- Oct 5, 2003
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just purchased an IBUYPOWER budget gaming rig...
Case ( NZXT Trinity ATX Mid-Tower Case w/400W Power Supply Black )
Case Lighting ( Cold Cathode Neon Light Blue )
Power Supply ( ** iBUYPOWER Recommended ** NZXT PF-500 500 Watt Power Supply )
Processor ( [939-pin] AMD® Athlon-64 4000+ CPU w/ Hyper Transport Technology )
Processor Cooling ( Certified CPU Fan and Heatsink + 2 Extra Color Lighting Case Fans )
Motherboard ( Asus A8N-E nVidia nForce4-Ultra Chipset w/7.1 Sound, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0 PCI-E Motherboard )
Memory (1024 MB [512MB X2] DDR-400 PC3200 Memory Corsair XMS w/ Heat Spreader)
Video Card ( Nvidia Geforce 7600GT 256MB w/DVI + TV Out Video )
Hard Drive (160GB] [Serial-ATA-II, 3Gb, 7200 RPM, 8M Cache] )
CD/DVD Drive ( 16x DVD-ROM + 52x32x52 CD-RW Combo Drive Black )
Sound Card ( Creative Lab Sound Blaster Audigy SE )
Speaker System ( 600W PMPO 3 PCS Super Bass Subwoofer Speaker System )
Network Card ( Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100) )
Floppy Drive ( Mitsumi 1.44 MB Internal Floppy Drive Black )
Keyboard ( Logitech Deluxe Keyboard Black )
Mouse ( Logitech Optical Internet Mouse Black )
Bought the system for my son for gaming online and on our home LAN.
Have installed several games, and have had to reinstall several due to
unexplainable lockups, reboots or drops back to desktop
Nothing overclocked at all. I have read quite a bit about the
NForce4 Chipsets and SATA 3 Gb hard drives...
We have had to uninstall and reinstall
Half life 2, Quake 4, Call of Duty 2, and now possibly MX vs ATV unleashed
after reinstall the games seem ok so far, need more time on them though.
I have never had to reinstall games like i have on this machine.
would this be considered a corruption problem? how can it be cured?
would installing a regular IDE hard drive solve the issue?
are data corrution problems rampant with the nforce4 boards and SATA drives?
thanks for any input !
Case ( NZXT Trinity ATX Mid-Tower Case w/400W Power Supply Black )
Case Lighting ( Cold Cathode Neon Light Blue )
Power Supply ( ** iBUYPOWER Recommended ** NZXT PF-500 500 Watt Power Supply )
Processor ( [939-pin] AMD® Athlon-64 4000+ CPU w/ Hyper Transport Technology )
Processor Cooling ( Certified CPU Fan and Heatsink + 2 Extra Color Lighting Case Fans )
Motherboard ( Asus A8N-E nVidia nForce4-Ultra Chipset w/7.1 Sound, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0 PCI-E Motherboard )
Memory (1024 MB [512MB X2] DDR-400 PC3200 Memory Corsair XMS w/ Heat Spreader)
Video Card ( Nvidia Geforce 7600GT 256MB w/DVI + TV Out Video )
Hard Drive (160GB] [Serial-ATA-II, 3Gb, 7200 RPM, 8M Cache] )
CD/DVD Drive ( 16x DVD-ROM + 52x32x52 CD-RW Combo Drive Black )
Sound Card ( Creative Lab Sound Blaster Audigy SE )
Speaker System ( 600W PMPO 3 PCS Super Bass Subwoofer Speaker System )
Network Card ( Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100) )
Floppy Drive ( Mitsumi 1.44 MB Internal Floppy Drive Black )
Keyboard ( Logitech Deluxe Keyboard Black )
Mouse ( Logitech Optical Internet Mouse Black )
Bought the system for my son for gaming online and on our home LAN.
Have installed several games, and have had to reinstall several due to
unexplainable lockups, reboots or drops back to desktop
Nothing overclocked at all. I have read quite a bit about the
NForce4 Chipsets and SATA 3 Gb hard drives...
We have had to uninstall and reinstall
Half life 2, Quake 4, Call of Duty 2, and now possibly MX vs ATV unleashed
after reinstall the games seem ok so far, need more time on them though.
I have never had to reinstall games like i have on this machine.
would this be considered a corruption problem? how can it be cured?
would installing a regular IDE hard drive solve the issue?
are data corrution problems rampant with the nforce4 boards and SATA drives?
thanks for any input !
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