Hi Folks, I'm seriously considering this motherboard for a pair of new builds and would like to hear from people with experience with the MSI K8N Diamond. Thanks in advance! -- Stephen Goodman

10 mo's ago I bought an APC BX1500 UPS/Battery Backup Cost me $169.95 plus tax Rated at 110 min backup time (proved to be 45 min). The first one was defective. Got a replacement. It died after 10 months's !!! APC didn't return my call for a service request !!! Only buy a battery backup that will...

Is there a way to copy games and other programs over to an added hard drive from the existing hard drive. I was wondering if there is a program (preferably freeware) that will copy everything over, including changing registry settings, so that I can avoid reloading everything again. I will soon...

I have a computer I was working on putting together. It has a new M863G motherboard with a AMD Thunderbird processor. However, I have not been able to get it to recognize any hard drives. It recognizes the CD-ROM, but ihas not recognized the 8 gig and 60 gig drives I have put in it. Both of...

Hello! I've been looking for manual for dtk prm-0081i-e0. Nothink found. Old motherboard but seem to be not under support. Have anyone got such manual and can e-mail me this stuff? Thanks in advance Matt

I have two Intel d865perl motherboards running linux 2.4.x and they are very stable. I'd like to build two more stable i865pe systems, but it appears that the d865perl motherboards are sold-out. The following three i865pe boards are still available and I would appreciate hearing from actual users...

i am looking for a spec for a powerful database server (dual cpu, scsi hd (or any other), big memory, good motherboard). The server is to be used as a database server. so speed and reliability is important. Any idea about good specification please.

Hi I am looking for a specification for fast and reliable server. What I care about the most is the speed and the reliability of the server. It is simple server used for MySQL database. I want the process speed is very high and also accessing the harddrive is very fast. I do not care about video...

I'm posting this here because the PVR group tends to be a bunch of ill-tempered sorts, and I don't want them to know what I've found. That way, us complete amateurs can get ahead of them. Plus I know the home builders like these cards in spite of the fact that they are obscure as Hades. Symptom:...

I just noticed in computer management that I have a hard drive listed as being offline with a failed status. No letter designation appears for the drive but the drive is the same capacity as my WD sata system drive (149 g). This c drive is listed and it is reported as healthy. My computer is an...

I want to put my printer into a different room. The printer connects via USB, but it also has it's own power cord (so it doesn't need power from the USB cable). It's pretty old, from around 2001, maybe 2002. I don't know if it supports wireless anything. Does it have to? Is there like a...

I have the Biostar NF4UL-A9 mainboard. Have heard lots about the cheap chipset HSF going out within months. I was wondering if those ORB style coolers with the push-pin attachment would work? There are lots of Titanium, and Crstal ORB coolers still around for cheap prices. Chipset coolers I've seen...

I did (what should have been) a routine memory upgrade on a client's PC today. I made the mistake of shutting it down without first doing a normal restart to make sure everything booted up and ran like normal first. When it first restarted with the additional memory in it, it reported some sort...

Hey guys. I've recently had a torrid time trying to upgrade the meesly 256MB of RAM my PC has with a further 1GB, taking me up to 1.25GB of RAM. My problem has been that every stick I have bought (3 so far and all have been sent back to Kingston or Crucial), the computer regularly crashes, usually...

I bought a GA-K8NSC-939 motherboard and a Athlon 64 4000 CPU. I set everything up but I noticed my CPU speed is only 1072 Mhz. Does anyone know why the motherboards isn't running the proceesor at the correct speed? Thanks in advance.

I recently built a new system with the following Hardwa Asus A8N5X Motherboard Athlon X2 3800 XG Magnum 2 ATX 2.0 500W Power Supply My issue is that It won't handle a restart request from Windows and it also will not fully power down. When I select restart under Windows (and you do this often...

I have a problem with the bios on my son's computer. First let me tell you the story upon how this mess started. My son is well lets say exparimental with computers, some how he messed with the FSB in the bios settings and when he rebooted it wouldn't work...just freezing up before the OS loads......

I recently built a PC with the following new componants I purchased from Newegg and ZipZoomFly. Antec Sonata II Quiet Case, 450w power supply, Amd Athlon 64 3700+ CPU 939, Asus A8N5X mb, 1Gb Kingston ram, (2x512) and WD 120gb HD with a BFG Nvidia 7600GT 256M videocard. The history of this is I...

Dumb question but have to ask it. Just got a dvd drive and need to hook it up with a double connection IDE cable along with cd writer. Going to make the DVD master and the CD slave, but not sure where on the cable they should go. Does the DVD go to the middle connector on the cable, closest to...

Hi all, I have two ram heat spreaders I would like to use again... but I cannot find the two sided tape they use. I know these are cheap,,but I would like to use them over again. Does anyone know where I can buy this stuff ... I have look everywhere and cannot find it. Thanks