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| Thread ID: 74207 | 2006-11-15 00:27:00 | CPU replacement / upgrade options / RAID 0 - some questions on what's possible | digikiwi (10681) | Press F1 |
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| 499187 | 2006-11-15 22:43:00 | Did you get the broken pin out of the socket?, did the pc POST (beep)? | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 499188 | 2006-11-16 01:42:00 | I got the pin out but no beep, on the old cpu (which led me to suspect it after removing each RAM stick separately) nor the new one. Unfortunately it's proving very difficult to find a GA-k8nsc-939 motherboard. No one has it in stock and suppliers have discontinued the product. Is there any other way I can recover the data? Ie if I build the machine on another motherboard with a speparate drive for the OS. |
digikiwi (10681) | ||
| 499189 | 2006-11-16 08:39:00 | normally with raid you require the exact same chipset, bios and settings. however some play nicly and will work on other vers of make/model. what raid controller does the board have? |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 499190 | 2006-11-16 18:47:00 | Well I'm guessing it's the chipset that handles it? Which is the NVIDIA nForce 3 250Gb Platform Processor. The specs are listed here (www.gigabyte.com.tw). I don't know enough about the onboard raid controller including its precise location I;ve managed to find a used board at one computer shop (for almost the new price cough cough - these guys know when you're up against the wall, LOL). What do you think will be easier: Trying to get the RAID 0 SATA disks running off their own OS (the previous installation) or Installing OS on an IDE disk and then trying to access data only off the RAID array. Cheers Digikiwi |
digikiwi (10681) | ||
| 499191 | 2006-11-16 20:26:00 | Hi Digi, what a lucky sod, getting that used board for new price...LOL I would install O/S on separate IDE disk, just to see if you can get your data off it, if you can, then I would transfer the data to keep to the IDE and use that as storage, the array as the o/s |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 499192 | 2006-11-17 13:59:00 | Solved, I'm back on line. Now I've got that identical motherboard with the x2 4200+ chip and all this in a new case. I'm a happy chappy. Once assembled all I had to do was enable the RAID for the two SATA drives and I booted off the old OS :D I think I found what caused the original corrosion. The computer had been running for about 12 months without the 12 volt connector on the motherboard being connected. Some doofus who didn't know what he was doing never connected that one. At least That's what I'm guessing I ahem I mean that person did wrong... Thank you all for your support. Sharing makes the world go round. And yes I'll be making a backup. |
digikiwi (10681) | ||
| 499193 | 2006-11-17 22:08:00 | The first time I tried taking the HSF off my A64 (skt754), the CPU came up with it... still worked afterwards though, but I wouldn't recommend doing it on purpose They say you should run the computer full tilt for a few hours to loosen the heatsink paste before taking the HSF off.. I guess in your case that wasn't possible as it didn't work. heating the heatsink with something like a hairdryer (my method to get the CPU off the HSF after I ripped it out) works fine too I doubt that the 12v aux connection being unplugged would cause that problem, maybe the CPU was just made with a bad pin (or the socket), but stranger things have happened because of incomplete connections... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 499194 | 2006-11-18 00:05:00 | Just use an old credit card or business card and wedge it between the CPU and HSF to break the seal, much easier than using a hairdryer or running the system under load for hours. | Pete O'Neil (6584) | ||
| 499195 | 2006-11-18 00:11:00 | Does that work? I would have thought the big plastic HSF frame on the motherboard would get in the way... | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 499196 | 2006-11-21 10:17:00 | I used Arctic aluminium (I guess a poor man's Arctic Silver) coz the shop I was in didn't have any Arctic silver in small tubes. I was told the Aluminium version is still better than the stock standard heat pads that come with athlon cpu/heatsink kits. I'll keep that credit card idea and see if I can make it work next time I take a CPU assempbly apart. Cheers for the advice Digikiwi |
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