euankirkhope

You may have mis-configured you fans! It is logical to have a smooth air flow within the PC. To do this air goes IN at the bottom, convects heat and rises to the top, (its best to have the case upright, if possible). At the top its sucked out by fans. If the side fan faces upwards, (Desktop case configuration), then as the fan is at the highest most point, air flow is outwards. Should the case be set up as a tower, then in my opinion its best not to use it. However all these sad overclockers (people who spend insane ammounts for an increase of 5%!) will be turning in their grave. Go on! Block it up, I dare you to be normal. Think of a smoke trail going through your PC. Flowing from the bottom to the top. Its not how much air you can squeeze in (or vacuum out in your case (literally!) ) But how smooth the air is moved throught the case. Whats the point if air goes in the top right side, and sucked out the top left? And in the middle, there's a vortex of air that hardly ever gets changed, going round and round. Too be honest, the noise from the fans will eventually annoy you. You really only need 2 case fans. One in the PSU!, and one below it blowing outwards, usually on atx boards it will right next to the CPU. If you want good cooling, make a hood that channels the air off the CPU to the fan outlet. [This message has been edited by euankirkhope (edited 04 August 2000).]

you must have a lot of fans. Hey look I don't need any ------------------ System Spec: No CPU No Mobo 128Mb SSi PC100 STB Velocity 4400 16Mb AGP PAL TV-Out Hauppauge Wintv Model 406 Realtek 8029 LAN Creative ES1371 (PCI64v) 56.6K (AkA 44k) ISA Modem Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) (cracked 1.60 bios) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb LS120

I'm pretty sure it will take up 0.000000000000000000000000000000001% of system memory when it's not running. This probably still gets right up speed-nerds noses. Or, perhaps someone found that when trying to play quake3 windowed, and watching a dvd with software decode, on a P90, it was just a bit slow. Could it have been someone in the gaming industry, under the impression that 2 hours of FMV intro would be a problem, as people would never get to the game? Just tell that person who told you that to stick his FU up his and go home. ------------------ System Spec: No CPU No Mobo 128Mb SSi PC100 STB Velocity 4400 16Mb AGP PAL TV-Out Hauppauge Wintv Model 406 Realtek 8029 LAN Creative ES1371 (PCI64v) 56.6K (AkA 44k) ISA Modem Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) (cracked 1.60 bios) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb LS120

Sadly, my normally clocked K6-2 550 kicked the bucket, 2 days a go It also appears to have taken out the motherboard as well. Thats probably cause I'd disabled the current limiter to stop my old k6-2 450 (Pre ahx) from tripping the current limiter So when my 550 became an infinite current sink, the mobo did it's best to supply. To make matters worse, I tried my spare k6-2 300, It didn't work, so I checked it in my other PC. Nothing. Maybe static? Or the mobo fried it too. So left with the 450, I chucked it in, it powered on, but no bios post. Giving up, it was put back into the original PC, and I booted up win98 (thats what's on it), to go buy a new mobo, and CPU. Before windows had even loaded, I could smell burning... I checked the K6-2, and it was cookin'. After whiping out the power cable, I took it out, and it had turned the heat transfer compound black! Out of paranoia, i'd checked the bios CPU settings, everything ok, the heatsink was on and perfectly OK. So I changed the CPU to about half the speed and lowered the voltage. It still got extremely hot. So I've removed it, looks like they're all knackered. Having a degree in electronics, you;d think, I wouldn't be hit with this, but well, its not been my week. In a couple of days, I'm expecting a massive heatsink to arrive in the post. Won't need it now. Just out of conicidence, the exact same thing happened to 3 PC's in my work that have the same chip, (but from different suppliers, and purchase dates). Weird. Do think I should risk replacing the K6-2 in the other mobo? Not my own, as I've bought a K7 800, and board . Bye bye BeOS Bye Bye Via Still don't know what the error message was though... ------------------ System Spec: No CPU No Mobo 128Mb SSi PC100 STB Velocity 4400 16Mb AGP PAL TV-Out Hauppauge Wintv Model 406 Realtek 8029 LAN Creative ES1371 (PCI64v) 56.6K (AkA 44k) ISA Modem Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) (cracked 1.60 bios) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb LS120

Overclock a K6-2? Who are U kidding?

thanx, don't worry about the com ports! they're totally disabled in the bios (although win2k insists that they are there, just like the disabled FDD). They actually do work, but only if halt on no errors is enabled (which it is), and also I've got a serial IO card, with the 1 com port enabled for my yamaha mu100r, as the com ports don't work in ACPI, and the TNT doesn't work in Standard mode. For the memory, I have one stick, which tests out totally fine, and there are no probs in NT5, BeOS, or the QNX demodisk! I want to find out what is using that memory location, any ideas? Thankyou, again.

