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Loading ...My Month Of Woes!!!
Elemental Dragon ¦ Bex
Well just as we thought we’d everything spot on, disaster was to strike. My PC had been built with a nice shiney 600W PSU seeing as how I’d be doing SLI in a month or 2’s time. Great idea, and after almost 3 weeks trying to get my PC together to get home, everything seemed dreamy.
Evil PSU’s of DOOM!!!!!
My dreams were sharply woken by my PC when I got it home… By the PSU none the less… Indeed, my new PC had just blown! It refused to power on again, and my heart sank all the way to the bottom of my stomach. Just to be sure, I tried another mains, only for it to blow again…
Luckily, I accidently brought home another 1 of those PSUs thinking it was my box. It was all I had to try, so a switch was made. Clenching tight with eyes shut as I push that on button, I dreaded to think what would happen. Would it power? Would it go bang? ….so I pressed it nervously ….power!!!
I took the supply back round with me next day, and they couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe it to be honest. 3 weeks and no sign of flaws. So they tested it whilst I was at school, and on my return I was asked if I’d done anything to it. I said I hadn’t, and asked why. Well, my PSU just about nearly killed the PSU tester and gave the 2 the fright’s of their lives.
I stuck with the PSU I had, and dared not move my PC even an inch until I got a new 1, which was to be my Thermaltake 500W with TWV. Lovely thing, except for the blue fan (doesn’t go well with a red pc!)
    
Now that the PSU was sorted, onto the GFX card!!! My nice shiney new BFG 7600GT had arrived and was ready to fit in my machine. I eagerly put it in, updated drivers, went to switch on SLI option and configure but – no SLI?
I posted around 30 emails back and forth with nVidia tech team for support, and no one could help – ASRock were even worse for support, until someone from nVidia checked out what my instruction manual said with a member of ASRock further up. It wasn’t good news…
The board was never updated past v81.92, which was before my 7600GT was released. 7800’s, 7900’s, you name it, but no 7600 or 7300. This made my board useless for SLI. I was not amused…
So once again, back to the workshop, another punted machine. Finally someone explained to her that skt939 could support dual core, but just without DDR2. So guess what? Back to skt939!!! More waiting time for parts, and with there now the cease of skt939 chips, it was going to be even harder!
So I ordered a nice 4600+ X2, last of it’s kind for 939 (lol though packaged with an FX cooler by mistake), 2GB OCZ 2.5L DDR400 (it was £1 cheaper than Adata at that time, and none of us clicked it was the low latency fancy edition) and a Foxconn motherboard with garanteed SLI. All smooth again, all cushy… a little too cushy…
Yup – you guessed it – something was about to die! This time, my HDD. My old WD 5400rpm 120GB HDD packed it in wiping itself repeatedly. So now a 200GB Maxtor had to be fitted in and started over.
Now I was pretty damn exhausted and fed up, I wanted a working machine! After finally finishing the machine, I eagerly benchmarked with 3DMark03. We all nearly hit the floor – 23,000!!! That was higher than the 7950GTX that was benchmarked the week before (15,000) on the AM2 version on my machine. Finally, something good out this disaster! It only took almost 6 months to get us up and running!
thats like all of my PC bad luck all rolled into one month — ahh good ol days of HIMEM tests, 4Gb Bigfoot musicals, boosting VRAM of S3 Virge’s — but they all naturally died — most of them still workable to this very day.
i really wonder whats happening lol.