Austin Bradley

Also, Sandoz and AustinMike thank you all especially for helping me out with the computer. Thanks to everyone else who put in some constructive criticism too.

Austin Mike hit the nail on the head about "Why" this type of thing should be left for the test/assembly labs, or professionals who do it right. Doing it yourself is typically the bastion of geeks who want to wallow in minutiae until they get it right, then move on to the next tech challenge. I say don't be a "tweaker", be a "user" and buy built and ready to run if you want to use computers instead of mess with them ;-)Sandoz and others who properly research compatability upfront and confirm "that" this stuff will work together (and exactly "how" it will work together) before parts choice and purchase are even done "and" then have the tech chops to fix the niggling issues that occur on build are the only sort of private parties you want doing a build. The build I did a coupple years back for our rental AVID-Media system (Dual Xeon and Ultra-SCSI based rack mount box) was done with the help a local tech consultant for a commercial video studio who let me duplicate a custom system he had sorted out painfully a year earlier and was sucessfully running in a half dozen edit suites already. I bought according too a specific vendor/parts list and it went together and came up first time. It needed an initial visit from my buddy to tweak the BIOS for performance, but it ran fine from the get-out. I have always been a fan of Dell towers for pre-configured systems, but thats because of their support capability and their reputation for making sure their higher end systems actually work when the head out the door. I would not hesitate to give Sandoz a blank check and wait for a box if I wanted something that was totally custom absolutely screamed and was bulletproofed for 24/7 longterm robustness. He is dead on about PS ratings and the need to over=spec stuff if you are gonna' crank on a system. I run video systems that go 24/7 (almost all Mac) and they quite often chug on a rendering for 24-36 hours at a pass and do that over and over and over... You know I did do research on the compatibility of the system I put together and I do know how to build them. It turned out that it has just been a bad DIMM. Ive seen all kinds of pre-configured systems screwed up. Toshibas, Dells for sure, HP, PB, IBM, wait...did i say Dells. All the prebuilt systems come hit or miss. And if they miss its usually big time, Ive seen them so screwed up no matter what I did or some of my big time geekier friends could do to fix them. So I dont think mass manufacturers are the best choice. My first computer I built myself ran from the get go and it has not locked up ONCE in the year its been running. And this computer even though Sandoz, AustinMike, and I beat the hell outta ourselves (over somehting I couldnt control anyway) got it running good. In the end, if you want a better computer without cheap ass stuff in it, you should build it yourself or you let a good custom builder do it, not a mass manufactuer. Now on a lighter note..... who makes the best laptop?

I ran a memtest last weekend on both sticks of ram which locked up a minute into it. So today I removed "DIMM 2" and tested "DIMM 1." It had 11 errors and locked up 30 seconds in. So I proceeded to test DIMM 2 by itself and it passed every test perfectly so I am running the computer tonight with just that stick to see if it errors in windows. Ok for a list of all software: ATI Catalyst Control Center ATI Display Driver AVG Free Edition Debugging Tools for Windows High Definition Audio Driver Package - KB888111 Intel Audio Studio 2.0 Intel Desktop Utilities Intel PRO Network Connections 11.1.0.19 Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Mozilla Firefox (2.0.0.1) Mozilla Thunderbird (1.5) MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB927978) MSXML 4.0 SP2 Parser and SDK Samsung ML-2250 Series SigmaTel Audio Windows Installer 3.1 (KB893803) Winzip Also there is nothing related to HyperThreading in the bios... i know there should be but there isnt.

Ok i let automatic updates run today since it would not error for anything. tonight i went to turn it off and let it do the install before turning off and it locked up at the 41 out of 51 install. Immediately after I reboot it went to bsod: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA Stop: 0x00000050 I read the memory.dmp file which said it was partially corrupt.... debugging details of .dmp file: ***** Kernel symbols are WRONG. Please fix symbols to do analysis. Unable to read selector for PCR for processor 0 Unable to read selector for PCR for processor 0 Unable to read selector for PCR for processor 0 Unable to read selector for PCR for processor 0 Unable to read selector for PCR for processor 0 Unable to read selector for PCR for processor 0 Unable to read selector for PCR for processor 0 Unable to read selector for PCR for processor 0 Probably caused by : ntkrpamp.exe ( nt!ExAllocatePoolWithTag+66a )

i do have to say i was pulling for those eagles. thats ok the chargers are still gonna beat the patriots so im happy...

This entire morning I have not been able to get the computer to go to a bsod or restart. As soon as it does i am going to record the error, analyze the kernal dump file then try swapping memory out with my computer that runs flawless. Should I switch the memory out completely or try the other slots on the mobo? To isolate a bad DIMM, you can run only one, then the other. Or a complete swap-out might be necessary if you can only get the problem with both. Not to say that memory is a problem, but I recently helped a customer who was getting mysterious panics and other weird behavior on a system. The problem followed the memory to another system that was working fine when I swapped them out. Well I just realized I am limited to trying dimms separately because my computer has DDR dimms instead of DDR2. I still havent got the comp to error no matter what I do.

Yes the motherobardc has 4 slots and slots 1 and 3 are either blue or black and 2 and 4 are the other color. To run in dual channel you have to use identical dimms in the color coded slots. I have two identical dimms installed in 1 and 3. ?????????

