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Well on advice from flibby and others here I bought the parts for my new system earlier this week.
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Abit IP35 Pro
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit * 2
Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
Motherboard install went fine, heatsink was a pain to put on but works great. Upgraded to the 14 bios as per advice on ABIT USA forums.
1 of the 4 1Gb memory strips was DoA but thats been rma'd by overclockers with no problems at all - excellent service.
Current setup for drives is:
Sata 1 = 250Gb
IDE Master 320Gb - boot drive
Ide Slave - DVDR
I can install XP fine with no problems - however Vista just refuses to install from the DVD - boots into the DVD then just hangs for a week.
Am I right in thinking that I should just get a SATA DVD writer and install vista from there? As i have read of people having probs installing from an ide DVDR.
Also I did do an upgrade install of vista to check - that installed fine - but crashed after install the intel chipset drivers - downloaded a newer of the chipset drivers and tried again - this time it installed fine but I couldn't then install my 8800gtx drivers due to data execution protection!!
Any advice?
O and I also had a lot of delayed write failures the first time I installed XP - but this I solved with the latest JMicron drivers which give you the option of installing a scsi or ide version of the driver.
DDR2 voltage is at 2.2V no overclocking all timings set to default for CPU and Ram - temps are fine, CPU hasn't got over 35C yet.
In XP all runs fine 12k or so in 3Dmark 06 - very pleased - but I need to get Vista running as all my mails etc are in vista format
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Abit IP35 Pro
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit * 2
Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
Motherboard install went fine, heatsink was a pain to put on but works great. Upgraded to the 14 bios as per advice on ABIT USA forums.
1 of the 4 1Gb memory strips was DoA but thats been rma'd by overclockers with no problems at all - excellent service.
Current setup for drives is:
Sata 1 = 250Gb
IDE Master 320Gb - boot drive
Ide Slave - DVDR
I can install XP fine with no problems - however Vista just refuses to install from the DVD - boots into the DVD then just hangs for a week.
Am I right in thinking that I should just get a SATA DVD writer and install vista from there? As i have read of people having probs installing from an ide DVDR.
Also I did do an upgrade install of vista to check - that installed fine - but crashed after install the intel chipset drivers - downloaded a newer of the chipset drivers and tried again - this time it installed fine but I couldn't then install my 8800gtx drivers due to data execution protection!!
Any advice?
O and I also had a lot of delayed write failures the first time I installed XP - but this I solved with the latest JMicron drivers which give you the option of installing a scsi or ide version of the driver.
DDR2 voltage is at 2.2V no overclocking all timings set to default for CPU and Ram - temps are fine, CPU hasn't got over 35C yet.
In XP all runs fine 12k or so in 3Dmark 06 - very pleased - but I need to get Vista running as all my mails etc are in vista format
What program you using?