Recent content by terrend

For the past few weeks, I've started to get lots of file corruption errors. The symptoms are lots of event ID 9 (atapi disk timout) and 51 (paging operation) errors. Chkdsk sometimes finds bad index entries and (rarely) bad clusters. The death spiral looks like this: - rising number of atapi...

I have the SX830, and will be using the SX6xx series for an upcoming machine. Fantastic cases, though not quiet. My dual-athlon box has 7 fans (PS, 2xCPU, Geforce3, and 2xcase). Sounds like an airliner! But the latched door, drive rails, and removable HD bay are now must-have features for me...

FWIW, NASCAR Racing 4 and 2002 were designed as multi-threaded apps and can take advantage of SMP. Does it make a difference in gameplay? Hard to say. IMO, SMP capable gaming offers some interesting opportunities for game designers who are already pushing the limits of current (and likely...