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swissknife is good, but only for slave drives. it doesn't let you mess with your master drive with any OS data on it. designed with the n00b in mind

anyone?

ok, theres my updated case idea, and i worked it out yesterday before my radio show, and scratched it down. but apparently the paper has walked away. well, in a quick mental note, it goes something like this: the Hard drives will be held in place by 4 metal beams with drilled holes in them [stratejically placed] so that there will be airflow between them. because i now have an ATA66 PCI card, the DVD-RW drive will be plugged in through that, so that there are no cables stretching from IDE2 over everything to the drive, in purpose of airflow. i have an IDE cable thats meant for that sort of thing too. IDE1 and IDE2 will be used for HDDs, up to 4 of them. 1 will hold the OS, 1 will hold my music 1 will be a /TEMP folder for Adobe Audition, there may be a 4th if i get another HDD. the floppy cable will, however stretch across, as i can't change that in any way. as for ribbon cables for the hard drives, i have one specially cut cable here thats bound tight so that it doesn't take up so much room, it has 5 slits and its folded over each one. lastly, while i was cleaning up the power pack that i got with the motherboard im building upon, i got its true output. its a 600W power pack. a pair of 300W packs, one for ATX, the other for all molex connectors. with that much power, i don't need it, i can get a molex y-cable if i need connections.

i don't exactly have enough to really layer it...i think its 1/4" thick plexiglas, it'll for a basic case, about say 8"x17"x11" max, with the cut corner part about 13 inches or so. it'll definately get LEDs...i have an LED fan for the graphics card just for kicks right now, it'll get a cathode in the back bottom corner, LED case feet, and an LED case fan, probably 80mm. the one thing i wont do is put lighted fans on the processors...just 60mm 4700RPM fans, 2 per processor. that'll keep it cool after i overclock it. i want to overclock it from a total 900MHz, to hopefully 1.2GHz or better combined. yea, i think thats about all... but the PCI cards going into it will be: Wireless internet 10/100MB/s ethernet card USB 2.0 i'll also have a PCI slot fan under the hard drive to kinda get some of the air out. i'll put the case fan in the corner above the serial ports/mouse port so that it can keep the processors cool...still air is no good. hopefully i can arrange it so that everything can plug in. if not i can fashion a fan connector to have longer wires the hard way. as long as it works, no?

vista gobbles up RAM like a hungry shark. thats why i'm currently forcing my system to run on 256MB of RAM. my theory has been that vista spreads out too far, which is why it lags on some systems...as you see in my sig, i run a very primitive system compared to what can be bought today....but if it runs well, i'll keep pushing limits. i've got 512MB of RAM that will go into a dual processor computer i'm slowly building...it'll only run XP, this will keep XP, and my other computer will get linux, or i'll put vista in that, and run linux on this. its all in how i feel like cutting it up. i know what i want, i know what i can use. its just how i can arrange it. i used to run Vista on 512MB of RAM. now i've got half that in there, over the next few days we'll see how it runs. im hoping it runs fine because if my dad ever wants to know where those two 256 chips went, i know he'll go looking in here. which is why i'm playing musical RAM...along with a few other games.

i just wanted to know if it would make a difference if i used the smaller pack vs. the gigantic oaf of a power pack. i measured out the sheet of plexiglas i have to use, its 45 3/4" square, with a 7"x18" rectangle cut from one corner. the motherboard is about 12"x11", so roughly 1 foot square. i didn't include the dimensions, and i know it may be a little tricky, and it probably will change by the time its finished, but this is my idea for a case design, everything is explained as i can do it, i'll try to take pictures of each step as i do it, i'm only 15, so i'll be getting help from older people with it, such as my dad, and people i know at my school when it comes to putting together, building and finalizing.

