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Author Topic: Who Am I And What I Am Doing? Polygon Admin Member # 1 posted                    Who Am I And What I Am Doing? In several posts, some new(and some old) members are a little confused by the topics that I start, so I'll post a thread to explain what I'm doing here at The Rebels Haven Computer Forum..... First a little backround. I'm an Electrical Engineer who for 99% of my career has been active in Power Supply design for Military and Space agencies here in the United States and abroad. That is why there are lots of voltage mods posted on this forum. I'm a learn-on-a-need-to-know basis, nuts-and-bolts kind of guy. I very rarely go out and read tons of info and threads before jumping in with both feet. When something doesn't work the way I think it should, then I go looking for answers, not before. I'm from the MS_DOS era, so I tend to do a lot of things "the old fasioned" way... Sometimes it hurts, sometimes it helps... Several years ago I was formatting 120Gig drives with FAT32 and happened to mention it in a thread. Everyone chimed in that they "read" that it can't be done. 32Gig was the limit! I eventually went on to format a 320Gig drive in FAT32. That's why I don't read! I use the Mainboard CD for drivers and try most new BIOS's as many have some real issues with a board.... I don't use RAID, Firewire, or many of the 21st century stuff. I mainly use IDE drives, Floppy 3.5" discs, and Win98SE Boot discs. I have only 2 SATA drive systems and I don't go nuts over Video benchmarks. I like Win98SE, I love Win2K, and I hate XP. And I will not move on to the next bloated offering out of Redmond, Washington.... I tried Linux once, but it borked the HDD and I had to use some old MSDOS tricks to get to work again. Over the past several years, I have been looking into modding BIOS's. I did quite a bit of programming in the old days, and with some Assembly Language programming too. Today, most of the cobwebs are now cleared out and we're posting mod BIOS's that will help performance. We may be the 1st BIOS mod team to actually add brand new Items to a BIOS. Also recently were able to add new Items to Intel based BIOS. Check out "BIOS Workshop" if your interested. Be sure to read the 1st sticky. My home network consists of 8-32Bit and 3-64Bit systems that are servers, media-players, family gaming machines, and a work machine that I use to work from home. 5 of these 11 systems are water cooled and a few of those 5, are moderatly overclocked. And speaking of network, I live on a barrier Island that is 5 miles offshore. There are bridges at each end, as the Island is long(32 miles) and thin. Because of this, high speed is out of the question. We're lucky to have electric and phone service, much less high speed! So, I'm on dialup that usually connects between 24-28.8K, due to the distance of the phone lines. The pride of my network is the Media System. I capture Music Videos off of Satellite feed, and save them on my Media Server. The Media Server boasts more then a Terabyte of storage and contains over 3000 Music Videos and about a 1000 audio files. There is a seperate Media Player that is a 64Bit GA-K8NF-9 with a PCI-X 6600GT, and an Audigy2 audio card feeding a Kenwood 200W/channel Amp driving Boise 