Super AMD Spider platform achieved!

AMD Spider Components:

• K9A2 Platinum
• Phenom II X4 960T factory core overclocked to of 3.4Ghz and all four cores run at 3 Ghz.
• 2x Sapphire Radeon 6770 in CrossFire
• 4x1 GB Kingston HyperX PC8500 gives me 1066 DRAM speed too!
  
  
• 1x Intel 320 SSD at 80 GB
• 2x Samsung 160GB in SATA/Windows striped RAID 0
• 2x Maxtor 320GB in SATA RAID on independent PCI controller!
• 1x Corsair TX 750 Watt
• 1x Noctua  double fanned coppercoil hybrid cooler fan

Sapphire cards are somewhat unstable at overclocking, even factory overclocked ones.   None of the 10-12 temperature sensors stays between 25 and 50!

I did a FULL overclock of both CPU and GPU (max settings CPU at 3600, GPU at 900 etc but I got artifacts in Crysis! Going to slowly overclock bit by bit until i have a stable rig!

Oh yeah did i mention i paid under $2000 (10000 NOK) for this self build project!

Graveyard

So here's one of those rare band you find once in a while, Graveyard. When I first heard them at a friend's place, it sounded like some forgotten band from the 70's. But this is actually recorded very recently and it seems the feel from Led Zeppelin & Black Sabbath is very present in the both sound and the notes. Great stuff. Wikipedia link here

PS
Just did a quick shot at this on the guitar:
* It's downtuned to D.
* It's mostly the chords C G A.
* Solo stuff goes in A.

Ultimate Boot CD

UBCD is perfect when you just installed the newest Ubuntu with GRUB2, which happily kills all other Linux partition MBR's and installs it self as the sole booting OS. It doesn't even try to detect GRUB partitions! This is absurd. With this console-based CD you can fix most partition woes, but I was not able to restore Linux partitions on logical partitions. I had the following partition setup:

UBCD Homepage: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

sda1 (Primary, bootable) WinXP
sda2 (Extended)
sda5 (Logic) Slackware
sda8 (Logic)Windows 7
sda6 (Logic, bootable (on an extended partition??)Ubuntu 8.04
sda7 (Logic)Linux Swap

After I installed Ubuntu 11.04 it suddenly had shifted some partitions up one step and created a new unused partition, even no resizing or partition changes where made in the installer other than setting sda6 as home partition.

sda1 (Primary, bootable) WinXP
sda2 (Extended)
sda4 (Logic)Unused Partition
sda5 (Logic)Ubuntu 11.04
sda6 (Logic)Windows 7
sda7 (Logic, bootable)Ubuntu 8.04
sda8 (Logic)Linux Swap

Later I tried to install Linux Mint 5 (based on Ubuntu 8.04) over 11.04 to get a new GRUB, but to no avail. (It thinks the partitions are invalid).

Also tried Testdisk to restore MBR from backup sectors, but that made all partition unreadable. So I had to revert.

So I am stuck booting into Windows via UBCD's Super GRUB Disk. If I try to boot into a Linux partition I get 'unbootable partition', I can only boot into Windows 7's bootloader, wich happily let's me boot into XP too.

If anyone has ideas about what is wrong, please comment.