Message 9/33
Date: 01-Oct-03 @ 06:58 PM -
RE: major computer problems :(
heh. well...
first, let me say I have an excuse or two:
1)I have a broken right rear molar. hurts!
2)I just found out I have to move in a month
that said:
the toggle switch on the back, on the PS? For some reason I got it into my head that the "O" meant ON and the "-" meant OFF.
so, everytime I thought I was switching it ON, I was turning it off
I must have cleared CMOS 50 times, blah blah blah...
when I finally got it right, everything powered up perfectly. soundcard didnt work for some reason but I just pulled that and put it in a new PCI slot (was wanting to do that anyway)
so..now a project that was taking up to 86% CPU and causing spikes and all sorts of f-ups now takes 45%, and...
this is the interesting part:
I had a 9gig 7200rpm SCSI drive for audio...old skool 50pin wide SCSI (adaptec 2940)
so..I put a WD 80gig 8meg cash ATA100, partitioned 15g on the front for audio?
this same project that was showing about 20% disk usage, shows NONE (buffers set at 8/64)
crazy!
so, works great. just dont let me work on your computer. Funny thing is I just built two for some friends, and they went nearly flawlessly, and then I go fuck with mine and turn into an idiot!