Originally posted by: The Fedex Pope
The mobo came yesterday and I installed everything. It has a P4 Prescott 2.8ghz (non-oc'd), 2gb of Kingston Value Ram @ DDR2667 dual channel, 1 Maxtor 200gb ATA133 HD, NEC 3520AW DVD-RW. HD is on IDE1 Primary, DVDRW is on IDE2 Secondary, both masters.
I did a fresh install of XP Pro with Sp2 and all updates, drivers etc. I was having some weird issues with my Macally PHR100AC external enclosure that has a 320gb Seagate. I use Firewire/USB2 via a Zonet PCI card and I've never had any issues on my older system until I got things running today. I've had several BSODs. Last night while just surfing and listening to Mp3s on the external, I got a BSOD with the hex 0x7F. A reboot later I couldnt reproduce the problem.
Some programs on the external drive complained of being corrupted. I had some images I made of old games my nephew likes to play, like Cars, MotoGP, Surfs Up etc. All failed. Usually they'll go through the process halfway then bomb towards the end. Other programs have no problem at all. I had a copy of CmdHere.msi from the Powertoys pack or whatever it was. I got a corruption error as soon as I executed it, so its not just large ISO files or images. It seems totally random. I seem to have ironed out the Firewire issues. USB2 worked great, but Firewire would lock up, crash etc. I changed adapter to a different PCI slot and switched around cables and it seems to work fine now.
2 games Im having trouble installing are Simbin's GTR2 and GTLegends. GTR2 complained of a corrupt file on the 2nd CD. I had to retry several times before it finished installing. GTLegends wont get past the 1st CD. Sometimes it'll fail right away, sometimes in the middle of the process. Both are getting the SAME errors. I dug out an old computer with an uber old DVD drive and GTLegends installed perfectly. I have absolutely NO reason to believe discs are damaged at all. I just reinstalled GTLegends last week and had no issues.
Needless to say all of this is pissing me off. I've replaced the IDE cables with new ones that came with my mobo. No difference. I tried going into BIOS and changing the DVDRW from UDMA-2 to Multiword DMA2. No help. I tried making an image of GTLegends and it still failed. I tried a DVD disc (Toca Race Driver 3) that I know works, and that failed as well!
I have no idea whats going on. I've installed all the latest drivers, Hyperion VIA chipset drivers, SP2 + everything thats come after it etc. I get errors in Event Viewer about the CDRom having a bad block but I know the CDs/DVDs are just fine. Is it something with Atapi, ASPI etc? I figured XP SP2 should have all that covered. I know its not the media itself, and I'm positive the DVD drive itself is just fine. Just to make sure I'll use the older DVD drive I have and put it in the system to see if it affects it as well. I would be so grateful if someone could give me some help here, thanks!
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Just an idea, would my temps or PSU be to blame? The PSU I had to dig out from my old comp, a 450w I believe (generic). I wanted to get a PSU from Ebay but I couldnt find any that I could afford so I had to get reuse the PSU from my old system (that powered an XP2000+). Im starting to suspect that 12+ thats reporting 11.31. Could that be the culprit? The PSU says its P4 certified but like I said its some cheap generic that came with my old case. Perhaps I'm straying from this forum and need to post elsewhere, but I'd like to resolve whether this is a software or hardware problem.
The temps are posted below via Hardware Monitor:
CPUID Hardware Monitor 1.0.8.0
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Mainboard Model 4CoreDual-SATA2. (0x4F9 - 0x725FB4F0)
LPCIO
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Vendor Winbond
Model W83697HF
Vendor ID 0x5CA3
Chip ID 0x60
Revision ID 0x12
Config Mode I/O address 0x2E
Hardware monitor
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Winbond W83697HF hardware monitor
Voltage sensor 0 1.36 Volts [0x55] (CPU VCore)
Voltage sensor 1 3.33 Volts [0xD0] (AUX)
Voltage sensor 2 2.98 Volts [0xBA] (+3.3V)
Voltage sensor 3 4.97 Volts [0xB9] (+5V)
Voltage sensor 4 11.31 Volts [0xBA] (+12V)
Temperature sensor 0 33°C (91°F) [0x21] (TMPIN0)
Temperature sensor 1 37°C (97°F) [0x49] (TMPIN1)
Fan sensor 1 1918 RPM [0x58] (FANIN1)
Hardware monitor
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GeForce 6800 GT hardware monitor
Temperature sensor 0 56°C (132°F) [0x38] (GPU Core)
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Maxtor 6L200P0 hardware monitor
Temperature sensor 0 33°C (91°F) [0x21] (HDD)
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Number of processors 1
Number of threads 2
Processor 0
-- Core 0
-- Thread 0
-- Thread 1
Processors Information
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Processor 1 (ID = 0)
Number of cores 1 (max 1)
Number of threads 2 (max 2)
Name Intel Pentium 4 521
Codename Prescott
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Package Socket 775 LGA (platform ID = 4h)
CPUID F.4.9
Extended CPUID F.4
Core Stepping G1
Technology 90 nm
Core Speed 2793.3 MHz (14.0 x 199.5 MHz)
Rated Bus speed 798.1 MHz
Stock frequency 2800 MHz
Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, EM64T
L1 Data cache 16 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Trace cache 12 Kuops, 8-way set associative
L2 cache 1024 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control no