Recent content by Yst

So I've got a now aging Asus K8V with an integrated Promise RAID controller to which I have attached, aside from a few PATA drives, an SATA 200GB drive. I have long had that single SATA drive running alone on one of the two RAID controllers on the K8V and have used it frequently. I today...

Bingo. To quote the manual (someone on alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus finally pointed this out to me): "If installing the ATi 9500 or 9700 Pro Series VGA cards, use only the card version PN xxx-xxxxx-30 or later, for optimum performance and overclocking stability." And of course I...

I'm using a cheap-ass multimeter, but I'm getting dead on 12V by its measurement on the 12V and dead on 5V on the 5V. One more reason to discount power as a probable cause. Back to the drawing board.

Unfortunately, I tend to agree that memory is my likely culprit, seeing as only it and power are universal enough problems to be associated with all my issues (Windows installer failing to find files resident on the disc, reboots during heavy use, crashes to desktop during any sort of use)...

So I had my Athlon 64 system with its six hard drives, Radeon 9700 Pro, three case fans and various bells and whistles and I was and am getting crashes to desktop and reboots during use (not just games which push the vid card's power reqs- firefox crashes intermitently as well). Occassionally...

So my current system, after a recent upgrade, is an Athlon 64 2800+ on an Asus K8V with things powered directly off the PSU being: Radeon 9700 Pro 5 IDE HDs and 1 SATA HD 2 CDR/W Drives 1 5'1/4" bay SB Live! Drive 2 large (front and rear) case fans 1 small (side panel) case fan...