901 speakers. These systems are almost never included in tests and information gathering that I post on The Rebels Haven. Once-in-a-while, a problem with these systems comes up and if I can't solve it, I'm the first to ask for help... There are also 3-K7S5A "obsolete" systems that I power-up once a week to keep from dying of neglect. On my workbench are 18 of the newest and most popular nF3/nF4/ATI/Conroe 64Bit systems plus an extra Shuttle AN35/N for BIOS modding. I just couldn't resist the 11-12 second SuperPI scores that the Intel Conroe was delivering, so I now have 7 Conroes and 4 Intel based boards for test. All these 18 or so systems are full-up, water cooled systems. Most are cased up with the exception of the latest systems being tested. These are set up in a "Breadboard" configuration for ease of test. There is also an extra air-cooled MSI Neo2 Platinum on which I'm testing Windows98SE(which MSI claims isn't supported, which is why I loaded it.. ). All these systems are used strictly for testing of the boards, CPU's, memory modules, operating systems, and issues as they are discovered..... All of these Windows2000 systems are loaded with all the programs I need to use as a everyday system, and in fact, I always use whichever system I'm testing, all day long... I have 25+ sets of the most popular high performance memory dual channel kits, and 20-64Bit CPU's that include 1-Phenom, 1-180 Opteron, 3-Opteron 148's, 2-Opteron 146, 3-Opteron 144, 1-SanDiego, 1-FX55, 1-Venice 3200, and 5-Winchesters including a older CBBHD 0433 unit. Recently, the 10 Conroes have been added to the mix. The Bartons I have include 5 of the "Golden Stepping" units, of which the best is in the AN35/N test system... Yes, there is a small fortune tied up in all these systems, but I need all this equipment to be able to simulate issues our users have, and give answers from experience, and not from guesswork. When the AMD x2 was released, I purchased one to see how it plays on the nF3/nF4 boards I have. I returned it for a refund in a day or 2. Too much money for it..... While the 32Bit issues are pretty much down to nothing, the A64 CPU's and the Memory Modules get swapped around between systems sometimes several times a day in order to check out a report of some kind of issue.... Recently I got interested in older Biostar Vintage motherboards. I've got about 20 old Biostar motherboards that run 386, 486, K5, K6, and P1 thru P4 CPU's. Check out the Biostar Musuem for results on these oldies but goodies! All the above is networked together with a 100mbps, twisted-pair LAN. The main server is a Proxy/File server that connects all systems to the Internet. Unfortunately, being on a Island 5 miles offshore, the best Internet service I can get right now, is 26.6K dial-up, but Wireless is heading our way... At my Office I have a Biostar 965PT and a AN35/N(running 11.5X200) both with T1 connectivity... The Rebels Haven Computer Forum went online on 2/9/2003 in responce to a highly censored forum that was frequented my most of our long term members. We needed an alternate Forum. Starting in July 2004, I added advertising to the website to help defray the cost of the hosting and domain registeration. I am hoping to possibly change software in the future to a version somewhat like