G-6 350 mhz upgrade

Since upgrading. Things have gone down hill fast.
It runs fine for a day or two. Then I get file corruption.
The names change to hieroglyphics. I took a snap shot of the
Lavasoft folder but can't post it here for some reason.
Could someone email me so I could send the jpeg image of the folder
so you could look at it and see if you have seen this or know what the
hell is happening. But this happens to all my folders eventually. I just
got lucky and did
a scandisk and it said the files were corrupted beyond repair in Lavasoft.
I have all up to date anti virus, The Cleaner, Zone Alarm Pro, spybot,
Ad-Aware & spyblaster. Everything comes back clean.
Thanks, my email addy is
Ray


"Wacko" wrote in message
news:3fowe.7514$GP6.1931@trndny03...
I kept debating and finally I settled on trying the 1.2 GHz Tualatin
Celeron.
Piece of cake to install.
I added the max memory, up to 384 & replaced that bucket of bolts Maxtor
10 gig hd with a western digital 250 gig hd.
I like it! Big improvement over what it was like. the difference is like
night & day.
Well worth the upgrade as far as I am concerned.

"gdp" wrote in message
news:F6Wfe.39722$_K.5616@fed1read03...
WackoRay wrote:
GenuineIntel Pentium(r) II Processor Intel MMX(TM) Technology
PhoenixBios 4.0 Release 6.0
4M4PBOX1.15A.023.P13

We upgraded 3 of these at work to 1.4 GHz Tualatin Celerons. Made a big
difference in the apps we run. It was worth it to us, but only you can
be the judge as to whether it is worth it to you.

How is the hard drive connected to the system? An older G-6 350MHz Pentium II
system BIOS does not support a 250GB hard drive. To use the 250GB drive
reliably, you need either an add-in hard drive controller card (e.g. Promise
brand) or 3rd party drive overlay software such as Western Digital's EZ-Drive.
In short, 3rd party drive overlay software sucks and you are 1000% better off
with a drive controller card.

Yes, the 250GB drive is brand new, but what assurance do you have that it is
100% functional? Run the WD hard drive diagnostics to make sure.

Next, download and run MEMTEST-86, the best (and free) memory diagnostic
software. You have no assurance that the memory upgrade is OK unless you run
memory diagnostics. If MEMTEST-86 reveals even one error during testing, the
memory upgrade is not right for the motherboard, which needs DIMMs with
low-density memory chips... Ben Myers

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:10:34 GMT, "WackoRay" wrote:

Since upgrading. Things have gone down hill fast.
It runs fine for a day or two. Then I get file corruption.
The names change to hieroglyphics. I took a snap shot of the
Lavasoft folder but can't post it here for some reason.
Could someone email me so I could send the jpeg image of the folder
so you could look at it and see if you have seen this or know what the
hell is happening. But this happens to all my folders eventually. I just
got lucky and did
a scandisk and it said the files were corrupted beyond repair in Lavasoft.
I have all up to date anti virus, The Cleaner, Zone Alarm Pro, spybot,
Ad-Aware & spyblaster. Everything comes back clean.
Thanks, my email addy is
Ray


"Wacko" wrote in message
news:3fowe.7514$GP6.1931@trndny03...
I kept debating and finally I settled on trying the 1.2 GHz Tualatin
Celeron.
Piece of cake to install.
I added the max memory, up to 384 & replaced that bucket of bolts Maxtor
10 gig hd with a western digital 250 gig hd.
I like it! Big improvement over what it was like. the difference is like
night & day.
Well worth the upgrade as far as I am concerned.

"gdp" wrote in message
news:F6Wfe.39722$_K.5616@fed1read03...
WackoRay wrote:
GenuineIntel Pentium(r) II Processor Intel MMX(TM) Technology
PhoenixBios 4.0 Release 6.0
4M4PBOX1.15A.023.P13

We upgraded 3 of these at work to 1.4 GHz Tualatin Celerons. Made a big
difference in the apps we run. It was worth it to us, but only you can
be the judge as to whether it is worth it to you.

lol, Yeah I'm finding these things one by one.
When I went to ISPECS at powerleap it scanned my system and recommenced the
processor and the harddrive.

I am waiting for the promise card to be delivered.
I ran the WD diag that came back ok. No errors.

I just finished the MEMTEST that was Ok also.

Wait for the card and hope!

