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[freeagent]

21 minutes ago, Alienware 15 R2 said:

Oh, I uhh... don’t know how yours got to 4800? Mine said on intel website a 3.7Ghz turbo at max.

200x24 1.6v 

[Bitter]

My Xeon X3470 does a solid 4.0Ghz on water meant for a Pentium 4, it's basically a Xeon i7 870. Sadly the Gigabyte board I have, while having excellent VRM cooling is limited in ram speeds and just will not post over 1600mhz despite me running 1866 memory in there. I know I could get a little more than 4.0 out of it but it's nearly thermally throttling on the 200W water block at over 300W power consumption. Thankgoodness for the good Lotes socket.

[freeagent]

Had to blow off the dust

 

 

 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

12 minutes ago, freeagent said:

Had to blow off the dust

-snip-

Why?

[freeagent]

4 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Why?

 

Well.. Front 3 are intake, top front keeps air from front in case, also cools ram before going though the cooler. Back rear are exhaust.. I know what you are thinking.. there is no warm air loop. The shear volume of air being moved doesn't have time to sit there and warm up  

 

If I was running dinky little 30-50cfm fans I probably wouldn't do that, but I would be tempted to try 

 

There is a few hundred CFM moving through that little Meshify when its time to work.. Its not quiet 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

8 hours ago, freeagent said:

Well.. Front 3 are intake, top front keeps air from front in case, also cools ram before going though the cooler. Back rear are exhaust.. I know what you are thinking.. there is no warm air loop. The shear volume of air being moved doesn't have time to sit there and warm up  

 

If I was running dinky little 30-50cfm fans I probably wouldn't do that, but I would be tempted to try 

 

There is a few hundred CFM moving through that little Meshify when its time to work.. Its not quiet 

Yeah, Id suggest just having h top 2 exhaust.  r ight now its definitely a high pressure.

[freeagent]

22 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Yeah, Id suggest just having h top 2 exhaust.  r ight now its definitely a high pressure.

I know.. I've tried all kind of combos. For what I do this works the best.. dust isn't a concern because Datavac. If I blocked off the top of the chassis entirely I don't need those top fans at all.. but I do overvolt things and I like the extra flow.

[WhitetailAni]

This sucks. I went to install Word Perfect Office 2000 that I found in my grandpa's attic and discovered this!
All of my IDE optical drives don't work anymore!
The Creative 48x drive that came with this had the thing where the tray got stuck and I couldn't fix it.

The 4X drive I have doesn't read discs correctly.

The drive that @Bitter gave me with the PSU says "Incorrect Function".

The only IDE optical drive I have is in my main PC, and it's not leaving.

 

Oh yeah, and the SCSI optical drive I have doesn't let the caddy stay in the drive. Otherwise, it would probably work fine.

[Alienware 15 R2]

19 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

This sucks. I went to install Word Perfect Office 2000 that I found in my grandpa's attic and discovered this!
All of my IDE optical drives don't work anymore!
The Creative 48x drive that came with this had the thing where the tray got stuck and I couldn't fix it.

The 4X drive I have doesn't read discs correctly.

The drive that @Bitter gave me with the PSU says "Incorrect Function".

The only IDE optical drive I have is in my main PC, and it's not leaving.

 

Oh yeah, and the SCSI optical drive I have doesn't let the caddy stay in the drive. Otherwise, it would probably work fine.

That’s terrible. I still have the 24x DVD RW Toshiba Samsung drives from my Alienware and their IDE. They still work it’s just one of them doesn’t read because it’s jammed.

[Bitter]

41 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

This sucks. I went to install Word Perfect Office 2000 that I found in my grandpa's attic and discovered this!
All of my IDE optical drives don't work anymore!
The Creative 48x drive that came with this had the thing where the tray got stuck and I couldn't fix it.

The 4X drive I have doesn't read discs correctly.

The drive that @Bitter gave me with the PSU says "Incorrect Function".

The only IDE optical drive I have is in my main PC, and it's not leaving.

 

Oh yeah, and the SCSI optical drive I have doesn't let the caddy stay in the drive. Otherwise, it would probably work fine.

Oh no.

#1 you just have terrible luck with optical drives and somehow have cursed every one you've touched.

#2 I'm really sorry it doesn't work, I had no idea. Everything I gave you 'ran when parked' and to the best of my knowledge was in working order. I don't have any functional IDE systems to test things with anymore so I'm really sorry. I should have at least plugged it into a Molex to see if it opened, closed, and spun a disc but I didn't even think of that and evidently that wouldn't have helped. If you feel so inclined try pulling the case off it and see what it's doing when trying to read, it could just be a dirty lens!

 

#3 I'm also having optical drive problems. Our alignment machine at work uses a really old really crappy Dell SFF PC as it's 'brain box' running Vista with an 80GB SATA drive. We had some weird problems crop up loading the alignment data base a couple times so I ran a scandisk, found some bad sectors (4) and SFC found some corrupt/damaged Windows files. The cabinet it's in got nailed by a car really hard once when the PC was off and it's worked fine for years after but spinning discs always fail eventually and it's just consumer grade stuff that's now at least a decade old so I'm not really surprised despite it's low hours of use.

I bought a cheap but good 120GB SSD which should basically last forever in this thing and made a Clonezilla USB, PC won't boot from USB despite USB being a valid option in the boot menu...but so are Zip, FDD, USB ZIP, USB FDD if that's any indicator of age.

