blueghost75
Golden Member
ok, i have a little challenge for the anandtech pool of problem solvers out there.
I am building two computers at the moment, very similar in configuration, both side by side. Each computer is using an Abit KR7A RAID mobo, PC2100 DDR 2.5 CAS 256MB X 2 crucial (512 total), Antec 350 watt case, Netgear FA311 nic, SB Live 5.1. One computer has an ATI Radeon VE video card, a 56k creative PCI modem, a 24x plextor burner, and Athlon XP 1900+. The other has a Radeon 64mb VIVO, and a DVD and cdrw drive from an older computer. Both are also using Radial Fin coolers and arctic silver II from Fry's. The temp on both has been holding around 42-43c.
I installed Windows 2000 onto a RAID 1 array, both are using IBM 60GXPs. I then installed the NIC drivers so that I could access service pack 2 on my computer over the network. From there, I installed sp2, then the video video drivers, then 4in1s, without the IDE driver, then sound, and other such stuff. After all that, I am experienceing general instability, and some data seems to be getting corrupt. Some stuff that I coppied over the network to the first computer was all corupt, and quick time does not work at all, it kills the comptuer when I try to run it. I can play DVDs just fine, though. On the other computer, I went through the same proccess, and I now have MS office 2k installed, and when I open word, it dies(it gets a program error).
Who has suggestions about what the cause could be? Let me know if i left any details out, I probably did, I don't function well late at night.
I tried updating the network drivers on one computer, and it made no difference.
It seems as though the data is getting corrupt as it passes through the PCI bus, or the memory buss, or something in that area.
I am building two computers at the moment, very similar in configuration, both side by side. Each computer is using an Abit KR7A RAID mobo, PC2100 DDR 2.5 CAS 256MB X 2 crucial (512 total), Antec 350 watt case, Netgear FA311 nic, SB Live 5.1. One computer has an ATI Radeon VE video card, a 56k creative PCI modem, a 24x plextor burner, and Athlon XP 1900+. The other has a Radeon 64mb VIVO, and a DVD and cdrw drive from an older computer. Both are also using Radial Fin coolers and arctic silver II from Fry's. The temp on both has been holding around 42-43c.
I installed Windows 2000 onto a RAID 1 array, both are using IBM 60GXPs. I then installed the NIC drivers so that I could access service pack 2 on my computer over the network. From there, I installed sp2, then the video video drivers, then 4in1s, without the IDE driver, then sound, and other such stuff. After all that, I am experienceing general instability, and some data seems to be getting corrupt. Some stuff that I coppied over the network to the first computer was all corupt, and quick time does not work at all, it kills the comptuer when I try to run it. I can play DVDs just fine, though. On the other computer, I went through the same proccess, and I now have MS office 2k installed, and when I open word, it dies(it gets a program error).
Who has suggestions about what the cause could be? Let me know if i left any details out, I probably did, I don't function well late at night.
I tried updating the network drivers on one computer, and it made no difference.
It seems as though the data is getting corrupt as it passes through the PCI bus, or the memory buss, or something in that area.
