I'm going to build a new rig and I'm torn between xp 32-bit for $80 and 64-bit for $150. I am primarily a gamer, the new system will have:core 2 duo E8500 3.0 ghz
asus P5Q Pro mobo2gb gskill DDR2 1066 ram2 x 320gb hitachie drives in RAID 0evga gtx 260Drivers aren't the problem. My question is, will I notice any difference in speed/load times/frame rates with xp 64-bit? Or will 32-bit running off a raid 0 be fine?
I was playing Dragon Age when the game freezed horribly. It displayed flickering green dots all across my screen and I had to manually restart my pc. When I came back into windows XP, the only thing I saw were large black and white rectangulars all across my screen. So I decided to let it rest for 30 min before trying again.When I did that, the black & white rectangulars were gone and I could do everything normal again. Except for gaming. When I tried Dragon Age, it crashed again the same way. After another 30 min, I tried another game (a hl2 mod, which doesn't tax the system that hard) and it froze again after a while (say 2 minutes), but my screen didn't display the strange rectangulars anymore
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View 4 Replies View Relatedso I needed those few extra frames in medieval II and so I set the BIOS auto-overclocking to "sergeant" level (lol) and played MTWII and suddenly the PC shut itself down. I quickly disconnected the power and opened the case to smell burning plastic and red hot heatsink
BF2142 does not make the PC freeze up and squeek, though
every time i finish playing a game and exit out of it to return to windows. all i get is a black screen with my mouse curser, everything is still there i just carnt see anything. to fix this everytime i just push the windows button on the universal remote to media center, it starts up i exit out of it then everything is normal. just a little anoying having to do this after every game i play.
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Well, I have mixed emotions posting back here on TSG. I would have liked to have done it for a happier reason. I've been gone for a while (no computer problems lol) but I hate to return by mentioning that I have a problem with my trusty old Dell. And to make matters worse, this is my 1,666th post. Anyways, I was playing The Sims 2 and all of a sudden, out of the blue, the screen goes completely black. The little green monitor light starts blinking (like it does when you leave the monitor on) and the computer is running but the hard drive activity light isn't attempting to do anything.
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The folk at this forum have helped me out massively before, so I again humbly seek you expertise. My XP machine tells me that a file in the config/system directory is missing or corrupt. So I put the XP disk in and it loaded up some things, only to tell me that it cant find any drives. I checked - the physical drives are there (a pair of Seagate 160Gb set up as mirrors in RAID - the RAID screen appears before the "config/system" error message) and I pulled the connectors apart and and put them together again.
I need to restore to an earlier version on my computer as im having problems with Alias Maya Software (whole different issue) but when i go to restore to an earlier point this message comes up, Changes made to drive(s) J: after this point cannot be reversed because the drive was either excluded from System Restore monitoring, or was turned off or removed
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View 8 Replies View RelatedProblem: Now with the PC running and precious data growing ever larger my raid0 is vunerable to failure. Therefore I wanted to remove the old drive and insert a new drive to back up the raid0. When I removed the old drive windows wouldn't boot. After reinserting the old drive I have discovered the boot.ini file is on this other drive along with a few windows hidden files. I didn't realise this would happen -noob- and therefore I'm not sure if I can just repartition the small number of files and move them onto the main Raid0 drives. Would this mess up windows booting? The reason I want to move these files is it's an old drive and if it dies windows won't boot.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have setup a wireless network between two computers in my office and have installed some software that will automatically backup folders on each of the two computers.It work by backing up certain folders on computer 1 to the hard disk on computer 2 and vice versa.I also have a program installed on both computers that uses the data on computer 1.simplify the process of locating the data on my network I have created virtual drives using the Map Network Drives function in Windows. However; if I start up my computer and open these programs - they can not find the drives, I have to open My Computer first and double click on the drives before the programs will read from them. I am guessing that for some reason Windows is not connecting to these drives, even though I have set them to "reconnect at logon".
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Now I cannot boot without the 120GB plugged in (tried unplugging the drive and booting and it said the it was Unable to boot from disk or something). I eventually deleted the partition on the old drive in setup and then canceled setup, and I still couldn't boot. So I reinstalled winXP on the old drive and now it boots fine. Of course what I have to do is reinstall XP with the drive unplugged, but do I have to completely redo everything, or can I somehow reinstall without starting from scratch? I've tried using the setup disk in windows with the drive unplugged (I know it isn't safe to unplug drives with the computer running but I had run out of ideas), but it said that it couldn't reinstall windows because there was no valid System Partition (which is on the other drive.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a RAID system setup as JBOD on both drive in my laptop and I formatted using DBAN... Now i boot with Windows XP Pro so i can install it and it only recognizes one of my drives. I loaded my RAID drivers. I go ahead and try to install XP on it anyway. I tried to format the drive again using FULL format, i tried a Quick Format, and I also tried leaving it as is. It will install the setup files and reboot my computer. So i take out the XP disc but then it doesnt recognize any disks. Does anyone know how i can reintsall xP back on this sysetm or how I can get XP to recognize both my drives even if i slipstreamed my RAID drivers in it already.
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