Upgrade and XP now crashes!!!! - Page 2

vader · 2002-09-21, 17:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prime95

Keep your fingers crossed, the master database is on IBM drives. 40GB raid 1. Of course its backup weekly to avoid severe loss.

Out of the four IBM drives I have owned, three died disturbingly early. And of those three, two were 40GB. So raid and frequent backups is probably a good idea. (Although the 40GB:s were already broken when I brought them home from the store, so maybe they had a bumpy ride before I got them.)

johnymccarthy · 2002-09-26, 03:01

I have discovered that my system freeze up when running Prime95 is largely due to using SDRAM on my ECS K7S5A M/B.
I chose this particular M/B because it can use either SDRAM or DDRAM, and my thought was to save some money and re-use the SDRAM from my old system, big mistake!

It would appear that when made to work hard it cannot cope (a forum for troubleshooting the K&S5A is full of sad tales regarding memory and type), I just wish ECS had mentioned this eccentricity in their advert.
Today I purchased 512MB of DDRAM and Prime95 now runs.

My problems have transfered to the rest of my programs which run very very slowly when Prime95 is pumping, so I am off to the Software Forum for more help, see you there.

John

johnymccarthy · 2002-09-26, 05:08

I did of course mean to say 'Hardware Forum'

ops:

John

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2002-09-26, 03:01	#13
johnymccarthy Sep 2002 14₁₀ Posts	I have discovered that my system freeze up when running Prime95 is largely due to using SDRAM on my ECS K7S5A M/B. I chose this particular M/B because it can use either SDRAM or DDRAM, and my thought was to save some money and re-use the SDRAM from my old system, big mistake! It would appear that when made to work hard it cannot cope (a forum for troubleshooting the K&S5A is full of sad tales regarding memory and type), I just wish ECS had mentioned this eccentricity in their advert. Today I purchased 512MB of DDRAM and Prime95 now runs. My problems have transfered to the rest of my programs which run very very slowly when Prime95 is pumping, so I am off to the Software Forum for more help, see you there. John

2002-09-26, 05:08	#14
johnymccarthy Sep 2002 2·7 Posts	I did of course mean to say 'Hardware Forum' ops: John