Recent content by skay

Why can't you do it manually?

LeadTek GeForce 2 MX Dh Pro at 220/212. I start to see some "snow" if I push the memory any higher. Overall I'm pretty impressed with it's overclockability.

My only suggestion is that it sounds like you might have a bad ATA/66 cable. Did you try others, or just this one? Also, if the BIOS can't even detect the drives when you use the cable, then how does it blue screen? It shouldn't even boot up if it can't find a drive.

Are you absolutely sure that it's the CPU fan spinning up? The reason I ask is that the Enermax PSUs do spin faster based on temp. So as the temp of the case increases, the fan in the PSU spins faster. Maybe you have the fan connectors for the CPU and the PSU switched on the motherboard (or...

I'll second that recommendation for the InWin Q500: excellent build quality, removable motherboard try, and relatively inexpensive for a full tower.

I'm not 100% sure, but if one drive is 45GB and the other is only 40GB, then the stripe set will only use 40GB on the larger drive. In other words, if the size of the drives is not the same, the stripe set will use the smallest common size.

I severely doubt that you will be able to get the Tbird to run well at any FSB speed past 110-112Mhz. With some extreme cooling you might get it to 115, but most people have had very little luck pushing their FSB speeds very high. They just don't react the same way that the Pentiums do.

I believe the default voltage for all T-birds is 1.75. Try bumping it down a little in the BIOS and see if it works. My 750 runs at 850 using a voltage of 1.70.

The most likely explanation is that your heatsink is now better seated, thus giving better contact with the processor and lower temps. A rather common occurance from what I understand.

I believe it's a Sparkle power supply, but I'm not sure. Don't worry, though. I have the same case and have been running a Thunderbird 750 for months now with no problems.

I have the KT7 (non-raid). In an effort to eliminate some of the noise coming from the six or seven fans in my case, I simply disconnected the fan on the chipset. I remember reading a review somewhere that stated that the fan was overkill since the chipset didn't really get all that hot anyway...

I haven't had any instability problems since upgrading from UL to WW, but I did see a noticeable performance drop. Now I can't decide whether to go back or go forward and try the WZ....

I resorted to sandpaper: gives the extra benefit of smoothing the surface as well.

Completely cleaning a machine is a very difficult thing to do unless you are very experienced, and in my (somewhat informed) opinion, the only way to truly clean up a machine is to reinstall the OS. Even if you uninstalled all of the old software and deleted any files created by the previous...

I have to agree with Evilboy about the Win2000 thing. Whenever I tried to run any games under Win2000 it would lock up pretty quickly. There is a VIA AGP update on Microsoft's site here, but it didn't work for me. I wound up going back to 98 and haven't had any problems since.