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JohnO

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absent yesterday
« on: 25 August 2005, 09:52:14 am »
Sorry wasn't on yerterday got a new PC and was setting it up.

Sadly new PC is unstable and will crash after running CoH or any other
demanding app for more than a minute or two.


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Naaman

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Re: absent yesterday
« Reply #1 on: 25 August 2005, 10:29:57 am »
Want a hand with it?
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JohnO

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Re: absent yesterday
« Reply #2 on: 25 August 2005, 10:57:19 am »
Yes.

My guess is that either the BIOS needs upgrading or the memory settings need changing,
and I don't really fancy doing either.

« Last Edit: 25 August 2005, 11:39:45 am by Naaman »
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Naaman

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Re: absent yesterday
« Reply #3 on: 25 August 2005, 11:39:58 am »
Heh - understandable. I'll see what time I'm home tonight, if not it'll be the weekend :(
What PC did you get?  I can read up on it before I play...
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...A Brute says, "Stay here while I let them kill me so I can kill them faster!"
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Re: absent yesterday
« Reply #4 on: 25 August 2005, 12:03:45 pm »
one like this
http://www.evesham.com/PCs/Info.asp?e=4562EF88-9041-4769-90D1-A5C8C2D04C20

but with the FX-57 CPU and 2GB RAM.

yes I've got more money than sense, yes it is dangerous being bored at work and browsing PC vendors.


John
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Naaman

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Re: absent yesterday
« Reply #5 on: 25 August 2005, 12:35:59 pm »
Quote from: JohnO on 25 August 2005, 12:03:45 pm
one like this
http://www.evesham.com/PCs/Info.asp?e=4562EF88-9041-4769-90D1-A5C8C2D04C20

but with the FX-57 CPU and 2GB RAM.

yes I've got more money than sense, yes it is dangerous being bored at work and browsing PC vendors.


John



Ooohhhh  ;D
  Right off the top of my head the Soundcard looks to be a primary culprit, the boards are full of people having problems with Audigys...
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JohnO

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Re: absent yesterday
« Reply #6 on: 25 August 2005, 12:40:57 pm »
I ran a stress test thingy call prime95, which failed after a mintue or two.
Thats a prime number generator that doesn't use any sound or graphics,
so unless the soundcard is interfering with like everything I doubt thats the main problem.
It may of course be problematic as well.
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Naaman

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Re: absent yesterday
« Reply #7 on: 25 August 2005, 01:38:04 pm »
Quote from: JohnO on 25 August 2005, 12:40:57 pm
I ran a stress test thingy call prime95, which failed after a mintue or two.
Thats a prime number generator that doesn't use any sound or graphics,
so unless the soundcard is interfering with like everything I doubt thats the main problem.
It may of course be problematic as well.


Erk, missed this bit
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any other
demanding app
:-[ :-[ :-[ Sorry
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...A Brute says, "Stay here while I let them kill me so I can kill them faster!"
...A Scrapper says, "Stay here while I.....ya know what, screw it---CHARGE!11!!1!!11!!1!!

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Re: absent yesterday
« Reply #8 on: 25 August 2005, 07:52:44 pm »
Message to JohnO's PC:

GET WELL SOON
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Re: absent yesterday
« Reply #9 on: 26 August 2005, 09:38:31 am »
It was overheating, sort of.

Has a temperature gauge on the front of the box which is totally wrong.
Used PC Wizard to look at the CPU state and when it hit about 50 degrees bad
things would happen.  The voltage it was sending to the CPU seemed very low
(1.3v ,chip is specced for 1.4v) so it seemed that was insuffient when the resistance
went up with increased temperature.
So anyway I turned up all the fans and that made very little difference, then increased
the voltage to the CPU by 3% and that meant I could run CoH and FM fine, but
prime95 still fails after 6 minutes.
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Naaman

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Re: absent yesterday
« Reply #10 on: 26 August 2005, 10:21:48 am »
 ::)

Did you call Evesham up and complain? It should still be able to run Prime95 for as long as you want it to...?
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...A Scrapper says, "Stay here while I.....ya know what, screw it---CHARGE!11!!1!!11!!1!!

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Re: absent yesterday
« Reply #11 on: 26 August 2005, 11:02:35 am »
You might also want to take a quick look at a program called SpeedFan to see how many temp sensors it can read.

P.S. CPU temp of 50 degrees shouldn't cause any problems, but if HDD temp gets up to that sort of temperature it has a knack of causing problems including random freezes, in my experience anyway...

Hope you get it totally sorted soon.
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Re: absent yesterday
« Reply #12 on: 26 August 2005, 02:09:22 pm »
Quote from: JohnO on 25 August 2005, 12:03:45 pm
one like this
http://www.evesham.com/PCs/Info.asp?e=4562EF88-9041-4769-90D1-A5C8C2D04C20

but with the FX-57 CPU and 2GB RAM.

yes I've got more money than sense, yes it is dangerous being bored at work and browsing PC vendors.


John


FFS! Thats a heeluva lot of cash to spend on a PC! Very impressive though!

Can I have yer old one? It'd still be five times better than mine!

p.s. I might need a hand with a tricky DVD dribe problem on Ian's latest PC, it seems to be a bit 'quirky' so have disabled it temporarily.
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Re: absent yesterday
« Reply #13 on: 5 September 2005, 08:57:21 am »
Engineer can and replaced the CPU !
Which fixed it.

John
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Re: absent yesterday
« Reply #14 on: 5 September 2005, 12:35:23 pm »
YAY! ;D
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