OK FINE burn Clonezilla to a CD. Now I'm gonna be honest, I think when I opened the CD tray that I may have been the first person to push that tray eject button since the PC was built by Dell assuming they check that. Put CD in tray. Push close button. Nothing. Bump tray to close, nothing. Push tray all the way in. Ejects tray. Repeat. PUSH tray in, it closes. No disc spin. DEAD OPTICAL DRIVE. So, I think your curse must be carried by association, thanks.

 

I have a $9 used SATA optical drive in the mail for it, I'll swap it in, do the clone, pop in the SSD, and store the old HDD at work somewhere safe just in case we need it again.

 

 

 

 

Also, I know this is a little pricey but this air compressor I got for 'stuff' around the house like dusting electronics and filling tires is really really super quiet and fast to fill and recover pressure.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CKRLKM9/

Ok well it was $140 when I bought it, shop around for a better deal I guess. I added an inline water trap/air filter to mine and took cheap blow gun, super glued all the air leaks on it and wrapped the ball inflator nozzle with tape so only the tip blows air. I get a super concentrated very small stream of air that will blow dust out and away WAY better than canned air. I was able to get gunk out of that 6800 Ultra I didn't even know was in there trapped between the heat sink and the board.

[WhitetailAni]

The only one that hasn't died yet is the one in my Ryzen PC.

 

Maybe Windows 2000 is killing them? The 4x drive worked on 98 SE, but then I took it out and sat it on a shelf (and I think I accidentally dropped something on it).

[Bitter]

It's probably just old age honestly.

[freeagent]

Is it moist up there? I want to check my drives now they haven't seen power for about 5 years. But that's a lot of work and I am lazy.

 

Hopefully you can get them going! Maybe blow in it like an old NES cartridge

[WhitetailAni]

1 minute ago, freeagent said:

Is it moist up there? I want to check my drives now they haven't seen power for about 5 years. But that's a lot of work and I am lazy.

 

Hopefully you can get them going! Maybe blow in it like an old NES cartridge

It's been pretty dry lately, and I keep them in the basement where it's extra dry.

 

I mean, I managed to temporarily fix the 48x Creative drive by taking it apart and pushing on things. Maybe I just need to do that to the 4x drive.

[freeagent]

6 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

It's been pretty dry lately, and I keep them in the basement where it's extra dry.

 

I mean, I managed to temporarily fix the 48x Creative drive by taking it apart and pushing on things. Maybe I just need to do that to the 4x drive.

Yup betcha that's all she needs! Awesome man glad you got one of them going!

[WhitetailAni]

1 minute ago, freeagent said:

Yup betcha that's all she needs! Awesome man glad you got one of them going!

After 2 months, the Creative drive broke forever. The fix I did was to push the plastic tray under some metal, and after some time of using it the plastic snapped, rendering the drive useless.

 

So of course, the logical thing to do was to take a Molex connector and wire it up to 120v and make smoke come out!

[Alienware 15 R2]

1 hour ago, FakeKGB said:

After 2 months, the Creative drive broke forever. The fix I did was to push the plastic tray under some metal, and after some time of using it the plastic snapped, rendering the drive useless.

 

So of course, the logical thing to do was to take a Molex connector and wire it up to 120v and make smoke come out!

You can push 120v to a drive??? Tell me how cause Imma bout to blow up the jammed toshiba Samsung drive.

[WhitetailAni]

3 minutes ago, Alienware 15 R2 said:

You can push 120v to a drive??? Tell me how cause Imma bout to blow up the jammed toshiba Samsung drive.

I had a power connector from an iMac where the power supply connected to the IEC power connector with some wires.

I disassembled the iMac (dead screen) so I could get at the hard drive, and in the process pulled out the power connector.

 

I then took out the wires from their plastic housing, jammed them in a blank Molex housing, and put that on the drive's power connectors.

 

A pop and some magic smoke later, the drive did not work anymore.

[X-System]

9 hours ago, FakeKGB said:

This sucks. I went to install Word Perfect Office 2000 that I found in my grandpa's attic and discovered this!
All of my IDE optical drives don't work anymore!
The Creative 48x drive that came with this had the thing where the tray got stuck and I couldn't fix it.

The 4X drive I have doesn't read discs correctly.

The drive that @Bitter gave me with the PSU says "Incorrect Function".

The only IDE optical drive I have is in my main PC, and it's not leaving.

 

Oh yeah, and the SCSI optical drive I have doesn't let the caddy stay in the drive. Otherwise, it would probably work fine.

 

They work (almost)

[WhitetailAni]

Ooh, is that a Jaz drive? Cool!

Do you use it for anything?

[X-System]

On 4/30/2021 at 6:34 PM, Kilrah said:

Well they did, briefly...

Still have my i7-970 from 2010, 6C12T AND triple-channel  

Got 6x4GB in it. 

 

More than 2 channel is always good

 

I tested on my 2x Xeon E5-2667 v3 system with 8x 4GB DDR4 2133 ECC Reg and I got the results. It runs faster than dual channel 3600 MHz

 

 

17 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

Ooh, is that a Jaz drive? Cool!

Do you use it for anything?

I used it on my Pentium III system for fun. It worked before but now, this drive want not to read my JAZ cartridges... But I also have external JAZ 2GB drive

[Bitter]

LibreOffice people, not Word/Office.

[flibberdipper]

30 minutes ago, Bitter said:

LibreOffice people, not Word/Office.

[WhitetailAni]

32 minutes ago, Bitter said:

LibreOffice people, not Word/Office.

WordPerfect for the win!

[Bitter]

18 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

WordPerfect for the win!

sudo nano