I recently developed problems with my sound card in an A8N32-SLI deluxe motherboard. The sound level was fluctuating from the set lever to very loud. My speakers appeared to function normally on another computer. I pulled the creative sound card, enabled the onboard sound and downloaded the...

I just upgraded my ATA100 (WD 80GB) hard drive to a SATA II (Samsung 160GB). I have heard people say that Windows XP "boots real fast" after they upgraded to the SATA II drives. But I didn't notice any significant difference. After my machine is booted, my applications appear to load just a tad...

Dear NG, I am planning to assemble a quiet system. I want to use the Asus P5LD2 mainboard. The case should be the Arctic Cooling Silentium T2. It comes with an integrated 350W PSU with a 20 pin plug. Does anybody know it the 20 pin PSU will work fine with the mainboard? In their FAQ Arctic...

I am not able to boot from my Western Digital 250 GB 16 MB cache SATA II on a A8N-sli Premium mother board with Award 1006 Bios revision. I have no trouble booting from a Western Digital 160 GB SATA 150 MB/s drive. When I got the new drive I first initialized the drive from Windows and installed...

Hi all, Does the P4B533-E's southbridge suffer from the USB Latchup issue? I am thinking about disabling the motherboard USB and buying a NEC chipset USB 2.0 card. Thanks, NBK

I recently upgraded an old PC by replacing an A7V133 by an A7V600. That was tough work - I met with a lot of problems, all of them solved, many with the help of Usenet. Well, almost. In order to finish the job, I've got one problem left, that has little impact for the time being, but could...

About three weeks ago my power supply went out on my Asus mobo (p4s533 or something like that). The asus mobo had a 4-pin cpu power connector from the psu going to it. Well I had a spare psu that had no such 4 pin cpu connector but I put it in anyway and the computer ran just fine. It's been...

I recently built up a P5W64 in an Asus P900 case. Unfortunately the front panel I/O connectors were in the bottom left (when the board is viewed with the rear I/O (keyboard, mouse,etc) in the upper left)(like shown in manual). Antec provided a long enough cable to get there but not long...

Control Panelpower optionsChange plan settingschange advanced power settingsprocessor power managementminimum processor state Hi I've tried changing the above settings on my pc on numerous occasions, but unfortunately vista won't retain or remember the settings - after a restart it's always...

I've BIOS 1010-003 beta. My system hang up. I'd like to back to 1008 but I don't have floppy disc drive. what can I do?

I have been unable to get Windows XP SP2 to do a clean install on this system. This is a system that I am building up for the first time. Windows install works fine until it reaches the step to reboot the system and then go into graphical mode to finish up the install. When the system reboots, I...

A friend of mine has an Athlon system and after adding a CDRW drive as a secondary CD drive his system will reboot periodically and then continuously reboots before loading windows until manually powered down. I did notice that he has a smaller fan mounted to another chip on his MB, but unsure...

Actually I just had the same problem and the solution was to try and switch the two blocks of memory (PC2700 Samsung 2 x 256 RAM) out. It turned out one was bad!

I have had a ASUS A7N8X non-deluxe for about 7 months now. I have the same motherboard drivers that came with the board which are Asus ver. 1.16. Are these the latest? I have checked the web site and can find none later. Nvidias site appears to have a lot later versions. Are there any reasons...

Hi all, I wanted to extend the life of my trusty P3B-F by upgrading the memory to 1GB. The mnaul says that it supports 4 256MB sticks but apparently that's not the whole story. I have 4 single-sided PC133 ECC (registered) sticks and my MB only sees half of it (512MB). I now understand that this...

Hi Running 2 hds (prim pata) 2 CDs (sec pata) Just added a SATA hd and now my cds wont work getting Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. (Code 19) ???? Can you run pata and sata together ?

Anyone know how to change the amount of memory used by the onboard video on the Asus TUSL2 (not -C or other)? I don't see it anywhere in the BIOS and it is currently allocating a meager 1MB. Tx, mdp

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Any one knows where I can find and buy one for my P4P800-VM. Thanks.

Hi all, I'd like to benchmark my PC but apps like Sysmark and SiSoft, afaik, only provide pay per programs. Are there any free apps around that provide accurate results? specs: 2.4 800 p4c800d tia!