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First of all, cheers for all the help in my PC building thread - I've got the thing built now, have configured the BIOS and installed some virus software. Not bad, not bad at all - but I have a few problems.
First and foremost, the graphics card is giving me grief. After attempting to install the drivers for my brand new Gainward 6800 GT, I ran into a massive problem. XP will load up, looking very distorted, and then the PC will restart - from what I can make out of the corrupted image of the error message, apparently the display drivers have the PC stuck in an "infinite loop".
However, it doesn't appear to be a driver problem, as my friend downloaded some new ones and put them on a CD, which I installed and still got the same problem. It may be useful to note that only one fan on the card rotates when the PC is running, and when I initially installed the drivers from the CD supplied with the card it notified me at the start that a file was missing - but I assumed that this was for ExpertTool and not the drivers. Considering the downloaded drivers didn't change things, I would expect this detail is irrelevant. But who knows.
The rest is more trivial. I need to find out how to remove the retention module on the motherboard so I can attach my ThermalRight SP-94 Heatsink, to somehow work out how to plug two-pin fans into a motherboard with three-pin fan sockets, and figure out how to secure my hard drive and CD-ROM drive in place (the first isn't the right size for the bay, and as for the CD-ROM, there appears to be nothing on the case to secure it).
If it helps, the specs are as follows:
Abit IC7 Motherboard
Pentium 4 2.8ghz Prescott
2x 256mb DDR RAM (dual channel)
Antec 550w TrueControl
160gb 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda HD
If anyone can help with any of this, I will be very grateful. Thanks.
First and foremost, the graphics card is giving me grief. After attempting to install the drivers for my brand new Gainward 6800 GT, I ran into a massive problem. XP will load up, looking very distorted, and then the PC will restart - from what I can make out of the corrupted image of the error message, apparently the display drivers have the PC stuck in an "infinite loop".
However, it doesn't appear to be a driver problem, as my friend downloaded some new ones and put them on a CD, which I installed and still got the same problem. It may be useful to note that only one fan on the card rotates when the PC is running, and when I initially installed the drivers from the CD supplied with the card it notified me at the start that a file was missing - but I assumed that this was for ExpertTool and not the drivers. Considering the downloaded drivers didn't change things, I would expect this detail is irrelevant. But who knows.
The rest is more trivial. I need to find out how to remove the retention module on the motherboard so I can attach my ThermalRight SP-94 Heatsink, to somehow work out how to plug two-pin fans into a motherboard with three-pin fan sockets, and figure out how to secure my hard drive and CD-ROM drive in place (the first isn't the right size for the bay, and as for the CD-ROM, there appears to be nothing on the case to secure it).
If it helps, the specs are as follows:
Abit IC7 Motherboard
Pentium 4 2.8ghz Prescott
2x 256mb DDR RAM (dual channel)
Antec 550w TrueControl
160gb 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda HD
If anyone can help with any of this, I will be very grateful. Thanks.
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I have 6 fans in my case, and it is silent enough to sleep with when its litterally next to my bed, mabye its just my fans though, Its a very remote link, but I had a kensington Webracer mouse, I found it in the attic after not having used it since windows 95, so I put it in my new computer and It restartes itself after I got to the login screen, It took me ages to figure out the cause, but I eventually realized it might have been the mouse, so I unplugged it and my PC worked instantly, even with the proper windows XP driver off the website, it still wouldnt work, so I guess some things just dont work with certain PCs, even if thayre supposed to be compatible
No joy with the graphics card.
I'm guessing it's faulty. Thanks for the help.
I'm guessing it's faulty. Thanks for the help.
I don't dispute the wonderful performance of the XP120 etc, but you might want to save yourselves a few quid and get the SLK 947 or SLK948. OcUK are doing them for around £15 each at the moment. [URL]http://ukchatforums.reserve.co.uk/display_messages.php?threadid=83829&forumid=4006[/URL]
That gfx card sounds borked to me.
Yeah, doesn't work without moving some of the pins for the Abit AV8 Deluxe. Had me eye on it for a while now but the heat sink is too nig.
ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
>
> I am going to grab the Thermaltake SLK948U CPU fan, read some reviews
> last night and was massively impressed.
I guess in your case, noise really isn't an issue (With 9 fans!!) otherwise I would recommend the Thermalright xp-120.
>
> I am going to grab the Thermaltake SLK948U CPU fan, read some reviews
> last night and was massively impressed.
I guess in your case, noise really isn't an issue (With 9 fans!!) otherwise I would recommend the Thermalright xp-120.
Nimco wrote:
> I had pot that sits inline with the fan.
Cool! Weed in a PC case eh?
> I had pot that sits inline with the fan.
Cool! Weed in a PC case eh?
To be honest, noise levels aren't an issue. I lob my Surround Sound head phones on for gaming as my PC is loud as I have 9 fans in total in my case, 3 of them operating at ovr 4500RPM.
I am going to grab the Thermaltake SLK948U CPU fan, read some reviews last night and was massively impressed.
I am going to grab the Thermaltake SLK948U CPU fan, read some reviews last night and was massively impressed.
ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> I don't have a control on the CPU fan aside from the Bios control fan.
> I have looked in there and can't see where you can alter the
> voltage.
>
> Any ideas?
Maybe there are some utilities for your motherboard that you could download and install to allow control over the CPU fan? BIOS updates maybe?
Or get a fan controller, sunbeam do some excellent fan controllers that allow volts from 0-12 where as most others only go from 7-12 volts.
Or DIY with a variable resistor between the fan and the MoBo connector, you could have fun fitting that to the back or front of your case, etc...
> I don't have a control on the CPU fan aside from the Bios control fan.
> I have looked in there and can't see where you can alter the
> voltage.
>
> Any ideas?
Maybe there are some utilities for your motherboard that you could download and install to allow control over the CPU fan? BIOS updates maybe?
Or get a fan controller, sunbeam do some excellent fan controllers that allow volts from 0-12 where as most others only go from 7-12 volts.
Or DIY with a variable resistor between the fan and the MoBo connector, you could have fun fitting that to the back or front of your case, etc...
I had a variable pot that sits inline with the fan.
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