Is there a way to turn OFF keyboard backlight from BIOS ?

First off I have my internet connection (from the cable modem) plugged into the RJ45 on the MB. I'm running Vista Ultimate 64. Problem - After setting up ( a few times) the wireless in AP mode, clients can't connect and / or they are disconnected. I chose WEP and "shared network" and made the...

What do I need to do to get my system to recognize and boot from a 250 GB drive? Award BIOS 1009 will not properly recognize a 250 GB drive. Is there a newer Award BIOS version that will support 250 GB drives? Or, is it better to just use the Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI Adapter Card? Using the...

I have a motherboard by Microstar International of Taiwan, ie MSI P35- Neo2-FR. This board has a fundamental design flaw. The Al888T audio chip has too little power and the BIOS are screwed up. When I disable the audio feature in the integrated peripherals in BIOS, the board freezes. You cannot...

Anyoneout there have a clue about calculation power consumption? Before I buy a new PSU I had a look at my old one. It's a Enermax 350W and the label states these specs: Enermax EG365P-VE +3.3V +5V +12V -5V -12V +5VSb +3.3&5V Total 32A 32A 26A 1A 1A 2,2A ...

Does anyone here know what kind of thermal paste AMD uses on the pad on their latest heatsink/fans in the retail boxed CPUs? I picked up a retail boxed Athlon 64 3000+ CPU with a Venice core. The paste on the pad is silver and looks like it's either silver or aluminum. If it's already silver...

Group, I'm running an asus K8V Deluxe mobo and have used an Audigy2 sound card right from the initial build of this machine. Now I want to scrap the Audigy and just use the built in sound. My manual indicates I should have Sound Max Icon. I find nothing about sound max anywhere. What ever...

I have a new A7N8X-E Deluxe, 3200+ oem, and 1gb Kinston Valuemax (two matched 512 sticks), and I can't get it up to 2.2 ghz. (The package was bought from Mwave and I assumed it would function as implied by the advertisement.) I have it in a Antec 1080 with a Maxtor 120gb Ultra ATA 133.

In article , Terry Pinnell wrote: I've been getting increasingly frequent crashes of my Windows XP Home PC in recent months. Complete and abrupt shut down, with the cryptic, daunting Error 'Stop 0x0000000A or...

Configuration: Asus P5A Motherboard rev 1.06 = (http://www.asus.com/pub/asus/mb/sock7/ali/p5a/p5a-107.pdf), BIOS = version 1011.005 (latest) AMD K5-2/400 CPU 256MB dual sided PC133 DIMM. 16 chips "MT48LC16M8A2-75C"...

I just bought a new system online, after debating for weeks... I'm always a step or two behind the game, I mean I was upgrading my 4Mb Matrox Millenium to a Viper TNT2 Ultra, about 1 week before the Viper2 came out, and the GeForce chips... So this is my first foray into a realtively decent...

Hi, I have an Asus P2B-S and suddenly, my USB 1.1 onboard ports are not working. Device manager shows only USB Host Controller, but no Root Hub. Any clue to solve this issue? How could I restore it? :-(

When I first built my current main PC, I intended on NOT being obsolete in two years. All the best components. I must say, this machine has done much better than anticipated. Seven years, averaging 14 hours of use. Three keyboards, two track balls, two monitors, two chairs, two tables and two...

I have a new Rio Nitrus MP3 player. When I plug in into the front USB ports, I get an error in XP saying the USB device is not recognized. If I use the USB ports mounted on the back of the motherboard, they detect it just fine. Anyone have any ideas why this is??

Hi, I find my PCs (no matter PII, P4) produce big noise after power up and most of the noise being produced by CPU fan. I haven't tried overclocking in any of these PCs and I even open the case to improve ventilation but with no improvement. I would like to know how can I reduce that noise due to...

I bought this mobo about 6months ago and have a three year warranty with Asus. My chip fan has been making alot of bad sounds and is struggling to run. It starts and stops at 10second intervals sometimes even less...I was wondering what the best thing to do would be..Either send the mobo back and...

My new P4PE board has gigabit ethernet onboard but I can't get it to work. Thinking my connection just may have been down I installed a PCI expansion 10/100 card. The connection works fine through the card but not through the onboard ethernet port. I have yet to receive help from ASUS and hope...

I'm building a new PC with an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe and an Athlon XP 2800+ (Barton). I want to install two 512MB PC3200 modules to run in dual channel mode at 200MHz. (or maybe 166 MHz. to match the bus frequency - I think I've read that with the Atholn XP, synchronous at the lower speed is actually...

I'm going to buy this mobo soon, and have a question about the bios that will ship with the board. I was thinking of getting the P4-3E GHz(800 MHz FSB) (HT) (90nm) 1 mb cache over the P4-3 GHz(800 MHz FSB) (HT) 512 cache. (if I have this right) but the P4-3E requires bios 1016. So if I get a...

The case only arrived about 10 - 14 days ago. I have a hunch that there was some fault with the PSUs - hence the original DOA one - and that they have changed it. As I said, the cabling power connectors are black and the quality of the PSU, although it looks identical to the first, seems to...