zhopudey
Skilled
Hi, I'm back. with more problems 
The other day, my new rig wouldn't start windows. :S DJ had told me to put in a old HDD before O/Cing, but I was too lazy to listen Anyways, better late than never!
So, I took the 80gig out from my old rig, and put the 160gig in its place. The 80gig went into new rig, and the 250gig SATA, I disconnected.
Copied XP onto the cd-rw, so I could install on both machines simultaneosly. ( :ashamed: thats piracy). Started setup on new rig. Luckily, didnt need to do so for the old PC, as I'd been using the 160gig on it before.
Then, as could be expected, setup couldn't continue on my new rig. :huh: Got a BSOD after the first restart. I checked the error ( stop 0x24). Something to do with ntfs. :S Then I cleared cmos ( have to remove gfx card for that ), and tried again. Same problem. Then, I tried connecting the sata - and it worked!! Ran superPi, and a few minutes of Prime, all seemed to be working. :clap:
So, I fired up CoD2. The game started, got to the menu, and my PC crashed.
Great.
Hmmm, on further investigation, I found that my PC hadn't crashed, just the monitor had gone blank. :O Gfx card problem! :O So I took out my dmm, and checked the 12V rail. - 0V.
:O WTF? :O
:ashamed: The dmm wire was loose . 12.22V. hehehe. Started CoD2 again. Got to the menu, selected "resume game", and the screen went blank again. And after a few seconds, it came back, with a dailog box saying " VPU recover is the ruler of the Universe!"
No, it didn't say that, but it was something about vpu recover. And the rez had gone down to 640*480 So, i restarted again. And got another BSOD. Great. And then, my net connection went down. Excellent. Triband Night Unlimited. Unlimited downtime at nights. :hap2:
So, I followed the advice some great man had given once. " When in doubt, go to sleep".
Today morning, my old PC refused to start. Said that a number of windows files were missing.
The other day, my new rig wouldn't start windows. :S DJ had told me to put in a old HDD before O/Cing, but I was too lazy to listen
Anyways, better late than never! So, I took the 80gig out from my old rig, and put the 160gig in its place. The 80gig went into new rig, and the 250gig SATA, I disconnected.
Copied XP onto the cd-rw, so I could install on both machines simultaneosly. ( :ashamed: thats piracy). Started setup on new rig. Luckily, didnt need to do so for the old PC, as I'd been using the 160gig on it before.
Then, as could be expected, setup couldn't continue on my new rig. :huh: Got a BSOD after the first restart. I checked the error ( stop 0x24). Something to do with ntfs. :S Then I cleared cmos ( have to remove gfx card for that
), and tried again. Same problem. Then, I tried connecting the sata - and it worked!! Ran superPi, and a few minutes of Prime, all seemed to be working. :clap: So, I fired up CoD2. The game started, got to the menu, and my PC crashed.
Great.
Hmmm, on further investigation, I found that my PC hadn't crashed, just the monitor had gone blank. :O Gfx card problem! :O So I took out my dmm, and checked the 12V rail. - 0V.
:O WTF? :O
:ashamed: The dmm wire was loose
. 12.22V. hehehe. Started CoD2 again. Got to the menu, selected "resume game", and the screen went blank again. And after a few seconds, it came back, with a dailog box saying " VPU recover is the ruler of the Universe!" No, it didn't say that, but it was something about vpu recover. And the rez had gone down to 640*480
So, i restarted again. And got another BSOD. Great. And then, my net connection went down. Excellent. Triband Night Unlimited. Unlimited downtime at nights. :hap2: So, I followed the advice some great man had given once. " When in doubt, go to sleep".
Today morning, my old PC refused to start. Said that a number of windows files were missing.
