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 Posted: Thu, 12th Aug 2004 04:01 Post subject: >>>READ ME: HARDWARE F.A.Q.<<< |
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Links to hardware sites
Graphic chip drivers
ATI
Windows XP/2000
- Latest official drivers available: 5.3 - Download with CCC, Download with CC - Changelog
Linux X86
- Latest official drivers for Radeon 8500 chips or higher available: 8.10.19 - Download
- Latest official drivers for FireGL chips available: 8.10.19 - Download
Linux X86_64
- Latest official drivers for Radeon 8500 chips or higher available: 8.10.19 - Download
- Latest official drivers for FireGL chips available: 8.10.19 - Download
nVidia
Windows XP/2000
- Latest official drivers available: 71.84 Download
Windows 2003 SP1 and XP64
- Latest official drivers available: 66.96 - Download
Linux IA32
- Latest official drivers available: 1.0-7167 Download
Linux IA64
- Latest official drivers available: 1.0-5336 - Download
Linux AMD64
- Latest official drivers available: 1.0-7167 - Download
FreeBSD
- Latest official drivers available: 1.0-6113 - Download
Motherboard chipset drivers
Answers to common questions
- My fans are sounding terrible! What can I do? Can I clean the crap with my vacuum cleaner? I'm bashing my case but It doesn't help
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1. Whatever you do you should NOT bash your case or stop the fans with fingers, tops or whatever you got. It may stop the problem temporarily but it can damage your internal components especially touch the fans with ex a tops. It will make them sound even worse.
2. Buy compressed air on a can if you don't have any and clean the sucker from all ways and remove all the crap/dust. At the same time you could clean the rest. A vacuum cleaner should not be used on components and especially not on fans but when you have blowed of all the dust with the can you can use the cleaner to remove all the dust/crap from the bottom of the case. It shouldn't be dangerous.
3. Remove the plastic sticker on the fan/s and insert a bit of padlock oil. Before you apply the sticker again, remove all the oil that is present around the whole and apply the sticker. If it still doesn't apply, remove the adhesive with your fingers and glue it.
- My computer just dies sometimes. I've checked the drivers and installed all the updates for my OS. What could the causes be?
1. Old BIOS. Visit the manufacturer of your main board and check for an updated BIOS file then flash the mobo.
2. Temps. Check the temps in your motherboard's health section and if they are too high there are many things you could do; buy a new fan, switch to watercooling, get an airy aluminium case, buy more case fans, mod your case, apply better thermal paste to the CPU/GPU/NB and so on.
3. If you've checked the two above it could be your PSU that is a very cheapo model, damaged or it could be to weak (watts). I would first check the voltage meters in voltages section of your BIOS and see if anything looks spooky. If it does I would try another PSU preferrable a high quality one like Ocz or Antec.
- I suspect that my harddrive is failing because It's acting very weird. Is there anything I can do?
Yes. Download one of these apps corresponding to your brand and test your drive.
IBM/Hitachi - Drive Fitness Test
Maxtor - PowerMax
Western Digital - DLGDiag
Seagate - SeaTools
Fujitsu - Diagnostic Tool
Samsung - HUTIL
- I want to check out if my memory banks and harddrives are working as they should before I install any OS. Are there any utils you could put on a floppy?
Forget floppys! Those are history! Download UltimateBootCD which contains several diagnostic utilities HERE.
Do you have more info and links? Reply so it can be added! - UPDATED 2005-03-12
By Skidrow and RaZoR1394
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| Posted: Mon, 3rd Jan 2005 08:37 Post subject: |
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lol, why is my list deleted :<
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| Posted: Mon, 3rd Jan 2005 18:11 Post subject: |
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or database on rampage :@ 
any1 got a copy of my post with links :<
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| Posted: Sat, 5th Mar 2005 11:58 Post subject: |
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razor1394
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| Posted: Sat, 5th Mar 2005 16:09 Post subject: |
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Also wondering what happened. Maybe we could make a big Hardware faq thread? Not only for videocards.
