Recent content by russbiscuit

If anyone has a Sapphire Radeon 7950 Boost Dual-X, could you please check to see if you have BIOS p/n 113-3e24900x-s48 (ver. 015.030.000.001.000000). By default this is the version of the BIOS that appears when the blue bios switch light is on. I stupidly started messing wih my BIOS without...

what's the best method of backup I can do that will allow for a quick restore?

I have a second identical hard drive (hitachi SATA I 160GB) that I want to add into my existing system, but I'm wondering if it is possible to set up a RAID array (1 or 0 using the built in mobo nforce4 RAID controller) without erasing my current drive. If not, is anyone aware of a software...

Well I'm not using an add in card, just whats available on my motherboard (a nforce4 based socket 930 foxconn board). And I'd actually prefer to use Raid 0 rather than Raid 1 if possible

I have a second identical hard drive (hitachi SATA I 160GB) that I want to add into my existing system, but I'm wondering if it is possible to set up a RAID array (1 or 0) without erasing my current drive. If not, is anyone aware of a software program that allows you to backup an image to an...

Well i stopped the fan while running prime95, nvmonitor reports temp going up to 80C, but no lock ups, and to the touch the heatsink felt a little warm (instead of totally room temp like normal), but definitely not hot. I've had older chips where the heatsink got very hot, and this is not like...

Could this be caused by old thremal grease? Anyone know how Artic Silver II compares to Artic Silver 5?

My Athlon 64 3000+ (Winchester) @ (2.39Ghz, 8X299, 1.45V) consistently reports very high temperatures, but doesn't crash, and after recently replacing my cheap piece of junk heat sink with a Zalman 7000B-Cu and i'm still getting almost as high readings. I don't think it's a BIOS reporting...