Upgrading the garage cruncher. Help!

Most ethernet devices including onboard ethernet cards can sense if the cable is crossed or not and will switch the transmit and receive lines internally and automatically. Of course, this might not work with an old PC specially if it is a 10Mb only, ethernet card.

Yeah I disabled it for now. I wasn't sure of some of the options that you had to choose from. Not sure which ones they were now. I think there was several options related to computer Os. I'd run it if I knew what I was doing. :-(>.
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You can get a Zotac GT430 PCI card for $60-70 which will give you 2-3k RAC. I have three of them in an old E-Machines.
The cards are moderately OC'd and the box produces 7-8k crunching GPU only.

http://www.zotacusa.com/geforce-gt-430-zt-40605-10l.html

Combine that with the CPU upgrade that HAL9000 mentioned and you'll have a 3-4k box for under $100.

You can get a Zotac GT430 PCI card for $60-70 which will give you 2-3k RAC. I have three of them in an old E-Machines.
The cards are moderately OC'd and the box produces 7-8k crunching GPU only.

http://www.zotacusa.com/geforce-gt-430-zt-40605-10l.html

Combine that with the CPU upgrade that HAL9000 mentioned and you'll have a 3-4k box for under $100.

zotac gt 430 with 512 mb of video ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500221

You might need a new power supply. In the feedback for that card someone said you need 300 Watt power supply.

Yeah I disabled it for now. I wasn't sure of some of the options that you had to choose from. Not sure which ones they were now. I think there was several options related to computer Os. I'd run it if I knew what I was doing. :-(>.

Yeah I disabled it for now. I wasn't sure of some of the options that you had to choose from. Not sure which ones they were now. I think there was several options related to computer Os. I'd run it if I knew what I was doing. :-(>.

If you will want to give it a try again, you can look in this user's profile, scroll down to "Easy 'quick instruction' for to install optimized project applications".

You can run down your cache before that, than you won't lost any WUs if something goes wrong.

Yeah I disabled it for now. I wasn't sure of some of the options that you had to choose from. Not sure which ones they were now. I think there was several options related to computer Os. I'd run it if I knew what I was doing. :-(>.

If you will want to give it a try again, you can look in this user's profile, scroll down to "Easy 'quick instruction' for to install optimized project applications".

You can run down your cache before that, than you won't lost any WUs if something goes wrong.

sse or sse3 for a intel celeron?

Yeah I disabled it for now. I wasn't sure of some of the options that you had to choose from. Not sure which ones they were now. I think there was several options related to computer Os. I'd run it if I knew what I was doing. :-(>.

If you will want to give it a try again, you can look in this user's profile, scroll down to "Easy 'quick instruction' for to install optimized project applications".

You can run down your cache before that, than you won't lost any WUs if something goes wrong.

sse or sse3 for a intel celeron?

To be sure, run the CPU-Z utility (http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html), it will list which features are available for your CPU...

According to this: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim3000/en/SM/specs.htm You have Celeron D.

According to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Celeron_microprocessors#Celeron_D_.28single-core.29 Your Celeron D supports: SSE3.
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Well if anyone has any Ideas how to get #2PC up and running I'm all ears.

If it's booting, getting a windows splash screen, then going blank(with any monitor) then Windows may just be horribly messed up. If you have a windows setup disc or a system recovery disc that matches that PC, now is the time to try that.

Get it running off that and reload windows from scratch again. It will probably then work fine, or at least you will get some clues as to what the fault is as you attempt to reinstall windows.

If you don't have a reinstall disc, you could always download a Linux CD. Even for trouble shooting it's handy. Boot Linux off the CD and see if the hardware is all working without touching the hard drive. Copy files you need off the hard drive etc under Linux. Heck, blow away the broken windows and Install Ubuntu instead and crunch using that if you want.

Ian

Yeah I tried the windows CD weeks ago. Won't boot from it. I spent four hours yesterday, and did not have any success. Very disapointing. I'm getting pretty burned out on it.
I cant get to safe mode, but once I hit enter it goes blank. The diagnostics says that drive C is clear. I did manage to trick it a few times and actually got some video, after safe mode, but when I tried to make any changes or go forward with starting up windows the PC shuts down everything except the power supply, and cpu fan.

I dont think it's going to run again. It's my fault. A few monthe ago I re-installed windows. Thats when this all started. I must have done something to the settings somewhere. I'm kicking myself.

I'm done for now with that one.

The reason I haven't run Lunatics Apps is because I dont feel comfortable with it. I've downloaded it twice ran it for awhile, but didn't understand it all. I deleated it off my PC's and I am running seti@home only. It works for me, and I don't feel like I'm going to make any changes that will disable them.

For now that's how I will compute data until further down the road, when I can examine Lunatics better, and install the right format. The old rig is working good, I've got a GPU and a case fan coming to me via UPS. I should have it running faster by next Tuesday.

I did download CPU-z, but all I got out of it was a utility that scaned the PC for faults in the drives. Never told me what I needed to know to run Lunitics Apps. Again probably something I did or didn't do correctly.

I'm ranting now I guess. I'm still pissed that all the clases I took didn't prepare me for any of this kind of stuff. Sure I can replace any piece of hardware, and install it correctly, test it, network,install a program or whatever, but We never really learned the stuff that I was there to learn. The exact thing that is happening now.
It's true that I really have only been maintaining my PC's over the years, and now that I have a better understanding, I seem to be getting into more trouble with my efforts.
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According to this: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim3000/en/SM/specs.htm You have Celeron D.

According to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Celeron_microprocessors#Celeron_D_.28single-core.29 Your Celeron D supports: SSE3.

I'm going out to split some fire wood. Take my mind off that Damm thing. I don't think I can break my splitting Maul. Ha Ha.
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It's better to ask about a problem than just tossing up your hands and declaring failure.

The reason I haven't run Lunatics Apps is because I dont feel comfortable with it. I've downloaded it twice ran it for awhile, but didn't understand it all. I deleated it off my PC's and I am running seti@home only. It works for me, and I don't feel like I'm going to make any changes that will disable them.

For now that's how I will compute data until further down the road, when I can examine Lunatics better, and install the right format. The old rig is working good, I've got a GPU and a case fan coming to me via UPS. I should have it running faster by next Tuesday.

I did download CPU-z, but all I got out of it was a utility that scaned the PC for faults in the drives. Never told me what I needed to know to run Lunitics Apps. Again probably something I did or didn't do correctly.

Isn't that SSE3, also known as P(rescot) N(ew) I(nstruction)?![/url]
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_New_Instructions]Yes.

thanks I get a bit confused. My claims to know-it-all far surpass me
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I did download CPU-z, but all I got out of it was a utility that scaned the PC for faults in the drives. Never told me what I needed to know to run Lunitics Apps. Again probably something I did or didn't do correctly.