LiquidSage

glad to hear your problem is fixed! Sometime dealing with ATI cards can be a real headache.

After looking at the sticky topics in MSFN's Device Drivers and in the Unattended Guide : Drivers, I've come to the conclusion that it can't be done. Even NLite, allowing you to customize OS installs seems to miss the mark.... Maybe i should look harder?

good point, if your card is oc'd and you didn't upgrade the cooling it probably is overheating (esp. if you tried the 9800xt or FireGL X2 Hard Mod). You should d/l a vid card stress tester and see if it's going out because of high temps. Since more pipes are open on a hard modded card that have not been fully tested and approved, you may have a funky pipe or even a not so compatible bios flash if you did hard mod it. What are your system specs in terms of customization?

i don't know off hand, but make sure your screensaver is off as well as powerdown HD, etc. You should uninstall the ati drivers and control panel and give Omega a try. No joke, uninstall the drivers and control panel before trying Omega! http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati/win2k_xp.php

Open device manager, open the properties for each item listed under usb controllers and navigate to the 'power management' tab. Uncheck all the boxes listed. Go to normal power management and disable powering down harddisks. Is your hub self powered? if not, you are most likely taxing the usb port too hard.

SpeedFan is free and works very well. Allows fan speed control either manual min/max or automatic control depending on the temp. max you set. Also monitors and allows chnanges to SMART, hdd temp, and PSU voltage. Newer boards are supported to make direct changes (including CPU speed) and special rules. Either OC or UC can be triggered for specific programs. What kind of mobo do you have? Most mobo makers have some sort of clock utility. abit uguru, intel and asus have windows based clocking util's as i'm sure the other makers do as well. Your computer seems new enough that direct changes should be allowed. Also, tighten ALL the screws inside, a free DIY that always helps. Take out cd's when not in use to kill noise as well.

try calling epox or write an email to their online store.

Well, I use RAID O for my OS for speed boost. It makes every operation faster of course! What i have done is install windows and all updates - install software that i use regularly - Merge reg info into the registry for other programs i don't use often - Apply reg tweaks and personal prefs for all programs and profiles. I then make a recovery zone w/ TI 8 and activate the boot loader on that HD. After a disk check and defrag, i make an image in secure zone and viola1 Now I have an OS backup image for raid with all i require and optimized for pure speed. I save everything on to separate basic disks for the reliability and portability. I really care about my work product and i like the idea of connecting just 1 disk w/ whatever i need to different computers and to various connections (usb/firewire). Also raid recovery is a pain so i don't even trust a raid 1 to be easy recovery. With the OS going at a sig. faster level, my I/O for files on my network are extremely fast and vpn is very responsive. I also have the added benefit of trashing my OS and having my 8 gig backup of that OS restore in about 4-5 min. An occasional update to the image is no prob w/ incremental backups. Though this is ideal for a personal computer, i find it to be no less useful for my home server as well. I am perhaps to set in my ways but i don't think home users should rely on RAID for safe backups or storage/file serving esp since home users very rarely would stress their networks or server to warrant a raid setup. Plus home servers in general get messed with more often than a business server. Installing app's and OS's doing this and that and playing with permissions and partitions would be done on a workstation and extensively tested in a proper business environment. Home users are more likely to throw caution to the wind and just try something new . Most businesses do extensive tape backups on top of RAID 5 or 0 +1, so it is not a big deal if your raid array goes downhill in that situation since you have a backup of your backup. I'm old school in favoring a hardware based array over software. (I can install an OS on a hardware array) and you are right in that a server at home left to it's basic duties might not warrant the direction I would take. With so many different ways to go these days with RAID it comes down to a matter of preference

go to driverheaven and d/l the graphic driver cleaner. Run that and also make sure to redo the atrribs on the windows folder, ensure that as much of the content in the Windows folder is not set to Read Only and check the permissions, deleting any profiles called OWNER that you might see. Clean both the temp in Windows and the temp for your account. Reboot and reinstall Omega's w/o 9550 mod and the general opengl option. With luck, that may fix it.

hmmm...you might be able to that. Some boards won't allow you to boot w/o a gfx card, but there are prog's that can modify a variety of bios settings if that becomes an issue. Though Linux can run w/o a gfx card after tweaking the kernel, I don't think Windows is as flexible, but i haven't tried it. I gather you do not have an on-board gfx chip? What kind of board do you have. As to your OS not being RAID... Actually, i would run the OS (after making a back up so you can trash the OS often and keep clean) in RAID 0 and save work product to regular partitions. Remember, since this isn't true RAID, the info is stored across all disks and if one disk dies, all (including your backup) will die with it. This is why you need a RAID card so as to keep the type 1 on a entirely different disk set ensuring a safe backup and negating any speed issues that arise from your setup as i understand, which is mimicking RAID 5. If your RAID is a basic 0 or 1 type exclusively, then this would not be an issue. However, doing both as your are now requires twice the work per disk. You might as well just make the whole thing mimick RAID 0. When you do get a new board, for just file serving, make sure to pick a board w/ simple on-board gfx, and if you have the $, dual gig nic and lots of firewire / usb plugs. Hopefully you can get a board with a RAID chip in it other than Intel matrix RAID or a board w/ a RAID chip and intel matrix RAID.

since your not using a true raid setup, the speed of normal disk op's are probably on par with your raid. I would set the disks up normally and enjoy the increased reliability and peace of mind knowing that if a drive dies, the others are still accessable. Also, recovering an OS that is in Raid often proves to be more time consuming and complicated. If you had the urge to upgrade the mobo or found out how to somehow fit a Raid card in there, it would then be worth the hassle. I get way higher xfer speeds over my network. Are you sure that none of your nics is setting itself to 10 instead of 100?

did you upgrade the vid cards cooling before OCing? If you didn't it could send your card to the grave quickly. Not enough info right now where the problem is so... Reset the monitor and attach to comp, go to bios menu. Do you see the problem? Attach monitor to a different vid card or vice versa and post your findings. It will be then much easier to pinpoint the cause.