V-Bulletin, but seeing the database they use going belly up on a regular basis, I decided to stay with our present system. My self-assigned job as the owner and webmaster of The Rebels Haven Computer Forum, is to post results of tests on the newest motherboards; to post topics that stimulate replies; to identify issues, problems, and solutions that I discover, or that any member posts as a "need help" thread... The Water-Cooled test systems mostly look like this: Although, this is my latest configuration for the test systems and general usage systems: The typical "breadboard" looks like this: My latest move is to a smaller radiator that has a 120mm fan behind it: I have available for test the following components: Motherboards: 1-Biostar TH61 ITX 1-Biostar TZ68A+ 1-Biostar TF590SLI Delux 1-Biostar TP67XE 1-Biostar G31-M4 2-Biostar 945GC-M4 1-Biostar TH55 XE 1-Biostar TA890FXE 1-Biostar TA890GXE 1-Biostar TA785GX-128M 1-Biostar TA790GX A3+ 1-Biostar P4M900-M4 1-Biostar T-Power x58 1-Biostar TA790GX3 A2+ (sold) 2-Biostar TA790GX A2+ (sold 1) 1-TG31-A7 1-DFI LP 790FX-M2RS 1-ABIT IP35 Pro 1-Biostar T-Power I45 1-Biostar TF720 A2+ (sold) 1-Biostar T-Power N750 (sold) 1-Biostar TF8200 A2+ (sold) 1-Biostar A740G M2+ (sold) 1-Biostar TF780G A2+ (sold) 1-ASUS M3A AM2+ (returned) 1-Biostar TF770 A2+ 1-Biostar TF7150U-M7 (returned) 1-Biostar GF7050U-M7 (returned) 1-Biostar TF560-AM2+ 1-DFI P35T2RL 2-Biostar TP35D2-A7 1-Biostar TF7050-M2 (sold) 1-Biostar TF7025-M2 (sold) 1-Biostar TA690G (sold) 1-DFI LP NF680i (sold) 2-DFI Infinity P965-S (sold 1) 1-Biostar G965(returned) 1-Biostar P965 Express(returned) 1-Biostar P4M900-M4 1-EVGA nVidia 680i Reference Board (sold) 3-ABIT NF-M2 nView (Returned all) 2-Biostar 965PT Rev 1.0 (Returned 1, re-bought open box version) 1-ABIT AW9D-Max (Returned) 1-Gigabyte GA-P965-S3 (sold) 1-DFI Infinity 975X 1-DFI Infinity Ultra II M2 (Sold) 1-MSI K9N SLI Platinum Rev 1.0 (Returned) 1-Biostar 6100-AM2 Rev 1.1 (sold) 1-Biostar TForce 550 Rev 1.0(RMA'ed for newer version, ended up with same)(sold) 1-Foxconn C51XEM2AA-8EKRS2H (Returned) 1-ASRock AM2 CPU Upgrade (sold) 1-Epox 9U1697GLI (Sold) 1-DFI RS482 INFINITY (Sold) 1-ASRock 939SLI32-SATA2 (Sold) 1-Epox-9GF6100-M (sold) 1-ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 (Sold) 1-Biostar TForce 6100-939 1-Jetway 210GDMS-Pro (Sold) 1-Jetway 939GT4-SLI (Sold) 1-ABIT AN8-Ultra 1-Chaintech 7NIF2 1-DFI Lanparty nF3 Ultra-D 1-DFI Lanparty nF4 Ultra-D 1-Epox 8KHA+ 1-Epox 9NDA3+ Rev2.x (sold) 1-Epox 9NPA+ Ultra 8-ECS K7S5A(4 dead now) (1 sold) 1-ECS KN1-Extreme (sold) 1-Gigabyte KNF9-3 4-Jetway NAPAP-Ultra 2-MSI Neo2 Platinum (sold 1) 2-MSI Neo4 Platinum (1 died, my fault) 1-Biostar NF4 Ultra-A9A 4-Shuttle AN35/N Vintage Motherboards: 1-Biostar MB-1340AEQ-K (80386) 1-Biostar MB-1433FA (80486) 2-Biostar M5ALA 2-Biostar M5ATA 1-Biostar M6TWG 1-Biostar M6TBA 1-Biostar M6VCG 2-Biostar M7NCD 1-Biostar M7NCD Ultra 1-Biostar M7NCG 400 2-Biostar M7VIG 400 1-Biostar M7VIQ 1-Biostar M5VMV 1-MSI KM3M-V (K5/K6) 1-Biostar MB-8500TVX v2.2(Pentium) 1-Biostar MB-8500TVX v2.3(Pentium) 1-Biostar MB-8433UUC(80486) 1-Biostar U8668 1-Biostar U8668D v7.8(P4) 1-Biostar P4VMA-M(P4) CPU's 2-Intel 2500K Socket 1155 Sandy Bridge 1-Phenom II 6X 1055T 2.8Gig 1-Core i5 670 3.60Gig Clarkdale 1-Phenom II Black Edition 955 