I was talkin to a friend of mine who has 4.10's and he said he cruises 80mph@2800rpm so thats acceptable for me. I spend 90% of my driving life below 65mph (except for the 1/4 )

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TRUCK
White 00' XLT 4.2 Auto Sport
Regular cab Styleside
3.55 non-limited slip
Superchip
Airaid FIPK
custom ported STOCK throttle body
1/4 ... 17.221@81.35MPH

PC
Thunderbird 1.1ghz @ 1.33ghz
Abit KT7A-Raid
384mb Kingmax PC-150 ram
60gig IBM 75gxp RAID array
Geforce2 GTS 64mb

 

HI Talleywhacker,

Sure, & thanks for your *very* interesting post, I love that stuff.

I've always wanted to set up a RAMDRIVE to load the entire operating system (Windoze), but have been too lazy to write the batch file to do it every time the system boots (wouldn't that be a hoot!), so I'm not sure if that would work correctly, but I think it perhaps could. At least, as properly as Windoze does anything.

I will go ahead and pick up another hard drive so I can at least do the stripping and cut HD write time from it splitting the data across the 2 drives, though I probably won't add the 2 additional drives it would then still take to both stripe & mirror (RAID 0+1).

As a matter of fact, I would like to talk with you about this, as you just might be able to help me with a situation I have been having the entire time with this P3 933 @ 133FSB. These ABIT boards, thank God, allow you to assign the USB chain it's own IRQ, that's in the BIOS of both our boards I believe, I know it's on mine, and I've done that. Yet I still get conflicts & occasional lockups when I add certain things to my USB chain, the exact same things I ran on my P2 ASUS board with *never* a conflict, though of course P3 adds a lot more configuration issues, which slabchiords share IRQ's, and on and on etc. No forced hardware or any garbage like that appears in SI, but I am getting what is I'm certain a memory conflict that I need to resolve to get back to fully stable operations like I had in my ASUS P2L97-S, what a sweet board that was, rock solid with a ton of USB stuff hung off it.

Interesting hack on your previous Abit board to implement RAID, you sneaky devil, you!

Call me anytime(collect!), I'd *love* to chat with you about this stuff!

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Mike Troyer
Performance Products, Inc.
National Distributor of Superchips
(540) 862-9515
Email: mtroyer@compuserve.com
Performance Products F150Online Superchip ordering system: F150Online Superchip Ordering System
First National F-150 Online Rally Event Organizer

[This message has been edited by Superchips_Distributor (edited 04-23-2001).]

 

Hey Talleywacker, wanna get rid of those 3.55s email me at crossedupdag@hotmail.com

 

Mike, did you build it yourself and if so what kind of video card do you have? i had a simular problem with the kid's pc and it turned out that their new gee wiz graphics card had to be in the master pci slot.

 

My system is almost the same. Great minds think alike.

1.2 Athlon GHz
MSI KT7 Turbo KT133A Mainboard
384 Megs Kingmax PC150
60 gig IBM 75gxp RAID array
MSI Geforce 2 Pro 64Meg


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2000 F150 XLT 4x4 Short Bed. Amazon Green, 5.4L, SuperCab, ORP, Tow Package, Sliding Rear Window, Electronic Shift, Keyless Entry, LT265-70-17 Tires, Clarion Pro Audio, Herculiner Bedliner, Air Silencer Removed.

1994 SVT Mustang Cobra. #1032 of 6009. Black coupe with black leather int., 3.73 rear, Bassani Exhaust, Aluminum D/S, Bridgestone RE-71 255-45-ZR17

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Oh yeah, you might want to check out something better than windoze defragmenter. I use Diskeeper. Much faster. I'll run the std. one every now and then for the program rearrage thing.

[This message has been edited by 2000 F150 4x4 (edited 04-23-2001).]

 

I would agree with diskeeper being faster as i use it every now and then. Like your system... you should overclock that 1.2 to 1.3 or maybe even 1.4

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TRUCK
White 00' XLT 4.2 Auto Sport
Regular cab Styleside
3.55 non-limited slip
Superchip
Airaid FIPK
custom ported STOCK throttle body
1/4 ... 17.221@81.35MPH

PC
Thunderbird 1.1ghz @ 1.33ghz
Abit KT7A-Raid
384mb Kingmax PC-150 ram
60gig IBM 75gxp RAID array
Geforce2 GTS 64mb

 

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the tip.

Yep, I always build all our systems, and usually with far better stability than this particular machine has right now.

The video card in this one is a simple & cheap ATI Rage Fury Pro 32 Mb. in the AGP slot, which shares it's IRQ with PCI Slot 1, so I have nothing in PCI slot 1.

