Woohoo! My WinXP machine is working again!!!

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:34 pm

3 weeks ago, my Sapphire Radeon X800 XT PE broke, and I had to find out that there were no decent AGP gfx cards available anymore. So I decided to get a PCI mobo and gfx card. I got two broken mobos, had to purchase a new PSU, reinstall Windows (actually repairing the existing installation was sufficient), and now, after three weeks of diet on a Linux machine, I finally have my WinXP box back! YeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!!

I wanted to keep my 2 GB of PC 3200 DDR RAM, so I got a socket 939 Crossfire board, spent some money on an upgrade to a X2 processor and got a pretty affordable Sapphire X1900 XT with the option to add another one.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 7:33 pm

you also didn't need to spend the money on any type of SLI mobo either.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 7:58 pm

Welcome back to the soft radioactive glow of Windows!

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:44 pm

fliptw wrote:you also didn't need to spend the money on any type of SLI mobo either.

Why not?

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 11:29 am

I was actually thinking of sticking with 939 so that I wont have to spend extra on memory upgrade to DDR2 but now I dont know. I want to use PCI-E but I dont have much money to spend.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 2:03 pm

Diedel wrote:
fliptw wrote:you also didn't need to spend the money on any type of SLI mobo either.
Why not?

are you planing on getting a second video card?

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 2:40 pm

Yeah, I thought of something like that.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:18 am

It's fn unbelieveable: My Win machine is broken again. First, the brand new Audigy X-Fi stopped to work, now the entire machine doesn't boot anymore. I get the boot screen from the BIOS, and that's it. Tried a board reset already, but that didn't help. Holy fn sh*t.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:42 pm

D'oh!

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:02 pm

I have found the reason for this: It's Grendel's USB converter for the MS Sidewinder. If I unplug it, the machine boots.

The converter was connected to an external 7x USB HUB with separate power supply (max. 400 mA/connector).

I am glad it was so simple this time. I got two broken mobos, a broken soundcard, almost ruined my new X2 CPU myself and it took me 4 bloody weeks to get my Windows machine up and running again.

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:10 pm

Sounds like you connected the hub to a USB port that supports S5 wakeup by USB -- strange things happen if you connect hubs or USB drives to these ports.. Check you MB manual if you have \"normal\" USB ports and try plugging the hub into one of those.