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RAID Optimization Guide

I'm pretty sure the OS based 'Raid' shares each disk for both type 0 & 1 (and 5), whereas a dedicated card would/could use each disk exclusively for each type, thus maximizing performance. If it is sharing each type across your disks, you would be hindering the performance since it now has to write twice to each disk for 1 action + if 1 disk dies, you lose both your active and backup partitions. Also, the cluster size can play a significant role is performance depending on your file activities. (On a side note, the reduced cache in the celeron isn't helping things either.Most raid 5 systems have a dedicated CPU to handle the distributed parity type checks) I remember a good guide I read that showed performance of culster size vs. file size....I'll try to find it and post the link

1. Clean up the cable clutter. Buy shorter IDE , flat cables and use ancient origami based folding techniques to max airflow. I would get a PSU sleeving kit, for this setup it will help for functionality and not just for looks. 2. I can't tell if your box has any vents in the front, but if it doesn't, put some near the bottom so as to bring the colder air in. Adjusting your CPU fan to blow air across and towards the back (out) would be better in this setup though you will have to make your own brace to keep it vertical. 3. As I understand, the system drive is on a 40g lappy HD. My bet is 4200 rpm with a lower DMA as the rest of the HD's. The other drive on the IDE ribbon will set itself to the lower setting because of this & add in the fact that you put the system on the slowest drive WITH low power always on and you have something that is just not good. 4. The overhead of 2003, esp. if you have not set all the GUI candy off is going to make it slow on your system. 2000 would be a faster OS and since it is for home, there is nothing 2003 has that would justify the performance hit. 5. Double check that all the cables are plugged in extra snug. 6. Set processor scheduling and memory usage to the correct setting for servers. Double check services that are not needed are disabled. 7. You don't have a raid card and are probably using the built in feature. This does not necessarily mean better performance. Did you benchmark on this setup or was it done on a different system / mobo? Was this benchmark done over the network?

You didn't include the SP2 ident files at the root of your disk Common ident files if your slipstreamed SP1 and SP2 (omit SP1 files if you took a original copy of XP and SS'd XP2 directly). XP Home: WIN51IC WIN51IC.SP1 WIN51IC.SP2 XP Pro and up: WIN51IP WIN51IP2 WIN51IP.SP1 WIN51IP.SP2 Look at the root of the original disk or the folder where (if) you slipstreamed for the exact list of ident files you must include at the root of your multiboot distro (if you tried to hide them that will also cause windows to become navigationly challenged as well..

even after format and installing a fresh os it still won't boot normal into windows yet allows safe mode? do you have more than 1 os on your system?

i'd post mine except I seem to have misplaced them...

Anyone know how to change the mouse wheel to auto-advance/reverse instead of zoom?

Limiting the file types of what you can choose for the buttons was a negative. This was easily circumvented by manually editing the project config file to accept whatever i wanted the buttons to open and then immediately opening up the cdmenu builder and rebuilding the exe. It would be nice to see .png support and auto resize for the background picture. It would also be nice if you bundled the ocx and dll files into the built exe (At least do away w/ that dialog about needed files if they are present. Better yet, have them copy to the folder where the exe is built). Programs such as PEBundle and a few others have cmd line utilities allow this This is simple and fast. You could have the beginnings of something very useful here. Esp, if you keep it freeware.

Newer mobos like yours usually have a HD spin up / spin down delay option in the bios. I've seen most have 1-2 sec pause. Worth a try for the booting issue. I have seen similar problems in a client's comp who was frequently swapping HD's. The problem was the HD power connection. It had loosened up (The solder connecting it to the HD chip that is...) due to the constant swapping. When the comp is on, wiggle the molex connection up and down (don't try to unplug it) and see if starts to complain. If it does, you may be able to fix it with a touch of solder. Also, if you swap hd's frequently, get a molex extension and plug it to the HD and put a bit of hot glue around the connection to secure it. That way the molex power extension cable will take the abuse and not your hd's power connection.

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Considering many MSFN members (at least those who frequent the Multiboot threads) are members of 911cd.net, I'm sure the lowlife who just hacked that site will be making his way here eventually as well since msfn is linked to quite a bit in their threads. So to the board admins...Heads up! From 911cd.net

On a non partitioned HD, windows goes to setup w/o "Press any key..". If it sees a partition, it shows 'Press any key..." by means of having bootfix.bin included in the boot folder of a 2000/xp/2003 OS build. Since a basic install disc uses I386 as both its source folder and boot folder and bootfix.bin is present, it is standard. If you use cdshell, you want to skip graphics and such at first and before the menu loads, do a call to bootcheck (look at the site for info on how to use if you are not familiar) For easyboot, there is a timer option you can trigger. See the help file for that as well.