Thanks ben
Ray




ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
How is the hard drive connected to the system? An older G-6 350MHz
Pentium II
system BIOS does not support a 250GB hard drive. To use the 250GB drive
reliably, you need either an add-in hard drive controller card (e.g.
Promise
brand) or 3rd party drive overlay software such as Western Digital's
EZ-Drive.
In short, 3rd party drive overlay software sucks and you are 1000% better
off
with a drive controller card.

Yes, the 250GB drive is brand new, but what assurance do you have that it
is
100% functional? Run the WD hard drive diagnostics to make sure.

Next, download and run MEMTEST-86, the best (and free) memory diagnostic
software. You have no assurance that the memory upgrade is OK unless you
run
memory diagnostics. If MEMTEST-86 reveals even one error during testing,
the
memory upgrade is not right for the motherboard, which needs DIMMs with
low-density memory chips... Ben Myers

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:10:34 GMT, "WackoRay"
wrote:

Since upgrading. Things have gone down hill fast.
It runs fine for a day or two. Then I get file corruption.
The names change to hieroglyphics. I took a snap shot of the
Lavasoft folder but can't post it here for some reason.
Could someone email me so I could send the jpeg image of the folder
so you could look at it and see if you have seen this or know what the
hell is happening. But this happens to all my folders eventually. I just
got lucky and did
a scandisk and it said the files were corrupted beyond repair in
Lavasoft.
I have all up to date anti virus, The Cleaner, Zone Alarm Pro, spybot,
Ad-Aware & spyblaster. Everything comes back clean.
Thanks, my email addy is
Ray


"Wacko" wrote in message
news:3fowe.7514$GP6.1931@trndny03...
I kept debating and finally I settled on trying the 1.2 GHz Tualatin
Celeron.
Piece of cake to install.
I added the max memory, up to 384 & replaced that bucket of bolts
Maxtor
10 gig hd with a western digital 250 gig hd.
I like it! Big improvement over what it was like. the difference is
like
night & day.
Well worth the upgrade as far as I am concerned.

"gdp" wrote in message
news:F6Wfe.39722$_K.5616@fed1read03...
WackoRay wrote:
GenuineIntel Pentium(r) II Processor Intel MMX(TM) Technology
PhoenixBios 4.0 Release 6.0
4M4PBOX1.15A.023.P13

We upgraded 3 of these at work to 1.4 GHz Tualatin Celerons. Made a
big
difference in the apps we run. It was worth it to us, but only you
can
be the judge as to whether it is worth it to you.

Hi Ben,
I just got the promise card and installed it.
In the instructions it tells me to attach my system
case's 2or 4 pin LED to the LED connector on the
SATA card.

I looked at the spec sheet and it shows my LED
jumper to be a 2 prong just above my on/off cable.
But there is no cable. Do I need it ? I mean, I am
on that pc now and it is running?

thanks
Ray



"WackoRay" wrote in message
news:RE_Fe.12973$x32.12084@trndny09...
lol, Yeah I'm finding these things one by one.
When I went to ISPECS at powerleap it scanned my system and recommenced
the
processor and the harddrive.

I am waiting for the promise card to be delivered.
I ran the WD diag that came back ok. No errors.

I just finished the MEMTEST that was Ok also.

Wait for the card and hope!

Thanks ben
Ray




ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
How is the hard drive connected to the system? An older G-6 350MHz
Pentium II
system BIOS does not support a 250GB hard drive. To use the 250GB drive
reliably, you need either an add-in hard drive controller card (e.g.
Promise
brand) or 3rd party drive overlay software such as Western Digital's
EZ-Drive.
In short, 3rd party drive overlay software sucks and you are 1000%
better
off
with a drive controller card.

Yes, the 250GB drive is brand new, but what assurance do you have that
it
is
100% functional? Run the WD hard drive diagnostics to make sure.

Next, download and run MEMTEST-86, the best (and free) memory diagnostic
software. You have no assurance that the memory upgrade is OK unless
you
run
memory diagnostics. If MEMTEST-86 reveals even one error during
testing,
the
memory upgrade is not right for the motherboard, which needs DIMMs with
low-density memory chips... Ben Myers

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:10:34 GMT, "WackoRay"

wrote:

Since upgrading. Things have gone down hill fast.
It runs fine for a day or two. Then I get file corruption.
The names change to hieroglyphics. I took a snap shot of the
Lavasoft folder but can't post it here for some reason.
Could someone email me so I could send the jpeg image of the folder
so you could look at it and see if you have seen this or know what the
hell is happening. But this happens to all my folders eventually. I
just
got lucky and did
a scandisk and it said the files were corrupted beyond repair in
Lavasoft.
I have all up to date anti virus, The Cleaner, Zone Alarm Pro, spybot,
Ad-Aware & spyblaster. Everything comes back clean.
Thanks, my email addy is
Ray


"Wacko" wrote in message
news:3fowe.7514$GP6.1931@trndny03...
I kept debating and finally I settled on trying the 1.2 GHz Tualatin
Celeron.
Piece of cake to install.
I added the max memory, up to 384 & replaced that bucket of bolts
Maxtor
10 gig hd with a western digital 250 gig hd.
I like it! Big improvement over what it was like. the difference is
like
night & day.
Well worth the upgrade as far as I am concerned.

