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"Kenneth" <kennethNOSPAM.DeleteThis@pardue.com> wrote in message
news:10aqp4mjv852a71@corp.supernews.com...
> Hello all,
>
> This is an update to my post from 5/14. I've since got my system to be
> stable while booting. I've tried two power supplies in my system. I went
> back to an older power supply and it went completely wacky when I fired up
a
> game (Flight Sim 2004). I put back in the newer power supply and my
> readings were more stable. However, it's the general concensus in this
> group that my 400w power supply still isn't necessarily enough and may be
> causing problems. So, I think I'm probably going to try to get a new
power
> supply. Any recommendations on a good, QUIET ~500w power supply?
>
> Also, I'm at a loss for whether or not I should get a new storage drive.
I
> haven't had any other problems out of it not booting up or anything,
> however, it does have 4KB bad reported by Chkdsk (full report below). Do
> you folks think that I need to get a new hard drive, aslo? I'm thinking
> about replacing this with a Serial ATA drive, I have a feeling that would
> offer better performance over my current setup, and would probably work
> better for the little bit of home video editing that I do.
>
> That said, is a Serial ATA 7200RPM drive necessarily better than an EIDE
> 7200RPM drive? I've noticed that my motherboard (Asus P4PE) supports
> SATA... without knowing much about this new spec, can I have and EIDE
> primary master (w/cdrom slave) and a SATA secondary master (w/ internal
zip
> slave)?
>
> Many, many, many thanks in advance. It looks like I'm going to have to
> spend money on some components for this system, I just don't want to spend
> them on the wrong thing.
>
> Here's the chkdsk result for my storage drive:
>
> Checking file system on F:
> The type of the file system is NTFS.
> Volume label is Storage.
>
> A disk check has been scheduled.
> Windows will now check the disk.
> Cleaning up 4 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
> Cleaning up 4 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
> Cleaning up 4 unused security descriptors.
> CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
> Usn Journal verification completed.
> CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
> File data verification completed.
> CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
> Free space verification is complete.
>
> 117210208 KB total disk space.
> 94090276 KB in 39978 files.
> 16796 KB in 3602 indexes.
> 4 KB in bad sectors.
> 156400 KB in use by the system.
> 65536 KB occupied by the log file.
> 22946732 KB available on disk.
>
> 4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
> 29302552 total allocation units on disk.
> 5736683 allocation units available on disk.
>
> Thanks,
> Kenneth
>
>
Also, take a look at these graphs. This first one is the one of the older,
noisier 400w power supply (the one that I replaced the newer one with
briefly /after/ I started having problems. Obviously, this one was bonkers:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.taylormadecom.com/test/power-old.png" target="_blank">http://www.taylormadecom.com/test/power-old.png</a>
This is of the newer, quieter power supply, that has been running fairly
flawlessly on my computer for nearly a year now.
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.taylormadecom.com/test/power-newer.png" target="_blank">http://www.taylormadecom.com/test/power-newer.png</a>
Do you still think it's the power supply? Obviously, the older one is
messed up, but I haven't even had that in my system for months. Both of
these screenshots were taken with roughly the same applications open taxing
the system at roughly the same amount (both were while running Flight Sim
2004 doing identical flights).
Thanks,
Kenneth<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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