Ah ha! I've found some memory experts... Right, although this isn't win2k related, I can't get win98 to boot/install/anything. The thing is it was fine upto a few days ago. Then it bsod'd with the following: Quote: Fatal exception 0E has occured at 0038:C0005338 in VXD VMM(01) + 0004338. It is always the same memory locations. Is this a PCI device? Is there anyone who knows where or what it could be? I've managed to get win98se running since then a couple of times. But, it just dies, quickly. Win2000, and Beos are absolutely rock solid (but sh*& for games, stuttering sound, and no 3D respectfully ). ------------------ System Spec: FIC VA-503+ 1.1b bios JE439 CPU Current Limiter Disabled AMD K6-2 550 (300 when I talk to FIC tech support) 128Mb SSi PC100 STB Velocity 4400 16Mb AGP PAL TV-Out Hauppauge Wintv Model 406 Realtek 8029 LAN Creative ES1371 (PCI64v) 56.6K (AkA 44k) ISA Modem Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) (cracked 1.60 bios) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb LS120 and com and lpt i/o conflict error during bios startup. Hardware fault caused by win2k beta3 and dodgy bios, now irrepairable. Serial IO card

win2k doesn't have, nor need dx7a. Why? because win98 had a bug where some USB pads had one, NOTE ONE, wrongly mapped button. So when win2k's DX7 doesn't have this bug, there needs no update. By the way it was an N64 emulator that found the bug. Nemu (i think).

Contact you local utilities/power supplier, to check whether you neighbourhood can handle the increase in power consumption. And that you don't break any regulations.

What your probably thinking about is "the skin effect". When high frequency signals move through a conductor, the electrons tend to gather around the surface. This is how antenna cables are often actually just copper pipe (no not waveguides, thats slightly different, but also just as interesting. Waveguides use standing waves, in which by, choosing the correct sizes you can short out the two conductors with a piece of wire 1/4lamda. Cool eh? if you do it all all along the wire, you get a box!). However from memory, the power thing uses highly complex stuff, and ultra high freq stuff, and apparently can recover signals that have been through a substation pretty well. Or else it can bypass it. Did you know you can measure current with a fibre optic cable? Did I forget to say that, the most likely use for this technology, will be the ability of the utility providers to cut-off anyones power from a central control centre. It's as simple as that. [This message has been edited by euankirkhope (edited 25 July 2000).]

In my system is the hole in the trousers that causes hypothermia... Eh? Oh, sorry, the Adaptec CD wizard is the culpret that prevents hibernation. ------------------ System Spec: FIC VA-503+ 1.1b bios JE439 CPU Current Limiter Disabled AMD K6-2 550 (300 when I talk to FIC tech support) 128Mb SSi PC100 STB Velocity 4400 16Mb AGP PAL TV-Out Hauppauge Wintv Model 406 Realtek 8029 LAN Creative ES1371 (PCI64v) 56.6K (AkA 44k) ISA Modem Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) (cracked 1.60 bios) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb LS120 and com and lpt i/o conflict error during bios startup. Hardware fault caused by win2k beta3 and dodgy bios, now irrepairable. Serial IO card

Pviko: Its ACPI, not ASPI , it is very easy, and simple to switch between Standard PC, and ACPI. The only time it is unstable, or ruins windows, is when it has been incorrectly installed in the first place. Which is why it becomes/is unstable. This is the case for those people (like myself) who had to disable acpi in txtsetup.sif long ago in beta days. The first beta CD MS sent me ripped through my hardrive, practically messing everything up, then wouldn't boot after installing because UDMA was enabled. It also did something to my com ports, which FIC say can't be undone. They still work, but complain about them all conficting with one and other. Thats at bios POST, nothing to do with ACPI or APM, but was caused by it. After 7 bios revisions, everything is almost fine.

I found this mobo for sale for only £50 (about $70?) and wondered seeing as it is a slot A, not socket, and has the slightly older via kx133 chipset, is this a bargain? The reason it's so cheap is because they ( a respectible UK nationwide dealer)have lost all the cables and manual. But thats not a problem for someone with a degree in electronics, and an internet connection , and about a million spare extra PC cables. What do you think. Is this a good board? Its an Abit KA7, I really want to ditch SS7. There's also 3 Gigabyte SA AMD 750 ATX for the same 40% off. One with a broken heatsink clip, the other 2 missing either the IO cables or manual. Opinions please.