1-Phenom II Black Edition 550 1-Phenom II AM3 810 1-Phenom II AM3 720 (sold) 1-Phenom II 940 1-Phenom II 920 1-Core i7 920 2.66G/8Meg/1333 Socket1366 1-Conroe E8600 3.33G/6Meg/1333 1-Conroe E8500 3.16G/6Meg/1333 1-AM2+ Phenom Black Edition 9950 1-AM2+ Phenom Black Edition 9850 1-AM2+ Phenom 9500 1-Conroe E8400 3.0G/6Meg/1333 1-Opteron 180 x2 1-Conroe Q6600 "GO" 2.4G/8Meg/1066 2-Conroe E6850 3.0G/4Meg/1333 2-Conroe E6420 2.13G/4Meg/1066 2-Conroe E6600 2.4G/4Meg/1066 2-Conroe E6400 2.13G/2Meg/1066 1-Conroe E6300 1.86G/2Meg/1066 1-Allendale E4300 (Sold) 1-AM2 Black Edition 6400 x2 1-AM2 Black Edition 5000 x2 1-AM2 3600(65nm Brisbane x2) 1-AM2 3800 1-AM2 3200 3-Opteron 144 2-Opteron 146 3-Opteron 148 1-SanDiego 3700 1-FX-55 130nm 1-Venice 3200 1-Winchester 3200 4-Winchester 3000 12-Various Barton's 8-Various T-Bred's 1-1.33 T-Bird 3-Various old Durons 25-Various old K5, K6, Pentium I, II, III, IV 2-80486DX 1-80386 Memory Modules 1-G.Skill DDR3 2x2Gig DDR2133 set (RipJaws) 1-Corsair DDR3 2x2Gig DDR1333 set 1-Corsair DDR3 2x1Gig DDR1333 set 1-Ballistix DDR3 6x1Meg DDR1600 set 3-Super Talent DDR3 2x1Gig DDR1600 sets 1-Corsair DDR3 3x1Gig DDR1600 set 1-Super Talent DDR800 2x1Meg set 1-G.Skill DDR667 2XiGig "NP" set 1-Team DDR667 2x512 set 3-Super Talent DDR667 2x1Meg set 1-Ballistix DDR667 2x1Meg set 1-OCZ DDR667 2x512 set 1-Ballistix DDR667 2x512 set 1-Corsair XMS DDR1066 2x512 C5 set 3-Patriot PC8400 2x512 "ELK" set 1-G.Skill DDR667 2X512 "HZ" set (Returned) 1-G.Skill DDR667 2X512 "PK" set (Returned) 1-Kingston DDR533 1X1Gig Value RAM(Returned) 1-Team Extreem Cronus 3-3-3-8 2X1Gig set 1-G.Skill 2X1Gig "HZ" set 1-G.Skill 2X512 "GH" set 2-G.Skill 2X256 "LE" sets (1 dead, thanks Prime95!) 1-G.Skill 2X512 "LE" Set 2-Patriot 2X256 "XBLK" sets 3-Patriot 2X512 "XBLK" sets (1 dead, thanks ASROCK!) 2-Kingston HyperX 2X256 "UL" sets 1-Kingston HyperX 2X512 "UL" sets 4-Mushkin Black Level II BH-5 2X256 sets 1-OCZ PC3200 Revision2 TCCD 2X512 set 1-OCZ PC3200 Revision2 v1.1 2X512 set 1-A-DATA Vitesta 2X265 DDR600 set 4-GEIL Ultra Platinum 2X256 PC4400 sets 1-PMI Ultra Turbo 2X256 set (may be dead) 15-Various SDRAM 15-Various 72Pin SIMM 12-Various 30Pin SIMM 5-Various SIPP Modules So, that's it in a nutshell. If you have any questions, comments, answers, post them in the Sector for your motherboard... Posts: 27985 | From: Fire Island, NY | Registered: Feb 2003 Polygon Admin Member # 1 posted                    Here's where Rebels Haven is located. This is room #1, the test lab: This is our Computer Room, room #2, where my Wife, Son, and I compete in the latest racing games. My son is modifing Flat Out2, GTA, Evolution 4x4, adding cars, tracks, players: How many computer can you count? Pictures #1 & #2 have 18 systems scattered around. The 2 on the left of pic #2 are Video capture and Video Player. Picture #3 has 2 systems. That's my Wife and Son's rigs. Picture #4 has 6 systems. 4 Servers and my work and game system. Server tucked in on the lower left has 1.25 Terabytes of storage holding more the 5000 music Videos, Audios, and 25 Music DVD's. Still 1 or 2 systems are still in boxes -------------------- Too Many Computers,... Too Little Time ..... Com'on ???..! Posts: 27985 | From: Fire Island, NY | Registered: Feb 2003

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