I'm using this headset with the HC-6 mic element: http://www.heilsound.com/amateur/products/proset/#1 I just tried to connect this headset to my old P5B-E motherboard and find that the mic audio level is very low. The mic works fine with my ham gear and my old R51 Thinkpad laptop, so it's...

Recently read some credible comments to the effect that Li batteries last longer if kept at 50% rather than 100%. My UX302L rarely goes off of AC and when it does it usually needs to last less than an hour on battery power. So.... Is there anything I can run that will tell Asus' battery manager...

Hello, I am upgrading my wife's old computer with some parts from my old computer which I recently upgraded to a Pentium 4. The parts I installed into my wife's computer is a Pentium 3-800 as she only uses it for a few games and word processing. I also want her to surf the net through using the...

I enabled the Marvel in the bios and I turn the external ESATA drive on before booting and it works fine. If the drive is off at boot and I turn it on after booting the drive won't show up. Is this the way it should work? Is there no way to leave the drive off until you need access to it? ...

I was considering upgrading my CPU in My P5E and run an image of the original Boot Disk (in my case an XP3 System HD) and If all else failed. I would put the original CPU and HD back on my mobo and get back to SQUARE ONE. Would this be a plausible solution? But Now I find that I would have to...

Good day. I plan on getting an Asus Hero VII board, and use air cooling on the CPU. That board has all I need, but I am worried about the heatsinks that are over the voltage regulators around the CPU. They /look/ huge, and I am afraid they will get in the way of air coolers, specifically the...

Asus' Crash-Free BIOS notwithstanding, the most elegant protection against BIOS-flashing disasters is the BIOS Savior by IOSS in Taiwan. Unfortunately, they don't seem to have updated their Web site and compatibility list for about four years. Nevertheless, the BIOS Savior is still for sale. ...

I'm doing volunteer work at a local non-profit where I've donated a desktop I created mostly out of odds and ends I had lying around. Actually it's a pretty nice system built around an Asus P5Q Pro Turbo mbo running 64-bit Win10. I have it plugged into the non-profit's network with an ethernet...

Current setup: A8V Deluxe with Athlon 63FX-35 1Gb DDR 400mhz 2 x 200 Gb SATA Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 in Raid 0 (Performance) XP Home Primary usage of machine: Photo imaging etc in Photoshop CS Web design - Macromedia suite Listening to my MP3 music whilst working

I really had 2 questions: (BIOS bootup alert & Event Viewer alert) I am getting a message before windows loads (so cannot do a printscreen) just following choosing WindowsXP as operating system (using dual boot to W2k) that states this: BIOS: BIOS update data incorrect. CPUID=00000F27,...

I've built several computers but never set up dual SATA Drives under RAID. I'd like to build a RAID 0 system that boots off the SATA drives. From what I've read in the MB manual, it shouldn't be too difficult when performing a clean Windows XP Pro installation. I've read several articles (and...

I'm having trouble getting my desktop computer to boot up today. I'd left it on continuously for two or three days and finally shut it down when I went to bed last night. When I tried to boot it up this morning, I got basically nothing. The fans start immediately but I don't even get the single...

Hi, a friend of mine have just told me to buy an ASUS SABERTOOTH X58 for my video editing. I have just noticed it costs much. My budget for all workstation is around 2.000 euro. In your opinion is there another Asus motherboard good like ASUS SABERTOOTH X58? If you tell me ASUS SABERTOOTH X58 is...

Anyone have one and if you do what do you think? anyway i can get the max performance out of it? Naj

hello, in short: I have the above hardware and the motherboard refuses to powerup (at all) with this video card in. full story: I used this video card with an abit vp6 motherboard and it worked great after sorting out the drivers issues. recently I decided to upgrade to an asus p4c800e deluxe...

A couple of months ago -- some of you may even remember this -- I replaced the 1.9 GHz P4 in my P4T-E mbo with a 2.8 GHz P4 that I bought from Powerleap: http://www.powerleap.com/ The new processor works fine and I've noticed an improvement in performance. Nice. I ought to be happy. But. I...

Hi, I just installed a Saphire Radeon 9600XT in my system. I removed the old drivers, and installed the latest Catalyst drivers from ATI's website. I am now experiencing problems with the graphics card as whenever I try to play a game the computer suddenly reboots itself. The games I have tried...

I got a new ASUS laptop for Christmas - a K55N - and its my first laptop. (I've used laptops before but this is the first one I've owned.) I am reasonably comfortable in opening the case on desktop computers and have installed memory, replaced a DVD burner, and added hard drives on desktops but...

I'm not very knowledgeable about hardware issues so I wonder if someone here can help me select a new hard drive for my computer, which has an ASUS M3A motherboard? Or at least answer a question or two about the one I'm leaning toward? My previous post established that my board can handle two...

Does anyone know how to access the BIOS in a new ASUS K55N laptop running Windows 8? Most of the articles I've found say it should come up when you hit F2 upon seeing the ASUS logo but it's not happening for me. Some articles mention some kind of security feature to keep someone from booting...