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A8n-e wows
So much for saying good things about a product. A little while ago I
responded to a post from a prospective buyer inquiring about the a8n-e board from asus. Well guess what, it appears my board just went south on me. This morning while I was working I appeared to be having some problems with a storage drive on ide-0. Eventually I was no longer able to reboot into windows xp with that drive connected. Eventually I discovered that anything else placed on the drive interface interferred with rebooting and once in windows the components were not recognized. I also discovered that when transferrign the original harddrive to ide-1 I was able to boot into xp and work with the drive--for a while at least. Now it appears that anything placed on either ide channel is not recognized and stalls the boot process. .. An rma is going to take at least a month, and I do not have that kind of time. So if any magicians out there cannot not come up with a quick fix (and this would be greatly appreciated)--, I am thinking of purchasing a new processor and motherboard and tranferrign my components from the old system into a new one. I am currently running the a8n-e, with an amd 64 3000, a 160 g sata system drive, a 122g video storage drive, a leatdtek 6600-gt video card, 1g crucial ram , audigy 2 sz platinum and windows xp service pack 2. Any suggestions on a motherboard? I want to addto firewire but have no interest in sli. Asus apparantly does not have such a beast. I have recently built an xp system with an msi k7n2gm-v motherboard and was impressed but I have no particular preferences--except for avoiding soyo(one year running and no rebate). Any suggestions or opinions concerning possible repair or a recommended motherboard/cpu combo would be greatly appreciated. Looking for a sweet spot performance and price-wise. |
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