I am also using the Sound Blaster Live Platinum card that requires 2 IRQ's, what a piece of over-priced junk. Poor quality sound, weak rear channels & stability problems with numerous chipsets & ATA100 drivers, etc. I should just scrap it, I haven't yet just because I'm too upset with myself for spending the money to buy that card over the SB Live Value card, I should have gone with a Turtle Beach or some other high-end card for that kind of money! Live & learn............

The first thing I need to do is to back up & reformat the hard drive again & reinstall Windoze 98SE, as it was formatted originally when I was using the ASUS CUSL2 board which reserves 1 Mb. for onboard video even if you don't use it. This Abit VP6 board has no onboard video, but I still lost that 1 Mb. of RAM, so that may or may not have something to do with these memory conflicts I'm currently getting. Being as lazy as I am, I hate doing all that work and re-installing so much software, there are tons of applications on this machine, so I haven't so far, it's one of few things I haven't done, but need to just to make sure all the "basics" are right.

P2's & earlier CPU's were all much easier to configure, now with P3's & up & all the things that are implemented onboard combined with as much hardware as gets stuffed into our systems inside & hung off the outside, configuration is a bit of a bear.

I've been all thru which slots share their IRQ's and swapped cards around and re-installed one-by-one and going back into Safe mode to delete all the "ghost" hardware, etc.

I'll find it, I just have to devote the time to going back thru everything and get it right, one thing at a time, Grrrr........

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Mike Troyer
Performance Products, Inc.
National Distributor of Superchips
(540) 862-9515
Email: mtroyer@compuserve.com
Performance Products F150Online Superchip ordering system: F150Online Superchip Ordering System
First National F-150 Online Rally Event Organizer

 

Mike,

Sound Blasters have been known for their poor compatibility with Abits. I myself have a Guillemot Fortissimo, which in my opinion is the best and I have never had any problems with its compatibility. Have you tried removing the Sound Blaster all together and run the PC without sound to see if that fixes things?

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TRUCK
White 00' XLT 4.2 Auto Sport
Regular cab Styleside
3.55 non-limited slip
Superchip
Airaid FIPK
custom ported STOCK throttle body
1/4 ... 17.221@81.35MPH

PC
Thunderbird 1.1ghz @ 1.33ghz
Abit KT7A-Raid
384mb Kingmax PC-150 ram
60gig IBM 75gxp RAID array
Geforce2 GTS 64mb

 

Mike,

Thanks for your encouragement on my part. Also, what size Power Supply do you have? Could be a problem with the dually setup. I've got 5 pci cards along with my overclocked GeForce2 and I only had a 300w PS. All that along with my 3 sticks of ram, 2 HD's, a cdrom, and 2 burners, and don't forget the overclocked T-Bird really fried that sucker!!! Now I have a Enermax 430w PS that provides PLENTY of voltage to all cards. I know how the PS can be overlooked in a decent system, as my friends buy the cheap $35 250W but are always burnin them up...

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TRUCK
White 00' XLT 4.2 Auto Sport
Regular cab Styleside
3.55 non-limited slip
Superchip
Airaid FIPK
custom ported STOCK throttle body
1/4 ... 17.221@81.35MPH

PC
Thunderbird 1.1ghz @ 1.33ghz
Abit KT7A-Raid
384mb Kingmax PC-150 ram
60gig IBM 75gxp RAID array
Geforce2 GTS 64mb

[This message has been edited by Talleywacker (edited 04-25-2001).]

 

Hi Talleywhacker,

Thanks for the tip, in this case I was aware of that. Believe it or not, the SB Live works far better with this Abit board than it did with the ASUS CUSL2, though it certainly could still be the main problem, as it's known for that, you're exactly right!

You're also exactly right in that I have not pulled the SB Live altogether from this board, I've thrown in in all the possible different PCI slots, though I did that (removed it completely) with the ASUS board and it made little difference, which I think was just a testement to the instability of that particular series of ASUS boards, which is why I abandoned the CUSL2 after 3 boards gave similar results. And of course, that CUSL2 board only had umpteen BIOS versions out there none of which provided any improvement. Interestingly enough, this Abit VP6 board still has only the original BIOS release available, it's never been updated since it's original release.

So you're dead on the money, I need to pull the SB Live completely and see what happens. I just get so tired that by the time the weekend rolls around that I don't feel like pounding on hardware, but that's no excuse & there is just no substitute for taking the time to properly diagnose & thoroughly diagnose these issues, you're absolutely right!

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Mike Troyer
Performance Products, Inc.
National Distributor of Superchips
(540) 862-9515
Email: mtroyer@compuserve.com
Performance Products F150Online Superchip ordering system: F150Online Superchip Ordering System
First National F-150 Online Rally Event Organizer

 

Hi Talleywhacker,

Yep, right again! We've always been believers in top-quality power supplies, & forget those "el-cheapo" units.