ok, i just did an upgrade [not a clean install] of 5536 a couple weeks ago. it kinda took up plenty of room, and im trying to open up a little more than +/- 4GB of space on this 40GB Deskstar is it? doesn't matter, its a 40GB drive. when it installed, it kept the previous windows in a folder called Windows.old.000 which i promptly deleted, for i had no use of it. all i didnt delete were the files that it said were still used. no use in screwing it up. now Windows.old.000 takes up 60MB of space, which is fine by me. yesterday, i put all my music on this hard drive because i need the slave as a temporary drive for my newest computer. the folder called windows, im assuming that its needed, but wanted to check first. the music is taking up 11.1 GB of space [although in reality theres 14.2GB total], but that still leaves about 22GB, [the finished partition is 33.7 or something close to that]. i don't have much installed, but im wondering whats taking up so much space. on my windows XP drive, i had it partitioned down to 20GB out of 40, half for XP, half for Linux, which worked out fine, i only used about 9GB of room with windows, then when i deleted linux and expanded XP, it went flawlessly. i know whats on that hard drive, whats taking up space, etc. im just wondering what ate the memory on this computer and if the folder Windows can be deleted. its taking up 7 some odd GB of space, then theres my music taking up 11.1GB of space. thats roughly 20 GB right there. where'd the other 13 go?

i always mute my computer before i turn it off, so M$

well, thats the thing, the 300 watt supply is huge. i don't really want to use it if i can avoid that. partly because it has no mounting screws, and also, a lot of the connector pins have some grease or something in the ATX supply, and a couple 4 pin connectors, which to me, suggests that it wasn't the same supply being used, because the ATX on the board is clean. i do know that the guy who previously owned it had it open as a server, which to me suggests it didn't have much connected. the 300W supply requires 2 AC power cables, it has two switches, generally more than i want to worry about. if i use the smaller pack, would there be a problem, or would it work fine. i plan on only having one hard drive, a 60 gig when i get it back, and a DVD-RW drive. it has 6 fan controllers, so far i'll use four between the heat syncs on the processors, and one for the graphics card fan, that would leave one for a mid-speed case fan. i don't exatly want to have a huge power pack, this computer is more of a what can i fit in with minimal power without too little.

ok, another question. i've not yet unleashed the beast inside it, i spent my day getting a 40GB HDD ready for it [sure beats the 6Gb i found before]. the power supply that the guy put in the box with it [it was something he just gave me] the power supply is like a dual power pack, i think how its set up is that one pack has the cables for the motherboard, the other has a bunch of 4-pin power connectors [8 regular, 1 for a floppy, then a bunch of 2 pins bundled at the beginning]. in my basement earlier, i found a power pack that has the right connectors for the motherboard, 3 normal 4-pin connectors, and then one for a floppy. would the smaller one work fine? my dad [who isn't exactly the best with computers] tells me that i need the big one for the power, but i want to make or get a nice small case for it, not some huge thing. the large one has a power output of about 310W, the smaller one is 144W i believe. also, i posted about an external yamaha CD burner that used SCSI interface. am i right in guessing that if i left this open case i could attach it? in with everything there was a long SCSI chain ribbon cable, i think it had 7 or 8 connectors.

its no regular dual socket motherboard though. it uses a pair of Pentium II Xeon processors. http://www.geek.com/procspec/intel/pentium2server.htm that has pictures/specs. i don't know how to really fit it in a case because the processors together are about the size of the power pack i want to use.

you don't exactly have to disable anything. when i installed my PCI video card, it was showing up as the secondary screen, all i did was change where the moniter was plugged in, without turning off my computer, because it switched when i rebooted. then i disabled intel on-board graphics, and made my nvidia card the primary video adapter

ok, earlier today my dad got home from the dump with my much anticipated computer. [its taken about 3 weeks]. its a Dual core Pentium II Xeon processor. now i've had a few debates from people i go to school with about a few things, like dual core being a single processor with two cores, or a motherboard with room for two processors. in this case, its two physical processors. here are all the things on the motherboard Inputs: ATX PWR_SEC [not sure what the connector is called] two SCSI inputs one ultra SCSI input one floppy input IDE Channels 1 and 2 1 AGP slot [which matches my ATi Rage 2C] 5 PCI slots 2 PCI-E slots 4 RAM slots [not sure what to call it, it takes what i have around here] 6 fan controllers two serial ports two USB ports keyboard/mouse inputs printer/scanner serial [not sure what thats called either] the model is a Super S2DGU im aiming to have a 60GB hard drive in it when i get that, but tomorrow i'll try to get a 40 GB ready so i can use that. my first question is that, if i were to build the case out of plexiglas, is there a person here who could help me with that, or a place i could be directed to if i wanted to do that. also, if i'm not able to build a case for it, is there a cheap cause i could buy that would fit this? its no small motherboard, and the processors are about the size of the power pack that i plan on using with it. any comments are welcome and anticipated.

