Topic: Replacing The Processor (Read 436 times)

DermicSavage · « **Reply #45 on:** January 02, 2004, 07:30:00 PM »

the mobo also has to support that speed to make use of it, so if you put a 133 hard drive in a 66 xbox, there will be no change i belive cause the mobo is designed to run at 66

and i run an sata drive, i hardly find any difference except when i install windows, when it only takes about 9 mins to install, compared to some 15 mins on my ide 133 drive

J_Man61 · « **Reply #46 on:** January 02, 2004, 07:34:00 PM »

sorry to keep bugging you but does the abit mobo support it

DermicSavage · « **Reply #47 on:** January 02, 2004, 08:09:00 PM »

that abit mobo has 2 sata 150 slots(with built in raid 0 or 1)

and it also has two ide 133 ports

the ide and sata can be used at the same time, so you can use both a hard drive on ide and sata

J_Man61 · « **Reply #48 on:** January 02, 2004, 08:20:00 PM »

can a cd-rom drive utilize the sata ports

DermicSavage · « **Reply #49 on:** January 02, 2004, 08:45:00 PM »

cd drives cannot read a cd fast enough to actually make use of sata(i think they can only read at a max of around 6-7 MB/s)

i.stole.this.name · « **Reply #50 on:** January 02, 2004, 10:18:00 PM »

with 2 diff controllers...

SATA does matter but the issue is still dependant on the HDD...

if u install (sorry to mention this, ugh) a seagate (i know) SATA 7200rpm drive it will perform much lower than the Maxtor 7200 IDE drive... pick ur sata carefully! when choosing mine i came across 2 options, hitachi deskstar and WD raptor (10000rpm), and even tho the hitachi was 7200rpm it outdid the raptor in most of the tests, and is 10dB quieter and doesnt need cooling...

J_Man61 · « **Reply #51 on:** January 03, 2004, 11:32:00 AM »

ok so now thaT I got that out of the way. when i put in my radeon 9600. do i connect my monitor to it and then the picture will be viewed. or do i set the video card to be the monitor in the harware configuration box.

DermicSavage · « **Reply #52 on:** January 03, 2004, 11:36:00 AM »

u just plu git in and it will work, i have no idea what u mean by the secodn oen tho...

be sure to get the catalyst drivers from ati and load those once u put in the vid card

www.ati.com

J_Man61 · « **Reply #53 on:** January 03, 2004, 11:45:00 AM »

ok i was talking about when you right click my computer ang go to properites then go to device manager how you can delete any device you have on your computer.

another thing i had red hat linux on my computer threw partition magic 8 and had a boot menu set up in linux. the files in linux somwhow messed up so i deleted it partition but when i startup it still has the linux boot manager. do you know how i can get rid of it.

DermicSavage · « **Reply #54 on:** January 03, 2004, 12:29:00 PM »

if you happen to have a windows 98 boot disk, try booting with that(an i dotn know if the boot disc u format thru xp has this app, can someone pls confirm?)

and tell ti to boot to dos, then type in:
fdisk /mbr

and that will format the boot partition and get rid of your boot loader

DermicSavage · « **Reply #55 on:** January 03, 2004, 12:30:00 PM »

EDIT: sorry double post

(anyone wonmder why the X-S forums are being blown to bits recently?)

DermicSavage · « **Reply #56 on:** January 03, 2004, 12:38:00 PM »

EDIT: WTF 2 double posts!?!

J_Man61 · « **Reply #57 on:** January 03, 2004, 01:06:00 PM »

eah i know what you mean. sometimes it takes me five minutes to reply to a post.

J_Man61 · « **Reply #58 on:** January 03, 2004, 01:24:00 PM »

ok i got it to work. the xbs needs more servers they are getting too many connections than they can handle. but i thought they just got new ones too. but i plan on installing xp pro so will games work

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