I have an ASUS 9550 video card and am currently using the asus drivers (latest ones). driver scanning programs tell me to upgrade to the latest ati catalyst 8.6 drivers. Should I? I am a games too. Or should I try another ati catalyst driver or stay with the asus drivers. Hugh

Hello, Here a little update on my DreamPC of 2006. Today I decided to close the last two holes of the case as well. (I had a rare system freeze/**** up the other day during Civ3Conquest, probably heat-related? or maybe GSM related ? radio interference ?) I did this so the motherboard...

Hi, Folks Just curious to hear what you seasoned 'Asusians' think of the following rig description. After all these years plodding along with Win98 on my ol' HP Pavilion with its 64Mb of RAM - HEY, *64 Megs* was a lot back in the day - I'm thinking of taking a crowbar to the ol' wallet and forking...

It was the card all along. Not bad, just incompatible. All this time. I tried two others, one a geforce and it did the same thing. So a different card was tried and it worked. I got a last opinon from a friend (comp techie)who had another card and this was the result. I think someone here had...

Hi, my PC is configured in this way. I have: 1 HD with OS (Win XP Pro) 2 HDs 160 GB (320 GB) in Raid0 2 HDs 250 Gb (500 GB) in RAID0 I use Asus P5W DH DELUXE and the driver is: Intel ICH7R 32 bit RAID Driver Yesterday I have removed a cable of an HD from the raid0 for some

i am running an asyus p5bsevm and when the computer boots into windows, the keyboard is not recognized. i have to restart and then the keyboard is ok. if i boot the computer directly into windows, the keyboard is ok. using bios 0701 from march 2008. using ibm branded keyboard.

The software support for Asus motherboards is the worst in the industry. I have used and recommended Asus for years but something has changed. They seem to be struggling in their software support. The motherboard download site run by bumbling idiots that can never get it right. I won't trust...

Hello, I live in an appartment. Once I noticed how my computer crashed which sounded like a crazy power surge. So I wonder: What happens if my neighbours cause a short circuit in the wall socket...

Hello, Today I made a nice video of my Dream PC and Call of Duty 4 Stats ;) :) Also nice music and a little bit of gameplay at the end. Part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMQ2rPnMOi4

Hello, I have a computer with a motherboard from ASUS P5GDC-V deluxe. This motherboard has an onboard sound system: C-media CMI 9880. I am using the latest C-Media software (5.12.01.0008.62(64) and WinXPSP3. I am trying to record a skype conversation but the problem is that i can either select the...

A friend of mine gave me her pc... I don't know what CPU it has... but the MB is the Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe. 1 Gig of RAM.. GF8800gts video card. The pc won't boot up, and I get no beeps. The green light on the board does light up, the fans spin, the hard drive spins... but nothing comes on. I...

this may not be the best newsgroup for this but here goes I want to put my pagefile(swapfile) on a second hard drive. Should that pagefile be on a NTFS or FAT32 partition? also would it make sense to make a hidden partition (no drive letter) say max 4096MB atthe staert or the end of the...

Ebay seller kaga0719 is selling pentium 4 3.73 cpu's and has modified the metal top of the chip so that it contains the specs of the more expensive Pentium D 965 CPU. Stay away from this seller as it is assumed that all of his listing are fraudulent counterfeit items. He has been reported to Ebay,...

Anyone tried a solid state drive on an P5B or similar board ? -- Thanks

I'm putting together a budget PC based on the Asus M2A-VM motherboard. I'm going to load it up with 2 GB DDR2, an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+, and the OS will be Windows XP (SP2). This machine will *not* be used to play video games, but it will be used for video editing and DVD authoring. It's my...

Hi, I have just deleted erroneally a Key in REGEDIT and now when I turn on my PC goes out a blue screening with 2 Accounts: Administrator and mine. But if I click on both it cannot load up the desktop and I always see the blue screening with 2 Account. It is blocked there. I cannot use any...

Subject typo corrected ;) :) "Skybuck Flying" wrote in message news:... Today I walked into my living room with the lights out with the new antec case for the first time... And I was happily surprised what I saw: ...

Dear Reader, after i exchanged my E6400 CPU with an E8500 the P5WDH board is not able to boot correctly using the PC6400 mode when i changed the DDR2 timing to 5 5 5 18 6 memory mode and increase the voltage to 2.0V. Without changing the DDR2, meaning set it to spd timing, the board boots up...

http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/30/nvidia-geforce-9800-gtx-triple-sli-rig-benched/ (Picture shows 1 millimeter of airflow between graphics cards !!!) Such setups can never work on the long run. Way too little airflow... to the cards. The cards will overheat and then the motherboard will die...

Skybuck Everything ok. We are all getting worried . Got any theories to share ? ;-) Cub