Problems, problems, problems. Or not — who knows.

The installation and setup of Windows on the Colossus Server/Gaming PC went okay, but it’s been a bumpy ride. It’s mostly my fault, though — I tried to start things at a _high_ level of overclocking, instead of completely neutral, like I should’ve. -_-’

I’ve now got it running at just a base 100 FSB, but I’m planning on stepping it back up now that it’s relatively stable.

The video card has been funky, to say the least. It’d keep freezing up during 3d rendering, and then one time it stopped rendering 3d altogether. It might’ve been the Modded “Omega Drivers”:http://omegadrivers.net I was running, but then I switched to the official ATI ones I kept getting the same problem. However, I changed a couple of other things that might’ve been causing freeze-ups, and the freeze-ups apparently went away. Who knows, you know?

That being said, what’s with all these freaking “CLI.exe” services that run when you’ve got the official ATI drivers installed on your system? Beats me. All I know is this — turning them off doesn’t do anything (except that sometimes your Catalyst control panel doesn’t come up). On top of that, turning them off actually _increases_ my frame rate and scores in “3D Mark”:http://futuremark.com… anyone guess why that might be?

January 29th, 2007 | Science and Technology | 4 comments

If you’ve got a sec, check out my little accordian-type interface for the shit to the right — took me a freakin’ day to code that crap, so you better have fun with it!

Once you load the Moblog object, it gets kind of screwy, but I’m working on it.

In other news, I’m installing WoW on my gaming PC as I speak! I finally got it up and running, thanks to the honest-to-goodness 256 MB Low-Density SDRAM chip that I got from “StarMicro.net”:http://starmicro.net — in case your wondering what the hell that is (and you probably are), it’s a special type of RAM that’s not even made any more that’s required if you want to use larger chips (such as 256 MB ones) in a select few older motherboards (like the one I’m currently building with). They’re hard as hell to track down, and when you do, they’re usually found with sky-high prices, so I really, really lucked out when I found this one for only $22.

Although, I’ve been having a bit of trouble getting the system running stable at anything above a 100 Mhz FSB (the “FSB” is the “highway” that all your little computer bips and bops on the motherboard communicate to each other with). My brother, “Thomas the Mighty”:http://gardens.tmanime.com, had success running this motherboard as high as 124 Mhz, so I’m still at a loss as to what I’m doing wrong… but, there’s lots of variables that are different in my case: different RAM, different CPU, different GPU, you name it.

Well, even with its Tualatin CPU running at 1300 Mhz, it’s still a bit faster than my laptop, so off I go to play!

January 27th, 2007 | Gaming, Science and Technology | 4 comments