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    Athlon64 upgrade....

    BUT NOT ON MY SCHEDULE!!

    Well, that was interesting.....

    We had this little "power problem" yesterday. Seems we had a surge big enough to blow my main systems UPS, P/S, MB, CPU and damage 2 HDD's. Wonderful....

    The boot partition is un-formattable and the partition cannot be deleted but at least it can be read. The 2nd parition is OK. Guess I"ll back up everything on it and do a LLF and see what happens.

    The other HDD is in the RAID5 and is a dead duck, but all I have to do is replace it and rebuild the array. Thank GOD for RAID5

    I had to go with what I could get on short notice/time (and short funds) so here's the new setup (at least for now);

    Athlon64 3000+
    MSI RS480M2 skt 939 mainboard (ATI chipset)
    1GB DDR400 Crucial dual channel
    Integrated ATI video (no AGP so no P-750, APVe later for PCIe/HD outut later?)
    Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
    Fasttrak 4000 RAID5 (of course)
    RT.X100
    etc.

    I guess we'll find out if the RT.X100 works with the ATI chipset

    Dr. Mordrid
    Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 19 August 2005, 08:22.
    Dr. Mordrid
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    An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

    I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps
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    It's an APC 1000VA model BX1000 that's rated at 420 joules. Luckily not much was on as it was the early AM and just my system was up batch-rendering some 3D projects.

    It was a weird situation though. The one small TV that was on in my sons room got fried too, as did our alarm clock and a few other small items. The TV let out three VERY loud 2-3 second hums in rapid sucession.....loud enough to wake my wife out of a dead sleep. The power never did completely drop out.

    The other devices (large TV's, VCR's, DVD recorders etc.) and the appliances all survived

    Like I said; weird.

    Dr. Mordrid
    Dr. Mordrid
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    An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

    I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Dr Mordrid
      It's an APC 1000VA model BX1000 that's rated at 420 joules. Luckily not much was on as it was the early AM and just my system was up batch-rendering some 3D projects.

      It was a weird situation though. The one small TV that was on in my sons room got fried too, as did our alarm clock and a few other small items. The TV let out three VERY loud hums.....loud enough to wake my wife out of a dead sleep. The appliances all survived

      Like I said; weird.

      Dr. Mordrid
      will you claim this on APC's warrenty?.. they usually claim some rediculously high warrenty for parts damaged through their UPS's
      We have enough youth - What we need is a fountain of smart!


      i7-920, 6GB DDR3-1600, HD4870X2, Dell 27" LCD

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      • #4
        I'll at least give it a go.

        I'm sure as hell keeping all my receipts for this upgrade

        EDIT: just got off the line with Maxtor.

        My boot drive was a Maxtor 120g ATA purchased <1 year ago. Since it was still under warranty I ran PowerMax, which reported it as a failed drive and issued a Maxtor error code. Armed with the error code and the drives serial number & type I called Maxtor's 1-800 help line to see if they'd replace it.

        No fight/no fuss: the RMA was approved in <2 minutes.

        The replacement HDD is on the way by 2-day FedEx

        Dr. Mordrid
        Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 19 August 2005, 12:46.
        Dr. Mordrid
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        An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

        I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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        • #5
          Talk to the power company about mismanaging their phase resynchronization ? or did they have a xformer short ?

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          • #6
            No storm....it was a clear weather day.

            Dr. Mordrid
            Dr. Mordrid
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            An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

            I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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            • #7
              Bummer doc

              Hope APC pay on their waranty
              If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

              Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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              • #8
                Maxtor has always given me great waranty service. Problem is I've had to use it way to often to continue buying Maxtor drives

                I had a new pair in a raid fail within a few hours of each other -- major bummer.

                --wally.

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