More Computer ??? Pleae Help....

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  • dudeinaroom
    dudeinaroom Posts: 3,609
    edited October 2007
    you do not have to do a fresh install on a new mobo. you can use the install disk, and do a repair install, but the computer will run like crap. I would do a fresh install. Even if you have an upgrade disk, you can still do this, with out installing an older os. Depending on the age of the upgrade disk at the worst it will ask you to put your old os cd in the cd drive for verification.
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  • dudeinaroom
    dudeinaroom Posts: 3,609
    edited October 2007
    jakelm wrote: »
    What inexpensive cables would you recommend? Cable that would go from a stadard ribbon (HD) to SATA (motherboard)?

    Can you even go from ribbon to SATA?

    Yes you can, but it's not worth it. I have a SATA 2 drive, hence the SATA connection.
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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited October 2007
    dudeinaroom wrote: »
    you do not have to do a fresh install on a new mobo. you can use the install disk, and do a repair install, but the computer will run like crap. I would do a fresh install. Even if you have an upgrade disk, you can still do this, with out installing an older os. Depending on the age of the upgrade disk at the worst it will ask you to put your old os cd in the cd drive for verification.

    Dude,,I have always had to install my win 98 first then XP upgrade. Are you saying it is not necessary? Can you please explain? That would cut alot of time out of the installation process.
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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited October 2007
    Guys I just want to say , I know this isnt the hottest thread in the polk forum, but thanks for sticking with it and all the help.
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  • cheddar
    cheddar Posts: 2,390
    edited October 2007
    No problem, always good to help out a fellow polkie. BTW, when I upgraded my IDE drives to a SATA motherboard, I just bought a new SATA drive to serve as the boot drive and connected the IDE drives to the IDE connections to be secondary data drives. With SATA drives so cheap with large capacities, it seemed like a no brainer to get the extra performance out of the new interface. IMHO anyways, especially if you're reinstalling windows, there's no reason to keep the old drive as boot...
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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited October 2007
    cheddar wrote: »
    No problem, always good to help out a fellow polkie. BTW, when I upgraded my IDE drives to a SATA motherboard, I just bought a new SATA drive to serve as the boot drive and connected the IDE drives to the IDE connections to be secondary data drives. With SATA drives so cheap with large capacities, it seemed like a no brainer to get the extra performance out of the new interface. IMHO anyways, especially if you're reinstalling windows, there's no reason to keep the old drive as boot...


    HMMM....I could find a 40gig SATA drive for cheap and do like you said, just use it as a boot drive.
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    Monitor 4's surround
    Frankinpolk Center (2 mw6503's with peerless tweeter)
    M10's back surround
    Hafler-200 driving patio Daytons
    Tempest-X 15" DIY sub w/ Rythmik 350A plate amp
    Dayton 12" DVC w/ Rythmik 350a plate amp
    Harman/Kardon AVR-635
    Oppo 981hd
    Denon upconvert DVD player
    Jennings Research (vintage and rare)
    Mit RPTV WS-55513
    Tosh HD-XA1
    B&K AV5000


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  • dudeinaroom
    dudeinaroom Posts: 3,609
    edited October 2007
    jakelm wrote: »
    HMMM....I could find a 40gig SATA drive for cheap and do like you said, just use it as a boot drive.

    that works 2, but you will still have to reinstall programs, unless you know your way around the registry. On a fresh install the registry won't show that the programs are there even though they are still on the on the other drive.
    jakelm wrote: »
    Dude,,I have always had to install my win 98 first then XP upgrade. Are you saying it is not necessary? Can you please explain? That would cut alot of time out of the installation process.

    When I bought windows Xp, I bought the upgrade, and did the upgrade. I had files get corrupted and had to reinstall. So I took my XP upgrade disk and did a fresh install from it with out any other os on the computer, at some point it asked my for a previous copy of windows for verification. After my upgrade cd blew up in my drive, Microsoft sent me another upgrade cd, which has never asked for an older version of windows.
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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited October 2007
    I just finshed everything. This PC is super fast and quiet.

    I had to reformat the drive, XP would not even load. I guess I changed too many peices of hardware. So now I have to start all over..uuugggghhhh

    But it is running great.

    The only problem is the start up. The Energy star screan (where it tell you what BIOS version you have and what drives you have) stays up for along time and then the screan goes blank and theres that aggrivating little line at the top left that just blinks for what seems like forever.