"gdp" wrote in message
news:F6Wfe.39722$_K.5616@fed1read03...
WackoRay wrote:
GenuineIntel Pentium(r) II Processor Intel MMX(TM) Technology
PhoenixBios 4.0 Release 6.0
4M4PBOX1.15A.023.P13

We upgraded 3 of these at work to 1.4 GHz Tualatin Celerons. Made
a
big
difference in the apps we run. It was worth it to us, but only you
can
be the judge as to whether it is worth it to you.

"Vze" wrote in message
news:FudGe.2274$QX2.1255@trndny01...
Hi Ben,
I just got the promise card and installed it.
In the instructions it tells me to attach my system
case's 2or 4 pin LED to the LED connector on the
SATA card.

I looked at the spec sheet and it shows my LED
jumper to be a 2 prong just above my on/off cable.
But there is no cable. Do I need it ? I mean, I am
on that pc now and it is running?

thanks
Ray


You only need it if you want pretty lights indicating hard drive activity to
light up like a Christmas tree whenever there is hard disk access. No, you
don't need it. If you want to use it, you can use the existing cable that
runs from your hard drive LED connector on the motherboard and move it to
the one on the SATA card.


--
"Hurricane" Andrew
Milford, DE

Thank you Hurricane

Ray


"Hurricane Andrew" wrote in message
news:OdeGe.24371$9y3.3171@trnddc06...

"Vze" wrote in message
news:FudGe.2274$QX2.1255@trndny01...
Hi Ben,
I just got the promise card and installed it.
In the instructions it tells me to attach my system
case's 2or 4 pin LED to the LED connector on the
SATA card.

I looked at the spec sheet and it shows my LED
jumper to be a 2 prong just above my on/off cable.
But there is no cable. Do I need it ? I mean, I am
on that pc now and it is running?

thanks
Ray


You only need it if you want pretty lights indicating hard drive activity
to
light up like a Christmas tree whenever there is hard disk access. No,
you
don't need it. If you want to use it, you can use the existing cable that
runs from your hard drive LED connector on the motherboard and move it to
the one on the SATA card.


--
"Hurricane" Andrew
Milford, DE

Ben, Since installing the controller card I have not had any blue screen
errors but what is happening is it gets almost to the desktop and shuts
itself off. Every once in a while on bootup after it shuts itself off I get
windows protection error.

Tech support from powerleap tell me this is a ram problem. The memory I
bought from crucial. I let there scanner scan my system and bought what it
recommended.

Also I re-ran MEMTEST 86 and got errors in test 5 and when it gets to test 8
it freezes the system. I ran it in my e machine T2865 also and got 103
errors in test 6 and when it got to test 8 it froze on that machine also?

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Ray



ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
How is the hard drive connected to the system? An older G-6 350MHz
Pentium II
system BIOS does not support a 250GB hard drive. To use the 250GB drive
reliably, you need either an add-in hard drive controller card (e.g.
Promise
brand) or 3rd party drive overlay software such as Western Digital's
EZ-Drive.
In short, 3rd party drive overlay software sucks and you are 1000% better
off
with a drive controller card.

Yes, the 250GB drive is brand new, but what assurance do you have that it
is
100% functional? Run the WD hard drive diagnostics to make sure.

