Article ID: 261186

Last Review: March 27, 2007

Revision: 3.3

This article was previously published under Q261186

<h3>SUMMARY</h3>

During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small, Small World" seemingly at random. This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of tolerance. This is a design feature of a detection circuit and system BIOSes developed by Award/Unicore from 1997 on.

<h3>MORE INFORMATION</h3>

Although these symptoms may appear to be virus-like, they are the result of an electronic hardware monitoring component of the motherboard and BIOS. You may want to have your computer checked or serviced.

For aditional related information, please see the following DFI Technologies Web site:

http://www.dfiusa.com/support/tech-support.html (http://www.dfiusa.com/support/tech-support.html)

Microsoft provides third-party contact information to help you find technical support. This contact information may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this third-party contact information.

<h3>APPLIES TO</h3>

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition

• Microsoft Windows 95

• Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition

• Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition

• Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

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Rig. not for those scared of numbers

Current

Motherboard

Model: MSI P965 Neo (MS-7235)

Chipset: Intel P965/G965

Southbridge: Intel 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R)

Graphic Interface: PCI-Express x16

CPU

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 'Conroe' 2.4GHz

4096KiB L2 Cache

1066MHz FSB

65nm

Memory

OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) Dual-Channel DDR2 800 5-5-5-15

Display

Gainward nVidia 8800GTS (G80)

90nm

500MHz

96 Stream Processors @ 1200MHz

64GB/s GDDR3 320-bit @ 1600MHz

345GFlops

Storage

Disk 1: Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200RPM

Disk 2: Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200RPM

Pioneer DVD Drive

Input

Keyboard: Logitech G15

Mouse: Logitech G7

Aux

NZXT Lexa

ASUS PG191

PSU

NZXT PF500 (500W)

A decent computer. Pretty midrange in the enthusiast scale. That means time for upgrades :D.

Upgrades

Motherboard

nVidia nForce 790i

I know jack shit about this mobo, but I do know about the 780i. I would get the 780i but it doesn't support DDR3, and that's bad for when I want to upgrade. Here's the specs of the 780i.

CPU Support - Conroe, Kentsfield, Wolfdale, Yorkfield

Bus between Chipsets - HyperTransport 8GB/s

FSB - 1333MHz +

Max Memory - 16GB

Memory - 1200, 1066, 800, 667, 533

PCI Express - Gen.2: 2x16 - Gen.1 1x16, 1x8, 6x1

PCIe Lanes - 46

SLI - 3x 16

Hybrid SLI - No (Ability to mix and match models. (eg. 8800GT with 8800GTS))

SLI Memory - Yes

SATA/PATA - 6/2

RAID - 0, 1, 0+1, 5

GbE Net - 2

USB - 10

This thing has a Northbridge, Southbridge and an Eastbridge. Honestly I dunno if it's called an Eastbridge but they had to add another chip so they could support 16x PCI-e on all three PCI-e slots. That means Tri-SLI. I'm probably not going to be able to affor that but who cares.

OR

Should I wait for the X48 chipset with it's 1600MHz FSB support? But the CPU I'm getting doesn't have a 1600MHz FSB, but y'know, future proofing.

CPU

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 'Yorkfield' 2.6GHz

2x6144KiB L2 Cache

1333MHz FSB

45nm

Yorkfield! That's all I have to say. Kicks the ass off any AMD Phenom.

Memory

Aiming for: 4GB DDR3-1600

Haha, in my dreams. I'll probably stay with my current RAM until prices on DDR3 drop.

Display

nVidia D9E GPU

Same with the 790i, I know next to nothing about this card. It'll probably be called the 9800 GTX or something, but you never know. But it apparently does 1TFlops: with the 8800GTS weighing in at only 345.60GFlops, that's 3x more powerful. With the 8800 Ultras at 576GFlops, that's about 2x more powerful.

PSU

Dunno yet, haven't decided. I'm definitely going to need more than a 500W though.

Everything else should stay the same.

News.

Beijing- In the Han-Sing residential area riots broke out early yesterday morning as a result of a hate-inducing speech given by Shen Xiang. Labeled as “The People’s Enemyâ€?, Xiang has been spotted recruiting members in worker’s suburbs around the capital for his outlawed organization which aims to displace the ruling Communist Party led by Zeng Daizong.

Listening to?

Aberdeen City - Pretty Pet (Listen to it in the video below)

Also, Crysis physics demonstration.

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