Finally have my machine working to spec - tweaking the BIOS to force the memory to run at the same speed as the CPU rather than insanely fast seems to have done the trick. After making that change I could put my RAM in without the annoyingly cheerful audio warning and subsequent failure to boot. Hurrah. Re-installation of extraneous crud has continued apace, and the bootup time is back up to it's normal value rather than the blink-and-you'll-miss-it times on a bare XP install. On the plus side, I've discovered the Hibernate function - this saves the systems state to disc, bringing back the ultra-fast boot time with the added bonus that all your apps are exactly where you left them when you shut down. Ran some benchmarks and am suitably pleased with the speed increases - go go Google Compute.
| Case: | Cooler Master ATC 200 - swanky aluminium case (see userpic above for my actual colour-scheme) with all-thumbscrew design, slide-out mobo-tray, and 4 (count em) cooling fans. |
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| PSU: | Enermax 350W top-quality, dual-fan design |
| Motherboard: | ASUS A7N8X Deluxe - nForce2 chipset, on-board everything (2 Serial, 1 Parallel, PS2 Mouse/Keyboard, 6 USB2, 2 1394/Firewire/iLink, 2 NICs, 5.1-channel audio, ATA133 & Serial ATA, etc, etc |
| CPU: | AMD Athlon XP 2000 (retail, w/heatsink&fan |
| Memory: | 2 x Corsair XMS3200 512Mb |
| Video: | PNY Verto GeForce4 Ti4600 AGP 4x, 128Mb DDR - Mwahahahaha! Videologic DVD Player - Hardware DVD/MPEG2 decoder w/TV out |
| Disks: | Generic 3.5" Floppy Philips CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive Creative 5x DVD-ROM Drive Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 120Gb HD Old Maxtor HD |
| Accessories: | Creative 4.1 speakers Samsung ML-6050 (old laser printer scrounged from work) Relisys GenieScan4600 (A4 flatbed USB scanner) LEGO webcam and Mindstorms IR tower Saitek Cyborg Digital 3D joystick (similar) Palm IIIc cradle |
| OS: | Windows XP Professional RedHat Linux 7.3 to follow soon |
December 9 2002, 08:51:53 UTC 18 years ago
Doesn't seem too high to me...
December 9 2002, 09:11:05 UTC 18 years ago