- Dec 31, 2007
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Some of you may recall one of my previous posts about people who construct computers are morons.
I love my new beast, but the people are still morons, even more so.
The story starts now.
What i got was:
athlon 1200 C
asus A7v133
decided to go for broke and get 512 mb PC150 kingmax *cheezy grin*
52x sony cd
rocoh 12x10x32x burner with justlink
and the rest of the components from my old rig including sb live, tnt2 ultra graphics, 40gig 60gxp, modem, monitor etc
they made it up the same day which was nice... but i shoulda checked it over instore.
its been 3 days and the things i have found are:
1. when i tried plugging in my hi-fi to the sb live, found the card was loose. later, when i had to open up the case, i found the card wasnt screwed down.
2. my hard drives wernt showing up in the bois or boot... but they were there on a promise controler... i soon realised that the morons had put my two drives on a raid 0 controller, when i had specifically said i DID NOT WANT anything fancy like a raid. just standard onboard ata100. (my two hard drives arnt the same size anyways, one 40gig, the other an older 16.8 @ 5400 ata33.)
so 2 minutes of ripping out cables, i had a proper setup on which i could install win2000. (and a spare ata100 cable)
once i had installed 2k and the ASUS monitoring software i took a look at the temps and things.
fan speed = 4500rpm (i also got a win fop 32-1)
vcore 1.8 (shouldnt it be 1.75?)
mb temp 39 deg c (hmm, no case fan)
idle processor temp 63-64 deg C!
full load: i saw it hit 66 before i throttled back!
Yikes
oh joy.
morons strike again.
methinks my nice big fop32 heatsink isnt on properly.
so either THEY didnt put it on properly, or the bumpy drive home has dislodged it somehow. OR (and this is more sinister...)
in the bios, i noticed that both the FSB and THE MULTIPLIER are UNLOCKED!
on a machine THEY put together.
Question to all you guys...
does this happen often? a naturally unlocked athlon 1200C?
do retailers often unlock them?
is the temp probe reporting right?
(heatsink is warm-hot to touch, but not toasty or finger burning)
the asus probe reports a vcore of 1.8V... realistic?
have they done a dirty on me and given me something like a 1000C already overclocked?
How can i find out EXACTLY what processor i have... via software if possible.
other interesting info
runs at about 61 C idle when i underclocked it to 1000 just to be safe.
other voltage settings seem slightly off too
processor voltage = 1.8
the one which should be 3.3V is 3.5
12V is 12.45
randomly every hour or so, the asus reporting utility pops up a warning that fan speed has dropped to zero. only for about 2-3 seconds... dont think it actually does (glitch in data feed from fan sensor?) seen it happen 4 times so far
also... once the core voltage jumped .1V too... also, only for 2-3 seconds. the same glitch?
Thanx in advance.
solve these problems and ill be set!
This behavior must not continue! Feel the BURNING STARE of my HAMSTER... and change your ways!
I love my new beast, but the people are still morons, even more so.
The story starts now.
What i got was:
athlon 1200 C
asus A7v133
decided to go for broke and get 512 mb PC150 kingmax *cheezy grin*
52x sony cd
rocoh 12x10x32x burner with justlink
and the rest of the components from my old rig including sb live, tnt2 ultra graphics, 40gig 60gxp, modem, monitor etc
they made it up the same day which was nice... but i shoulda checked it over instore.
its been 3 days and the things i have found are:
1. when i tried plugging in my hi-fi to the sb live, found the card was loose. later, when i had to open up the case, i found the card wasnt screwed down.
2. my hard drives wernt showing up in the bois or boot... but they were there on a promise controler... i soon realised that the morons had put my two drives on a raid 0 controller, when i had specifically said i DID NOT WANT anything fancy like a raid. just standard onboard ata100. (my two hard drives arnt the same size anyways, one 40gig, the other an older 16.8 @ 5400 ata33.)
so 2 minutes of ripping out cables, i had a proper setup on which i could install win2000. (and a spare ata100 cable)
once i had installed 2k and the ASUS monitoring software i took a look at the temps and things.
fan speed = 4500rpm (i also got a win fop 32-1)
vcore 1.8 (shouldnt it be 1.75?)
mb temp 39 deg c (hmm, no case fan)
idle processor temp 63-64 deg C!
full load: i saw it hit 66 before i throttled back!
Yikes
oh joy.
morons strike again.
methinks my nice big fop32 heatsink isnt on properly.
so either THEY didnt put it on properly, or the bumpy drive home has dislodged it somehow. OR (and this is more sinister...)
in the bios, i noticed that both the FSB and THE MULTIPLIER are UNLOCKED!
on a machine THEY put together.
Question to all you guys...
does this happen often? a naturally unlocked athlon 1200C?
do retailers often unlock them?
is the temp probe reporting right?
(heatsink is warm-hot to touch, but not toasty or finger burning)
the asus probe reports a vcore of 1.8V... realistic?
have they done a dirty on me and given me something like a 1000C already overclocked?
How can i find out EXACTLY what processor i have... via software if possible.
other interesting info
runs at about 61 C idle when i underclocked it to 1000 just to be safe.
other voltage settings seem slightly off too
processor voltage = 1.8
the one which should be 3.3V is 3.5
12V is 12.45
randomly every hour or so, the asus reporting utility pops up a warning that fan speed has dropped to zero. only for about 2-3 seconds... dont think it actually does (glitch in data feed from fan sensor?) seen it happen 4 times so far
also... once the core voltage jumped .1V too... also, only for 2-3 seconds. the same glitch?
Thanx in advance.
solve these problems and ill be set!
This behavior must not continue! Feel the BURNING STARE of my HAMSTER... and change your ways!
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