Next, download and run MEMTEST-86, the best (and free) memory diagnostic
software. You have no assurance that the memory upgrade is OK unless you
run
memory diagnostics. If MEMTEST-86 reveals even one error during testing,
the
memory upgrade is not right for the motherboard, which needs DIMMs with
low-density memory chips... Ben Myers

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:10:34 GMT, "WackoRay"
wrote:

Since upgrading. Things have gone down hill fast.
It runs fine for a day or two. Then I get file corruption.
The names change to hieroglyphics. I took a snap shot of the
Lavasoft folder but can't post it here for some reason.
Could someone email me so I could send the jpeg image of the folder
so you could look at it and see if you have seen this or know what the
hell is happening. But this happens to all my folders eventually. I just
got lucky and did
a scandisk and it said the files were corrupted beyond repair in
Lavasoft.
I have all up to date anti virus, The Cleaner, Zone Alarm Pro, spybot,
Ad-Aware & spyblaster. Everything comes back clean.
Thanks, my email addy is
Ray


"Wacko" wrote in message
news:3fowe.7514$GP6.1931@trndny03...
I kept debating and finally I settled on trying the 1.2 GHz Tualatin
Celeron.
Piece of cake to install.
I added the max memory, up to 384 & replaced that bucket of bolts
Maxtor
10 gig hd with a western digital 250 gig hd.
I like it! Big improvement over what it was like. the difference is
like
night & day.
Well worth the upgrade as far as I am concerned.

"gdp" wrote in message
news:F6Wfe.39722$_K.5616@fed1read03...
WackoRay wrote:
GenuineIntel Pentium(r) II Processor Intel MMX(TM) Technology
PhoenixBios 4.0 Release 6.0
4M4PBOX1.15A.023.P13

We upgraded 3 of these at work to 1.4 GHz Tualatin Celerons. Made a
big
difference in the apps we run. It was worth it to us, but only you
can
be the judge as to whether it is worth it to you.

My experiences with MEMTEST-86 have been very positive. If it reveals an error
in testing (or the system hangs), there is something wrong with the hardware,
most often memory.

A G6 350 has a 100MHz front side bus, so it was designed to use PC100 memory
with low density memory chips. Some PC133 memory will work reliably, and some
will not. Low density memory means that there are more chips on the DIMM,
typically 8 for a 64MB DIMM and 16 for a 128MB DIMM.

At this point, I would suspect that the Crucial memory is not right for the
system, despite Crucial's excellent reputation. Just to check, reinstall the
old memory with less capacity in the system and run MEMTEST-86 again. If
MEMTEST-86 runs without showing any errors, then this pretty much confirms that
the Crucial memory is not right... Ben Myers

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 23:17:59 GMT, "Vze" wrote:

Ben, Since installing the controller card I have not had any blue screen
errors but what is happening is it gets almost to the desktop and shuts
itself off. Every once in a while on bootup after it shuts itself off I get
windows protection error.

Tech support from powerleap tell me this is a ram problem. The memory I
bought from crucial. I let there scanner scan my system and bought what it
recommended.

Also I re-ran MEMTEST 86 and got errors in test 5 and when it gets to test 8
it freezes the system. I ran it in my e machine T2865 also and got 103
errors in test 6 and when it got to test 8 it froze on that machine also?

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Ray



ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
How is the hard drive connected to the system? An older G-6 350MHz
Pentium II
system BIOS does not support a 250GB hard drive. To use the 250GB drive
reliably, you need either an add-in hard drive controller card (e.g.
Promise
brand) or 3rd party drive overlay software such as Western Digital's
EZ-Drive.
In short, 3rd party drive overlay software sucks and you are 1000% better
off
with a drive controller card.

Yes, the 250GB drive is brand new, but what assurance do you have that it
is
100% functional? Run the WD hard drive diagnostics to make sure.

Next, download and run MEMTEST-86, the best (and free) memory diagnostic
software. You have no assurance that the memory upgrade is OK unless you
run
memory diagnostics. If MEMTEST-86 reveals even one error during testing,
the
memory upgrade is not right for the motherboard, which needs DIMMs with
low-density memory chips... Ben Myers

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:10:34 GMT, "WackoRay"
wrote:

Since upgrading. Things have gone down hill fast.
It runs fine for a day or two. Then I get file corruption.
The names change to hieroglyphics. I took a snap shot of the
Lavasoft folder but can't post it here for some reason.
Could someone email me so I could send the jpeg image of the folder
so you could look at it and see if you have seen this or know what the
hell is happening. But this happens to all my folders eventually. I just
got lucky and did
a scandisk and it said the files were corrupted beyond repair in
Lavasoft.
I have all up to date anti virus, The Cleaner, Zone Alarm Pro, spybot,
Ad-Aware & spyblaster. Everything comes back clean.
Thanks, my email addy is
Ray


"Wacko" wrote in message
news:3fowe.7514$GP6.1931@trndny03...
I kept debating and finally I settled on trying the 1.2 GHz Tualatin
Celeron.
Piece of cake to install.
I added the max memory, up to 384 & replaced that bucket of bolts
Maxtor
10 gig hd with a western digital 250 gig hd.
I like it! Big improvement over what it was like. the difference is
like
night & day.
Well worth the upgrade as far as I am concerned.

