The Overclocked Too many questions, all the right answers.

looking for

D-Tec Fuzion CPU Block and Nozzle Kit.
Swiftech Apogee GT or Swiftech Storm(prefer storm)
120mm fan rads, 1 2 or 3 fan. and 120mm fans
push button switches. have to look nice, maybe like this

maybe interested in a used 3870. only possible if i trade my x1950xt 256mb+$$ for it.

PM with item+price and if possible shipping cost
shipping to 16692, PA

and if anyone can make 7-10 custom 120mm fan grills i would be interested in there service

also have a mag3 pump and a DD RBX, has am2 mounting top and original 939 top

MSI 6163 is for a MSI board pretty unusual thing. It is still a mere old Slot 1 board, but in it's time it has a very modern design and with surprising overclocking features. It does support Pentium II and Pentium III (!) CPU's up to 700Mhz. ( http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?f...0&maincat_no=1 ) I got a revision 2.0 of the board, so it should finally work well :D




What unfortunately stays like classic MSI is the usage of bad caps. JPcons in pictured mainboard and in the exact same mobo (also revision 2.0) are Chhsi caps. Chhsi caps are also known bad caps and the mobo ended up like that - bad. ( http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...hChhsicaps.jpg -=- http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...Chhsicaps2.jpg ) Upper mosfet desoldered from the board and fried in the process. It took away even the blocking diode that is parallel to the main Vcore coil... And mech13 is definitively not alone, who is having problems with this mobo, thanks to the bad caps, just check there (czech): http://www.svethardware.cz/disc_doc-...BC23098A5.html
(english): http://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1222




On the another side, Vcore regulator is very well designed and if you did not torture him by Pentium III CPU's and you get along with not overclocked Celerons - well, then it might run for you for some time. Of course this does not fix the bad caps and the board is designed for overclocking. And this is very tempting. In bios you can setup FSB from 66Mhz to 155Mhz!




This is exceptional for a Slot 1 mainboard. And it is probably the reason (the exceptional overclockability of the Intel BX440 chipset as well) why MSI build such nice mobo with so well designed - sadly still only one phase - Vcore regulator and did not skip any caps :) This should be reason to thank MSI for, as that is a very rare sight indeed.




On the other hand, what is very very common is bad caps. Whole mobo is full on bad caps - JPcon. (another one is full of Chhsi caps anyway)




And to make matters worse, then input caps is only bigger size, not capacity! All are 1000uF. Only the input ones are 10V, witch "really helps" when the CPU Vcore is powered from 5V rail. Too few uF on the input, right? And the tiny wiring on the input coil, well, this is definitively not designed for Pentium III overclocking! Witch is probably why on the mobo with Chhsi caps it almost burn to black even with the core of the coil... (Pentium III was overclocked in the board by mech13)




On South Bridge you can find a beautiful sticker - probably instead of heatsink :) On the other hand, all swiches and connectors are properly labeled and described. At least something.




Bios is tested AWARD bios (this does no mean that MSI did not add some kinks to it, one being default enabled bios flash protection - if you change it to disabled, be ready, all your bios settings are lost and never ever remembered... including this particular setting) and there slots for SDRAMs accept up to 384MB of ram (3x 128MB) - or up to 768MB if you use 256MB SDRAMs with ECC. Where to get such ones, hell, I don't know :D From my testing 512MB one it took only the 128MB. And this laughable small NB heatsink will be necessary to change, if you plan run on FSB 155Mhz for sure :)




So, there we have an overclocking mainboard with bad caps. What to do? Of course, we replace the caps for a good Samxons! Let's start with Vcore regulator, where it is most need. Cap right in the very front should be d10. Next time :)




Around rams and chipset is is also very important - at least if we want higher FSB, then it is not going to be any other way.




Input caps should be much bigger. 2x 1000uF?! You kidding me? Let's use 2x 3300uF!
Good capacity of Vcore input caps play major role in the Vcore stabilization, so, we better overshoot this a little more, nothing bad could happen here. The more the better.




That of course does not mean that we neglect other caps. AGP cards like clean, no rippled voltage too.




Neighbourhood of South Bridge is looking very nicely color full, after recap. I don't think that for running at FSB 155Mhz will be necessary to add a heatsink, but I could be wrong. Maybe when the load is higher, maybe then... :)




Small caps are not good to omit. There are only annoying things happening because of that. Some kink there, some elsewhere. All because of not recapped small caps, so, I say - replace them all. Samxon GK 22uF 25V is a good choice.




