Astronomer Posted May 3, 2011 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.49 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Device: Windows Share Posted May 3, 2011 Hi guys,My motherboard looks like it's pooched. I've had some issues recently booting past the BIOS level; issues since day one with USB etc; recently it's been really slow loading apps (5 minutes for FireFox). I tried running my Acronis backup disk, but it failed at a Kernel Panic error (Linux based. Kernel Panic usually means a hardware-level failure); running the backup from Windows 7 ended in failure as well. System is no longer bootable, and even trying to recover the boot sector from Win7 disk ends in failure. No $$ for a whole new system, so it looks like I'll have to get a new MOBO and hope for the best. No games for me for a couple of weeks, unless my wife lets me use her dual-core gaming-quality laptop... Hopefully see you in the games ina week or two or three... - A Cranky Astronomer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Astronomer Posted May 4, 2011 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.49 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Device: Windows Author Share Posted May 4, 2011 New MOBO acquired and successfully installed. Software installation of everything has begun. The restore disk for my backup failed, so there's a bit of manual installing to get going with. Let the CD/DVD shuffle begin.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Hunter1948 Posted May 4, 2011 Member ID: 1850 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 98 Topic Count: 328 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 8620 Content Per Day: 1.74 Reputation: 4222 Achievement Points: 55994 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 09/29/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 06/19/1948 Device: Windows Share Posted May 4, 2011 Good job that didn't take long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
bullwink Posted May 4, 2011 Member ID: 2407 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 42 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 205 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 55 Achievement Points: 1277 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/17/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 21 Birthday: 02/10/1963 Device: Android Share Posted May 4, 2011 Astronomer it just wouldn't be the same without you buddy, the stars were obviously aligned in your favor (get it just take a second it will click) which board did you end up with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Unchileno Posted May 4, 2011 Member ID: 101 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 109 Topic Count: 764 Topics Per Day: 0.14 Content Count: 8133 Content Per Day: 1.52 Reputation: 6747 Achievement Points: 61498 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 13 hours ago Birthday: 01/23/1974 Device: iPhone Share Posted May 4, 2011 Good Luck.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Venery Posted May 4, 2011 Member ID: 336 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 135 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 28 Achievement Points: 801 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 7, 2023 Birthday: 01/03/1963 Device: Windows Share Posted May 4, 2011 actually sounds like a hard drive problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venery Posted May 4, 2011 Member ID: 336 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 135 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 28 Achievement Points: 801 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 7, 2023 Birthday: 01/03/1963 Device: Windows Share Posted May 4, 2011 actually sounds more like a bad hard drive problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astronomer Posted May 4, 2011 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.49 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Device: Windows Author Share Posted May 4, 2011 I was wondering that too Venery, but before the current harddrive there were intermittant isues with the USB, and cascading instability issues (both before overclocking during the overclock period, and after returning it to normal settings). Bumping up to a beefier power supply helped a bit, but the system was a bit cranky from day one. We'll see with the new mobo. It's a tried-and-true (meaning older design) ASUS P5N-D. I got this one because most socket 775 boards avaialble locally are the smaller form-factor with only 2 memory slots, and I need 4. It's all set up now and I'm installing critical apps (CODWAW, TeamSpeak...) now. I did have a couple of minor glitches, but then I remembered to install the motherboard drivers. That fixed them. The dreaded BSOD scared the crap outta me! Bullwink: I've arranged an audition for you at YukYuks. Let's see if you can pass the heckle test! Cheers, - Astronomer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Merlin007 Posted May 4, 2011 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 69 Topic Count: 1073 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 8434 Content Per Day: 1.73 Reputation: 7291 Achievement Points: 74913 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 64 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 4 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Android Share Posted May 4, 2011 Hope the rest goes well there Astro. Hey Deerhunter, do you hunt moose too! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Astronomer Posted May 5, 2011 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.49 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Device: Windows Author Share Posted May 5, 2011 Played WAW-Nam freezetag tonight, and all was smooth as butter. Temperatures were very cool. Next up: Overclock to 3.6Ghz on air cooling (no problem on my last mobo) and let it run for a couple of weeks, then ease it up to the 4.0-4.2 range. It's very doable - I ran 4.0Ghz for almost two months on the old board before an instability cascade made me run back to stock settings. For the next couple of nights it'll be installing all my apps then taking a snapshot of the disk image and storing it on Server #2. This time I'll verify the image so that I know for sure that I can restore it If I need to...(looks like there is a known bug in my version of Acronis Backup that leads to errors when restoring from the emergency backup disk. Time to upgrade.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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