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Arug...

Now its slow to open anything. But once one program is opened, it runs at a normal speed.... Wassup??

My virtual mem is 800/800 and execesive paging is disabled...

should i go 300/300? or else the windows recommanded 1.5G/1.5G?

Or is there anything about drivers?

As that the last time i had the 6800GT 77.72 driver it first made my computer response slower in win xp and then BSOD (but i think BSOD was because of the Ntune and Nfirewall and IDE controller)

is there a driver that i could get that seems to not have this problem?
 
You have a switch to turn on but no lights?

how did you get spyware so fast? I recomend you using firefox or something. a lot of anti spyware programs do not work too good. its better just to prevent it.
 
This has nothing to do with MS, it is all to do with your lack of knowledge on PC building / setting up. Sorry, but face facts.

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'tis sad, but true. Your lack of knowledge and experience is what's causing most (if not all) your problems).

Here's a tip for ya:

Slow down. reset your BIOS so everything is stock speeds. Don't overclock anything. Re-install windows.

Leave it stress-testing, make absolutely sure it's 100% stable. Use it/stress-test it for at least a few days. If you don't get a single crash then you can assume it's stable and start from there.

Don't suddenly whack all the settings up. If you have a problem you'll have no idea what's caused it. The proper approach is to change only one thing at once, test it out, then move on to something else...

The key thing to remember, is take your time. You seem to have launched into this far too quickly. I've built dozens and dozens of PCs, but I still take just as long to put them together as I always have, because it's easy to rush and miss something that could give you real problems later.

On the plus side though, I've always found the 'trial by fire' approach is the best way to learn stuff properly.

So my advice would be to start again, and aim to get a stable computer before you aim for a world-dominating uber-computer.

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<font color=red>"Life is <i>not</i> like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapeńos - what you do today might burn your a<b></b>ss tommorrow."
 
Exactly my thought, its ok to be learning, you just have to take your time and take the proper angle!
We gave him this advice a few pages ago, and so far he's doing better or less worst lol!

Anyway take it easy holy, I told you women dont like 15 years old Bald guys. Either that or you'll have stomach problem, eczema or whatever but I assure you this stress is goin to come out one way or another...just hope it wont be erectile problems!

Asus P4P800DX, P4C 2.6ghz@3.25ghz, 2X512 OCZ PC4000 3-4-4-8, MSI 6800Ultra stock, 2X30gig Raid0
 
If memory serves the sorts of erectile problems at age 15 would require 'Anti-Viagra' to cure them... :wink:

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<font color=red>"Life is <i>not</i> like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapeńos - what you do today might burn your a<b></b>ss tommorrow."
 
lol...

Well now could i have gotten a bad copy of half life 2 demo, empire earth 2 demo, and the delta force's demo? Because Unreal tourment and warhammer dawn of war installs. While i will try ds2 again and ust leave it instead of trying to end the thing...

BTW founded out that my HDD was hot last night, i had it on a national geographic and when I went to pick it up (it was making constant noise, which I assumed to be access noise) and i had nothing on... so i pu my 120 mm right in front of it to hope to solve the problem. IS this normal for a SATA drive to heat up so much?

This morning when i came in (after running full night of emule, which is pretty light) it was cool

I will wait till the afternoon to see what is going on with the HDD
 
sig test... now i think there will be less confusion!

AMD A64 3200+Venice
DFI Lanparty UT NF4 Ultra-D
OCZ 2x512mb EL Gold VX PC3200 ram @ 3-3-3-8 @ 2.6V
evga eGeforce 6800GT 256mb GDDR3 ram
Enermax 485W PSU
Bios 3/10
WIndows XP SP2
 
dungeon seige is up... i think i ended process prematurely...

BTW how long do your computer to open a installer? It feels slow on mine... Very fast install speeds though..

and new sig!

