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Just got my new PC goodies.... can't wait to get home

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bernse

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Well, the courier just dropped off the magic package. I just received:

P4-2.8C (SL6WJ)
P4P800
1GB PC3200 Ininfeon
ATI 9500 Pro 128MB DDR

Oh-oh-oh-oh!

I don't plan on overclocking... but I might dabble a little bit once I get the system set up and verify its stable.
 
For the record: The reason I ended buying these goodies is that my power supply cratered last week and took my CPU with it!

So, here is the rundown of what happened last night.

I installed the mobo, vid card, ram, old drives etc and went for the all important first boot.

The new ASUS boot screen came up, but nothing else. After figuring out how to get into the BIOS and doing some fiddling, I decided to change the boot devices to CD first, than HD. Wouldn't work. I couldn't even get the trays of the burner and DVD to open! The DVD light would just flash, and the burner would do NOTHING. I couldn't even eject the tray! They appeared to be sick to me.

So, on a hunch I took the DVD and burner out and just replaced it with my old 50x CD-ROM (thank god I kept it). Worked fine. OK. That was solved. I went to boot from the XP CD and reformat the HD. The HD showed on BIOS, but XP setup would not see it. I tried to boot from the HD, and the system would just hang. I tried to boot to a command prompt, and the system would spew a bunch of directory garbage from the HD and just reboot! The LS120 didn't show either.

So, on a hunch AGAIN, I went to Costco and picked up a new HD. I installed it and ripped out the LS120. I then re-loaded the BIOS defaults.

It worked fine. I booted from the XP CD, formatted, installed and away I went. I have yet to have a crash or hang.

It took me about 4-5 hours of troubleshooting. I figure when my power supply went, it took out EVERYTHING exept a couple sticks of ram (I was able to test these in my wifes PC) and my NIC card (I am running it in my new PC). This includes my old mobo, CPU, 1 stick of RAM, DVD drive, CDRW, GF3ti200, LS120 Floppy. Its really unfortunate too as I basically have a brand new PC save the case... which I may end up replacing anyhow. I was really hoping I could save the drives. Not a big loss though, as I never use the DVD as a DVD and I probably only burned about 20-30 CDs in the past 2 years. Although I will end up replacing the burner if I see a good deal as they are quite handy.

I was planning on not bothering buying a floppy drive (to replace the LS120), but I think I'll end up getting one so I can use it for BIOS updates and the like.

ANYHOW -

I've since got XP patched up and downloaded 3D Mark 2001SE. I started running it this AM but had to stop as I ran out of time and had to run to the office! I'll run it through at lunch.

I can say that what did run (up to the Lobby scene) looks gorgeous with the 9500 Pro and seems to move damn fast... high detail scene was around 180FPS or something like that.

I want to run some benchmark and stress tests on it just to verify that it is stable before I start installing my games. I may end up tweeking the RAM settings and stuff later, but as it sits right now everything is stock default. After a while, I may dabble in overclocking a bit too but don't plan on it right now as I think the 2.8Ghz and 1GB of RAM will hopefully be fast enough for me and the current sims (especially IL2-FB and FS2K4).
 
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