Just finished my first build. Everything went quite smoothly. As usual it hasn't take long for me to think about making it better. The first thing I will do is buy a decent power supply to replace the cheapo that came with the case. I want to overclock also which will be fairly easy cause my BIOS enables me to do it from there. First and foremost I've got to get my temps down. XP 2800+ (Barton) and under full load temps are 130F. I only have one case fan and another PCI slot exhaust fan. I want to add a side fan but don't know where the power is going to come from? I have no more power hookups left. Can I wire more on or do I need some special adapter?
Just thought I'd ask this all in the same place. On system startup it takes approx. 3-4 minutes for my system to boot up. I've already done all the Win XP services tweaks and shut down what I didn't need, but what is taking the most amount of time is the first screen that comes on. It has the Soyo logo and says it is detecting drives, etc. There is an option to abort drive detecting. I have it set to boot to my HD first (I have no floppy). Anyway it goes through all this stuff then finally gets to the XP logon screen. From here it doesn't take that long. Anyone got any ideas.
Just thought I'd ask this all in the same place. On system startup it takes approx. 3-4 minutes for my system to boot up. I've already done all the Win XP services tweaks and shut down what I didn't need, but what is taking the most amount of time is the first screen that comes on. It has the Soyo logo and says it is detecting drives, etc. There is an option to abort drive detecting. I have it set to boot to my HD first (I have no floppy). Anyway it goes through all this stuff then finally gets to the XP logon screen. From here it doesn't take that long. Anyone got any ideas.