This entire morning I have not been able to get the computer to go to a bsod or restart. As soon as it does i am going to record the error, analyze the kernal dump file then try swapping memory out with my computer that runs flawless. Should I switch the memory out completely or try the other slots on the mobo?

i found the memory timings for the ocz memory is 4-5-4-15 so i went into the bios. the bios detects the memory running at 5-4-4-14. The bios setting was set at automatic and the bios had itself set at 5-5-5-15. so i tried to change it 4-5-4-15 and 5-4-4-14 and the bios failed to POST both times when i saved the changes. so currently its still set on automatic with a 5-5-5-15 timing.

ok finally got some time bc of school. no nero on this comp norton was uninstalled immediately after it was installed no winamp im guessing the activex you are talking about is what you disable in internet options. i disabled it. mozilla firefox is installed version 2.0.0.1 Mozilla Thunderbird is also installed the latest drivers for radeon chipset x1950 is installed off of ati website usb drivers installed with mobo inf and windows are the only ones on here. I do not have any periphials installed exept for speakers, mouse, keyboard so im pretty sure i dont have any isochronous devices. I did not notice any caching on the bios screen im not sure i totally understand the netgear issues. We have a netgear wireless router hooked to the satellite modem. The problem comp is hooked to it via network cable. we dont have a network card, its using the onboard LAN. I downloaded and installed a LAN driver off the intel website but i dont have any netgear drivers and there is nothing related to netgear in any folder. Im working on the other things now...

i have some school work to do so i will do the stuff u all recommended tomorrow. I also tried running memtest and the computer locked up 7 minutes in but didnt go to a bsod.

after installing the lan driver i found it was setting on the desktop while i walked away for a little bit. i came back and it was back to the blue screen error 0x00000019 BAD_POOL_HEADER. I have been reading about checking the memory dump file to help find the problem. Do you know anything about doing this and if it will even help me out.

ok i found a lan driver on intels site for the mobo. i installed that and am now lookin for anything related to norton.

another thing is that the only time it seems to go to a blue screen now is when i try to download something through it. it doesnt do it everytime i download though. it also has not been the same error each time once being 0x000000D1 , 0x00000019 , and 0x00000002

the xp installation i used already had sp2 installed i was installing all the high priority updates. no wireless card. the cd that came with the mobo installed norton with the chipset inf last night but i uninstalled it immediately after i noticed it. I did install AVG free anti-virus last night. i also checked indexing it was already disabled.

Well i left the computer on all night to see if it would survive idling for several hours. This morning I tried to do some windows updates and left it alone. When i came back it was at a blue screen error: 0x000000D1 and had a usbport.exe file or somthing to do with usb below the stop error message. I restarted and tried to download a diagnostics tool and it restarted on its own once and when windows loaded back up and i tried the download again it went to a blue screen: BAD_POOL_HEADER Stop: 0x00000019 (0x00000020, 0x885F8D28, 0x885F8DF8, 0x0A1A0008)

thanks, i will keep you all posted on how it goes. Also I noticed on the device manager that there is a device simply called "pci device" which is not working properly. There are not pci card installed at the moment and if i do install the pci cards (modem and sound) there is still a generic pci device detected not running right.

well im not really sure what i did other than going ahead and installing sata raid drivers. but i got windows installed and got to he desktop. im gonna go through normal drivers and stuff then i will run some stress tests. I will let you all know how it goes.

I cant find any SATA drivers. the only thing i can find is SATA RAID drivers. Is this what I need"?

ok I did download the bios update which i proceeded to try to iflash the update with a bootable cd. This failed so i switched the bios jumper to recovery and did the latest update and it was sucessfull. After all the I ran the Windows XP installation and it was unresponsive to F6 which allows the installation of third party drivers. So I still went ahead with the installation and it all worked out until the very last 5 minutes remaining where xp said it was "saving settings". the compuer simply froze atleast no blue screen of death this time. Tried installing again and same thing. In the bios control the computer does recognize the western digital hard drive though.

yea i got my computer priveliges revoked at school for fooling the techs for about 2 weeks. Someone saved Unreal Tournament on the network and we had massive multiplayer games going on the network throughout the day lagging the network so bad teachers couldn't get to their email, lol. Anyways the techs finally caught on but I had already saved it in about 7 different places on the network with different names before they found and deleted the one. Turns out about 2 weeks later, they finally revoked about 35 peoples computer logins to kill our fun. It was worth it though since no one could beat me... hehe.

Austin Bradley. shoot at Ashland Gun Club the most and also shoot at wilmore and up in louisville.

no problem at all. The Windows Defender program put out by microsoft has some nifty features that allow you to see what is being ran in the background on your computer and you can disable them through it. Might want to give it a try

Right now Im building a new computer for my dad that is going to be around 1300 dollars and it is also very capable in the new games. Processor- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Motherboard- Intel D975XBX2 Memory- OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 SDRAM 800 Model #- OCZ2P8002GK Hard Drive- Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 16 MB Cache SATA Model #- WD2500KS Graphics Card- Sapphire Radeon X1900XT 256MB PCI Express x16 Model #- 100168L Audio Card- Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Model #- SB0350 Case- Antec P180 Power Supply- SeaSonic S12 430W Model #- S12-430 If you want to save a little money, downgrading your graphics card and not having an audio card would be perfectly fine if you do not intend on gaming. You also would only need 1 GB of RAM instead of 2GB only using it for what you said. If you want excellent gaming I would upgrade the grpahics card to the 512MB version. The Antec P180 Case has a very innovative design, stays cooler than many other cases, and is quieter but it can be a pain to wire it. If you want those features though a little extra time wiring is worth it. Something I havent got yet for dad's computer is the disk drives. You probably will want a DVD drive since a lot of new software are dvds. Disk drives and floppys are very inexpensive now. I prolly will go with a Samsung one for dad's comp. All these components are compatible and if you would like a variant of it based on your needs get back to me and I can put a configuration together for you.

Im not 100% sure as it was a long time ago i did this but i think you can go into your control panel. Then go to remove programs and you should find a yahoo related program in the list. just uninstall and presto! let me know if it worked or not