    I went in to the boot menu and turned the "logo at start" off and enabled "quick boot" , it still does the same thing. Any ideas?
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    Dayton 12" DVC w/ Rythmik 350a plate amp
    Harman/Kardon AVR-635
    Oppo 981hd
    Denon upconvert DVD player
    Jennings Research (vintage and rare)
    Mit RPTV WS-55513
    Tosh HD-XA1
    B&K AV5000


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  • petrym
    petrym Posts: 1,912
    edited October 2007
    Yeah... switch to Linux. ;)
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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited October 2007
    Well you guys were right.

    After posting last night, I stayed on it for another hour or so.

    Got up this morning and turned it on.......:(



    PPPOWWWW POPPP CRACK !!!:eek: :eek: :confused::confused::confused:

    Sparks flew from the power supply, like the 4th of July.:mad: :mad: :mad:

    It was running great last night, I dont know what happened......

    Calling Geeks.com to see what they can do for me.

    I know I bought a cheap PS but GGEEEZZZ, did it have to blow up that fast?

    Any recommendations for another one under $50?

    I am running 2 HDD's, 2 DVD r's , case fan, Geforce VC, Soundblaster SC and case lights.

    So I need something with alot of power plugs.
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    Monitor 4's surround
    Frankinpolk Center (2 mw6503's with peerless tweeter)
    M10's back surround
    Hafler-200 driving patio Daytons
    Tempest-X 15" DIY sub w/ Rythmik 350A plate amp
    Dayton 12" DVC w/ Rythmik 350a plate amp
    Harman/Kardon AVR-635
    Oppo 981hd
    Denon upconvert DVD player
    Jennings Research (vintage and rare)
    Mit RPTV WS-55513
    Tosh HD-XA1
    B&K AV5000


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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited October 2007
    Is this a good one? If I get credit from www.geeks.com , I will purchase from them.

    http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=PS-600-BL&cat=PWR
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    Monitor 4's surround
    Frankinpolk Center (2 mw6503's with peerless tweeter)
    M10's back surround
    Hafler-200 driving patio Daytons
    Tempest-X 15" DIY sub w/ Rythmik 350A plate amp
    Dayton 12" DVC w/ Rythmik 350a plate amp
    Harman/Kardon AVR-635
    Oppo 981hd
    Denon upconvert DVD player
    Jennings Research (vintage and rare)
    Mit RPTV WS-55513
    Tosh HD-XA1
    B&K AV5000


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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited October 2007
    Disregaurd my previous post.


    Im going with the Powermax Assassin. The tech at Geeks recommended it and it will look cool in my case...lol

    http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=PSAS-BK&cat=PWR
    Monitor 7b's front
    Monitor 4's surround
    Frankinpolk Center (2 mw6503's with peerless tweeter)
    M10's back surround
    Hafler-200 driving patio Daytons
    Tempest-X 15" DIY sub w/ Rythmik 350A plate amp
    Dayton 12" DVC w/ Rythmik 350a plate amp
    Harman/Kardon AVR-635
    Oppo 981hd
    Denon upconvert DVD player
    Jennings Research (vintage and rare)
    Mit RPTV WS-55513
    Tosh HD-XA1
    B&K AV5000


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  • cheddar
    cheddar Posts: 2,390
    edited October 2007
    Good to hear you settled on a solid power supply. It's easy to get drawn in by all the cheap stuff. I usually pay a little more 'cause too many things depend on it. Hope the rest of the build goes well. It usually takes me a day or two just to rebuild the driver/software side of things...
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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited October 2007
    cheddar wrote: »
    Good to hear you settled on a solid power supply. It's easy to get drawn in by all the cheap stuff. I usually pay a little more 'cause too many things depend on it. Hope the rest of the build goes well. It usually takes me a day or two just to rebuild the driver/software side of things...


    Thanks cheddar, It took me 4 hours to put it all together including software. Then there was the updates. I hope it was a faulty PS and not the motherboard or anything else shorting it out.

    Geeks had some PS's, up to $200!!!.:eek: :eek: No way Jose. $30 for one seemed just fine.
    Monitor 7b's front
    Monitor 4's surround
    Frankinpolk Center (2 mw6503's with peerless tweeter)
    M10's back surround
    Hafler-200 driving patio Daytons
    Tempest-X 15" DIY sub w/ Rythmik 350A plate amp
    Dayton 12" DVC w/ Rythmik 350a plate amp
    Harman/Kardon AVR-635
    Oppo 981hd
    Denon upconvert DVD player
    Jennings Research (vintage and rare)
    Mit RPTV WS-55513
    Tosh HD-XA1
    B&K AV5000


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