I started of with a 300 watt PS, which is plenty enough for my system with a good quality unit, but right now have a 400 watt unit anyway, so I'm fine there.

Actually, I haven't seen any difference in system performance, stability or anything else between that original 300 watt PS that came in this In-Win tower case and the present 400 watt ATX PS.

But thanks for the suggestion, you're right on the money, the power supply is one of the most critical parts inside any system, and luckily more and more people are giving thought to the quality of their power supply!

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Mike Troyer
Performance Products, Inc.
National Distributor of Superchips
(540) 862-9515
Email: mtroyer@compuserve.com
Performance Products F150Online Superchip ordering system: F150Online Superchip Ordering System
First National F-150 Online Rally Event Organizer

 

Whoa whoa whoa. This may as well written in Hieroglyphics. That's all I know is the big button turns the thing on, and you click over to the little picture thingy for "F150 Online."

But aside from that. Mike, got my flip-chip from you, great job doing that little thing you do. But I have a little question for you. Took my Powerdyne charger out (POS!!!) and by the end of the summer I am looking on installing a new Magnacharger or possibly one of the New Holley kits (if I can get any good information/feedback on them). Now I was wondering what the Gross Flywheel horsepower/torque rating would be after I send the chip back to you when the Blower is isntalled. I don't want a "radical" program, the rig needs to remain "driveable." Of course there will be the FIPK, and Lightning tuned Exhaust. I have the desktop Dyno, but I am unable to factor in YOUR special variable. Thanks for your help, and you can e-mail me.
By the way, sorry for using this post, but I couldn't resist ragging on the "Computer Jibberish." )

Thanks,

Mike (LoggyBayou@Aol.com)


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2000 Black Harley Davidson F-150
5.4 Liter V-8
K&N Air filter
SuperChip FlipChip
6 Disk CD Changer
Sliding Rear Window
Heated Seats
Hidden Hitch
Lund Front Blackouts
GTE Rear Blackouts
Block heater
McGard Wheel Locks

 

Hi Mike,

Hey, that's perfectly OK for you to "rag" on the computer talk! It's my fault that this thread strayed from it's title, and that is called "thread drift". I am entirely guilty.

I would pick the Magnucharger over the Holley system, you'll pay less and get every bit as much performance. The Magnacharger is of course based on the near-bulletproof Eaton supercharger, the same blower manufacturer that Ford, Jaguar, GM & other automakers use. It's a positive-displacment (Roots-type) blower that gives *instant* torque, and that's the way to go on these vehicles. We feel the Magnacharger is the best bang-for-the-buck in a Roots-type blower for these vehicles.

We normally pick up anywhere from at worst, a low of 20 to as much as 40 more horsepower on these F-150 blower applications, with 25-30 more horsepower being the rough "average" of what we gain on F-150 Magnacharger applications, and in fact most blowers for these vehicles.

Usually a Magnacharger installed at 8 PSI will add about 100 or so horsepower at the flywheel, and figure a custom Superchip program is going to give you another 25-30 on top of that, on average. Of course a good eddy-current chassis dyno & skilled operator is what it takes to really verify all that, so keep in mind that these are just rough average numbers, but they're very close, as we've done quite a bit of this work, and in fact worked directly with Magnuson on the custom tuning of the Magnacharger applications for Ford trucks.

Your Powerdyne blower makes almost as much horsepwoer gain at that same 8 PSI boost, but it dopesn't make appreciable boost until you have at least 2500-3000 rpm on the clock, so it's not a lot of help for low-end torque like a Roots-type blower will be, like the Magnacharger.

Usually most people end up being very happy with their Powerdyne units for their less-than-$2K cost, as they do make good power and are usually pretty reliable at 7-8 PSI boost. We have a good number of F-150 owners using that blower and the custom Superchip for it. But it sure won't ver give you the torque that a Roots-type blower will.

Just give us a shout when you want to go over all of this, and we'll be happy to help!

Good luck,

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Mike Troyer
Performance Products, Inc.
National Distributor of Superchips
(540) 862-9515
Email: mtroyer@compuserve.com
Performance Products F150Online Superchip ordering system: F150Online Superchip Ordering System
First National F-150 Online Rally Event Organizer

 

Thats ok Mike. I think I helped it out a little too... and besides, the subjects drifted more than once

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TRUCK
White 00' XLT 4.2 Auto Sport
Regular cab Styleside
3.55 non-limited slip
Superchip
Airaid FIPK
custom ported STOCK throttle body
1/4 ... 17.221@81.35MPH

PC
Thunderbird 1.1ghz @ 1.33ghz
Abit KT7A-Raid
384mb Kingmax PC-150 ram
60gig IBM 75gxp RAID array
Geforce2 GTS 64mb