Hey Guys/Gals I just got a spankin new K8V SE Deluxe and an A64 to replace my P4 system. Have a Maxtor 120GB SATA hd as well. Tried to install WinXP Pro (with SP1) after booting from it, and after windows does its thing loading a few files, "Starting Windows", Windows kindly informed me that...

i am trying to update the asrock k7s8x, it say make a boot disk, i am xp so i use a w98 disk then it says copy program and bios update to the same disk. the disk is too full to let me put them on so i deleted some of the stuff i did not need but i keep getting an error message. error 3 no program...

I'm thinking of buying this board and a 3200+ and would like to know what some of the experiences with this board are ,and if you have it, what brands of memory do you recommend? Also, can you use dual channel ram on a non dual channel board? This would be my first non-Intel CPU and I'm a bit...

what is the best cooler for opteron 244 ? thanks elno

Which should I do? I got an nforce 2 motherboard running an AMD 2600 and I am thinking about ugrading in the next 6 months so should I go for the 3200 400FSB or the new sempon on a new mothearboard? my memory is 1 gig of DDR 3200. Thanks for the help Anthony

This went into the alt.comp.mainboards.abit group to earlier today but I figured it was worth posting here as well. Has anyone actually managed to use the Via 8237 SATA driver to successfully install WinXP64 on a SATA disk? I've created a SATA driver disk using the instructions provided on a...

Hi, What board is best for a 1u rackmount case? Im initially looking at Gigabyte GA-K8N.. The case im looking at takes standard atx boards, so is there anything else to consider? will the 200w psu be enough for a 3200 Athlon 64 and 2 sata drives? Thanks!

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20040726PR202.html This interview with Tyan president Symon Chang provided the following quotes: "Around 2006, when the market moves to AMD's next generation of chips, you will be able to go over 8-way. What I mean is that with eight sockets, and dual cores, you...

Hi All, I had ordered PC3200 memory for the Opteron 242 by mistake instead of the PC2700 memory (246 and above use the 3200). I am still waiting for other parts to come in and was hoping I did not have to exchange the PC3200 memory for the PC2700 as I would have to pay a hefty restocking fee to do...

In an earlier thread I reported that I couldn't get Win4Lin to work on my new Athlon 64 notebook. I now have it working on a 2.6.7 kernel on Fedora 2 (32 bit version). To get Win4Lin to work on the AMD64 you have to do the following when building the kernel. 1) It must be a 32 bit kernel, Win98...

what heatsink can i use for opteron 244 ? thank you N.G.

Ed wrote: SYMPTOMS After you install Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), your computer repeatedly restarts. You do not receive an error message. This issue occurs if all the following conditions are true: * You install the 32-bit version of Windows XP SP2 on a computer that has...

Hi all! I hope this is not a FAQ but I've downloaded three times the image of the CD for new WinXP64 before asking here. My problem is that the CD burned from this image is non-bootable and if i try run setup in WinXP 32 i get an error box telling: "Welcome to Windows XP has encountered a problem...

Hi Yall, Here is the system I am assembling: Athlon 64 3000 Abit KV8 Pro Samsung 512 MB PC 3200 WD 1600JD(160G/7200/8M/SATA) Lite-on DVD-R/RW SOHW-812S

I have a dual 244 setup with 4x512 XMS512R-3200C2P2 memory, for a total of 2GB memory. When booting it registers all the memory, but when I look in Sandra or CPUID, is tells me only one channel memory. I am runing the 1.1 bios revision. Any idea? or is the configuration for dual channel memory...

Hi, My case (Nexus Breeze) has been supplied with small metal clips and screws with fibre washers to mount the mobo. I'm installing an MSI board and I wonder if I should use thease washers as they will insulate the top of the board from the chassis. So, insulating washers or not??

Does anyone have any idea on when VIA or Nivida will release a PCI-E chipset for a 939 processor? Mike B.

Hi, Are there any Athlon 64 Laptops that have complete Linux hardware compatibility? Any suggestions would be appreciated. I have been looking at hp mainly but it appears these units are very similiar. Thank for any input. Alan

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Hey all, I have an AMD 64 3200+ with a MSI K8N Neo Platinum Mobo, should I go with the Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro, or the eVGA GeForceFX 5900SE? Any thoughts? Thanks a bunch, Rich