"gdp" wrote in message
news:F6Wfe.39722$_K.5616@fed1read03...
WackoRay wrote:
GenuineIntel Pentium(r) II Processor Intel MMX(TM) Technology
PhoenixBios 4.0 Release 6.0
4M4PBOX1.15A.023.P13

We upgraded 3 of these at work to 1.4 GHz Tualatin Celerons. Made a
big
difference in the apps we run. It was worth it to us, but only you
can
be the judge as to whether it is worth it to you.

Ben,
I took the crucial card out and tested it again.
All was fine until test # 8 at 2% it freezes the system with the original
memory only.

Any other suggestions? And the crucial memory is pc-100 256 mb synch, cl2

Thanks
Ray



ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
My experiences with MEMTEST-86 have been very positive. If it reveals an
error
in testing (or the system hangs), there is something wrong with the
hardware,
most often memory.

A G6 350 has a 100MHz front side bus, so it was designed to use PC100
memory
with low density memory chips. Some PC133 memory will work reliably, and
some
will not. Low density memory means that there are more chips on the DIMM,
typically 8 for a 64MB DIMM and 16 for a 128MB DIMM.

At this point, I would suspect that the Crucial memory is not right for
the
system, despite Crucial's excellent reputation. Just to check, reinstall
the
old memory with less capacity in the system and run MEMTEST-86 again. If
MEMTEST-86 runs without showing any errors, then this pretty much confirms
that
the Crucial memory is not right... Ben Myers

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 23:17:59 GMT, "Vze" wrote:

Ben, Since installing the controller card I have not had any blue
screen
errors but what is happening is it gets almost to the desktop and shuts
itself off. Every once in a while on bootup after it shuts itself off I
get
windows protection error.

Tech support from powerleap tell me this is a ram problem. The memory I
bought from crucial. I let there scanner scan my system and bought what
it
recommended.

Also I re-ran MEMTEST 86 and got errors in test 5 and when it gets to
test 8
it freezes the system. I ran it in my e machine T2865 also and got 103
errors in test 6 and when it got to test 8 it froze on that machine also?

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Ray



ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
How is the hard drive connected to the system? An older G-6 350MHz
Pentium II
system BIOS does not support a 250GB hard drive. To use the 250GB
drive
reliably, you need either an add-in hard drive controller card (e.g.
Promise
brand) or 3rd party drive overlay software such as Western Digital's
EZ-Drive.
In short, 3rd party drive overlay software sucks and you are 1000%
better
off
with a drive controller card.

Yes, the 250GB drive is brand new, but what assurance do you have that
it
is
100% functional? Run the WD hard drive diagnostics to make sure.

Next, download and run MEMTEST-86, the best (and free) memory
diagnostic
software. You have no assurance that the memory upgrade is OK unless
you
run
memory diagnostics. If MEMTEST-86 reveals even one error during
testing,
the
memory upgrade is not right for the motherboard, which needs DIMMs with
low-density memory chips... Ben Myers

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:10:34 GMT, "WackoRay"

wrote:

Since upgrading. Things have gone down hill fast.
It runs fine for a day or two. Then I get file corruption.
The names change to hieroglyphics. I took a snap shot of the
Lavasoft folder but can't post it here for some reason.
Could someone email me so I could send the jpeg image of the folder
so you could look at it and see if you have seen this or know what the
hell is happening. But this happens to all my folders eventually. I
just
got lucky and did
a scandisk and it said the files were corrupted beyond repair in
Lavasoft.
I have all up to date anti virus, The Cleaner, Zone Alarm Pro, spybot,
Ad-Aware & spyblaster. Everything comes back clean.
Thanks, my email addy is
Ray


"Wacko" wrote in message
news:3fowe.7514$GP6.1931@trndny03...
I kept debating and finally I settled on trying the 1.2 GHz Tualatin
Celeron.
Piece of cake to install.
I added the max memory, up to 384 & replaced that bucket of bolts
Maxtor
10 gig hd with a western digital 250 gig hd.
I like it! Big improvement over what it was like. the difference is
like
night & day.
Well worth the upgrade as far as I am concerned.