Adobe Audition 2.0 isn't vista compatible because of the sound re-write...somewhat annoying, but 1.5 works great, for anything from windows 2000 to Vista 5536 to my current knowledge from testing. i wont get to RC1 for a while because of my need for a printer. my lexmark Z23 cannot install on vista...i tried doing it the long way, but some driver isn't working. it seems like its printing, but no ink comes out. not sure what else to say on it. windows recording mixer is also changed, but still similar.

unplug one item, get a USB HUB and plug in the hub. then plug in whatever you took out in the hub, and you have more ports. but honestly, my PC has 2 ports, somehow i manage to have one open. and if you look, i have a lot of hardware on this thing.

that and movies...everyone loves to use their DVD-RW drives for everything but DVD-RW lol

1.5 better than i expected, although chances are thats only because of the graphics.

yea, the only PC-Cillin i found was $20. so i'm using AVG. as long as it works im happy. also, all you linux users, doesnt 5536 look familiar? fonts, mouse, layout....

it was burning at 2.4x it took 15minutes, no one was in the room either. but i'll do a clean install through daemon...theres no reason it wont work. i hope.

well, yes and no that would give you a heatsync temp, not a CPU temp though, no matter where it is on the heatsync, it will always be cooler because the aluminum spreads out the heat. also aluminum doesn't heat up as fast or to the same temperature as plastic or other metals. thermal grease wouldnt really do it.

all processors have an elevated center chip. just get your wire level with it, so it doesn't disrupt too much. by looking at a picture of it, and knowing what a processor looks like [having several on my desk] i think that it should fit next to the center on the processor itself, and the heatsync would rest on top of it, and there should be a good amount of contact. but as ripken said, it may make the heatsync uneven, which defeats the purpose.

make sure to check the card, the cable, the moniter and whatnot to make sure its properly seated, screwed into place, plugged in, and the latter. if its none of that, it may be the lack of a driver. if you have a moniter out on the motherboard, and you aren't using that, use it, there shouldn't be a problem with it. if thats what you are using, i don't know what to say. if you're motherboard doesn't have a moniter output on it, then theres no reason it shouldn't work. moniter outputs should always work. especially if its on the motherboard or its the main output source.

while the topic is still kinda fresh: i got myself daemon tools because when i burned 5536 it would always have a corrupt file. it started out slow, but went alright. i got all the way to when it gave me the whole "please wait for windows to prepare to start for the first time' whatever stuff, it went on, and then it froze while completing the installation. luckily it rolled it back, so i'm on 5384 now, but should i just do a clean install? would that be better for me?

back on vista now, i ended up giving in [because my dad took tomorrow off to, and wednesday im uber busy] my sisters picked up a brand new nVidia GeForce FX5200. it looks loads better than the genoa in terms of hardware in the PC and also in deliverance. couldn't really ask for much more, this is really all i need for school. aside from new shoes.

ok, it might seem a little annoying, this kid keeps bumping his topic....but this is a question that i remembered: i've got an Asus AGP-V7100, i also have an ATi Rage 2C. both require AGP slots, but if you look at the direction of the pins [the part that go into the slot] its kinda the opposite of each other, and i was wondering why its like that. heres the Asus: http://www.e-star.ru/catalog/13414_0_b.jpg heres the ATi: http://img.2dehands.nl/f/normal/13962063.jpg if they're both AGP, why don't they fit into the same slot? i know its a motherboard thing, but why would it go like that? it confuses me.