i hate PC's - a little help please

[xxsk8er101xx]

If i had the money i'd buy a mac right now i swear. I'm soo fed up with PC's and windows it makes me wanna puke.

My specs should be a link below "my pc specs" or something like that for spec info.

I got abit's serial ata 2 adaptors for my 2 WD SE hard drives. i plugged them in and booted up did some check thing because i used the VIA controller POS before which currupted my data anyway. So i reinstalled windows with the adaptors (pata to sata). Everything is great and running fine. I install the sp, the updates, the ethernet driver, the audio and then oops installed video drivers. as soon as i do that it boots up and gives me the stupid "Delay write failure" crap. I shut it off and back on and i go into safe mode and uninstall the video drivers bam it works fine. Install the video drivers, no worky.

figure this one out. Could it really be the adaptors? that would not make any sense.

I'm doing a stupid system restore now and going back before i installed anything and start over and try again.

anyone got a clue? anyone?

"Bread makes me poop!" - Special Ed

<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=9933" target="_new"> My Rig </A>

 

[phsstpok]

Try Western Digital's knowledge base.

They have entries on "Delayed Write Failure" including one open issue.

<b>56K, slow and steady does not win the race on internet!</b>

 

[slvr_phoenix]

Is it a WHQL certified driver?

<pre><A HREF="http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030905" target="_new"><font color=black>People don't understand how hard being a dark god can be. - Hastur</font color=black></A></pre><p>

 

[xxsk8er101xx]

I'm using catalyst 3.6 drivers. I tried catalyst 3.7 drivers as well. And i tried the cd-rom. They are WHQL certified.

This started when i plugged in the serial ata 2 adaptors to my drives. I'm having a hard time beleiving that an adaptor is preventing me from installing a driver.

http://www.excaliberpc.com/product_info.php?products_id=2060

these ^ i bought 2 of them.

Before i had the drives plugged into the VIA controller. VIA struck again with data curruption. Ever time i shut down the computer when using the VIA RAID or non RAID it currupts the data and windows over time because VIA does not clear the cache fast enough i beleive. So i bought 2 of these to use the Intel serial ATA controller in non-RAID mode.

"Bread makes me poop!" - Special Ed

<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=9933" target="_new"> My Rig </A>

 

[xxsk8er101xx]

thanks i'll look into that


"Bread makes me poop!" - Special Ed

<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=9933" target="_new"> My Rig </A>

 

[xxsk8er101xx]

this looks similar to my problem.

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/forums.asp?s=2&c=7&t=264

What is "Large System Cache bug"?

"Bread makes me poop!" - Special Ed

<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=9933" target="_new"> My Rig </A>

 

[markgun]

Check out this thread, they have a couple possible fixes.

<A HREF="http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/2459/?o=20" target="_new">http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/2459/?o=20</A>

<b>Qui habet aures audiendi audiat</b>

 

[markgun]

Hrm, <A HREF="http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/atiproblem.htm" target="_new">this</A> seems interesting too. Take a look into that patch.

-----------------------------------Original Problem-----------------------------------

I recently purchased a ATI 9500 Pro video card. Upon installation of the card I immediately began getting Delayed Write Errors. I have narrowed down the problem to this section of tweaks. I believe the problem lies with the entry highlighted in red. You should delete all these lines from the downloadable .reg file until I have had a better chance to research it.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
"DisablePagingExecutive"=dword:00000001
<font color=red>"LargeSystemCache"=dword:00000001</font color=red>
"IoPageLockLimit"=dword:00010000

Here are the specs of the system:
OS XP Pro
Motherboard Asus P4Pe
CPU P4, 2.26
Memory 512Mb, Corsair DDR333
Video Card ATI 9500 Pro
Drivers Cat 3.2

<b>Qui habet aures audiendi audiat</b><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by markgun on 09/19/03 04:03 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[cdpage]

I remember a while back that ATI had issues with Asus MoBos... there was alot of buz going on aout how to fix it.

i don't know what the solutions where but it might be something similar?

any how take a look at the poll section if you like Mac's or at least would like to help stick up for them.



ASUS P4S8X - P4 2.4B - 2 x 512M DDR333 - ATI 9500 Pro(Sapphire) - WD 80G HD (8M Buffer) - SAMSUNG SV0844D 8G HD - LG 16X DVD - Yamaha F1 CDRW - Iomega Zip 250 int.

 

[grassapa]

oh my, you said the m word. PC's are good, and windows...... use linux.

--------------------------------------------------
My computer is so fast it proves the theory of relativity wrong... 😱

 

[xxsk8er101xx]

thanks i checked out the thread and found the fix.

"To avoid this symptom ensure the System Cache option is NOT selected for Memory usage. Use the Programs option.
- right-click on the My Computer Icon then Properties to open the System Properties dialog box

- select the Advanced Tab then the Settings button under Performance

- select the Advanced tab on the Performance options tab

- in the Memory Usage area, ensure the Programs radio button is selected

- Apply the changes and select OK"

I always use to set it to system. It seems fine for now.

thanks!

"Bread makes me poop!" - Special Ed

<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=9933" target="_new"> My Rig </A>