Phil Stanbridge
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..well I've set it up on air properly now, (pics to follow) in my custom red case - it looks great along with the Mach II but for the time being I'm testing it on air using the stock heatsink. First impressions are, its quieter than the Intel affair - and XP boots a lot quicker with the AMD chip - Surprisingly so actually! I also tested Far Cry (@ 220FSB) 1600x1200 all settings maxed out via the settings panel in the game with my 5950 Ultra and it was surprisingly playable! It looked great too - especially the reflections and the water. I'm pretty sure it would play even better with an XT - I might just get one of these to test too.
But I experienced a very weird problem yesterday afternoon. I was running stable at 220 FSB - I upped it to 225FSB, and made a couple of small changes in the bios - I set DDR to 2.85,VGA to 1.6 and vcore to 1.5. I then proceeded to reboot. No problem there - until it got past the initial boot screen then it would hang. No picture no nothing. Everytime - I reset the cmos, and tried again. Nothing. The bios would work perfectly well. I could make any number of changes and save them and restart - it would not get to the XP splash screen and it would not boot into windows. The partitions were fine, the data was fine, the bios was fine - the hardware was working perfectly - for whatever reason XP had corrupted beyond repair by JUST upping the fsb to 225 and making a few changes in the bios! Fortunately I had made a recovery image so it didnt take me long to restore a working copy.
That said, I am totally baffled by this and I want to get to the bottom of it - I have no idea how those pretty minor changes could corrupt my HD in such a dramatic way?? I want to resolve this prior to applying the deep freeze.
But I experienced a very weird problem yesterday afternoon. I was running stable at 220 FSB - I upped it to 225FSB, and made a couple of small changes in the bios - I set DDR to 2.85,VGA to 1.6 and vcore to 1.5. I then proceeded to reboot. No problem there - until it got past the initial boot screen then it would hang. No picture no nothing. Everytime - I reset the cmos, and tried again. Nothing. The bios would work perfectly well. I could make any number of changes and save them and restart - it would not get to the XP splash screen and it would not boot into windows. The partitions were fine, the data was fine, the bios was fine - the hardware was working perfectly - for whatever reason XP had corrupted beyond repair by JUST upping the fsb to 225 and making a few changes in the bios! Fortunately I had made a recovery image so it didnt take me long to restore a working copy.
That said, I am totally baffled by this and I want to get to the bottom of it - I have no idea how those pretty minor changes could corrupt my HD in such a dramatic way?? I want to resolve this prior to applying the deep freeze.