-- Pete Cresswell

Been getting roughly the same set of weirdnesses maybe once every few days over the past two months. Restored my system from a old, known-good backup day before yesterday, and the problem just resurfaced today.... so I'm thinking that Windows XP Pro is off the hook unless it's some artifact of a...

Can somebody recommend a freebie tool that will give an indication of how fast my system is doing office rat things like opening MS Office documents, saving same ..... and maybe playing media files? I'd like to fool around with a few different memory configs and need something to give me an idea...

Mine just bit the big one. One chip up in smoke/partially melted. In the interest of economy, the first thing I'm thinking of is a board that will take the P4800's CPU, accept it's graphics card, work with a couple SATA drives, and use it's memory. Windows XP, hoping to avoid Vista as long as...

I'm building up a new Asus mobo and the bootup mentions "ExpressGate". Googling, it sounds like something I'd like to have on my eee901. Can I just install it using the mobo's install DVD? Licensing issues? Computability?

This puppy sounds like the ticket for the wife's TV chair where she wants to start exploring the internet. To Wit: - Form factor allows easy deployment in one of the shelves on the TV stand. - Low power consumption if/when somebody neglects to turn it off or put it to sleep when not...

I'm slogging thorough Ausus' bizzaro web pages (e.g. http://tinyurl.com/yf9jdfk) trying to find a manual for my P5Q SE2 and not having any luck. Can anybody provide a pointer? -- PeteCresswell

I'd like to put together an XP box for somebody to use mainly for just email, web browsing, and Skype. I've got an old ATX case/power supply. Northbridge chip in said case's P4P800-E went up in smoke some years back. Bought a used P4P800-E from some guy in China, but I wasn't able to get it off...

My resident technophobe has relented and says they are willing to take on a laptop (instead of an iPad or iTouch). Primary use will be watching TV via WiFi on the back patio with some emailing thrown in. I'm thinking a touch screen would be a very-nice-to-have feature for somebody like that -...

I've got AsusProbe set to alarm when the CPU gets over 72 degrees C. It's never triggered the alarm in the past, but today, when doing a high-volume (like 1000 pictures) upload to PhanFare's photo management site, the temp climbs until it exceeds that limit and the thing beeps until the upload is...

Can't find anything in the Bios settings, but given the sophistication of everything else it seems logical that the board sb able to turn itself on at a preset time. ? Also, can anybody describe "Throttle Mode"? (pg 4-29: "Throttle Slow Clock Ratio: Allows you to select the duty cycle in...

Hi, I just have bought a PC with the P4S800-MX SE motherboard with 2 512MB PC3200 DDR. During last week I experienced crashes on that machine always while I was not using it. Using windbg I saw the "The PTEs mapping the argument system cache view have been corrupted." and...

Do anyone know what is the problem with Asus PC Probe ? Many "canvas does not allow drawing" pop-up message boxes when running PC Probe on Win 98. There are no problem when running on 2K or XP. I have tried many version of PC Proble from 2.14 to 2.20

I have a microsoft optical mouse connected to my Asus P4B. The red light is still on even I have shutdown my P4B on Windows 98. Is there any BIOS setting which can turn off the red light of the mouse after shutdown ?

What is the latest MB & CPU that will work trouble free with Win98SE? I don't need 64 bit, RAID or more than 768MB of memory. I've been using AMD CPUs for the past 8 years but an Intel MB would be OK too. I'm currently using a K7M, 1G TB, with 384MB of memory and a 15G HDD that I built 6 years...

I'm building a new Socket A system with an nVidia Nforce2 chipset and DDR400 or DDR400-2 memory for use with Win98SE. I've been looking at Athlon XP 3200+ vs. Sempron 3300+ Socket A CPUs. The Athlon XP has 512 cache vs. 256 with the Sempron. Also the Athlon runs at 400MHz Vs, 333MHz for the...

Any opinions on a K8N vs. K8N-E mobo? The K8N-E has gigabit LAN and a sound chip with more/better??? features. Any improvements in performance? I don't need more than 2 channel sound or overclocking features. Tom's HW showed that the K8N-E was a little faster on most benchmarks but I'm not...

I've built lots of systems. This weekend, I put together an Asus K8N-E system with an Athlon 64 3000+ Venice core CPU and a pair Corsair TwinX 512MB DDR400 DIMMs. I used a new AGP4x video card, new Seagate 120G IDE HDD and new PS to get the system up and running. All BIOS settings were default and...

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...

What is the fastest CPU I can use in an Asus K8N/K8N-E mobo without overclocking? I'm running an Athlon 64 3000+ Venice at factory specs. I did a Google search and didn't come up with anything current. The 3700+ seems to be the fastest Socket 754 desktop CPU and it doesn't look like the 4000+...