Hi! Here is a horror story for ya all!!
I was very exited when I got those (Asus + NW), I even got to test my processor out of two canditates. (Both SL63X's) Mine (the better) can do some 2500Mhz++ (Don't remember exact speed, I tested the highest speed that booted...) I ran all tests with stock intel cooler.
First I tested reliability @2.4Ghz (133Mhz systembus, or 533 if you willl...) by running pifast for 2 hours, and temperature was (According to asus pcprobe) some 54 - 59 celsius. Not too bad I thought, NW seemed to run happily @2.4Ghz.
However I started to have some problems next morning when I booted up. Windows said (XP prof.) that my harddrive was corrupted and it tried to fix it. After 2 reboots it finally started, but now I was getting some I/O errors. One reboot more and I couldn't get anything but BSOD saying that my hd is dead. (No workaround for that, tried lowering udma modes etc. and safemodes.) The tricky part is that this very same hd works flawlessy in my other computers. Remember also that when running oc'd with asus p4s533 @ 533fsb, pci is @33mhz, exactly where it should be, so no error there. Also overheating is very unlikely, because it was colder than last night and when I got to windows pcprobe showed only some 40 celsius for cpu and 33 for motherboard, nice temps if you ask me.
OK. Third day and I was armed with Win2K. It had never let me down so I was confident that this would save my ass. I ripped of everything from my computer, it had only motherboard, processor, and my trusted elsa cladiac 920 (Long live elsa, weep.) Hd is a maxtor 740dx, cdrom liteon 12x10x32 and panasonic floppydisk drive. Oh, and I use kingmax memory 2x256mt ddr333, asus qualified memory modules. I set lamest timings to every possible thing in bios and disable onboard sound, parallel and com ports. Installation begun. Everythin worked nicely, I even installed some programs like office and photoshop 5.5. But everything good must come to an end (or how you say that in there USA?) and what do you know? Yes, you're evel, I see you smiling! I/O errors! Many, little notification windows popped up until BSOD came.
Ok here is the deal. I think that there is something wrong in sis ide and/or agp drivers, or atleast I hope so.
Say what you think, or if you have similar stories please share them with us. All I know is that I'm unhappy young man who has nice pile of too expensive scrap metal in the corner of his room. ANY advice is welcome.
I was very exited when I got those (Asus + NW), I even got to test my processor out of two canditates. (Both SL63X's) Mine (the better) can do some 2500Mhz++ (Don't remember exact speed, I tested the highest speed that booted...) I ran all tests with stock intel cooler.
First I tested reliability @2.4Ghz (133Mhz systembus, or 533 if you willl...) by running pifast for 2 hours, and temperature was (According to asus pcprobe) some 54 - 59 celsius. Not too bad I thought, NW seemed to run happily @2.4Ghz.
However I started to have some problems next morning when I booted up. Windows said (XP prof.) that my harddrive was corrupted and it tried to fix it. After 2 reboots it finally started, but now I was getting some I/O errors. One reboot more and I couldn't get anything but BSOD saying that my hd is dead. (No workaround for that, tried lowering udma modes etc. and safemodes.) The tricky part is that this very same hd works flawlessy in my other computers. Remember also that when running oc'd with asus p4s533 @ 533fsb, pci is @33mhz, exactly where it should be, so no error there. Also overheating is very unlikely, because it was colder than last night and when I got to windows pcprobe showed only some 40 celsius for cpu and 33 for motherboard, nice temps if you ask me.
OK. Third day and I was armed with Win2K. It had never let me down so I was confident that this would save my ass. I ripped of everything from my computer, it had only motherboard, processor, and my trusted elsa cladiac 920 (Long live elsa, weep.) Hd is a maxtor 740dx, cdrom liteon 12x10x32 and panasonic floppydisk drive. Oh, and I use kingmax memory 2x256mt ddr333, asus qualified memory modules. I set lamest timings to every possible thing in bios and disable onboard sound, parallel and com ports. Installation begun. Everythin worked nicely, I even installed some programs like office and photoshop 5.5. But everything good must come to an end (or how you say that in there USA?) and what do you know? Yes, you're evel, I see you smiling! I/O errors! Many, little notification windows popped up until BSOD came.
Ok here is the deal. I think that there is something wrong in sis ide and/or agp drivers, or atleast I hope so.
Say what you think, or if you have similar stories please share them with us. All I know is that I'm unhappy young man who has nice pile of too expensive scrap metal in the corner of his room. ANY advice is welcome.
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