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Ruger22C

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A few questions, if anyone wouldn't mind helping out a noobie. My specs posted below.
I just finished building my PC, and I have these problems,

1: When I chagne ANY BIOS setting, as soon as I save and exit the PC will power off. It will power back on, it will be powered for about 3 seconds and power off. It will do this 5 times and then load correctly.
It loads correctly other times, just not when I change a BIOS setting.
I have two sticks of RAM. I put stick #2 in slot #1 and removed the original #1 altogether. It still does it.

2: My rosewill memory card read functions, seemingly. The USB port works, but it will not read cards. There are no drives listed in My Computer, there would normally be four letters assigned. And when I put in a card, no lights come on. It worked fine in my last computer, that I pulled it out of.

3: When starting my PC, I notice that most IRQ's are used by more than one item. For example, IRQ 11 is used by 5 items.

4: Can I get more than 3GB in Win XP MCE without compatibility issues?


Specs:
1 ABS 700W PSU, 1 E8400, 1 P35-DS3L Gigabyte, 4gB DDR2 800 CAS 4 OCZ stock 2.1v, 1 500gB 32mB Cache HDD, 2 DVD-RAM Drives, 1 Floppy drive, 1 BFG Ageia PhysX card, 1 X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty, 1 HDTV Wonder Card, 4 80mm fans, 4 12" Cathode lights.

Temporarily using a 7950GT until my EVGA 8800GT arrives. I had to RMA the XFX 8800GT, as the bloody piece of crap I bought is hard locked at 100%, you CANNOT change the fan speed and it is unbearably loud.

EVGA Arrives tomorrow, overnight shipping from newegg.
 
1. you've changed a setting that's incompatible with the ram and/or cpu.

2. you'd need to install the driver for the reader to work under windows.

3. it may be normal if you're assigning IRQ's to the USB ports.

4. no. you'd have to have to move to XP Professional 64bit.
 
Thanks for the quick reply.

My RAM was running 1.9v, the proper setting was 2.1 and OCZ warranties it to 2.2. So, I set it to 2.1 .. and that time it restarted properly.

However, I'm having a bigger issue..
My PC is restarting it's self at 28 seconds into 3dmark05. CPU temp on idle should be 27-30, haven't been able to test load yet. I would Assume it's not the CPU temperatures...
The videocard was just pulled out of my other machine and never had heat troubles. I last used it earlier today in that machine.

Any idea what might be going on it? :-(
Thanks.
 
get "PC Wizard" and have it run it's benchmarks on the system, and monitor the cpu and gpu temps while doing so.

well, would need exact info about the system.

make and model of the following: mobo,cpu,ram,psu, and gpu.
 
Thanks.

I Think last question:
That rosewill memory card reader didn't come with any drivers.. and I can't update the drivers for anything in ADD HARDWARE.
Don't see drivers on rosewill site.

Thanks again for the help, robis!
 
You don't need any drivers for your card reader. I don't know where he gets this stuff.

Your restart issue is quite possibly a driver issue. Have all of the latest drivers loaded for all of the hardware?
 
there should have been a model number on the card reader. if you can get that to me, I'll see what I can find out about it.

 
weel, I've a few generic card readers and the one that came with HP, all of them needed drivers fro both Xp and vista so the individual slots would id and be readable.

from a site selling the card reader, customer comments.

"No Vista drivers. Same problem as Fickle, shows the drives after you get thru the 8+ install failures, then won't show up again until the same procedure is gone thru after unplugging and recycling."

"Hopefully they will provide drivers for Vista (86 + 64) sometime and this will solve the problems. For now it is taking up space and it isn't worth my time to remove as it just sits there."

I shot a email off to Rosewill. I've had to email them before because they do not post all of the drivers on their site. had a card they listed in the datatbase but did not provide drivers for XP unless you emailed them.
 
Is there a place in your bios (integrated peripherals probably) that allows you to enable/disable the front USB headers in the bios?
 
ruger, I have sent you some info on a different card reader, just to show you that the readers to function properly do need drivers. What I found funny was that the manual is just 2 images of how to install the unit physically, and the pinout is a poorly made pdf that's compressed. I just love how backwards Rosewill is on customer service.
 
well. that'd be the 1st one I've seen thata did not need drivers for it to work properly. if it quit then I would say the unit is shot.
 
I have Rosewill RCR-100 working perfectly in both XP and Vista, but had problems with RCR-102 on my XP machine.

Just get another card reader that is proven to work. Just noticed that yours is the RCR-102.

Get rid of it - I did. 😀
 
My videocard kept screaming at me on boot, so I changed init first from PCI to PEG...
I don't know, but now my memory card reader works...
...
 
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