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| Posted: Sun, 6th Mar 2005 17:45 Post subject: |
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Hardeware as PC hardware or all electronics? I vote for the first one (pc hardware only)
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razor1394
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| Posted: Sun, 6th Mar 2005 18:38 Post subject: |
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Thanks. I'll fix the rest tomorrow. Currently the "Recommmend resellers" thread is in strong need of recommendations, specially other than US and Sweden.
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| Posted: Sun, 6th Mar 2005 20:02 Post subject: |
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Ok, here is a question. What is the name of the thing(on mother boards, 478) that holds the heatsink for the CPU?
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razor1394
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| Posted: Sun, 6th Mar 2005 20:09 Post subject: |
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| Martinius wrote: | | Ok, here is a question. What is the name of the thing(on mother boards, 478) that holds the heatsink for the CPU? |
I was more thinking about common problems like "Why is my computer rebooting without any BSOD when I'm playing games?", and so on.
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| Posted: Sun, 6th Mar 2005 20:53 Post subject: |
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Thing is mine broke so I had to know the name to find it....I am going to just buy a cooler with a built in retention module
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razor1394
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| Posted: Sun, 6th Mar 2005 22:23 Post subject: |
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Hehe ok. I was going to say socket but that's the thing that holds the pins of the CPU, lol.
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razor1394
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| Posted: Thu, 10th Mar 2005 11:21 Post subject: |
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Updates
- Added driver sections. I hope you like it.
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| Posted: Thu, 10th Mar 2005 12:08 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Thu, 10th Mar 2005 12:57 Post subject: |
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gonna find some links.
maybe i stored my previous text in my other pc.
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razor1394
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| Posted: Thu, 10th Mar 2005 14:00 Post subject: |
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We need some tips about popular chipsets. The only specific ones I can think of are nforce2, nforce3 and nforce4. Then we have SIS and VIA ones but I don't know which are popular.
edit:
Alternatively I'll just link generally to the manufacturers. BTW, I added the changelog to the ati xp/2000 driver. Gonna find the rest of them. Now I'm gonna try the newly released 5.3 driver.
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razor1394
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Mar 2005 18:32 Post subject: |
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Updates
- New nVidia driver out for Linux IA32 (1.0-7167)!
- Fixed a glitch with the nvidia linux drivers and added the amd64 ones.
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Hunter
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Mar 2005 19:08 Post subject: |
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Personally I like http://www.hardocp.com/ I've followed some of their advice on more than a few PC builds. Alittle commercialized now, but still good.
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razor1394
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| Posted: Sat, 12th Mar 2005 10:44 Post subject: |
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Updates
- Added hardocp link
- Updated to the recently (yesterday) released nVidia driver for XP/2000 32 bit (nVIDIA ForceWare Drivers 71.84 WHQL Official)
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razor1394
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| Posted: Sat, 12th Mar 2005 13:01 Post subject: |
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Updates
- Added PSU problem and general fan noise questions.
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razor1394
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| Posted: Sat, 12th Mar 2005 19:36 Post subject: |
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Updates
- Added harddrive diagnostic utilities
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| Posted: Sat, 12th Mar 2005 19:49 Post subject: |
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good work razor1394, could you please add a link to the ultimate boot cd. it is a bootable cd wich has all of the mentioned harddrive tools on it and many more usefull programs,
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
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razor1394
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razor1394
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| Posted: Sat, 12th Mar 2005 20:06 Post subject: |
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I'll add it in the OS faq.
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| Posted: Sun, 13th Mar 2005 20:13 Post subject: |
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Updates
- Added chipset links
- Addes cga charttable
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razor1394
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| Posted: Sun, 13th Mar 2005 20:38 Post subject: |
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Awesome Skidrow! You did the razor style too!
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