PC FUBAR

[Anonymous]

PC broke

backup won't reinstall

brand new SATA disk u/s

so RAID won't work

so I have to RMA it

so I'll have to buy disk to keep me going until RMA arrives at which point it will become spare

not happy

But at least I'm not called Doris  :devil:

[Norm]

You want to borrow one BB?

40gig laptop hard drive here you can borrow.

[OldBloke]

What is it with you people and your PCs?

STOP BREAKING THEM.

I've got a community to try and run here. An online gaming community to be exact. If you lot keep breaking your puters how the hell you gonna be 'online' let alone 'game'.

Now get your act together    

Probably another overclocked, overheated turbo-nutter-b*stard rig with every ounce of performance squeezed from it's tiny transistors.  [/SIZE]

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by OldBloke@Jul 21 2005, 07:13 PM
Probably another overclocked, overheated turbo-nutter-b*stard rig with every ounce of performance squeezed from it's tiny transistors.

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Actually no It was a new CPU, memory, MB, and 2 new SATA 160Gb disks for RAID 0 array. It worked for 30 minutes then one disk failed but not completely, just enough to cause errors. In that time I had run some tests on it without overclocking:

Old
P4 2.8GHz 533FSB 512kb Cache PC2100 Memory and 2x60Gb IDE disks in RAID0

CPU 7473
Mem 2379
Disk 74MB/s Average 106 Mb/s peak
3DMark05  4780

New
P4 3.4GHz 800FSB 1Mb cache PC3200 Dual Channel and 2x160Gb SATA RAID0

CPU 9883
Mem 4330
Disk 78MB/s Average 182Mb/s peak
3DMark05  5576

I hadn't got as far as "turbo-nuttering" it (if there is such a phrase)

I think that the disk was playing before I started testing cause I reckon I should have got a better average throughput on the SATA raid.

However, I'm now trying a restore on the single disk now and if I can get that working I'll run single until I get other disk RMAd at which point I'll backup/restore again but put the disks in RAID.

Many thanks to all for offers of spare disks - appreciated

[Anonymous]

Good news

Restore to single disk seems to have worked so at least I know the backup image isn't goosed.

I've just reconfigured everything and I'm taking another backup then I'll run with a slow single disk until I can get the other disk RMAd (no you won't you lying git you'll end up buying another disk in PC World on the way home tomorrow and still RMAing the broken one)