Recent content by ObiYawn

Thanks man! I contacted Kyle, so let's see what happens. I also took a closer look at the GPU with the heatsink removed, and I actually notice some sort of blistering on the surface. So my earlier statement that it is in good shape was premature. Who knows how much longer it will survive, even...

Hey Archaea! Based on our conversation a few pages back, I was able to find an affordable 5600+ to be used in my s3100n. I will report back on it once I've put it in (still waiting for my Arctic Ceramic compound to arrive). Coincidentally, I also just had a problem with my Galaxy 8600GT card...

Thanks Archaea. I want to point out though that I tried the 5000+ Black Edition once, and I had to send it back as my PC didn't boot with it. Here is what I had to say back then: Link. I also remember that at least one other reader in this board had the same problem with his s3100n, and my...

Hey guys -- haven't been in this thread for a while. I want to give it another go to upgrade the CPU of my aging s3100n (currently an X2 4000+) to the fastest possible processor. Recommendations?

Well, I was thinking that the Hitachi "Feature Tool" might allow one to modify this setting (http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#FeatureTool). I haven't tried it yet though. Perhaps on the weekend.

Don't tell me what I can say and what not, and stop being rude. I also don't understand a word of what you are saying. Makes no sense at all. Why are you talking about Seagate drives? This is a Hitachi drive. And why are you saying the enclosure is at fault? I already said that I took the...

Unfortunately the setting of the USB Legacy mode doesn't have any impact. I am appauled that Hitachi produces such crap hard drives. It is a problem with the drive itself, not the enclosure, as I have the same problem with both the stock enclosure as well as the Antec MX-1 enclosure I tried it with.

Thanks for the suggestion. USB Legacy mode is already turned on in my BIOS, but I will try turning it off to see if this makes any difference. Will try later when I get home. Is there any way to disable the spin-up delay setting in the drive when I connect it directly to my internal SATA...

No, sorry, didn't mean to get your hopes up. It didn't boot at all with the 5000+ BE. What I meant to say is that when the 4000+ is overclocked, upon trying to reboot the PC hangs at the reboot sequence and at that point the symptoms are similar to when you try to boot up with a 5000+ BE...

Interesting -- at least I'm not the only one :) I made another interesting discovery: When I slightly overclock the FSB on my s3100n to 242MHz using the nTune application and the stock 4000+ processor, my PC cannot be rebooted anymore. What I mean by that is that the overclocking works fine...

Hi there. I have five external hard drives of the following makes/models: One Fantom Titanium II 500GB One Maxtor OneTouch 4 500GB Three Hitachi EasyDrive 1TB The three Hitachi drives all have the same fault -- when I turn them on before booting up the PC, they are not recognized in...

You are lucky. The older M2NC51-AR motherboard doesn't work with the overclockable X2 5000+ Black Edition that I just bought. Does anyone know what the newest processor is that works with this motherboard? If anyone wants to buy that processor from me, feel free to PM me.

I tried out the Athlon X2 5000+ Black Edition (65W) in my s3100n, which previously had a 4000+. Unfortunately it didn't work at all. Computer powered on, but screen was blank and I didn't see any HDD activity either. Took it back out and put it back in several times, in case it wasn't put in...

Question regarding the CPU multiplicator setting. The BIOS itself doesn't reveal that setting, but Nvidia's nTune software displays it at the very least, but it cannot be changed. Is that only because my X2 4000+ CPU has this setting locked? If I were to get the 5000+ Black Edition, which comes...

"zoobaby", thanks for the response. I am usually not accessing all drives at the same time, except for backup purposes from one drive to another. But the latter isn't time sensitive, so any performance hit wouldn't bother me. I guess I will stay away from Belkin hubs for the time being. Btw...