Can I set two IDE ports to RAID and install a DVD writer and DVD player on the remaining two ports? I know I can set it in the BIOS, but has anyone tried this. Jim M

Dear NG, I am planning to assemble a quiet system. I want to use the Asus P5LD2 mainboard. The case should be the Arctic Cooling Silentium T2. It comes with an integrated 350W PSU with a 20 pin plug. Does anybody know it the 20 pin PSU will work fine with the mainboard? In their FAQ Arctic...

I am not able to boot from my Western Digital 250 GB 16 MB cache SATA II on a A8N-sli Premium mother board with Award 1006 Bios revision. I have no trouble booting from a Western Digital 160 GB SATA 150 MB/s drive. When I got the new drive I first initialized the drive from Windows and installed...

Hi all, Does the P4B533-E's southbridge suffer from the USB Latchup issue? I am thinking about disabling the motherboard USB and buying a NEC chipset USB 2.0 card. Thanks, NBK

I recently upgraded an old PC by replacing an A7V133 by an A7V600. That was tough work - I met with a lot of problems, all of them solved, many with the help of Usenet. Well, almost. In order to finish the job, I've got one problem left, that has little impact for the time being, but could...

About three weeks ago my power supply went out on my Asus mobo (p4s533 or something like that). The asus mobo had a 4-pin cpu power connector from the psu going to it. Well I had a spare psu that had no such 4 pin cpu connector but I put it in anyway and the computer ran just fine. It's been...

I have an M2N Sli Deluxe with Vista 32 bit. Half of the time when I boot up I have no internet so I have to reboot until I get internet. I have the latest drivers from Nvidia.I have to believe it's those damn ethernet drivers. Agreed?

I recently built up a P5W64 in an Asus P900 case. Unfortunately the front panel I/O connectors were in the bottom left (when the board is viewed with the rear I/O (keyboard, mouse,etc) in the upper left)(like shown in manual). Antec provided a long enough cable to get there but not long...

Control Panelpower optionsChange plan settingschange advanced power settingsprocessor power managementminimum processor state Hi I've tried changing the above settings on my pc on numerous occasions, but unfortunately vista won't retain or remember the settings - after a restart it's always...

Oh man, i am getting crazy with this ... :crybaby: Yesterday it seems to be working all right again and now, when i connected the SATA again and disconnected the harddrive with the old system XP on it, i am now getting with the SATA the same troubles! :mad: :mad: DoubleClick on My Computer...

I've BIOS 1010-003 beta. My system hang up. I'd like to back to 1008 but I don't have floppy disc drive. what can I do?

I have a CUV4x and I cannot get any XP boot CD to boot. At bootup the drive lites up then the HD boots. Trying to boot from the 2nd cd-rom is not any better. I can boot from CD using any other OS, (Wx, NT, Linux and so on). A BIOS sales company told me I need a new BIOS ($65 USD, only $25 in a...

Am having perf. problems with a new A7N8X-E setup (bios v 1009) running a new Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton), two Mushkin PC3200 black level-II 256MB memory sticks. When I run Memtest 86 (v3.0), it shows: L1 Cache - 128K 11225 MB/S L2 Cache - *Unknown* (my emphasis) Memory 512M 1276 MB/S (this...

Does anyone have any case fan recommendations? This may sound like magic, but I'm looking for blue LED case fans that don't only push a lot of air, but also a case fan that's very quiet. I would prefer a case fan with a 4 pin connection. Thanks.

I have an ASUS P4P-800E and windows xp home SP-2. Windows update shows a hardware driver update that says Jungo Windriver. I don't have any hardware named Jungo. Anyone come accross this? Should I download the update?

Hi there! Recently I bought A7V400-MX (matx format) motherboard as I have htpc case. I also bought Athlon XP mobile 2500+ processor that is unlocked, i.e. you have to set its speed by combination of bus frequency and a multiplier - as far as I have understood. Now, with this motherboard there...

Asus A7N8X-DLX ver 1.04 mobo. Seagate 120 GB SATA. Cannot get WD 40 GB to run. It locks up on start up as it works through the boot routine. Boot floppy, boot CD, boot HD01 (maybe this is the hang up here boot HD01) BIOS is 1007 (?)

Hi all I've just bought the P5ND2-SLI Deluxe board, and I've got 2 Asus N6600 GT video cards installed. The problem is that my system only works with SLI turned off. When I enable it, after the reboot the system crashes, sometimes I get a black screen, other times I get to the desktop but I can't...

I have been unable to get Windows XP SP2 to do a clean install on this system. This is a system that I am building up for the first time. Windows install works fine until it reaches the step to reboot the system and then go into graphical mode to finish up the install. When the system reboots, I...

I recently developed problems with my sound card in an A8N32-SLI deluxe motherboard. The sound level was fluctuating from the set lever to very loud. My speakers appeared to function normally on another computer. I pulled the creative sound card, enabled the onboard sound and downloaded the...