Hi all. I'm going to buy an ASUS M2N-E Socket AM2 motherboard, but it hasn't LPT port. Does anyone use this port nowadays? And what hardware could to plug to this port?

By default the correct FSB will be set by the bios Patrick "TG" wrote in message ... So I finally got the hotsie-totsie board to load and be stable, but how do I take advantage of the 800MHz FSB I paid extra for? I don't...

I have a Abit SG-80 motherboard, and I having a problem of how to connect the wiring for the case's UBS ports to the motherboard. It seems while there are 9 pins on the MB, only 4 connectors are on the wire. And to make it worse the nomenclature is not the same on either. For example, on the...

Have an ABIT KV-80. Flashed to latest (-17) bios. Three fans are plugged into the fan headers: AMD's included CPU fan to "CPUFAN" header Thermaltake chipset fan to "NBFAN" header Enermax PS fan lead to "SYSFAN" header. Only the CPUfan shows RPMs when I go into the BIOS's "PC Health" screen. The...

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I had to reinstall Windows XP tonight. I have an Abit NF7-s motherboard. Some of the Nvidia drivers didn't install. I've tried several times to reinstall the drivers both with the installation CD and the "Device Manager". The Hardware Update Wizard finds the driver and highlights it. I click...

As I understand the manual when I load the drivers I am meant to get an additional icon in my control panel for sound. I have loaded my unified driver ver 2.41 from the Nvidia website and alas no icon. I then loaded the drivers from the cd as advised by my motherboard supplier which I have done and...

I am running on OC'd NF7-S v2.0 and get the occasional stutter? Should I back off my FSB speed? Increase the chipset voltage? Any ideas?

Hi all I am expecting to get my NF7-S motherboard tomorrow. Since this is my first Abit motherboard and my first Nforce2 motherboard I would like to know if you, who are more experienced with this board and this chipset, can recommend me to download, so that it's ready when I change to my...

I changed my cpu from an Atlon 2400 to an Athlon 2800. My temp readings before were 102 F for the cpu and 82 for the system temp. After installing the new processor, the cpu temp is 111 F and the system temp is 132 F. How can I account for the very high system temp? All voltages including core are...

Yuma, Please email it to - make sure you remove the NOSPAM portion of the address. Thanks, Jakov

Hi, I have just put together a system, KV7, amd athlon xp 2000. My C drive is 2 80 gig WD hard drives with serielle attachemnts in the Serial ata raid 0 configuration. I have fresh installed windows ME twice now, and both times during the installation the system shuts down and then restarts...

I just bought a 64bit athlon, a ABIT KV8-MAX3 motherboard with with onboard Realtek AC97 audio and am running Win2k. It is the best machine I have ever owned, but I am having a problem trying to run any audio editing programs. They all just die before opening. With the audio program CoolEdit, new...

Bought the ABIT IC7-MAX3 MB and am running: P4 3.0E 800 FSB Thermaltake Spark 5 CPU fan ABIT IC7-MAX3 ANTEC TRUE480 ATX RTL 1 Gig Corsair PC3200 (Dual Channel 2 x 512) AIW 9800 Pro 128MB 2 Seagate SATA drives running the 3114 Drivers in raid 0 DVD-RW NEC-2500A

I am trying to install XP Pro SP2 (32 bit version) on a new system. I go through the setup and everything looks normal, hit F6 to load the Intel RAID driver, it loads it and continues loading what it needs to get started, then it says Starting Windows, and it blue screens with the...

I was using an AN7 motherboard with two ATA hard drives and two serial ATA hard drives. Booting off one serial ATA HD. Took the noisy fan off the chipset, worked okay until a defrag then fried the chipset. Purchased and installed a new NF8-V2 hoping I would be able to use the old serial ATA hard...

(I posted this to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit and didn't get any responses) Hi All, I recently built out a new system using an IS7-E mobo and have an internal 6-in-1 flash card reader connected to the mobo's internal USB port. I cannot find the mfg of the card reader, as the only labeling...

Hey all, Just bought new nf7-s v2 installed 120gig wd sata drive and 80 gig ide i push de; to access bios and sometimes it lets me in sometimes it doesnt. When it doesnt it goes to a blank black screen with a thin blue line at the bottom and a flashing cursor at the top. i have the latest bios...

Just bought an NF7-M board. Looking at the instruction manual, it seems that there is only one audio connection on the motherboard to connect an optical device. I plan on putting in separate CD-RW and DVD drives (salvage from another system). Is there any way to hook both up so that sound can...

Hello, Where there is an electrical shutdown (general power of the home is down, one second or one minute), all my computer restart automatically, except the computer with Abit VP6. I need manually press power switch button of the case to restart it. I run server software on this computer, so I...