I have an ASUS A7A 133 mobo; ALiMaGiK 1 chipset. This is in a generic case with an Althon 1500 and a Maxtor 80G HD. It's broke. (1) When I switch the computer on the green and red front panel lights flash once but nothing happens. (2) Prior to this the machine would sometimes spontaneously...

Thanks for the link, Ed. I'm gathering the review appears to say, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". There were no significant improvements shown except for the IDE drivers, which the writer says can be installed separately. I have to say, using SiSandra and 3DMark, my numbers tend to agree...

A7N8X Deluxe BIOS corruption: I think so too... A little over a week ago, I received a version 2.0 A7N8X Deluxe. It replaced the A7M266 that was running rock solid for the 3+ years that I had it. All other componets in my system remained unchanged, except for the changing of the motherboard. I...

I sold a system a year ago using Athlon 2400--unlocked (IIRC). Used regular PC-133 ram--not DDR, and used a ECS--K7S5A mobo which now is losing time & cmos settings--quite common with this mobo. The customer wants me to upgrade his mobo, using same ram. What's a good, inexpensive mobo to replace...

Hello, I recently built a machine from spare parts but it is very unstable. Usually within half an hour to an hour from booting Win2K it will = totally freeze. The only thing that will continue working is mouse = pointer positioning. If I immediately reset it, the situation will = repeat after...

Realistically speaking how soon does everyone anticipate the new processors being available for purchase? Newegg does not even have them posted yet. Amy.

What's the best choice for an external USB2 HD in the 200GB-400GB range to be used mainly for backups? WDC has three similar models all with 8MB onboard cache + USB2 &...

When I turn on my computer the power light is blinking, like, one time each second. It keeps on blinking until I reboot or turn the computer off. It doesn't blink every time i boot, but at random. Is this an indication of some sort of mainboard failure? I'm using BIOS 1004 ============== Posted...

I just purchased a gigabit switch (D-Link DGS-1005D) to upgrade my network from 100baseT to gigabit. I changed the network card on my Linux box and it booted up, configured the card and I saw the light on my switch indicating a link at gigabit speed. On my PC running Windows 2000, after...

Can anyone help me? I have two WD 36 GB Raptors that I want to set up as RAID 0. My motherboard has two RAID controllers. One is the Intel ICH5R and the other is the Promise PDC20378. Which is the prefered one to use? Any help or suggestion would be most welcome. Many thanks Alan

Greetings, I'm not getting a POST with my new A7N8X Deluxe. On initial power up I am not getting any audio beeps nor any video output. All fans and LEDs are running. I have tried several power cycles each waiting 30 seconds for activity before shutting down.

On a Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard, is an ATI Radeon 9000 64MB 128-bit DDR AGP 2X/4X Video Card ok to use? The manual states that the graphics card should run 1.5 volts. Writeup on this video board has the following spec.'s: Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/CeleronT, AMD® K6/DuronT/Athlon®/Athlon XP®...

Hi all! A friend of mine is not really happy with the Intel 2200BG wlan he has on his W1Vc laptop. Is it possible/easy to modify this? I'm assuming the laptop contains a mini-PCI card somewhere that handles the wlan. Is it as easy as opening up the laptop, removing the 2200BG, inserting something...

I downloaded the latest Bios for my board and now I get the Intel CPU Ucode Error upon boot. My CPU is a 2.8 GHZ Intel Pentium D Processor 820+ for the P5PE-VM. I didnt have the above error earlier with the previos bios version. When I attempted to run EZ -Flash again, it hanged. It still...

Never had the need to use it, but recently I connected a microphone to the microphone input jack of my A7N8X Deluxe I brought up the sound record to test it out and was not able to record anything. So I just assumed the microphone was dead. I brought it over to my laptop and it worked fine. I...

Greetings ... I have a Asus P4PE inside an Antec Performance Plus case running Windows XP. For some reason, my SanDisk USB memory key (Cruzer mini) is not recognized by the two USB ports connected to the front of the case, but it works fine using the ports in the "back" of the case. I've tried a...

I like ASUS and always had good luck with them, but ABIT has a really cool front panel to go with some of their boards. It is at: http://www.abit-usa.com/news/2005/20050511.php .. . . will ASUS ever do something like this? -g

Barton 2500+ unlocked. I guess crappy memory - Nanya from a PC fair, supposedly 400mhz. No bh-5 chips I bet. Decent PSU (Enlight 420). Gets up to 180 fine. Not over that, the nice post lady tells me the memory failed. Dropped multiplier to 10, no better. Raised it to 11.5, ok. 12 fails P95. I...

Hello, I have an Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard: http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=101&l3=0&model=1138&modelmenu=1 I have installed 2 X 1gig sticks of DDR2 ram and an AMD 2X 3800 CPU plus 1 X DVDRW drive and 1 X 320gig WD SATA2 drive. I am using the onboard video and sound as well as have...

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...