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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jw who wrote (10983)	6/14/2000 10:39:00 AM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

jw, I just did some calculating, and I see that your FSB is overclocked about 54% with the cpu running at 824MHz. At that setting, your external clock divider (I think this means PCI clock) is 1/3, and is derived from the FSB. And you would manually set your AGP to 2/3. The resulting frequencies would be: FSB = 102 PCI = 34 (vs 33 spec) AGP = 68 (vs 66 spec) So, you're in a sweet spot. Very nice. One other thing I notice is that your Celeron is designed for a 66MHz FSB, which makes me think that it may be SMP capable (since it's not a 100MHz type). Probably not, but definitely worth checking out, as I would jump for a couple! The BIOS Flash is a cool little trick. Good idea to practice it a few times: that's how the army does it! <g> I'm not into Dual processors. One seems to handle trading, portfolio, charts & surfin OK. Think you are right about CuMines not being SMP capable. I LOVE the SMP. Probably doesn't make too much difference most of the time, but it's a pretty cheap upgrade, IMO (although Intel is obviously trying to make it difficult). ps; temp holding steady about 29.3c with the Orb. Have a Radio Shack Indoor/Outdoor thermometer with probe wedged alongside of heatsink and CPU plate, touching both. I think it's within a couple c's of being correct That seems VERY cool. Nice setup! Thanks for all the info -- it's really time-consuming to research all the nitty gritty to make an informed buy. My DSL is working well. I get knocked off every once in a while. For several days it would happen maybe once a day. Been better lately. Maybe it was my computer which has been grumpy lately. Yesterday I reinstalled an old clone of my O/S and it seems to feel better now. DriveImage is a great Windows antidote... Regards, wily

To: jw who wrote (10983)	6/14/2000 8:21:00 PM
From: Scott Bergquist	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

Anyone having printer problems after installing PacBellDSL?? I have my self-constructed setup with an ASUS P2B-S board (onboard SCSI U2W) and a 450 Pentium III. I am also running the Quantum 3d Raven video card, along with the Quantum 3d Obsidian accelerator card. and..(pant, pant) the SoundBlaster Pro audio card. Good ol' Pac Bell came by, and installed their "free" Kingston card, and the "EtheRx VP 10/100" software. Since that time (end of March) I have been unable to print. Printer light goes on, software says "printing", but no paper advance. Have tried another printer. Nope. New cable. No help. Printer tech svcs (3 calls..no help) Kingston....denies all knowledge, even though their readme file says, "may affect BIOS if you run Windows98". Took it to Advanced 2000 (shop) and told them to upgrade BIOS, to version 1012, in case that is what it took. System runs better, but... they could not get printer to print either (shrug shrug). ASUS in Taiwan is hopeless. Hopeless, responseless.... Does dropping the modem card off the motherboard, have some effect? Last straw here. running out of patience. $50 credit at your restaurant if you can fix this...