Topic: vista

[mephisto_kur]

The HD is brand new, as is the SATA cable. 

Irrelevant.

[LC0g]

(1) I don't know where that is and (2) how do I know if it's overheating or not?

All right now.
Where is my chipset for dummies.

the chipset is the ''thing'' (we will define the thing later in this book) between your CPU and your ''lanes'' (PCIE 16x, PCI, etc etc)
look at this mainboard picture.



I am sure you can see the CPU socket. you can also check the ''lanes'', here some of them are in blue. BUT. BUT. you see an heatsink in the middle?? what is that? thats the heatsink for the chipset (or northbridge). so with a little bit of logic, you can say that your chipset is under the heatsink!! 

so there you go. although this EVGA mainboard is obviously not yours, your motherboard should look about the same.

so now, I continue the guide.

How can something be overheating??
Overheating:
Overheating of a technical device, for example a car engine or a disk laser, increase in temperature leading to reduced efficiency, damage or even destruction.

So you basically can check your chipset temperature. I say if it go higher than 55-60 deg celcius, I say it is very hot.
Hint: you can install a software named Everest to view your chipset's temperature!!!

[GeNe]

Irrelevant.

Thanks, jerk.

[anomaly]

Thanks, jerk.

meph is right tho.

[DAwG]

Buy a themometer, stick it in there, and wallah you have the temperature

[GeNe]

meph is right tho.

Yes, but how do you diagnose that?  Surely the fact that both my HDDs have similar load up times, cuts against the idea that the HDD or the SATA cables are bad.

[DAwG]

Someone else had similar issue, hmm it could be a shared resource issue, that would survive a reformat

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/984514.html

[anomaly]

any one else have steam games crash when exiting them? 

im using Vista 64bit. never had this issue with Xp 32bit. its not a big deal, i don't think its affecting any thing else. only when i exit it crashes the game. doesn't seem to matter what game it is, HL2, Bioshock... etc. but only the games in steam do this.

retail box Quake 4 closes fine. 

is this just a issue with steam or windows 64bit? i have defender turned off so i don't think its that.

[dj]

That's a known issue with Vista and Source-based games.  I don't know about Bioshock, though.

[anomaly]

weird... i tried running in 32bit thru a launch option command, but no change. oh well, like i said its really not affecting anything i do. just kinda annoying.

thanks.

[DAwG]

HL2.exe and other source games always crash when I exit them, doesn't bug me at all, since I was exiting it, just one more thing to click, and its Vista, so get used to extra clicking 

[anomaly]

just one more thing to click, and its Vista, so get used to extra clicking 

yea.. i disabled defender. the straw that broke the camel's back was having to tell vista that it was ok to allow core temp and evga's precision to run at start up every time i loaded vista.

lol i remember trying to read trough the trouble shooter for a solution. it said "to avoid warnings in the future you should uninstall coretemp.exe"....? wtf? 

there was simply no option to automatically allow permissions to these 2 programs...  i guess that was just out of the question.

[DAwG]

disable UAC

[anomaly]

please translate....

[mephisto_kur]

If you don't want the UAC to pop up on individual programs, the easiest way is to rename the .exe for that program.  UAC only flags certain .exe files for the "allow" prompt.  It will pop up the box on anything with "setup" or "update" or a few others.  There are other things that UAC looks for, but just renaming the .exe file to something else stops the UAC box on a surprising number of programs.