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Super Duper (costly) Upgrade Time!
Posted: July 10th, 2007, 14:21
by tandino
I'm about to go into silent running mode any hour/day now to upgrade pretty much all my hardware. XP is getting a clean install too, good old corp edition... My main concern, however, is that I forget some crucial bit of software that's gonna be a nightmare to locate again.
Naturally I've pretty much got all my drivers in one place, plus my essentials (antivirus, anti spyware). Just concerned that I'll forget something and not be able to get hold of it again. The plan was to back up everything, but I went and left my blank DVDs at a mates, so it's an on the fly thing now.
Is there anything you folks always forget about that you can think of?
Posted: July 10th, 2007, 14:23
by FatherJack
Gigabit network card drivers.
Can't do fuck all without 'em, but once you have them you can get everything else you need.
Oh, and the F6 disk for installing XP if you have SATA disks or an array.
Posted: July 10th, 2007, 14:23
by Dr. kitteny berk
Only thing i usually bother with is
mozbackup
because you can never get your bookmarks *just* right after a reinstall (also saves remembering passwords and extensions)
Posted: July 10th, 2007, 14:29
by Dr. kitteny berk
FatherJack wrote:Gigabit network card drivers.
Can't do fuck all without 'em, but once you have them you can get everything else you need.
Oh, and the F6 disk for installing XP if you have SATA disks or an array.
for those i generally do the
http://driverpacks.net/ and
http://www.nliteos.com/ thing, makes life a lot easier (but does need some testing etc)
Posted: July 10th, 2007, 15:11
by tandino
FatherJack wrote:Gigabit network card drivers.
Can't do fuck all without 'em, but once you have them you can get everything else you need.
Oh, and the F6 disk for installing XP if you have SATA disks or an array.
Think I'll have an issue with installing windows XP corp SP2 on a SATA disk then? Didn't realise those kind of rules applied. The drawback being I don't have a floppy drive...
Posted: July 10th, 2007, 15:17
by Dr. kitteny berk
I
think most sata drives will just work with windows now, depends on the mobo and stuff though.
Usually the problems should appear with more complicated stuff, like RAID arrays, and weird/old mobos.
my windows cds always have sata driverpacks on (linked up there a bit
) means you rarely end up in the shite
Posted: July 10th, 2007, 15:26
by tandino
Right, I'm going in for this, my 5th system build - wish me luck.
/will see you in about an hour on a different computer when he fucks up
Posted: July 10th, 2007, 17:31
by Dr. kitteny berk
tandino wrote:Right, I'm going in for this, my 5th system build - wish me luck.
/will see you in about an hour on a different computer when he fucks
up
Hmm, 2 hours now.
Fuckup or success. Place your bets.
Posted: July 10th, 2007, 19:11
by HereComesPete
I'll put a shiny penny on him being fine, and if I lose my shiny penny to the gods of betting... meh!
Posted: July 10th, 2007, 20:08
by deject
I'll say it works, but he'll need no less than 4 tries to get it to boot.
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 1:15
by tandino
W00t lol rofl zomgar n00b!!11
I'm back, hardware wise - no problems at all. Fucking pleased with my super nice build.
Windows however... Only took 2 installs and now I'm sorted with the essentials. The major setback being that mozilla backup didn't fucking work...
Alas, I am here and off to bed...
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 1:24
by Dr. kitteny berk
tandino wrote:I'm back, hardware wise - no problems at all. Fucking pleased with my super nice build.
Woo!
Photos or it didn't happen
tandino wrote:The major setback being that mozilla backup didn't fucking work...
Very weird, i've never had a problem with it.
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 1:28
by tandino
Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
Very weird, i've never had a problem with it.
Seriously, not a single problem - only had to do some marginal fettling with the bios to change default GFX from PCI-E to AGP. Almost too simple...
Not sure why it didn't back up but it's no big deal. I'll just copy my bookmarks over from my old drive.
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CPU-Z 1.40 report file
Processor(s)
Number of processors 1
Number of cores 2 per processor
Number of threads 2 (max 2) per processor
Name Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
Code Name Conroe
Specification Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
Package Socket 775 LGA
Family/Model/Stepping 6.F.6
Extended Family/Model 6.F
Core Stepping B2
Technology 65 nm
Core Speed 2306.1 MHz
Multiplier x Bus speed 9.0 x 256.2 MHz
Rated Bus speed 1024.9 MHz
Stock frequency 2400 MHz
Instruction sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, EM64T
L1 Data cache 2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache 2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache 4096 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Chipset & Memory
Northbridge VIA PT880 Pro rev. 00
Southbridge VIA VT8237A rev. 00
Graphic Interface AGP
AGP Revision 3.0
AGP Transfer Rate 8x
AGP Side Band Addressing supported, enabled
Memory Type DDR2
Memory Size 2048 MBytes
Memory Frequency 256.2 MHz (1:1)
DRAM Interleave 4-way
CAS# Latency (tCL) 4.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# (tRDC) 4 clocks
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 4 clocks
Cycle Time (tRAS) 12 clocks
Command Rate 2T
System
System Manufacturer To Be Filled By O.E.M.
System Name To Be Filled By O.E.M.
System S/N To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Mainboard Vendor
Mainboard Model 4CoreDual-VSTA
BIOS Vendor American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Version P1.70
BIOS Date 04/24/2007
Memory SPD
Module 1 DDR2, PC2-6400 (400 MHz), 1024 MBytes, Corsair
Module 2 DDR2, PC2-6400 (400 MHz), 1024 MBytes, Corsair
Software
Windows Version Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
DirectX Version 9.0c
There we have it. Not gonna overclock her tonight - that can wait until tomorrow...
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 1:35
by Dr. kitteny berk
http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/CoreTemp/ is very handy for temp checking for the first day or so.
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 10:49
by tandino
Ta mate, but I'm running <a href="
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php">speedfan</a> - been using for ages and it's never let me down. Very straightforward and unimposing too as well as having a near non existent footprint. Worth a look either way.
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 10:51
by Dr. kitteny berk
I like speedfan, but given I have no fans of importance, I like coretemp for this machine
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 11:10
by Stoat
I don't think I've ever had a machine on which SpeedFan worked properly.
Either that, or I've never had a machine on which all my fans worked properly.
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 11:15
by Dr. kitteny berk
speedfan can be weird and picky.
which is why i suggest coretemp, it works on most recent CPUs, reads internal die temperatures (so reasonably accurate) and it doesn't do anything else.
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 11:16
by FatherJack
Stoat wrote:I don't think I've ever had a machine on which SpeedFan worked properly.
Either that, or I've never had a machine on which all my fans worked properly.
Me neither, but then I've always gone for the "too many fans" approach.
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 11:42
by tandino
I've never had any problems with speedfan, it's giving me accurate readings (as they match core temp's exactly). Also it's giving me a good reading of the ambient temperature of my case/motherboard/HDD and readouts of my voltages etc.
How many of you fuckers are overclocked? I know my system's up to it and I'm wondering if there's anything you swear by for all your OCing needs?