Everytime i play Doom 3, my APC UPS alarm will go off as long as i playing the game. This has been happening since upgraded to a 3.4GHz Prescott from a Northwood 3.06GHz Proc. Windows XP Pro SP2, Pentium 3.4GHz Prescott, 1Gb RAM Crucial, onboard sound, ADS Firewire card, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 4.10...

I'm experiencing random reboots. I've been through this before so I know the routine but perhaps there are some other options to resolve it. First, my psu is a quality (Vantec 420W), it's powering the board, a 2.4 P4, 3 hard drives and an older ATI Radeon 9000 (AGP, 64MB memory). I do not have a...

Hi, I just built my first PC -- P4P800-E Deluxe, P4/3.0, 2GB Mushkin RAM. With the help of many people in this newsgroup, my first PC building experience went without a hitch. I may need to build another system and this one needs to be about as "low end" as possible. It's for my 87 year old...

Are there any 865 or newer boards with on-board IDE RAID, or is my only choice SATA RAID?

There's two Cool'n'Quiet things that comes with the support disk for my M2NPV-MX board. One from AMD which is a driver, I think, and one Utility from ASUS. I've installed both, but I was told that I had to enable it from the BIOS, which I have not come around to yet. Anyway, I'm curious: is this...

I recently had to RMA my A8N Deluxe because the chipset fan died and the system was constantly rebooting. So, installed new motherboard, powered everything up, and am having problems. First off, specs: AMD FX-55 CPU (2) NVIDIA 6800 Ultra video cards in SLI 1 gig Corsair ram (2 512 meg dimms in...

Not real sure where the problem is on this. I can't trust the local computer repair any more. 3 robberies from them is enough. Asus P4P800 deluxe 400 watt power supply 1 Gig ram 512 DDR's 1 HP 9300 CD recorder 1 Liteon DVD recorder died less than a month ago and just out of warranty 1...

I bought a new computer about 5 weeks ago assembled to spec by a local dealer - Asus A7V600 board, 1G of 3200 Samsung RAM, Athlon 3000 400FSB processor, 120G Hitachi IDE drive, XP Home and have had endless problems which I can now only think to ascribe to the design of the board itself. The machine...

Pretty cool. Sad to say, this isn't mine. Worth a look. http://members.tcq.net/scotts/bikinibottom/

A poster indicated I may have problems with win 98 and some of the newer asus boards. I don't want to upgrade my O/S. Who is using what and any problems? My goal is to get around a 2 gig chip with the ability to expand ram and cpu just a bit when I get more $. I'm even considering going with an...

I'm about to upgrade, and I need a solid system that's as future-proof as possible. Applications? Mainly business graphics (autocad and such), and digital stills and movies, with the usual spreadsheets and word processors. Some gaming, I guess, but that's not a biggie. Whilst money _is_ important,...

Just a note to tell anyone NOT to buy a Radeon 9600SE they are crap, get a 9500PRO if you can find one!!! I have just replaced the 9600SE with a 9500PRO my first 3Dmark03 score was 2855 an increase of 61%!!!! (see below for my system details) By the way does anyone know how to check whether a card...

Hello People, Yes Ladies and Gentlemen... it is time for me to present to you the fruits of my hard labor =D (at 26.5 degrees celcius !) I thank those that had the patience and the courage to put up with me :) Now I shall reward you with nice pictures of the third build. I haven't turned it on...

Machine spec: Asus A7V8X-MX Athlon XP2600 512MB DDR266 Integrated audio, video WDC WD800JB-00FMA0 HDD 80 GB ASUS CRW5232AS CD rewriter There have been a few instances of it failing to detect the HDD on startup, or taking a very long time to complete detection. The BIOS

This board will not give me to option to boot from any one of my 3 SCSI CD roms. I also have two 9 gig SCSI hard drives and a SATA 16 gig hard drive. The boot options menu in CMOS shows only my 3 hard disks as boot options. When I disconnect all three HD's , the only boot option that shows up is...

Hey guys, What heat sink are *you* using with your system? What CPU fan? What is your motherboard and CPU? Why did you choose what you did? What kind of temps are you getting, and what are you using to monitor those temps?

Hi all, I could use some advice. I am running Windows XP on an A7n8x-deluxe running 1005 with an old XP1700 cpu clocked at 2100. I am planning to upgrade soon to a nice shiny 3200 cpu and an 9800Pro graphics card, but it has occurred to me that my pair of aging deskstar HDDs could probably use...

Hello everyone, At work we wish to build a small-footprint demo computer using one of those thin (10cm / 4 inches high) desktop cases, which will be easy to carry to customer's sites, and such. We prefer this way rather than buying a strong laptop since we believe such a system will perform better...

Help please. I just assembled a system using the P4C800-E Deluxe with 1GB DDR RAM and a Pentium 4 (2.8GHz, 800MHz FSB, 1MB L2 cache). Shortly after the power comes on, the Vocal POST Message says, "System failed due to CPU overclocking." The ASUS manual recommends the following action...

I recently installed two SATA 80 gb drives as RAID0. All was going well for about a week. Checks on the speed of the drive came out in the 70 mb/s range. Then I began to have problems with what can best be described as "hesitation". Checking the array showed it was going down to about 1 mb/sec and...