TL;DR Stuff overheats, and my integrated LAN card isn't working as it's supposed to. It's enabled, but doesn't do anything. I recommend reading what's below.
Today I was doing some regular maintenence on my computer, undusting, sorting wires, re-seating cooler, etc, and thought that I'd test a graphics card that I had lying around, was gonna do some benchmarking, etc.
So, I plug the card in and turn the computer on, just to notice that the card was fried, and wouldn't show more than what could be described as static, with the general shapes of what was displayed. Fuck, I needed that card, how could it have gotten fried during storage in an antistatic bag? Well, I took the card out and re-seated my 7600GS.
Then I took off the CPU heatsink, to replace the thermal paste and try to fix the dieing fan. Then, I thought that I'd test the card with another mobo, jsut to be sure. I seated my CPU in the other mobo, which already had RAM installed, put the card in and hooked up a PSU. No picture at all. No beeps, nothing. Nothing on the integrated graphics controller, either. I was all WUT, since that mobo worked flawlessly the last time I used it, about two months ago. It had also just been stored in an antistatic bag, in a sealed wooden shelf.
A bit confused and worried, I cleaned up the cooling paste from the CPU and put it back in the computer. Thankfully, it turned on just fine. But this is where the real trouble started. During the testing of the video card, I cleared teh CMOS, incase I had some PCIe-tweaks applied, in case they'd be affecting the rather old card. I reconfigured COMS like it had been before, same FSB, same voltages, same speeds and settings.
I booted up to Windows, and noticed that it was running rather slowly. When SpeedFan started, I saw that the CPU was running at a whopping 78C! Moments later, it shut off. Strange, I thought, and re-seated the heatsink with more thermal paste and greater caution. I started up again and went into BIOS to enable C1E and EIST, to keep temps down. Strange, since I have had those off before, and it's ran at under 40C on 4.11GHz. I boot up again, this time it makes that horrible noise of thermal throttling, and SpeedFan reports the CPU at 66C, with all fans maxed. I reboot again, and clock it down to 3GHz, stock speed and voltage. This time it works fine, running at 25C idle, and I get standardized results in SuperPI.
Then, I noticed: The LAN symbol in the taskbar was saying that the LAN cable wasn't connected. I pushed the cable in, reconnected it, nothing. I thought that maybe I had disabled LAN int he BIOS, but I hadn't. I ran some dumb LAN test utility (It detects the lenght of the LAN cables, really neccesary) in the BIOS settings, and sure enough, it found my 5m cable, but the router wasn't, and isn't reading any activity on the port going to the computer, and the LEDs above the LAN port aren't doing anything either.
Thanks for reading.
Anyone got any idea of what's going on?
Update: If I put a hub between my router and the computer, it works, but if I connect my computer directly to the router, it won't.
Today I was doing some regular maintenence on my computer, undusting, sorting wires, re-seating cooler, etc, and thought that I'd test a graphics card that I had lying around, was gonna do some benchmarking, etc.
So, I plug the card in and turn the computer on, just to notice that the card was fried, and wouldn't show more than what could be described as static, with the general shapes of what was displayed. Fuck, I needed that card, how could it have gotten fried during storage in an antistatic bag? Well, I took the card out and re-seated my 7600GS.
Then I took off the CPU heatsink, to replace the thermal paste and try to fix the dieing fan. Then, I thought that I'd test the card with another mobo, jsut to be sure. I seated my CPU in the other mobo, which already had RAM installed, put the card in and hooked up a PSU. No picture at all. No beeps, nothing. Nothing on the integrated graphics controller, either. I was all WUT, since that mobo worked flawlessly the last time I used it, about two months ago. It had also just been stored in an antistatic bag, in a sealed wooden shelf.
A bit confused and worried, I cleaned up the cooling paste from the CPU and put it back in the computer. Thankfully, it turned on just fine. But this is where the real trouble started. During the testing of the video card, I cleared teh CMOS, incase I had some PCIe-tweaks applied, in case they'd be affecting the rather old card. I reconfigured COMS like it had been before, same FSB, same voltages, same speeds and settings.
I booted up to Windows, and noticed that it was running rather slowly. When SpeedFan started, I saw that the CPU was running at a whopping 78C! Moments later, it shut off. Strange, I thought, and re-seated the heatsink with more thermal paste and greater caution. I started up again and went into BIOS to enable C1E and EIST, to keep temps down. Strange, since I have had those off before, and it's ran at under 40C on 4.11GHz. I boot up again, this time it makes that horrible noise of thermal throttling, and SpeedFan reports the CPU at 66C, with all fans maxed. I reboot again, and clock it down to 3GHz, stock speed and voltage. This time it works fine, running at 25C idle, and I get standardized results in SuperPI.
Then, I noticed: The LAN symbol in the taskbar was saying that the LAN cable wasn't connected. I pushed the cable in, reconnected it, nothing. I thought that maybe I had disabled LAN int he BIOS, but I hadn't. I ran some dumb LAN test utility (It detects the lenght of the LAN cables, really neccesary) in the BIOS settings, and sure enough, it found my 5m cable, but the router wasn't, and isn't reading any activity on the port going to the computer, and the LEDs above the LAN port aren't doing anything either.
Thanks for reading.
Anyone got any idea of what's going on?
Update: If I put a hub between my router and the computer, it works, but if I connect my computer directly to the router, it won't.
Last edited by Freezer7Pro (2008-02-22 10:32:08)
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP