Tides Posted October 16, 2004 Posted October 16, 2004 Hey everyone, Just purchased a UT 250gb last week and I've got a question. I had my FSB up to 240 with my gig of Kingston BH-5 @ 1:1 3.1v and I was playing a game when all of a sudden a bluescreen pops up and this whistling sound starts to get louder and louder (not a fan, an electric sound) and stays loud until I turn off the machine. Touched the ram and it was warmish to hot. Then I put on another fan (zalman arm with 92mm fan) placed right over the ram (also a 120mm fan blowing on it from behind the HD's). Which cooled down memory temps pretty well, the memory would still get warm, but not hot like it did before; I also spread the memory apart from 1/2 to 1/3 for better heat disappation. Now, anytime after that loading up windows took longer (from 1-2 bars to 3-4 bars) and I started to play that game again. Again, I got a blue screen and a loud whistling sound so I quickly turned off the power and checked the ram again and it was just warm. Lowered the voltage a bit then after loading up it took from 3-4 bars to 5-6 bars (the windows loading bar process). I got some errors then in the game too @ 220 so I decided to go stock until I figured out what was going on. Which leaves me where I am now, I sometimes get some errors in War3 (fatal crashes) or in prime95 but I haven't seen any errors in memtest3.1... Hardware I'm using: 2800+ amd64 (cg core) ut 250gb 1gb kingston bh-5 hyperx evga 5900se (beta drivers) audigy 2zs raptor 74gb sata drive 38gb maxtor ide drive 380w antec truepower psu (1 fan version) Any help or ideas would be great, thanks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted October 16, 2004 Posted October 16, 2004 http://www.angrygames.com/NF3.htm check those screens...im @ 250FSB 1:1 witha 2800+ CG newcastle at 240 I switched over my SATA to ports 3/4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tides Posted October 16, 2004 Posted October 16, 2004 nice work, thx. I realized something in benchmarking my raptor drive. In sandra (i know it's not great for benchmarking) i was getting 13mb/sec and now i'm getting 56mb/sec(the extra boot time is gone too) after i uninstalled the serial ata controllers. What i'm wondering about now is whether i would gain any performance with my hd by putting it into a single drive raid (if that's even possible). also, in sata controller (either of them) > properties > primary channel i can not change any settings (transfer mode, read/write caching/command queuing, etc). any ideas? i've been searching on this site and on the internet for answers but have been left with more questions. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted October 16, 2004 Posted October 16, 2004 make a sig like the Important Info sticky says...then I can offer you some advice read the rules too just so you know them plenty o' links in my sig Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tides Posted October 16, 2004 Posted October 16, 2004 I'm sorry, thought I just had to put it into my profile, and have added it to my sig Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted October 16, 2004 Posted October 16, 2004 ya i gotta get alexia to fix that =/ what kind of cooler you got on the cpu? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tides Posted October 16, 2004 Posted October 16, 2004 right now i have a zalman cnps7000alcu (arctic silver 5) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tides Posted October 16, 2004 Posted October 16, 2004 oh, i also switched out the chipset heatsink for a Vantec "IceBerq" Coppery (as5) although i did cut off a bit too much around the mounting hole of the heatsink so there's a little gap but nothing that causes the iceberq to move at all, it's held pretty well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted October 16, 2004 Posted October 16, 2004 from what i know of RAID, you can stripe two different size drives...and i know with NVRaid you can run raid across SATA-PATA ...only enable the ports you want (Genie bios too) and enable them as raid in the IDE Function. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tides Posted October 16, 2004 Posted October 16, 2004 yea but i think it drops down to the speed of the slowest drive. i'm almost thinking about getting another raptor due to it's command queuing and they're on sale for cheap right now at newegg. what gets me is why i'm still getting memory errors in warcraft3 / prime95 @ stock; going to run memtest some more. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted October 16, 2004 Posted October 16, 2004 get another raptor...but the native NV RAID doesnt support the advanced features (need a controller card for that that does support them) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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