Saltah'na
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Links are dead.
I have a Thermaltake Purepower 420W PSU. No problems so far.
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Odd, they work for me. But that's the PSU I'm leaning towards.
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Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
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The links are working now.
The Athena is out. Looks very generic to me.
Clever power simply looks weird. How do they exhaust the heat from the power supply with that arrangement?
You know my opinion on Thermaltake.
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Okay. First power supply, the one I ordered, was told wouldn't work, and decided to sell? It came in, I installed it, it works. Except that it doesn't fix my problem. The video card seems to work much better, Uru is smoother at uber-high settings than it was on moderate settings before. But I'm still getting the random crashing. Further, Windows seems to have decided to frell itself again. My admin account, as well as the second one I created just for laughs, can't access several admin-only functions like defrag, device manager, and windows update.
So in sum: the ram is fine, the power supply is new, the motherboard is new, the windows install is new, the video card is new, and no removal of hardware or software thus far prevents the crashes. Ideas would be good.
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The windows frellage has been fixed. Still with the crashes, though.
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Cartman
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"ram is fine"
Erh, is it? I mean, the memory itself might be, but the combination memory/mainboard might not, what with the latter apparently supporting AND not supporting roughly seven billion types of it. Don't know what else you've tried besides installing the new PSU, though.
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Memtest86 ran for several hours, ran sevearl full scans, and found no problems with the RAM. Got other diagnostic programs for me?
The RAM should work in the motherboard, according to the most technically detailed docs I have. That being a small chart in the manual. My kingdom for consistent documentation.
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Cartman
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Hmm. There are some professional diagnostics suites like PC-Certify's, erh, PC-Certify, UltraX's QuickTech, and SmithMicro's CheckIt, and a (primitive) tool from MS, but, frankly, memtest86 doesn't miss much that those programs don't, and for the money you'd have to splash out on even one of them you might as well buy two new 512MB DIMMs anyway. It's just that page fault that seems to fly in the face, well, everything. When it happens again, pipe the BSOD error code through here and read what MS has to say about it.
(Loosening your memory timings and increasing the voltage a notch might help as a stopgap measure, but... meh.)
I'm stumped as to what else on the hardware side of things could be causing this, though. My next guess would be the graphics card, or more specifically ATI's half-assed drivers for it, but I assume you've already updated those, so... I dunno.
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One approach it to start pulling stuff out of the computer and running it for a couple of days without it to see if it's moer stable. And I'd start with that SCSI card and hard drive, if only because they seem extremely pointless.
(Replacing the memory might not be a bad idea anyway. Don't know about US prices, but a 512mb DIMM costs about �40 here, and XP will be MUCh happier with 512mb, esspecially if you're playing games.)
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Hey, nine gigs of space is enough for my documents and backups of all my e-mail and chat logs. Hardly pointless. Besides, I've tried what you suggest, no joy. Ran Uru with nothing but the system drive attached, and it still crashed.
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Why don't you just use the 40 gig as the backup drive? Or are those two drives filled up?
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Because that's a waste of 40 GB of good space. I don't need that much backup capacity.
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We've spent the last six years trying to persuade the poor lad to do just that, and now you want him to stop? What the hell is wrong with you?
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