Saturday, February 22, 2003

Hmmm... it was working

And now it's being flakey... problem #1 is that there is no chassis fan in this case (it's a regular desktop case), so I'm going to stick a single-speed 80mm chassis fan in there (it does at least have a spot for a chassis fan) and see if I can help with the cooling issue. At the moment I'm uninstalling and re-installing the nVidia graphics drivers because they seem to have gotten semi-hosed (system boots fine in VGA mode, but glitches in full-color mode). CPU temp was up in the low 50s (C) when I looked in the BIOS (case off), so I also have a larger cooler on order should I need it.

At the moment I'm trying to get the video drivers uninstalled and updated to the latest versions.

Update(s): A few hours later, case off, the BIOS screen reports the motherboard is at 38C and the CPU at 53C. However, the AsusProbe application will reports different numbers... 40C for the motherboard and 42C for the CPU. (Put the case back on... highest CPU temp reported by AsusProbe is 46C which is just fine.)

Okay, ripped out the Ti4600 AGP card, dropped in the older GeForce2 MX400... and when I put it into deep color mode, I get a jerky-mouse / keyboard syndrome going. Something is fighting with something for a resource, but I don't know which yet. ... Well, fixing the contention issue was easy enough, I just moved the Promise FastTrak66 RAID card over one more PCI slot and reset all of the BIOS settings to the optimal defaults.

Which makes me wonder if I can put the Ti4600 back in... I may try it again tomorrow once I redo all of my other installs.

posted by Wuphon's at 5:21 PM