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occaisionally i plug in my second drive, but its usually just sitting in the case as my backup...the master hard drive hasn't moved since i installed windows, my dad hates this, but the case has 10 fans in it. two of them act as a hard drive cooler, pushing air across the case from the front to the back right over the drives. haven't seem them budge of 34 C...they're both hitachi deskstars, 7200rpm...after the recent addition of two more CPU fans [2 per CPU] i haven't seen it overheat, clocked 463MHz per CPU...i can go up to 503MHz, but then the numbers start to fly. HDD coolers aren't as important as steady, constant and clear airflow. ribbon cables dont help. just get round, or learn to create them yourself. 40wire cables are better, as 80wire ribbons are much harder to do. [never gotten an 80 to work the way 40's do.

ISA! whoo, my board has two ISA, 5 PCI and an AGP slot...thats super old school i guess...i'll have pictures by the weekend i think, my sister is home with her comp so i can take pics and upload them faster. heres a spoiler: Soundblaster AWE64 ISA card USB2.0 PCI card WMP11 wireless internet PCI card trendnet ethernet PCI card GeForce MX/MX 400 32MB AGP card Dual Pentium II Xeon processors 640MB of SDRAM DVD+RW DL burner DVD drive 1x Hitachi Deskstar 40GB drive 1x Hitachi Deskstar 80GB drive 5 Case fans 4 4700RPM fans [two per processor] 1 4500 RPM fan [graphics processor] Apevia X-Dreamer case with side window 300W PSU thats the rundown really...its not the newest or coolest [in terms of heat] system there is, but people at my school loved it when they saw it today [music server died at the radio station so i did backup for 6 hours] it holds up nice, with 4 different clock modes, OC at 503MHz per processor, default at 451MHz per processor, power save at 381MHz, and then another that i haven't tried. its a hot system, and its overheated on me before which is why its got all those fans. if anyone knows a way to calibrate heat sensors on motherboards, please PM me or something, i have two remote temps that are blazing hot, but i don't know where they are, and i think they may be way off because normally the case interior is about 76-80 F, so i don't understand why it overheats so often at 503MHz.

if you install on the SATA drive, you'll get a max of 1.5GB/s because the drive can't function faster than the board. if you install raid on the other two, the pro will be having raid, the con will be that it would be a lot slower. its not the easiest thing to install an OS on SATA, but once its done, its very fast.

i have a DAS Keyboard..cost a little more than i would have liked to play but its completely blank...the lack of letters does help a person learn their typing, so its not all that bad to loose letters.

uhh, i got my Promise Ultra66 card to work with my optical drives once. then i took the card out, and haven't tried it since it didn't work in a different computer. i never got around to trying it again.

ok, well, it should get here on thursday, which is the day i'm going to at least get it all together and in one piece, i'll bring it into school and then make a video of my build, and then submit it. i'm still trying to figure out what to boot. my thoughts are an nLited XP, and maybe dual boot with Edubuntu 6.06, but i'll have to master Ardour before then. i don't think its new enough to support Darwin 7.2.1, so i've ruled that out. but as for the USB, am i right in thinking [from what you've all said] that if i did soldier pins on, one port wouldn't work?

i ordered my case, PSU, USB2 card, and a new VGA cable today, should all be here by friday... i have a question about the PCI card, but since its all for the new computer, i didn't feel like creating a new topic. Picture of USB card it has the holes on the chipset 1-10, which i'm guessing would be where pins are soldiered on for a USB2.0 hub on the front of a case or something first, am i right about that? its only a guess, but that is what it technically would be right? and second, would it be safe to try to soldier pins in there so i could utilize the front bay of the case? the motherboard being so old doesn't have the pins for USB on it, and i want to get as much out of it as possible.

if you don't use it, get rid of it. specifically: USB Ethernet USB Audio Modem support Joystick support other than that i don't see much else you'd want to get rid of...its not an XP i would use, i like to have at least some programs to use, but i'd love to try it out someday, to see what its like. once you have it installed i'd like to see your Boot time/processor/CPU speed/RAM etc...

swap partition is used like RAM when the actual RAM usage is high. its similar to pagefile, but a lot more stable and better.