Look at the recapped Vcore regulator - there is a slight problem with the much bigger Vcore input caps - they are getting too close to the Slot 1 space and with the d10 caps in place the Pentium II Klamath barely make it.




But it made good contact and run well as well, as other CPU's I tried in the board. Mendocinos are lazy a$$ses, however even in the reduction they can be clocked pretty well in this board. From 466Mhz to 583Mhz:


(notice that the Vcore is increased to 2.40V and that SpeedFan reporting is exactly like that - that means the sensors are good/well calibrated and the regulation is exceptionally good - besides being still only one phase - very likely thanks to Samxon GC caps)


So that is what I begin overclocking with the board. The little Mendocino ended up at 90 x 7 - 635Mhz: http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=351368

Then I took a Celeron Covington without L2 cache (!) and he made it from 266 to 460Mhz: http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=351231

And for the 3rd time - Pentium II Klamath 233Mhz got raised FSB from 66 to 124Mhz (!) and ended up at 371Mhz: http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=350966
(CPU-Z wrongly identify it as 200Mhz one, probably because the multiplier is set to the lowest 3x and not to 3.5x as it should be)


Old good Pentium II Klamath has a serious overclocking problem with L2 cache. There are used 7nS chips witch top at somewhere near 200Mhz. Frequency divides for 233Mhz ones is 1,75x and for 266Mhz ones is 2x. It is pretty obvious witch one will get clocked much better because of that. Unfortunately I had the 233Mhz version and then even the brutal voltage increase from 2.80V to 3.40V (!!!) does not help single bit. 371 / 1.75 is 212 and 212Mhz is absolute top for 7nS chips.


Instead, limit of Celeron Covington is purely in the bios itself. Like Mendocino, from default 2.00V it can be increased only to 2.40V...! Now that is very serious disadvantage of this great (for Slot 1) board.

If someone can remove these limits from the bios, then there could be some records broken with this mobo :D To make my point, the Celeron Covington w/o L2 cache made for me w/o modifications 448Mhz ( http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=350945 ) and with modifications like lapping the core to the cooper, using Arctic Silver 3 TIM instead of the rubber crap and replacing 18pcs of the ceramic caps on it's Slot 1 board that stabilize the Vcore with new, better and bigger ceramic caps + adding the two ones missing I made the CPU work at 460Mhz.
This might sound as great improve, but it is not. It is just one step up in the FSB. Either 112 or 115Mhz. On 117 it always reset when Windows booting...

This Celeron used 6pcs of 2.56uF ceramic caps + 12pcs of 1uF ceramic caps for add voltage filtering.
All that was replaced with Panasonic X5R 5.6uF 6.3V (PCC1937CT-ND) ceramics caps + two missing ones are added. And because the overclocking result nearly not increased at all, it means that the Vcore regulation is excellent and stable and make it even when overclocking hardly.



Let's hope it made it even when his owner mech13 start torturing the board with Pentium III.

looking for Snowblind-Converge and Snowblind-Evoken

I do have some weird looking non P&P devices in my Device Manager.

Anyone got a clue what the hell they are?

I also have there other suspicious drivers that does not support P&P, and their names are:

ATICDSDr
atidgllk
Beep - used, could this be removed for good somehow?
BOPOMAV
c34nb4c5
DirectX DLL register
e259q4c6
Fs_Rec
rvbedit (I killed this one already)
SSDefrag (I killed this one already)
NetGroup Packet Filter Driver
Parallel - used, could this be removed for good somehow?
YQZBNWOGRK (I killed this one already)

Can I remove/uninstall few of them?

Hello,

I just converted my forum to UTF8 and having lots of trouble with drupaltin.

With "normal" characters, there is no problem. But if you use special characters like ßüöä in username or password (esp. Password) drupaltin mixes it up. It is not possible to log into Drupal any more with that username or passworo.

