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Post by 90GTVert on Jul 9, 2010 14:41:04 GMT -5
I've had 2 power supplies fail over the years. Hopefully this one is OK. I just got it late last year because my video card required extra power. Both of my others just quit.
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Post by Fox on Jul 9, 2010 14:44:03 GMT -5
Ah, but with the MAC you miss the joy of building your own, and tinkering  Much like the ownership of a Chinese scooter  Yeah but you also miss the joy of it locking up all the time and crashing. It boots up fast too. I have a 5 year old Imac that was $1400 new and it still works as good as the day I got it. It's quiet and fast enough for me. I have a high speed cable connection. The friggin" cable connection crashes all the time though. :swear: :banghead: |
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Post by 90GTVert on Jul 9, 2010 15:33:22 GMT -5
I loaded my new case with all the old components. Installed a new 500GB hard drive and the two old ones. When I tried to install windows it would freeze. I unplugged the SATA cable from the suspected drive and now it's installing Win7 to the new drive. ;D I'm hoping to reconnect the other drive after I get the system running and see if I can access it at all to make use of it as temp storage if I start using Media Center to record TVs shows again or something.
I am having one weird issue though. Maybe one of you knows the answer to this though... When I boot up it says the system fan has failed. I can hit f2 to continue, but it advises me to repair the system to avoid damage. I'm using this case's fans rather than the fan from the other case. It had one small rear fan. This one has two 120mm fans in the rear and one up front. I have one fan hooked to the motherboard just as the old case fan was. Then I piggy backed the other fan to it. They are running. I tried just hooking one up. Same message. I tried with none, same message. I probably should try to attache the old fan and see if the error msg stops, didn't think of that till I was already installing Windows so I gotta wait a bit. Is that the system fan or isthe CPU fan the system fan? With the other fans off, I can feel air moving across the fins on the processor so something has gotta be working.
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Post by 90GTVert on Jul 9, 2010 15:48:26 GMT -5
It restarted and got the fan error and then froze on me. I plugged the old fan into the motherboard and the error disappeared. I guess I gotta find a spot for it now. It's too small for the 4 120mm spots on the side and too big for the 80mm top and bottom spots.  I think I gotta reformat after the fan error interruption. Now it's just sitting there with a cursor blinking and won't do anything else. |
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Post by Goosey on Jul 9, 2010 17:21:22 GMT -5
You'd be surprised at how many dead computers could be fixed with a new fan... Some mainboards are picky about that CPU fan, if not up to speed, or connected properly...Staples carries those things now though, not so long ago I had to order everything on line.
I'd reformat if it was interupted like you said, :/
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Post by 90GTVert on Jul 9, 2010 17:25:56 GMT -5
I reformatted. Started teh reinstall. It restarted after expanding files and I have the same _ cursor flashing in the top left corner of the screen. i let it sit for about 1hr30min and it is still flashing now that I'm back to it.  |
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Post by Goosey on Jul 9, 2010 17:29:27 GMT -5
LOL, well I havn't had so much of that since Windows 98. Best way to keep those things running was to reformat twice a year  I quit fixing them for folks when I got tired of cleaning up all the spyware and vermin they put in themselves or got with the new computer. I always liked the hardware part of it. Constantly upgrading parts, though much like the scooter I find myself content with a well running laptop ;D Though I did just buy that A9 cam, don't know that I'll put it in til fall when I don't need the scooter to run all the time :paranoid: |
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Post by 90GTVert on Jul 9, 2010 17:35:25 GMT -5
It was a stupid problem. With the Win7 disc in it just stuck there. Took it out and it's continuing. The weird part is, when I was doing all this before I left the disc in and when I cam back I enetered my info and went on my way. Not sure what I did to change the way it treats the discs. Boot order etc... is the same. Hmmm. I might have changed the boot priority when my little RAID screen popped up. Ooops. lol
Don't be afraid of the cam. A9 good. Stock bad. ;D
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Post by Goosey on Jul 9, 2010 17:36:38 GMT -5
Glad you got it going...knock on wood :banghead: Next is the endless updates...weeee
I ordered from scrappydog, very good service, on Ebay, cheaper than his site...plus used my "ebay bucks" $33 w/shipping ;D I'm liking how my Roadrunner is coming along, think she'll be getting the up do's. Poor evil Baron is gonna get kranky on me I'm sure. Maybe he'll feel better when he gets to go out while I tinker with the Roadrunner.
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Post by 90GTVert on Jul 9, 2010 17:51:16 GMT -5
It's running windows now. Gotta do the updates etc... but it is up on the new drive. Other drives are disconnected for the moment. Gotta see if the bad one wants to let me access it at all and hook my other one up. Updates, reinstalls, yay. lol Still on the laptop right now. I'm glad to have it running mostly, but I gotta step away from these computers before I go cross-eyed.  Your scooters are like mine (or most of 'em really). They get some times when they a really a pain, but once you get 'em straight they can be great scoots. |
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Post by Goosey on Jul 9, 2010 18:08:37 GMT -5
The Roadrunner has a new color scheme too, did some body swapping and painting while I had her apart...now I have to get a 49ccscoot decal in a tribal font to go with the theme, LOL.
You can run a scan through windows on the secondary drives. open Computer, right click the drive, properties, tools, check disk, and make sure you check the box for "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" That should make them usable without too much trouble.
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Post by Reign on Jul 9, 2010 18:24:57 GMT -5
So it was the hard drive afterall I figured it was when you said that before it started freezing you got a message saying that a Windows file wasnt found. You might have an issue with that dead drive though. You're gonna have to plug it in while Windows is booted up, and let it install the drivers for it. I wouldnt be surprised if as soon as you plug it in, it freezes your computer. If you really need the data from it, you might need to find a USB to SATA adapter. Even that's not guaranteed to work if the drive is completely dead. |
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Post by 90GTVert on Jul 10, 2010 12:13:29 GMT -5
I hooked it up and it couldn't install drivers. The system and other partition were fine, but the one where I had a txt document I wanted to keep is toast. No biggie. Just figured I'd try. Otherwise, 's up and running and I'm posting via this "stupid computer." ;D Still got some progs to get bakc on here, but it's running well. Better than it has for a while. Just figured I'd show you the good that came from this. I like my new full tower case SO much better...  Before  After  I guess next time I need a bigger mobo. |
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Post by stepthrutuner on Jul 10, 2010 12:26:38 GMT -5
Cool. And I mean that in the thermal sense. Lotsa open space got to be a lot cooler and better on all hardware.
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Post by Reign on Jul 10, 2010 13:12:06 GMT -5
Nice setup there. All that open space should be much better on your temps. I notice you don't have a fan on that CPU heat sink. Is it a passive heat sink (no fan), or did you just remove the fan? Even if it is a passive heat sink, I'd still find some way to mount a fan on the front side of it, to push the air through and expel it out the rear fans. I'm pretty picky about keeping stuff cool though. The temps you told me you say in the BIOS did seem a bit high to me. I usually like to see CPU's somewhere in the low to mid 40's C. Yours was in the mid to high 50's. I keep my Core i7 at between 35 and 45. Last time I started seeing it get to 50, I replaced the fan and it dropped back down.
It's probably fine if you wanted to keep it the way it is, but just remember, the hotter that processor gets, the slower it runs.
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Much like the ownership of a Chinese scooter 