AMD A64 3200+Venice
DFI Lanparty UT NF4 Ultra-D
OCZ 2x512mb EL Gold VX PC3200 ram 3-3-3-8
evga eGeforce 6800GT 256mb GDDR3 ram
Enermax 485W PSU
Bios 3/10
WIndows XP SP2
No OC
 
Both my PATa and SATA drives run too hot to touch for long.

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really?! I'm going to assume that these are bigger and faster drives? my quantium fireball 8GB and IMB death star 20GB don't get too hot...

are the new HDDs suppose to be hot?

AMD A64 3200+Venice
DFI Lanparty UT NF4 Ultra-D
OCZ 2x512mb EL Gold VX PC3200 ram 3-3-3-8
evga eGeforce 6800GT 256mb GDDR3 ram
Enermax 485W PSU
Bios 3/10
WIndows XP SP2
No OC
 
Rofl, it just WONT come down errrr
Their was south park episode about that Jimmy(crippled leg) that kept getting boners, funny stuff...
Anyhow can I see a picture of that "table rig" holy, also a picture of your bald head would be appreciate, cuz I heard u where comming in montreal tomorow! I wouldnt want to miss you if I saw you on the sidewalk!

Asus P4P800DX, P4C 2.6ghz@3.25ghz, 2X512 OCZ PC4000 3-4-4-8, MSI 6800Ultra stock, 2X30gig Raid0
 
Erm I have a 30Gig Maxtor Diamond Max 8 and a Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 250Gig drive.

The Seagate is the hotter, but they both run really hot.

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Having an intake fan blowing air over your HDDs is a good idea, but don't do it at the expense of the exhaust fan.

I have 1x120mm intake blowing over the HDDS, and 1x120mm exhaust in my rig.

Without any cooling HDDS do get worryingly hot though, so yours isn't abnormal.

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<font color=red>"Life is <i>not</i> like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapeńos - what you do today might burn your a<b></b>ss tommorrow."
 
😵 wow... how do these HDDs get so hot?
I ran speed fan and it reporting a 50% HDD fitness 😵...

DOA???

time to head for seagate and knock on their door


pics are coming up, no pic of me though.... internet privact 101, if u want give me a non free email addr via PM and i will send a pic over with me becides my rig....

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No OC<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by TheHolyLancer on 08/12/05 01:28 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
 
ok pics:

<A HREF="http://img198.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pic17gm.jpg" target="_new">pic1</A>


<A HREF="http://img198.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pic23qa.jpg" target="_new">[ic2</A>


<A HREF="http://img322.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pic34se.jpg" target="_new">pic of HDD</A>

AMD A64 3200+Venice
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OCZ 2x512mb EL Gold VX PC3200 ram 3-3-3-8
evga eGeforce 6800GT 256mb GDDR3 ram
Enermax 485W PSU
Bios 3/10
WIndows XP SP2
No OC
 
awww man here is the log:



SeaTools Desktop v3.02.03
Copyright (c) 2005 Kroll Ontrack Inc.

8/12/2005 @ 3:19 PM

The following information has been generated by SeaTools Desktop. Use
this information to help you recognize and resolve potential data access
problems.


System Information:
BIOS Date 03/10/05
Conventional Memory size 638 K
Extended Memory size 58532 K
IO Channel type PCI



Drive Information:
SIZE MODEL
--------- ---------------------
160 GB BIOS Drive 0x80


Serial Number = N/A
Int13 Num = 80, PHYS CHS = 0x0x0.
ParmTable CHS, Rsvd = 19457x255x63

PARTITION CYLINDER SIZE
---------- ------------ ----
# Type Start End MB
PRIMARY
1 NTFS 0 1274 10487
EXTENDED
2 NTFS 1275 2549 10487
EXTENDED
3 NTFS 2550 3825 10496
EXTENDED
4 NTFS 3826 10263 52957
EXTENDED
5 NTFS 10264 16707 53007
EXTENDED
6 NTFS 16708 19455 22604


Diagnostic Results:

90-Second Test Result: Passed
Recommendation:
The "Quick Test" is adequate for most situations.
Consider running the "Full Test" which
verifies each sector on the drive if you need to run a more
comprehensive diagnostic.