you could get an IDE PCI card, as stated, or you can get IDE to SATA adapters for the hard drives. both ways work, i think the PCI card would be easier to work with, but i've never dealt with SATA, so its all in preferance

1GB of RAM is more than enough. it'll last you probably the computers entire life. if its never going to be used for gaming, then everything should be onboard, 1 gig of ram will easily go to everything...theres no need to over do it and spend money just so it can do more than you need.

if you're only going to use it for home use in its entire life, get the board with onboard stuff, but if you have a hint that you may want to play a game eventually, you might want to get onboard with room for expansion. a few of the newer microATX boards have PCI-E slots, and a few onboard things so that it could be built on. personally, i'd get at least LAN and VGA onboard, i don't find sound to be important in some situations, also soundcards are pretty cheap.

thats an old problem, unless i'm mistaken its been resolved.

avoid downloading or even visiting the microsoft webpage, aside from a high chance of getting bum downloads, its like a hacker hangout.

i used to have a full version of vista installed on this, a 1.1GHz celeron, the most RAM i had was 512, the least was 256, most of the time it had 384MB in it. celerons are the same class as P2 for those who are wondering....my boot time was 4:11...yea, it ran pretty well, got all the way to 5536, then i decided XP was better for the system, and loads more reliable.

latest version, would that be like 9.0b or whatever, i don't keep track of the letter parts. if so, then find another website that hosts it, it could just be that download site with a bad version.

ok, i wiped the hard drive nice and clean, its a 160GB WD ATA drive, my dad bought it, i have to use it. how am i going to get windows XP Professional onto it? i have XP SP1 and all the fancy boot disks. tried that, at the 6th boot disk, it hangs on Please wait...i'm not waiting a million years. tried booting off CD and using SP2..well, it didn't even see the CD, just gave me the Operating System Not Found crap. the nLite worked the first time, but then it failed to boot afterwards. now it hangs after the Press Any Key to Boot message. what am i to do? i have a BIOS update ready that i'm going to try on his computer, i'm already on the third floppy drive, the first two don't recognize the disks at all, this third one doesn't have a button on it, and i'm feeling a little awkward sticking my finger in to get the disk out and go on. i may have one more to try...but i dunno.

yea, it sucks because my parents don't use av/adware/spyware software at all. i got it working about 4:30 in the morning, but then when i woke up, it hung during boot, now i'm trying to install again...its murderous. its hanging on "press any key to boot" screen

can't access a program to do anything....best i can do is start the task manager. i'm formatting the drive and i'm going to attempt to reinstall windows, i got what he had on it off by booting it as a slave on this computer.

ok, my dad did something to his computer, and he lost basically access to everything. i can open the task manager, but whenever i try to open anything. shortly after, it will force shutdown by NT Admin. is there a way to save it?

whats the GUI if it has no explorer? also, you can't register XP without IE Core.

[bad day] sorry about that stupid question. if its not a program, its a driver, if its not a driver, the contacts are bad.

it may be that you're using WMP11. did it happen when you used 10?

thanks for the help all, i got ardour running, i used the package manager becuase i was having trouble with becoming root...i fixed it all up and ardour works, all i have to do now is learn the interface. knowing windows best might make this a little hard, but oh well. for anyone interested in Ardour, to install from the package manager, you will need the following: -Ardour-GTK -JACK -JACK Simple User Interface [can't remember the exact name, thats in the description though] -KAConnect [something along those lines, search for it and it should come up] if you miss anything you'll get an error message saying Ardour cannot connect to JACK...also, you can't have any music playing or the sort, it'll interfere with JACK. i found a solution to the Root user issue: in a new terminal window type: sudo passwd root enter your user password [press enter], then your NEW root password [press enter] then again, then you're done.

other than checking drivers, also check how the audio is turned up. if the master is all the way up, and wave is way down, that would cause it. for music, wave should always be all the way up, and you adjust the master to suit it, if you're on a sound system, wave should still be up, master should be around 25%, and use the stereo or reciever to adjust levels beyond that. skipping audio can be traced to over-modulating circuits surpressing the audio, which can make it sound like someone is turning it up and down a lot, or the skipping.