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Boo thats stupid.
Unfortunantly the OP doesnt communicate well... nor has he returned to post again. I bet he realized that a cable was lose and his comp is working fine now... or


that the HSF dropped 3 times on the HDD then onto the case floor. Yap that would do it.
 
My immediate reaction would be that I'd put his head thru a wall, curl up in a ball, and whimper while sucking on my thumb, crying for help and coffee....

The Overall Moral of Our Lives:
If it can be f^cked up, I guarantee someone, somewhere, somehow, will f^ck it up.
 
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NO!!!
Do you realize what happens when I drink decaf?
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No... NO... NOOOOO!! Not decaf.

That would just start another abortion issue.

I mean, do you know how many cows would have to have abortions to make a pot of de-caf?

😳 . o O (I don't know either...)

😳 <-- runs away with his coffee caf-intact... mooooooo
 
just because I havent had access to the internet in like 2 days you guys think that im gone for good. I sent out the package today, and should be getting a new hardrive eventually. I plan on ordering another so I can have raid. The particular model I bought wd2500SD is pretty expensive everywhere (including ebay). so I will probably go with a wd2500JD. it shouldnt matter because they are part of the same family, the SD was just made for enterprise conditions. And you guys are accusing me of not listening. I didnt set up this forum expecting that type of awnser, I just wanted to know if anyone had any tricks on getting everything to line up and such. And how little at a time do I OC? I went directly to 2.4 without a problem.
 
You CAN NOT put both those HDD's in the same raid. I could, Ninja could... but you see.... hard drives have clips... clips hate you... you can not.


Im joking of course. Glad to see everything worked out.
 
And how little at a time do I OC? I went directly to 2.4 without a problem.
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From what I understand on OC the CPU, it should be taken into steps. Basically you would increase the FSB little by little (for say increments perhaps of 5, so FSB 200 to 205 to 210 to 215, ect), and test for stablity for a certain amount of hours with programs to stressing the CPU. That's one reason why it does take time, to be sure of a stable OC.

Just because the machine boots into windows at an OC speed, doesn't mean its stable, without extensive testing.

Most I believe would use Prime95 to determine if the OC is stable by running it at least 6 hours, or by some other benchmark. So OC will take allot of time in tweaking settings like the vcore to make it stable.

Perhaps looking into the OverClocking CPU section might even help you out further.
 
well in response to the vcore voltages and stuff. I dont do any of that, the asus program I got with the mobo automatically does everything. I just tell it what fsb i want, and it doesn the rest (including ram).
 
That program also voids your warranty btw. its a "use at your own risk" program and the proper way to do it is by stepping.


But oh ya that doesn’t mater. By putting on your own HSF, you voided the warranty, and considering the size of it, the warranty of the mobo too.


Just FYI.
 
Go ahead. As long as both drives are of the same family, make, and size you can set up the RAID. I personally choose not to run a RAID but its actually better for data safety.
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Um, I think your second sentence needs qualification. Not like I want to teach you how to suck eggs, but someone who doesn't know better might come along and read this as comming from an authority as a true blanket statement. RAID0 is worse for data safety - and it's the one lots of people want because it gives you all of the storage while speeding up read/write. Drive failure is always a possibility, but with that array, it's possibility is equal to the number of drives involved X number of drives involved. This isn't to say that it's worthy of avoidance - just pointing out the risk. Now RAID 1 would give you nice data safety...
 
if the copmuter was on it could have fried the cpu.

it can happen in about 2 to 3 seconds.

i mean to say the cpu can catchfire that quick.

thg had a video of them pulling the hs off a cpu
instant smoke :cry:
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Those were the old Athlons. Toms hardware made the videos. The newer processors will just shut down. Nothing <b>should</b> burn. (hopefully) :)
 
True - P4 were already able to throttle down and still work in case of CPU removals - P3 would hand but not crash (early Athlons though would explode). However I think throttling hasn't been implemented in Core 2, and they reverted to P3's behaviour: crash before it burns.

Still, sometimes the thermal monitor may miss its cue and the CPU will go up in smoke anyway - thus the need for a good heat spreader, which will make any change of temperature less sudden and allow better thermal monitoring (in case of fan failure).
 
Still, sometimes the thermal monitor may miss its cue and the CPU will go up in smoke anyway -
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Highly doubt that that would happen to an Intel processor. Their quality has always been good (even though they lacked in performance some time back).
I wouldn’t want to be the one to try it though :)

Man PCs are not safe anymore. First we had burning CPUs. Now exploding batteries. What’s next? The CD drive starts shooting disks at you? (ouch!!) :cry:
 
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