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Post by kinghanco on Jun 15, 2007 19:24:13 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2007 7:30:04 GMT -5
Well, off the top of my head I can't think of anything worth changing there (except that ACPI sucks and I always turn anything ACPI related off  and I like my bootup num-lock on). What exactly happens when you try to boot with a Windows install CD? Maybe  |
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Post by Heihachi_73 on Jun 16, 2007 8:03:45 GMT -5
Graphics card fans aren't too hard to get working. If you can unscrew it, just take it apart and use a bit of sewing machine oil on the inside. I also did this with the CPU fan on a Pentium 166 back in about 2000, which still works to this day (swapped with P200 CPU) without any noise. Just out of curiosity, I notice a Western Digital drive there. If not tried already, try booting it up without any jumpers on it. I don't know if they're any different today, but I got an old 1.6GB IDE drive working this way. The WD drives are a bit different to others like Samsung or Seagate; they default to master if no jumpers are used, instead of slave. Could you send some old AGP cards down my way, kthx?  Anything's better than my 2MB S3 Trio PCI test card! |
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Post by kinghanco on Jun 16, 2007 22:37:52 GMT -5
Good news. I got my 160gb hard drive fix! I use the WipeDrive Pro to clean up the 7gb part on the hard drive which it only found. Then I use the Western Digital to formated the 160049 kb space back which Partition Magic won't do but just complain about the BAD partition and couldn't read or find the 2nd partition at all. Well I made my mind up and I will use XP until I get a faster computer. I notice that XP run online games much faster than on Vista. I did thought about dumping the Playstation games onto the 160gb for now. Maybe move FinalBurn Alpha onto it as well. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2007 8:17:13 GMT -5
Update to the thing I ranted about earlier, though it's still offtopic.  It turns out that mobo didn't have broken onboard sata controllers afterall. Just crappy and a bit incompatible. Basically, the sata controller is version I, and the hard drive is version II. Eventhough they are supposed to work without a hitch, some of them don't. As soon as I jumpered the harddrive to only work in sata I mode, the whole thing started working flawlessly. What drives me nuts the most is that I didn't even think about it before. I was just randomly browsing wikipedia and stumbled upon the sata article, and there was a mention about incompatibilities. Which I then went and tried and voila, it's all good. What makes me a happy happy man is that this makes me still golden. No fried hardware for me.  |
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Post by patrickp on Jun 21, 2007 13:24:21 GMT -5
I'll let you go on thinking that, then, Mika! |
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and I like my bootup num-lock on).
Anything's better than my 2MB S3 Trio PCI test card!
