Project: Frozen Sun

[CerealKlr]

This is Modder Joshua Cole, reporting LIVE on FROZEN SUN!!! *Loud cheers from imaginary crowds* We have her up and running!

Now, lets take you through the events that lead to this ground-shaking moment in history. XD First, we knew we would need to get online to download appropriate drivers and patches, so before we fired it up (though my trigger finger was mighty itchy!) we installed our brand new wireless card (its temporary, and will be replaced by a brand new cable modem later on when Frozen Sun moves to the office).

Then. we started the computer up, and built our RAID 0 array (two 500GBs) Note the name for the volume name.

Once that was done, we loaded Windows Vista 64 bit, which went smoothly, no RAID drivers needed.

We started Vista w/ two 1 gig sticks of RAM, and once it was working, placed our other two in.

However, our CPU was a real drrraaaaggggg, running at only factory speed.

So we sped it up.

And sped it up some more.

Now thats what i'm talkin about! We also changed our memory speed from 800 to 1066, but that was in BIOs, so no flashy pictures there.

Sometime soon I'll take some pictures of this bad boy crunching S.T.A.L.K.E.R. so you can see what it can do! Anyways, thats enough for now, i'll fill you in as more fancy subsystems come available!

[The boy 4rm oz]

YAY finished at last.

[Darth Dad]

YAY finished at last.

I wish....

Still got a fair amount of work to do. The job I currently am not looking forward to is cleaning the case. Getting rid of all the dust, building debris and fingerprints... what a pain in the butt that will be!
Vista 64 loaded up flawlessly... unfortunately everything less was not so smooth. Our firewall doesn't do 64-bits! so we are running windows firewall. Still having some issues with virus protection. Anti-spyware / spam programs look ok.
The boy is having trouble trying to get this unit (Vista 64) to see our older pc's (XP Home) on our home network. (I wonder if I beat him harder, would these issues go away?)

[The boy 4rm oz]

I should have said, YAY up and running at last lol.

Have you updated Vista to SP1? Microsoft added a fix to make compatibilities on networks better between XP and Vista.

For virus protection on my Vista 64bit machine I use AVG Free Edition, works great.

[Darth Dad]

Danger! Will Robinson! Danger!!

Appearently we have a hard drive about to fail!
The S.M.A.R.T. software wants us to backup our data as soon as possible.

We have a new drive on it's way from WD.

I will have the boy suply more info...

[Fuganater]

What did you guys use to OC? Just the BIOS or that ASUS program?

[CerealKlr]

We used the program *flinch* DON'T HURT ME, I'M JUST THE MESSENGER! =D I know we can squeeze more out of it with finesse and keep the voltage lower for cooling, but that comes later, when everything else is done. As is, i'm pretty surprised it could jump as high as it did using just the AIBoost!

Anyways, sorry it took so long to update, I was rockin' out with my band! Check out our HOT base guitar player!

(Thats my baby cousin Adrianna, with her Hannah Montana guitar).

Next, more news on our upcoming Hard Drive failure. Its kinda creepy really.... (My Computer can see the future!)
0.o At any rate, We ascertained that the issue was most likely just the SMART program that comes with new HDDs warning us that the drive simply isn't up to snuff. As Dad said, we RMA'ed it and will be swapping them as soon as it arrives.

We're considering emptying the water cooling loop during the down time so we can do some resleeving of the temp probes as well.

Since I don't believe I've showed you guys pictures of our 4 1gig Crucial Ballistics Tracers in action:

You're welcome.


Finally, we've been banging our heads together over our CF-635 LCD display, or more specifically, how to program it. While WInTest worked, nothing else seemed to. After roughly a day and a half of work (punctuated by loud screeches of frustration of course) We finally got LCD Smartie running.

We can't seem to extract Crystal Control 2 on Frozen Sun, and can't seem to even run the extractor on my 32 bit Vista laptop or our 32 bit XP. :'( If anyone has any experience with this, we'd much appreciate some help!

[Darth Dad]

It Appears that the problem with CC2 was with their sever. Just tried downloading and installing to our old pc with no problems.
Will try on Frozen Sun shortly...

Still waiting for our new HDD to arrive... Kinda on hold till then.

[dexaroni]

Did uh... you just say your cousin was hot?

Anyways, build looks great! Look forward to seeing it when you get it all cleaned up.

[CerealKlr]

Hey guys, sorry about the wait... between the ending of school, a 2 day stay at Kalahari, and a 3 day canoe trip, its been kinda hard. Anyways, some more updates.

This is what will keep our RAID array cool (like me).

Then, our LED fan, which I finally got around to programming.

(I realize some of them are a little hard to read, the messages tend to drift slightly which screws with the picture).

Then, our CrystalFontz, running off of Crystal Control 2,

Of course, our rig couldn't be deemed "working" without some serious game testing!

Our Post LED.

And finally, just a case shot.

Well, were starting to reach the end, some cleaning, some more uploading, and we;ll be good to go I believe!
Until then, Peace!