Putting a new "bare bones" computer together, questions

[Ford Prefect]

I think it was a good investment for his current and future needs. He now has plenty of options with all that processing power. I'm also a big fan of the new Intel Ix processors.

There is little that even a guy like myself would be doing on such a machine that would effectively use more than two CPU cores in the next couple years, short of serious video editing or hard-core gaming.

There is nothing wrong with the new Intel CPUs, but I would have suggested an AMD based system, if only for the far superior integrated graphics you can get with the AMD/ATI chipsets. An AMD based system would give better bang for the buck.

[coolhandluke]

In many cases I agree, but this setup seems a great bang for Jack's buck and offers a great ease of ordering etc.

[B18CXr]

Well, my upgrade phucked me...


The i5 upgrade 86'ed my internal video card. FML

Ordering external video card today.

http://www.intel.com/support/motherboar ... 031281.htm

[itrsteez]

Well, my upgrade phucked me...


The i5 upgrade 86'ed my internal video card. FML

Ordering external video card today.

http://www.intel.com/support/motherboar ... 031281.htm

Yeah well, you sold a car today for asking price without whoring it on a shitsite...... so all and all Friday the 23rd wasn't so bad

[B18CXr]

Yeah well, you sold a car today for asking price without whoring it on a shitsite...... so all and all Friday the 23rd wasn't so bad





It gets better, had an offer on the 993 this morning too (it's not really for sale)....................................might take it.

[itrsteez]

Yeah well, you sold a car today for asking price without whoring it on a shitsite...... so all and all Friday the 23rd wasn't so bad





It gets better, had an offer on the 993 this morning too (it's not really for sale)....................................might take it.

sweet jesus, might as well buy a lotto ticket today.

[walker111]

:budlight:

[Willard]

It gets better, had an offer on the 993 this morning too (it's not really for sale)....................................might take it.

daym... looks like you are going to get that K swap for the DX after all!

[Dave-ROR]

Jack kswaps

[itrsteez]

I smell a wiretuck on the horizon

[Erik95LS]

I think he's going to get a Scion xB with lambo doors. He's been in love ever since he had one in the shop

[B18CXr]

Ordered this today, hope it works...





http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... CatId=3669

[coolhandluke]

Keep me posted sir.

[Comp97GSR]

Well, my upgrade phucked me...


The i5 upgrade 86'ed my internal video card. FML

Ordering external video card today.

http://www.intel.com/support/motherboar ... 031281.htm

I am a techno retard, but how did that mess up the vid. card? Forgive me, I can use a computer and thats about it.

[coolhandluke]

The original setup did not include a video card. He was going to use the built in graphics for the time being. What we didn't know was that this processor requires an external (PCIe etc) video card.

[B18CXr]

Got it all working last night, but had two "blue screens" Physical Memory Dump


WTF???

[Dave-ROR]

run memtest and see if it detects memory errors, could be lots of things though.

[98spec022]

If you're running Windows 7 there should be a "Windows Memory Diagnostic" in Control Panel \ Administrative Tools that you might be able to run to see if you have some bad RAM as Dave suggested.

When you get a blue screen does your computer automatically reboot or does the blue screen remain?

If it sticks around, there is some information there that might tell us more about what's wrong. In the screenshot below, I've outlined the important areas in red.



If it doesn't stick around, you can make it stick around by going to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\System, click "Advanced System Settings" on the left, click the "Settings" button in the Startup and Recovery section of the window, and unchecking "Automatically Restart" in the System Failure section.

[splat]

Video driver conflict? Uninstall and reinstall fresh?

[B18CXr]

update:

seems to only do it when I'm copying a ton of data from the clipboard to another location (i.e. >40G's from one slave drive to another via the USB ports) otherwise it "seems" to be working ok.


Anybody got a way to monitor CPU temps??

[itrsteez]

for solid copies download a program called robocopy, then run it from the command line with something like this

>robocopy.exe e:\ c:\users\yack\old_shit /E /XO /TEE /PURGE /W:1 /R:1

assuming e: is your slaved drive and c:\users\yack\old_shit is the new destination of where you want the stuff

/E copies everything
/XO copies only new files, so if for what ever reason the copy doesn't complete you can run that command again and it won't copy previously copied shit