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    Problem worse. Computer freezing instantly after starting.

    I wrote last week about random lock ups from my computer...well, the problem soon got much worse. As soon as I hit the power button, all the lights turn on, the fans starting spinning, the hard drive and cd/dvd drives start spinning, but nothing else happens. The red "working" light just stays...
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    Computer locking up.

    My computer has slowly started locking up more and more, usually when I'm playing a game of some sort. It's even more likely to do it as I'm listening to music at the same time, so I'm thinking its a memory or cpu issue. Any ideas or tests I could run to try and isolate the problem?
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    How would I completely wipe my hard drive clean?

    Tried windows setup.. it's telling me that I can't delete the partition because it's using temp setup files from it....
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    How would I completely wipe my hard drive clean?

    thanks :)... got a lot of backing up to do first though.
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    How would I completely wipe my hard drive clean?

    Not really sure how to do this... or how to do it safely.... Thanks.
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    Finally started OCing my 3000+ Winchester

    Well I set the ram at a 133 divider and lowered the timings. It ran CS at 2.4 but it had green lines on the walls and floor.. wasn't very stable.. didn't kick me off though. With my ram at 1:1 and the cpu at 2.4 GHz.. it looked nice.. just froze on me after 20 minutes... 2.3 GHz at 1:1...
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    Finally started OCing my 3000+ Winchester

    Well it crashed again even with the divider.. guess 2.3 is just the max my cpu can do. Either way I'm ok with that. Thanks for the help everyone.. if yall have anymore ideas I'd be willing to try. Might end up getting a newer 3200 once the prices go down simply because I don't like odd numbers. :P
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    Finally started OCing my 3000+ Winchester

    I remember it was an early 40.... 43 I believe. Too much trouble to take off the hsf with all that arctic silver. Knew I should have written it down. Yes, it's the samsung TCCDs. 270 at those timings? I can't get much to run at 267 with worse timings. :(
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    Finally started OCing my 3000+ Winchester

    ok.. so should I put it back to the pc3200 ratings of 2-2-2-5 and then use the divider?
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    Finally started OCing my 3000+ Winchester

    Which is more important? Is the faster clock speed worth using the divider?
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    Finally started OCing my 3000+ Winchester

    I've thought about it, but this stuff is rated to run at 533Mhz at 3-4-4-8. See this thread. http://forums.anandtech.com/me...9871&enterthread=y
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    Finally started OCing my 3000+ Winchester

    Highest stable that I can get (by stable I mean running all my games and stuff fine: Cs:Source, WoW) is 2.3 GHz at 1.5v. That's 267x9, HTT is 3x Even moving the voltage up to 1.6, I can't get CS to run for more than a few minutes at 2.4 without getting an error and crashing. At 1.6v my...
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    Best way to get accurate temp readings with a Neo2 Plat?

    Have it.. but how do you make sure it works with your mobo?
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    Best way to get accurate temp readings with a Neo2 Plat?

    Is there a certain program I can download or anything that I can do to make sure my temp readings are correct? I hear that the Neo2 doesn't report them accurately.
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    CPU-Z showing my MSI K8N Neo2 Plat as a nForce 3 250???

    Isn't this motherboard supposed to be an ultra? heh.. it also isn't showing the manufacturer name. Maybe I don't have drivers installed proplerly or something. Had this thing running for almost a month now no problems and just noticed this.
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    Anybody here using this RAM? How is it?

    Any updates on how high it'll go? I have some on the way now.. be here Monday. :D
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    Anybody here using this RAM? How is it?

    Is this it? http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=20-220-033&depa=1
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    Well, new CD-Rom drive and games still not running.

    Thanks. I figured out I was just dumb and forgot to reset the jumper on my CD-burner to slave. (It had been my only one before). Once I did this it recognized everything and I can run anything. I'm still confused as to how it worked the first time though, since I didn't change anything until...
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    Well, new CD-Rom drive and games still not running.

    I bought a new CD-Rom drive because some games like Farecry won't run on many CD-burners. First time I tried to play it worked fine, but everyother time after that it just freezes up on the initial Farcry logo. Not sure what the deal is here. :( Any help would be greatly appreciated. I might...
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    Temp readings on the K8N Neo2 Plat

    Has a BIOS update fixed the temp readings at all? I heard they were off. I'm using 1.3 now.
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    Problem with my new build

    Alright then. Thanks for the help you two. I think I'm on the right track. :) Actually.. any recommendations on a good drive that will run these games?
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    Problem with my new build

    But it let me install both games from the CD's, it just won't get past the logo when I try to play them. Is there a difference?
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    Problem with my new build

    Thanks for the info. I'm having the same problem with Call of duty, and I know it worked on my old cddrive, which was also a cdRom/CDR/CDRW drive.
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    Problem with my new build

    So I finally got my new system put together yesterday and installed Farcry to see what it could do. I installed everything fine but when I tried to actually play the game it brought up the initial farcry logo then froze. The same thing happened with Call of duty. When I installed Dark Age of...