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Originally posted by FlyingPenguin I honestly would not recommend overclocking modern systems. It's just not worth it. These systems have VERY critical memory timing and overclocking can throw this off easily causing data corruption. Someone else on this forum had that happen on a new system and it...

Thanks for the help guys. How overclockable will this system be? According to Anandtech's 3 part article on Half-Life 2 performance 1.8GHz should just about max out my video card so the 3000 should be a good match at stock speeds. In spite of this what kind of success are people getting when overclo...

Well it's been almost 4 years since I last did a major upgrade of my machine. I recently saw a few screenshots of Half-Life 2 and decided that would be a good excuse to put a little money into the system. About a year ago I acquired a Radeon 9500 Pro for really cheap, however the rest of my system i...

I figured out why it was only running in 20mb/sec mode. When I updated the BIOS I had to remove all the cables from the controller. One of the pins on the 68 pin cable was already slightly bent and it decided to not go into the hole. Surprisingly it was easy to push in with the pin getting bent. I s...

Well I finally got my drive installed. Got Win2k installed on it and it's VERY nice. A lot quieter than my old IBM drive and the speed difference is quite noticable. Have one problem though. A friend of mine gave me a 68-pin UW cable with a passive terminator and an Adaptec U160 SCSI card which I'm ...

Alright. Thanks for the info Doc! Hopefully everything goes well.

Transfer rates aren't that important to me. The main reason I'm switching is the 5.2ms seek time and the ability to actually multitask. Most new IDE drives have 9ms seek time.

So even though it doesn't say LVD anywhere in the drive specs it is still LVD?

Well I finally got fed up with IDE and decided to get a 10k rpm SCSI drive. I got a brand new 9.1GB Seagate Cheetah 18XL (ST39204LC) off eBay for $30. Here's a link to the specs. http://www.impediment.com/seagate/s2000/spec_39204lc.shtml The drive is listed as 80-pin U160. I'm going to hook it up to...

Well I got it working again. I didn't realize that when I select "Last Known Good Configuration" I have to press L to actually load it...not just select the shown profile. So as a note to anyone with a Promise controller and Win2k (probably XP also)...don't install it if it's your boot dri...

Originally posted by wvjohn i had the same thing happen to me under win2k- my drives are on a promise ata66 card and after the winblowz update it would only see one partition on each drive - and not the boot partition - i think i did the rollback and it worked for me - i guess you'll have to d/l th...

I was on Windows update getting a few patches and noticed there was a new driver for my onboard Promise raid controller. I run my hard drive off this controller so I went ahead and downloaded it. Restarted the computer and I now get an inacessible_boot_device, the exact same message you get when you...

Card is retail, I have all the paper work and CDs that came with it. Just not the box. The card doesn't have any special outputs. It overclocks beautifully to 190/380. Never went any higher than that but I'm sure it could hit 200/400 no problem. I would like to trade it for a Geforce 2 GTS (or Pro) ...

It's unfortunate that they died like they did but they deserved it. They made one very innovative product and didn't really change it much. I still have my Monster 3D and Voodoo 2 SLI setup sitting in my closet. Maybe they'll be worth a lot someday???

I find that having a virus scanner running in the background creates problems in Win2k. Here at work we have McAfee running in the background and AIM dies about once an hour and the system hangs every once in a while. If I turn McAfee off everything works great.