Also if you change a password in the control center of the user. Passwords with those special characters are simply not copied correctly. I guess it is because of this routine:

PHP Code: require_once(DIR . '/includes/drupaltin_config.php');


//*** Figure out the timezone settings and convert them to work in the Drupal vB
//    Divided by 3600 b/c the Drupal system.module timezone form is in seconds   
$vbulletin->GPC['timezoneoffset'] = intval($vbulletin->GPC['timezoneoffset']) * 3600;

## Connect to Drupal database and dump the values
$connector = new DbConnector();

$insertQuery = sprintf("INSERT INTO {$drup_prefix}users (
    uid, name, pass, mail, mode, sort, threshold, theme, signature, created, access, login,
     status, timezone, language, picture, init, data)
    VALUES ('%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '0', '0', '0', '', '', '0', '0', '0', '1', '%s', '', '', '%s', 'a:0:{}')",
        mysql_real_escape_string($vbulletin->userinfo['userid']),
        mysql_real_escape_string($vbulletin->GPC['username']),
        mysql_real_escape_string($vbulletin->GPC['password_md5']),
        mysql_real_escape_string($vbulletin->GPC['email']),    
        mysql_real_escape_string($vbulletin->GPC['timezoneoffset']),
        mysql_real_escape_string($vbulletin->GPC['email']));

    ## Save the form data into the database
    if ($result = $connector->query($insertQuery)){

        ## It worked
        return;

    }else{

        ## It hasn't worked so stop. Better error handling code would be good here!
        exit;

    } 
I am not sure how to fix it but trying to solve it.

The problem should be: mysql_real_escape_string($vbulletin->GPC['password_md5'])
and mysql_real_escape_string($vbulletin->userinfo['userid']),

Does anybody has a clue?

Best regards
Hans-Joachim

Help! After copious amounts of research, I have come to see that Drupaltin 2 is what I have been looking for. I've been running a Drupal site for a while now, and I've also been planning to incorporate a Vbulletin forum into my site. I finally bit the bullet, got Vbulletin, installed, and it's running. I then went to d/l Drupaltin 2, to connect the two together -- only to find -- it's not available??

No, you may be saying .. it's available through SVN. Weeeellll, no it's not. Not any SVN that appears accessible from this side of the planet ... and trust me, I've tried. Tried it all.

Tried the advertised repository at 'http://drupaltin.stealth17.com/' .... is it functional? No. "Unable to find 'enscript' tool at location '/home/jstarcher/bin/enscript'"

So then I installed an SVN client, and tried the suggested 'svn checkout http://stealth17.com/drupaltin'. Did it work? Of course not. Silly rabbit ...."Error * PROPFIND request failed on '/drupaltin' PROPFIND of '/drupaltin': 405 Method Not Allowed (http://stealth17.com)"

Sooo ... what's a desperate human being to do? If I pull any more hair out, people will begin calling me Mr. Clean.

Please, for the love of .... [insert your ShorDurPerSav here] ... have some pity on a poor soul, and let me know where I can get Drupaltin 2??!

Can someone just email it to me? Please?? Please please please?? Before I jump off a bridge? Please please please please please please please please please please please???
Please please please please please please please please please please please please????
Please please please please please please please please please please please please?

We're Dyin' ovah here!!!!!!!!! :help:

Hey,

are you writing the Drupaltin module for Drupal 6? That would be nice!

Cheers, Batmn1983

WMV audio decode fail

Using the WMV plugin from there: http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/~...WMV/index.html
Into the latest stable VirtualDum v1.7.7 build 28312 from there: http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/

VirtualDub says:
Quote: No audio decompressor could be found to decompress the source audio format.
(source format tag: 0161) If the cursed VirtualDub could actually allow me to save the audio stream, like the VDub Mod does (but he did not allow importing WMV, damn M$!), I would gladly decode and re-encode it externally, but... what now? FFD audio decode? I tried, no help. VDub seems can use only some special filters... :(

The audio identification - beside the tag 0161 - GSpot says "Audio Codec..: 0x0161 (WMA v2)
Audio Bitrate: 191kbps 2ch VBR 48000Hz"
Windows Media Audio 9.2 - now where to get the decompressor for this WMA v2 format for Virtual Dub?

Anyone know? Please, help!

Hey Jordan!

Hope all is well with you :-)

Just wondering how Drupaltin is coming along? Any updates?

Not sure if it is activated here, but I have to log in seperately to the forums and the front end - loggin in just on the front end doesn't show me logged in on the forums and vice versa :o

Look forward to hearing from you!

Hey there,

i don't know why, but our server crashes since 2 weeks with vbDrupal. Our site with vbDrupal is online since 3 weeks.
We think of a new installation... This time with Drupaltin. Where can i get the version 2.0?

Is it possible to install all modules and put the old stuff from the old database in the fresh drupal installation? But it isn't the best and finest way and not your kind of work....

Thanks to Jordan for your work...

Batman1983