Abit KT7 - Upgrade Notes - Part Deux

Clarifications For Part One: 1) I'm keeping the Voodoo3 until the NV20 cards are released. I'm not gonna plunk down $400 for a Gefore Ultra only to be blind-sided by the latest and greatest a week later. 2) Everybody that's anybody knows me here. :-) That's why I posted here. I also think that the AMD T-bird will be popular upgrade path by most who race auto sims (like me), so I thought I'd simply share my experiences with everyone so that they can learn from what I've done, and the problems I encounter. 3) At this time, I'm going to keep my trusty TM Nascar Pro analog wheel/pedal. 4) Anyone that overclocks their system in any manner before establishing a baseline of proper operation is a moron. 5) I didn't buy any hard drives, I'm using antique ATA-33 and SCSI-2 equipment. Besides that, no matter how fast the hard drive is, it's STILL gonna be the slowest part of the system, and with enough memory, all you gotta worry about is the length of time it takes to initially load a program. Part 2: Just When You Thought It Was Safe... 1) I got home from work and installed my Adaptec 2940 SCSI card. The good part is that Win2k once again recognized the card and installed the appropriate drivers. The bad part is that I now have hard drives C: through I:, CD-ROM J:, CD-W K:, and hard drives L: through P:. Win2k has some strange ideas about drive letter mapping. I have not yet looked into this, but some cursory checking didn't reveal anything obvious about how to fix this. I'm gonna re-partition everything so that I still have the same drive letters I've had for the last 10 years (hard drives C through K and CD's M and N). 2) I installed my news reader (Gravity). ----------- I know, not much to talk about as far as far as the hardware goes, but I wanted to get back to an operational state as soon as possible. I still have to reinstall Eudora so I can get back to my email. After that, I'll be installing DirectX 8 (I think). Any more questions, feel free to ask.

In article <[email hidden]>, John Simmons <[email hidden]> wrote: > Clarifications For Part One: [snip] > 1) I got home from work and installed my Adaptec 2940 SCSI card.The > good part is that Win2k once again recognized the card and installedthe > appropriate drivers. The bad part is that I now have hard drives C: > through I:, CD-ROM J:, CD-W K:, and hard drives L: through P:. Win2k > has some strange ideas about drive letter mapping. I have not yet > looked into this, but some cursory checking didn't reveal anything > obvious about how to fix this. You can change drive letters to whatever you want in 2k, you need to go into disk management, move the cds to temp drive letters to open up the letters for your hds, change the hds, then change the cd letters. Note that this will effect anything installed using the old drive letters. Go to control panel->administrative tools->computer management->disk management. MS likes to hide these things in 2k ;). HTH! Kendt Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/

On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 00:37:28 GMT, John Simmons <[email hidden]> wrote: >Clarifications For Part One: > >1) I'm keeping the Voodoo3 until the NV20 cards are released. I'm not >gonna plunk down $400 for a Gefore Ultra only to be blind-sided by the >latest and greatest a week later. Yeah, but a GeForce 2 MX will cost under $150 and be a good card to tide you over until the next generation (or two) of cards.

John Simmons wrote: > 4) Anyone that overclocks their system in any manner before establishing > a baseline of proper operation is a moron. My KT7/1GHz Tbird went straight to 1.2GHz last week, I thought I'd just share that with you. Perhaps I'd better go back to the hardware forums? -- Andy Moron

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> In article <[email hidden]>, > John Simmons <[email hidden]> wrote: > > Clarifications For Part One: > > [snip] > > 1) I got home from work and installed my Adaptec 2940 SCSI card. > The > > good part is that Win2k once again recognized the card and installed > the > > appropriate drivers. The bad part is that I now have hard drives C: > > through I:, CD-ROM J:, CD-W K:, and hard drives L: through P:. Win2k > > has some strange ideas about drive letter mapping. I have not yet > > looked into this, but some cursory checking didn't reveal anything > > obvious about how to fix this. > > You can change drive letters to whatever you want in 2k, you need to go > into disk management, move the cds to temp drive letters to open up the > letters for your hds, change the hds, then change the cd letters. Note > that this will effect anything installed using the old drive letters. > Go to control panel->administrative tools->computer management->disk > management. MS likes to hide these things in 2k ;). >

Yep, found that last night. :-)

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> John Simmons wrote: > > 4) Anyone that overclocks their system in any manner before establishing > > a baseline of proper operation is a moron. > > My KT7/1GHz Tbird went straight to 1.2GHz last week, I thought I'd just > share that with you. Perhaps I'd better go back to the hardware forums? >

So, because you got lucky means I should take a chance with my systems? I can't afford to buy parts more than once.

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> On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 00:37:28 GMT, John Simmons <[email hidden]> > wrote: > > >Clarifications For Part One: > > > >1) I'm keeping the Voodoo3 until the NV20 cards are released. I'm not > >gonna plunk down $400 for a Gefore Ultra only to be blind-sided by the > >latest and greatest a week later. > > Yeah, but a GeForce 2 MX will cost under $150 and be a good card to > tide you over until the next generation (or two) of cards. >

Hmmm, I just don't see the logic in spending $150 to tide me over until I have a chance to spend $400-500...

So because I "got lucky" I'm a moron? John Simmons wrote: > So, because you got lucky means I should take a chance with my > systems? -- Andy

Andy Straw wrote: > > So because I "got lucky" I'm a moron? Why did you o/c before installing the OS?

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> > > Andy Straw wrote: > > > > So because I "got lucky" I'm a moron? > > Why did you o/c before installing the OS? >

He's already answered that question... :-)