thlnk3r

Hueristic, it isn't certain but his MBR was probably corrupt/damaged and that is why he couldn't boot into the OS. A simple reinstallation of the operating system resolved his issues but in same time he lost all of his data. Though I do believe data recovery from the last install was more than likely possible.

HothBase, perhaps the 64-but users would be able to answer that better but the first things that come to mind are being able to run more then 3GB's of memory and having the ability to run 64-bit applications in their designated environment.

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Evil Eddie

dumb question im sure i know the answer to, my video card that i have been using for the longest time now is a gforce 6700 gs it came with a stock huge heatsink, shouldnt it have a fan and sink? it is hot to touch, could that cause the fail in prime95? could i just lower something on the card to keep it from running hot?

im running memtest and its going fine, prime ran for about 40 minutes last night then my stupid "monitor shut off after 20 min." came on so moved the mouse and the one monitor just shut off. so after leaving the puter off for about 20 minutes i started it back up and started prime again and it failed in the first test.

mudd

a video card shouldn't cause p95 to fail. p95 stresses your cpu for the most part. just put like a 120mm fan on your video card and zip tie it to the heatsink.

blitz6804

If you only have 2 GB of RAM, I would advise against using a 64-bit operating system personally. In my experience, all x86 programs in an x64 environment use about 150% of the RAM that they would use in an x86 environment natively. However, I have only dabbled in Vista x64 and Ubuntu x64, never XP x64. Txtmstrjoe uses XP x64 if I recall correctly.

The only time I would suggest using a 64-bit operating system with 2 GB of RAM is if you want to use a pair of 4870x2s in Crossfire, which would use 4 GB of video memory.

Evil Eddie: Older/slower graphics cards could get by being passively cooled, that is why there is no fan on the sink. If you have the card overclocked, a fan may be back in order. And as mudd has suggested, a video card should not cause P95 to fail.

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Because of historically spotty driver support (and also because a 64-bit OS is always more costly than 32-bit), I've never used a 64-bit OS.

That is, until I get my dual-booting server up and running. But that machine is not yet online and live. Somehow I cannot summon the gumption to finish this most prosaic of machines.

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froggy1986

Hey everyone, I know I haven't been around for quite some time, just wanted to update everyone, my rig has a few changes made to it since the last time I was in here.... First I just replaced my PSU, with a new Ultra X2 550 watt. I also got pio's old GPU now. I am still working on running the testing and working on a higher OC, but as for now my temps are looking much better since I redid pio's wiring job, but mostly because this one is modular. The new pix are below, let me know what ya think... Thanks

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nategr8ns

Looks good! But there's not enough green now .
What are those switches or buttons on your expansion slot covers?

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froggy1986

Well I am slowly getting rid of the green due to my plan on EVENTUALLY painting my case, inside and out. The inside is going to be black, and i will eventually be adding a bunch of UV stuff into it, just gotta get the spare $$. As for the switches, those are the switches for my cathodes, which you can hardly tell are even there right now, shoulda had them on in the pix now that I think about it.

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txtmstrjoe

Good pix, froggy!

I see quite a few familiar friends in there, too.

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