... If anyone is looking for a NIC that works in PCI slot 5 while another device is in slot 4, the D-Link DE-528CT works perfectly. It's a 10BaseT card, so it's slow, but fine if you only need it for broadband as I do. The DE-528CT doesn't use bus-mastering. I have an ...
by hugoc
Wed Apr 28, 2004 7:50 am
Forum: Overclocking / CPU Database
Topic: overclocking my new 533's
Replies: 12
Views: 11829

The Celeron/PII core is pretty much maxed out at 550-600MHz. That's just the limitation of the silicon, and to get higher than 600MHz or so needs a prime CPU, powerful cooling (probably a TEC) and luck. Bearing that in mind, I think it's better to take a slower C366 chip and push it to 550-600MHz th...
by hugoc
Mon Apr 26, 2004 11:09 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: How big a hard disk are you using?
Replies: 19
Views: 25891

(duplicate post)
by hugoc
Mon Apr 26, 2004 11:08 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: How big a hard disk are you using?
Replies: 19
Views: 25891

I got a Promise FastTrack ATA66 RAID controller for $5.50. It should arrive sometime this week. My 15GB Seagate is ATA66, so I can use that immediately, but then I think I shall get a pair of 80GB 7200rpm/8MB drives and make them RAID 0 for speed. I'll relegate the 15GB drive to the ATA33 controller...