Yian
March 27th, 2003, 11:57 PM
Okay... this is really all about hardware...
Good news, I finally got my 3D prophet 9700 pro working at its full speed!
Bad news.... I almost upgraded everything i got, means I got myself almost a brand new rig! Aside form montiors, hard drives, and floppy drives, I upgraded EVERYTHING...!
Originally I bought my video card, and it was giveing me problems. I can't boot up my machine sometimes... (suspend mode right before login screen... the notorious 4x AGP incompatibility bug of ATI Radeon cards...) then I toned down my card's core speed and memory clock with Radeonator, and the card finally worked...
Then there were corrupted textures everywhere due to a bad power supply, so I got myself a 400w 99% output one (amazing huh?), thus solved the texture problem, but it still refuse to go back to its default core and momery speed... so it was obvious that my BIOS of the mo-bo need to be flashed...
so okay I went to the one and only computer store in Kutztown and let the nice technician to take care of it... the evil mother board screwed up itself (or the technician... we will never know...), anyway the board was fried. He sold me a Gigabyte board with a P4 2.6 on it includes a copper core sink and a big ass fan and all that... with a decent discount, and without charging me the labour. but shit waited for us...
The fried board obviously short-charged the case as well, thus every mo-bo he tested fine became motionless once screwed into my case. He got three dead mo-bos after that and he was really scared of my case. I bought a new case from him and he put the last board into my case and it worked fine. My case took the fall when the mo-bo was fried... the video card was safe, the hard drive was safe, everyone was fine... if the charge went the other way around I wouldm't be typing here... I already got a pistol and shoot my... my toes, yep, my toes, the pinky maybe.
My case was not evil. In fact, it was a hero.
...anyways, theoretically the repair function in Windows XP CD should help me rebuild my system since the CPU and the mo-bo was changerd, but too bad XP didn't do too well. all the shit were corrupted and eventually failed. I formatted my drives right after I found my rescue disk and my CDs for the OS. Then the fucking AGP port won't run at all... tweaked the shit out of the BIOS and grabbed all the chipset and now it is in a fine shape like a cup of wine.
Then I was busy fixing the VGA video controller shit... they somehow became unknown devices... I didn;t want to risk updating vido drivers to Radeon's Catalyst till I got the shit on VGA and it was really frustrating, but eventually I decided to go without them. Seemed to be fine though... it works now.
What a trek I have gone through. I really approciate the dude who worked in the store, without charging me the mo-bo my case has ruined, and my case, who took the negative-charge away from my vifdeo card. And Matt Althouse, who really gave both emotional amd physical support during this time of crisis... I should put him to my web site.
Good news, I finally got my 3D prophet 9700 pro working at its full speed!
Bad news.... I almost upgraded everything i got, means I got myself almost a brand new rig! Aside form montiors, hard drives, and floppy drives, I upgraded EVERYTHING...!
Originally I bought my video card, and it was giveing me problems. I can't boot up my machine sometimes... (suspend mode right before login screen... the notorious 4x AGP incompatibility bug of ATI Radeon cards...) then I toned down my card's core speed and memory clock with Radeonator, and the card finally worked...
Then there were corrupted textures everywhere due to a bad power supply, so I got myself a 400w 99% output one (amazing huh?), thus solved the texture problem, but it still refuse to go back to its default core and momery speed... so it was obvious that my BIOS of the mo-bo need to be flashed...
so okay I went to the one and only computer store in Kutztown and let the nice technician to take care of it... the evil mother board screwed up itself (or the technician... we will never know...), anyway the board was fried. He sold me a Gigabyte board with a P4 2.6 on it includes a copper core sink and a big ass fan and all that... with a decent discount, and without charging me the labour. but shit waited for us...
The fried board obviously short-charged the case as well, thus every mo-bo he tested fine became motionless once screwed into my case. He got three dead mo-bos after that and he was really scared of my case. I bought a new case from him and he put the last board into my case and it worked fine. My case took the fall when the mo-bo was fried... the video card was safe, the hard drive was safe, everyone was fine... if the charge went the other way around I wouldm't be typing here... I already got a pistol and shoot my... my toes, yep, my toes, the pinky maybe.
My case was not evil. In fact, it was a hero.
...anyways, theoretically the repair function in Windows XP CD should help me rebuild my system since the CPU and the mo-bo was changerd, but too bad XP didn't do too well. all the shit were corrupted and eventually failed. I formatted my drives right after I found my rescue disk and my CDs for the OS. Then the fucking AGP port won't run at all... tweaked the shit out of the BIOS and grabbed all the chipset and now it is in a fine shape like a cup of wine.
Then I was busy fixing the VGA video controller shit... they somehow became unknown devices... I didn;t want to risk updating vido drivers to Radeon's Catalyst till I got the shit on VGA and it was really frustrating, but eventually I decided to go without them. Seemed to be fine though... it works now.
What a trek I have gone through. I really approciate the dude who worked in the store, without charging me the mo-bo my case has ruined, and my case, who took the negative-charge away from my vifdeo card. And Matt Althouse, who really gave both emotional amd physical support during this time of crisis... I should put him to my web site.