New purchases, need some help!

[VisionIT]

Hi All.

As you may have read in my previous post, I ordered a few bits 'n' bobs from Dabs.com yesterday, and they all arrived this morning!

Logitech Z680:
Very VERY QUIET!!! The sub power is OK, but the whole system seems to be quite tinny and quiet, even at full blast! I can't get it any louder, no matter how hard I try! :( Very nice looking speakers, but the sub is HUGE, really HUGE!!! Sound very good, with a hearing aid! :D

LG L1510S 15" TFT:
Superb... nothing more to say!

ThermalTake Xaser III Silver w/window:
BIG, heavy and fiddly to install! All the fans (11 of them) take up all the room, and the XP 2100 CPU won't budge from 60oC!!! Is that normal for an XP 2100? Nice, solid case though with good attention to detail.

Overall, i'm fairly happy with the order in general. The DABS service is great! Less than 12 hours!!!!! If i'de known the speakers were this quiet, I wouldn't have spent £300 on 'em! May give them a ring 2moro, see if they can help.

I'm using the O/B AC97 sound card on my Gigabyte 7NNXP. The old creative speakers were VERY loud on the same card, but they were only 2.1, not 5.1 with LFE! :D

Any idea's anyone?

[made_of_asp]

Hi,

Regarding the XP thing, my XP2000 runs around 35-40C

Stock Heatsink
2 Case Fans - 1 quality large 9cm fan, 1 crappy sleeve bearing pulled out of a power supply.

60C is not normal for such CPU, unless you OC'ed.

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

What's your CPU cooler?

60C is acceptable perhaps for max temp at full load.

[Sastraxi]

What chip you've got on your motherboard for temp. sensing? Mine displays a temperature about 20 celsius too high, so if we can compare chips maybe it's just your POS chip on the mobo telling you it's time to upgrade :p Bah. Bloody winbond!! Grrr :)

[BodwadUK]

The fans arent all blowing in are they????
Make sure you have some air flow


Check your sound setting in the control panel and ensure the volumn bar hasnt walked down. It can do it when it feel like being a pain. Ensure you have latest drivers :) :) :)

[VisionIT]

While talking to you, my CPU temp is 48.6C, and rising! Until I had this case, i've never really been bothered... but when the case alarm went off, you know about it! :D

I've just had a though tho'... one of the case fans is directly in front of the CPU fan, which could be slowing the air flow.

I've plugged the other two speakers in BTW, and it sounds very good, but still really quiet!

The CPU temp now is 49.6C, in just a few minutes typing this message!!!! There's only WinAMP running DI.FM in the background, nothing else!

Cheers all.

[VisionIT]

The sounds fixed!!! Oh hell is it fixed :D :D :D Now it's LOUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

* Paul gets cloth to stop ears from bleeding *

:D

Now for that annoying CPU problem!

I keep getting BSOD's saying

"Unexpected kernel mode trap"

Anyone ever seen that? I know what it means, I just cant figure why it keeps doing it! I'm on Win2k Pro, not SP yet though.

[made_of_asp]

""Unexpected kernel mode trap"

I kept on getting that error after i tried to push a celly533 to 600Mhz.