SMART Status Check Result: Not Tested


S.M.A.R.T., (S)elf (M)onitoring (A)nalysis and (R)eporting (T)echnology, a built-in hard disk drive failure prediction method reports an 'Alert' if a problem has occurred. It reports 'Passed' if no problems are found and 'Unsupported' if a hard disk drive does not support S.M.A.R.T.
Full Diagnostic Scan Result: Passed



File Structure Test Result:

Partition 1 (NTFS (10.4 GB) Win2k) Result: Failed with critical Errors

The following errors were found while scanning the volume:
- One or more errors were found in metadata file records


NOTE: Any report of possible errors in the file system tests are for
informational purposes only. We suggest you should consider testing with
the official file system diagnostic utilities for your operating system.
Seagate is not able to assist with troubleshooting or reviewing
file system test results.

Partition 2 (NTFS (10.4 GB) ) Result: Failed with critical Errors

The following errors were found while scanning the volume:
- One or more errors were found in metadata file records
- Other errors were found

NOTE: Any report of possible errors in the file system tests are for
informational purposes only. We suggest you should consider testing with
the official file system diagnostic utilities for your operating system.
Seagate is not able to assist with troubleshooting or reviewing
file system test results.

Partition 3 (NTFS (10.4 GB) ) Result: Failed with critical Errors

The following errors were found while scanning the volume:
- Other errors were found

NOTE: Any report of possible errors in the file system tests are for
informational purposes only. We suggest you should consider testing with
the official file system diagnostic utilities for your operating system.
Seagate is not able to assist with troubleshooting or reviewing
file system test results.

Partition 4 (NTFS (52.9 GB) Games) Result: Failed with critical Errors

The following errors were found while scanning the volume:
- One or more errors were found in metadata file records
- Other errors were found

NOTE: Any report of possible errors in the file system tests are for
informational purposes only. We suggest you should consider testing with
the official file system diagnostic utilities for your operating system.
Seagate is not able to assist with troubleshooting or reviewing
file system test results.

Partition 5 (NTFS (53 GB) Movies) Result: Failed with critical Errors

The following errors were found while scanning the volume:
- One or more errors were found in metadata file records
- Other errors were found

NOTE: Any report of possible errors in the file system tests are for
informational purposes only. We suggest you should consider testing with
the official file system diagnostic utilities for your operating system.
Seagate is not able to assist with troubleshooting or reviewing
file system test results.

Partition 6 (NTFS (22.6 GB) WinXP32) Result: Failed with critical Errors

The following errors were found while scanning the volume:
- One or more errors were found in metadata file records


NOTE: Any report of possible errors in the file system tests are for
informational purposes only. We suggest you should consider testing with
the official file system diagnostic utilities for your operating system.
Seagate is not able to assist with troubleshooting or reviewing
file system test results.



******************************************


Recommendation:
All selected physical diagnostics passed.

If you are not experiencing data loss and SeaTools reports File
System Structure errors, they may be caused by a lock-up or
failure to shutdown Windows correctly. Many times, these errors
may be repaired through normal system maintenance which
includes using the Windows provided "Defrag" and
"Scandisk / Chkdsk / Error Checking" utilities.

If you are experiencing a hardware error, you should isolate
the cause and replace the failing component. If you are unsure how
to proceed with repairs, contact a computer professional. After
completing any maintenance tasks, run SeaTools again to
verify that all errors have been repaired. If errors continue to
occur, the system may not be stable. Again, contact a computer
professional.




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took over an hour to finish this....

AMD A64 3200+Venice
DFI Lanparty UT NF4 Ultra-D
OCZ 2x512mb EL Gold VX PC3200 ram 3-3-3-8
evga eGeforce 6800GT 256mb GDDR3 ram
Enermax 485W PSU
Bios 3/10
WIndows XP SP2
No OC
 
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