The CD is probably not IDE, and a propriatory interface. Try plugging it into a soundcard (most likely a soundblaster). If not its knackered. I'll assume you've connected the cables the correct way

Found a file in a folder called support in ftp.hauppauge.com its called hcw848nt.exe, I'm pretty sure I've seen it before, however it does have newer driver versions than the current official download it updates form 180?? to 18163. Still doesn't fix anything mind you. An additional note! I enabled Hardware overlay on my win98 partition, with the hauppauge program. Wintv32 crashed, and now win98 bsod's just as the logon box appears. I press enter to clear it, and the PC restarts. What gives? Its a standard, run-of-the-mill VMM VXD death. It boots into Safe mode OK, but I haven't really tinkered with it yet.

Try pulling it off the CD and use expand.exe to uncompress it. Then replace the old with the new. Its called DESK.CP_ and expand.exe is in the same folder Assuming CDrom is d:\ in a dos window type: d:\ cd i386 expand desk.cp_ c:\winnt\system32\desk.cpl It might work if the file is corrupt.

Couldn't find that overlay.exe, pretty sure I've seen it before though. Overlay works fine with PowerDVD, and works with Borgtv, but locks up after you click to shrink the screen down from full screen, (but at least the picture keeps going ). On the german hauppuage site I found this for the win98 driver: WinTV Treiber Version 4.18 (wtvdr418.exe, 2179 KB, 14. Feb 2000) blah, blah, blah... Bugfixes: Fehlerhafte Darstellung im Overlay Modus bei Riva TNT, Voodoo Banshee und Matrox G200 wurde behoben. Whereas, the .com site says: Name=WTVDR418.EXE size=2179K Updated Jan. 27, 2000 Seems to have different dates! For the win2000 drivers: German: WinTV NT4.0/2000 Treiber Version 3.06 (ntdrv306.exe, 2611 KB, 30. Juni. 2000) Bugfixes: Behebt Abstürze (System friert ein) bei bestimmten Computern mit ALI oder VIA Chipsatz. .com site: Name: W2KDRV306.EXE Version 3.06 size=2,611 Updated June 12, 2000 no notes on bugfixes. Must say my TNT didn't get fixed by the win98 update 4.18. But it does work with the 2.08 version of the drivers. On the german site in the FAQ: Kein Overlay bei nVidia TNT Grafikkarten Starten Sie den Registrierungseditor ( Start / Ausführen / REGEDIT ). Gehen Sie zu: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\ Display\0001\NVIDIA\DirectDraw] (wobei NVIDIA durch den Hersteller zu ersetzen ist) Setzen Sie den Wert "OverlayMode" auf 1,2 oder 3: "OverlayMode"=dword:00000002 Pity the location is not there in win2k

hmm I've got to wait until the morining when the callcentre opens backup (I gave up being on hold earlier). As because there "special" you have to phone, and ask questions... So it's 22.49 now, opens at 9.00, that 11 hours, at 70(unfit)BPM, thats 46000 heart beats. Can you get a slot A to socket A adapter? ("A bit" to save even more money)

Seriously. You can't be stuck at such a little thing as that! Apart from the fact that Q2 will run straight from the CD, you can copy the folder over to you harddrive, then rename data to baseq2. But the easy, easy, easy! way to fix it, is to goto the control panel, then REGIONAL SETTINGS, and change to whatever region is appropriate to the CD. EG a US CD will want English US and a UK CD will want to see English UK. Its as easy as that, Ps. you can even have US region with a UK keyboard!

You need to enable hardware overlay. Then the video card will stretch the image to any size. Last worked with my TNT, and Wintv model 406 in win98 with the 2.08 drivers! I tried those WDM drivers listed, and it didn't even let me watch TV, let alone use overlay

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don't you just hate it well you double post ;( [This message has been edited by euankirkhope (edited 17 July 2000).]

The resolution is pretty much fixed to roughly 640x480 of crappy NTSC, or 800x600 PAL (good ) Any matrox would do quite well.

The window freeze thing always seems to be a overlay problem. Tried the drivers, but the wintv app doesn't work. I tried borg tv, it works but hangs after being changed to fullscreen overlay. Downloaded the PowerDVD, they say the drivers are supposed to work with. It just says "S0001 This graph cannot be previewed properly". [This message has been edited by euankirkhope (edited 17 July 2000).]

Hey! Don't knock Memorex, my trimaxx 200 CDRW/DVD hasn't ruined a cd yet, at full speed (only 6x) with some of the cheapest and rip-off media available.