"gdp" wrote in message
news:F6Wfe.39722$_K.5616@fed1read03...
WackoRay wrote:
GenuineIntel Pentium(r) II Processor Intel MMX(TM) Technology
PhoenixBios 4.0 Release 6.0
4M4PBOX1.15A.023.P13

We upgraded 3 of these at work to 1.4 GHz Tualatin Celerons. Made
a
big
difference in the apps we run. It was worth it to us, but only
you
can
be the judge as to whether it is worth it to you.

There's a reasonable possibility that the motherboard has developed issues. The
MEMTEST lockup and the other BSODs and/or freezes running Windows would seem to
form a pattern indicating hardware problems... Ben

On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 04:27:34 GMT, "Vze" wrote:

Ben,
I took the crucial card out and tested it again.
All was fine until test # 8 at 2% it freezes the system with the original
memory only.

Any other suggestions? And the crucial memory is pc-100 256 mb synch, cl2

Thanks
Ray



ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
My experiences with MEMTEST-86 have been very positive. If it reveals an
error
in testing (or the system hangs), there is something wrong with the
hardware,
most often memory.

A G6 350 has a 100MHz front side bus, so it was designed to use PC100
memory
with low density memory chips. Some PC133 memory will work reliably, and
some
will not. Low density memory means that there are more chips on the DIMM,
typically 8 for a 64MB DIMM and 16 for a 128MB DIMM.

At this point, I would suspect that the Crucial memory is not right for
the
system, despite Crucial's excellent reputation. Just to check, reinstall
the
old memory with less capacity in the system and run MEMTEST-86 again. If
MEMTEST-86 runs without showing any errors, then this pretty much confirms
that
the Crucial memory is not right... Ben Myers

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 23:17:59 GMT, "Vze" wrote:

Ben, Since installing the controller card I have not had any blue
screen
errors but what is happening is it gets almost to the desktop and shuts
itself off. Every once in a while on bootup after it shuts itself off I
get
windows protection error.

Tech support from powerleap tell me this is a ram problem. The memory I
bought from crucial. I let there scanner scan my system and bought what
it
recommended.

Also I re-ran MEMTEST 86 and got errors in test 5 and when it gets to
test 8
it freezes the system. I ran it in my e machine T2865 also and got 103
errors in test 6 and when it got to test 8 it froze on that machine also?

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Ray



ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
How is the hard drive connected to the system? An older G-6 350MHz
Pentium II
system BIOS does not support a 250GB hard drive. To use the 250GB
drive
reliably, you need either an add-in hard drive controller card (e.g.
Promise
brand) or 3rd party drive overlay software such as Western Digital's
EZ-Drive.
In short, 3rd party drive overlay software sucks and you are 1000%
better
off
with a drive controller card.

Yes, the 250GB drive is brand new, but what assurance do you have that
it
is
100% functional? Run the WD hard drive diagnostics to make sure.

Next, download and run MEMTEST-86, the best (and free) memory
diagnostic
software. You have no assurance that the memory upgrade is OK unless
you
run
memory diagnostics. If MEMTEST-86 reveals even one error during
testing,
the
memory upgrade is not right for the motherboard, which needs DIMMs with
low-density memory chips... Ben Myers

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:10:34 GMT, "WackoRay"

wrote:

Since upgrading. Things have gone down hill fast.
It runs fine for a day or two. Then I get file corruption.
The names change to hieroglyphics. I took a snap shot of the
Lavasoft folder but can't post it here for some reason.
Could someone email me so I could send the jpeg image of the folder
so you could look at it and see if you have seen this or know what the
hell is happening. But this happens to all my folders eventually. I
just
got lucky and did
a scandisk and it said the files were corrupted beyond repair in
Lavasoft.
I have all up to date anti virus, The Cleaner, Zone Alarm Pro, spybot,
Ad-Aware & spyblaster. Everything comes back clean.
Thanks, my email addy is
Ray


"Wacko" wrote in message
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I kept debating and finally I settled on trying the 1.2 GHz Tualatin
Celeron.
Piece of cake to install.
I added the max memory, up to 384 & replaced that bucket of bolts
Maxtor
10 gig hd with a western digital 250 gig hd.
I like it! Big improvement over what it was like. the difference is
like
night & day.
Well worth the upgrade as far as I am concerned.

"gdp" wrote in message
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WackoRay wrote:
GenuineIntel Pentium(r) II Processor Intel MMX(TM) Technology
PhoenixBios 4.0 Release 6.0
4M4PBOX1.15A.023.P13

We upgraded 3 of these at work to 1.4 GHz Tualatin Celerons. Made
a
big
difference in the apps we run. It was worth it to us, but only
you
can
be the judge as to whether it is worth it to you.