Deranged667
04-25-01, 09:45 PM
ok it goes like this, the specs for my current system are as follows:
Abit VP6 Motherboard BIOS v. 3.15.00.11
256 Megs PC 133 RAM
Dual 1 Ghz 133Mhz FSB (hence a fixed multiplier of 7.5)
Four 15 gig IBM Deskstar 75GXP ATA/100 HDDs Raided in Striping mode 0 (for a grand total of about 60 gigs partitioned three times into a 19,19,20 cause of loss from formatting and what -not)
Guillemot Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS Pro ( GeForce 2 Pro chipset) non-OCed
Creative Labs SB Live MP3+
Tekram DC-315/U SCSI card w/ 4x4x20x CD-RW attached (updated drivers already)
Win2000 on one partition (saving one for XP and other for Linux)
Cooling: Front Case intake fan (8cm), one HDD cooler on one of the four IBM ATA/100 HDDs(Cool-drive originally meant for a 10,00 rpm SCSI HDD which fell through) getting 2 rear case cooling (8cm) fans for other devices and general case cooling
1 Retail Intel socket 370 P3 Processor fan & HS and 1 OEM fan & HS
Power: 300W ATX PS
I have a few issues/questions about tweaking /troubleshooting my system:
1) I generally use my system for setting up D-Servers and playing games online every once in a while (i.e. Counter-Strike, Q3A, UT etc.) and i'm not seeing a big performance difference (from my old P3 800 100 FSB Asus P3b-f Mobo w/ IBM 13.5 gig ATA/66, w/ same GPU and Monster 2 MX300 Soundcard w/ same SCSI card and devices running Win98 first edition) except with installation of software and data transfer from HDD and with Multithreaded apps under win2k i don't see a slowdown but no other differences!
THE THING THAT CONCERNS ME THE MOST IS that no matter what drivers i ude for my GPU chipset i can only get a max of 75 fps under win2k at any res. whereas i could get 150+ under win98 (must be some driver or support issue under win2k, right?) and i can't use my bundled PowerDVD software under win2k or it crashes and gives me a memory access error!!! anyone know of better Video card Drivers and/or DVD playback software for win2k?
2) I'd like to find out, since my processors are 1 OEM and 1 Retail, what the Vcore value should be for each one non-OCed and if it would be possible/worth it to OC in the future? ...
...suprisingly enough, the cheapo OEM HSF i got is about 2 degrees Celsius lower than the retail one running at less than twice the rpms as the Retail HSF (3600rpm 30 degrees C Retail, 5900rpm 28 degrees C OEM) both at a what appeares to be a Vcore of 1.73, not sure if it's too high for either one. anyone have an answer?
3) Also, for some reason the IDE controller drivers (VIA ATA/100 controller) on the disc bundled w/ the Mobo, when installed, make the system crash due to an error associated with the file NTOSKRNL.EXE, sounds like a system kernel file of some sort, anyone know why?
4) The Tekram SCSI card drivers seem to produce errors when i use the CD-RW drive for something as simple as playing a CD or installing a program, the errors read something like "the device \Devices\SCSI\trm3x51, did not respond within the timeout period" need to know how to fix this, already tried re-installing drivers! any suggestions???
Any Info would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
"We Are the All Singing, All Dancing, Crap of the World"
-TD-
(Fight Club)
Mischeif... Mayhem.... Soap.
Abit VP6 Motherboard BIOS v. 3.15.00.11
256 Megs PC 133 RAM
Dual 1 Ghz 133Mhz FSB (hence a fixed multiplier of 7.5)
Four 15 gig IBM Deskstar 75GXP ATA/100 HDDs Raided in Striping mode 0 (for a grand total of about 60 gigs partitioned three times into a 19,19,20 cause of loss from formatting and what -not)
Guillemot Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS Pro ( GeForce 2 Pro chipset) non-OCed
Creative Labs SB Live MP3+
Tekram DC-315/U SCSI card w/ 4x4x20x CD-RW attached (updated drivers already)
Win2000 on one partition (saving one for XP and other for Linux)
Cooling: Front Case intake fan (8cm), one HDD cooler on one of the four IBM ATA/100 HDDs(Cool-drive originally meant for a 10,00 rpm SCSI HDD which fell through) getting 2 rear case cooling (8cm) fans for other devices and general case cooling
1 Retail Intel socket 370 P3 Processor fan & HS and 1 OEM fan & HS
Power: 300W ATX PS
I have a few issues/questions about tweaking /troubleshooting my system:
1) I generally use my system for setting up D-Servers and playing games online every once in a while (i.e. Counter-Strike, Q3A, UT etc.) and i'm not seeing a big performance difference (from my old P3 800 100 FSB Asus P3b-f Mobo w/ IBM 13.5 gig ATA/66, w/ same GPU and Monster 2 MX300 Soundcard w/ same SCSI card and devices running Win98 first edition) except with installation of software and data transfer from HDD and with Multithreaded apps under win2k i don't see a slowdown but no other differences!
THE THING THAT CONCERNS ME THE MOST IS that no matter what drivers i ude for my GPU chipset i can only get a max of 75 fps under win2k at any res. whereas i could get 150+ under win98 (must be some driver or support issue under win2k, right?) and i can't use my bundled PowerDVD software under win2k or it crashes and gives me a memory access error!!! anyone know of better Video card Drivers and/or DVD playback software for win2k?
2) I'd like to find out, since my processors are 1 OEM and 1 Retail, what the Vcore value should be for each one non-OCed and if it would be possible/worth it to OC in the future? ...
...suprisingly enough, the cheapo OEM HSF i got is about 2 degrees Celsius lower than the retail one running at less than twice the rpms as the Retail HSF (3600rpm 30 degrees C Retail, 5900rpm 28 degrees C OEM) both at a what appeares to be a Vcore of 1.73, not sure if it's too high for either one. anyone have an answer?
3) Also, for some reason the IDE controller drivers (VIA ATA/100 controller) on the disc bundled w/ the Mobo, when installed, make the system crash due to an error associated with the file NTOSKRNL.EXE, sounds like a system kernel file of some sort, anyone know why?
4) The Tekram SCSI card drivers seem to produce errors when i use the CD-RW drive for something as simple as playing a CD or installing a program, the errors read something like "the device \Devices\SCSI\trm3x51, did not respond within the timeout period" need to know how to fix this, already tried re-installing drivers! any suggestions???
Any Info would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
"We Are the All Singing, All Dancing, Crap of the World"
-TD-
(Fight Club)
Mischeif... Mayhem.... Soap.