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The drivers for firewire are pretty standard and included in XP from the start (iirc). Might be worthwhile checking your BIOS to see that it is enabled there, if it is or the option is not there to disable, then I'm not sure. I'm not sure what you mean by no driver on windows or the port -...

The only way to be sure is to get the HD's serial number and check it's warranty status on the manufacturers website. If the make/model of drive does have a 3 yr warranty, you'll probably get a replacement FOC. mj

I've got an a8n32 with the a64freezer pro and my temps right now are 32/32 cpu and mobo at idle, load is 41/33. My freezer pro has a little downturned lip that directs air down onto the mobo heatsink/heatpipe. Case wise I have 4 80mm fans , 2 front/1 back and one top all running at 7v through a...

I've actually been ok with the latest ones - but I did a clean install rather than a driver removal. I installed everything EXCEPT the IDE driver and I've been peachy since. I actually made my own problems with the original install, even though I said ok to install the IDE, I actually had...

You could try a 20-24 pin converter. A couple of quid on fleabay. That's what I've got on mine - a 430w Antec into an Asus a8n32. mj

Three things spring to mind, 1 - a power issue. Your Psu is a little low on juice for your cpu and vga card (imho). Have you got the PCI-E card connected correctly ? You really want it on its own power cable - ie even though the cable might have 2 or 3 molex and a floppy on it, only connect...

I use mine but looking at the mobo manual, I think this is how it's disabled..... "Advanced" tab in Bios, choose Onboard devices, at the bottom the setting to change is "onboard ac97 audio" - set it to disabled, might be worthwhile uninstalling the drivers first. good luck mj

I just moved from an HT P4 at 3ghz to an Opteron 146 at 2.8. Whilst the Opty blows away the P4 benchmark scores, there are more instances of "pauses" when I am doing multiple things. Burn a disk, play some tunes and then try opening up a couple of prog's and it will stick for a second - this...

Celeron 2's cannot run in SMP mode so that's a non starter. Whilst theoretically you are right about the higher fsb offering better bandwidth, the VIA chipset and it's implementation of the Memory and PCI bus is so poor that there isn't any real benefit between 100 and 133. If your cpus are...

Can anyone say how these newer P4/s478 coolers compare to the Alpha Pal 8952 ? I have one in my server now - it was cooling a 2.6 at 3ghz and is now on a 1.6 at 2.4 (stock volts)- but for some reason it doesn't appear to be any better in this setup than the retail 3ghz cooler I had on it...

The fastest really depends on the bus speed you're going to run. I can't recall if Intel actually released a 133fsb part that ran at 1ghz. I had 2 700s running at 933 and used a 1ghz on it's own (100 fsb). The Tualatins are not supported and I'm sure you know that Celerons don't run in SMP...

First thought from the description is a driver issue or possibly data corruption issue. I had some problems with my new NF4 board with the Nvidia driver pack - specifically the IDE driver. As I use PATA, the standard MS Ide drivers work best - installing the NF4 drivers casued BSOD's and...

I have an Antec 430 plugged into an A8N32 with an 1800xt. I used a 20-24 pin converter, but the Asus also has the "EZ plug" that it advises you use if using a 20 pin. If your board doesn't have sucha feature I'd agree with the others, a new PSU is the way to go. mj

Versus a non Centrino laptop, the biggest advantage is lower power consumption which translates into much better battery life. I have a P3 "m" based laptop and whilst it was good in its day, it struggles to last 2hrs watching a dvd. A Centrino based laptop should do this with capacity to...

I've got the a8n32 with a 146, running it at 2.8. Super stable, cool and relatively quiet. I have run at 300fsb with a lower multi, but my memory prevents me from trying anything higher (that and I'm gutless :) ) I have a dual slot card (xt1800) and it does allow me to use the 2nd pci slot -...

P4s533 Asus link That's the page with the Bios updates, but none state anything about being 48bit LBA fix's , so I'd guess the board might be ok. Did you change any jumpers on the HD ? The best setting is "Cable Select" - as some others can limit the space presented to the Bios - I have a...

It sounds like a non 48bit LBA bios - as you shouldn't lose that much space on formatting. Only an updated Bios is going to fix that (or an IDE Pci card that supports drives over 137gb). As for erasing the partitions, you should be able to do it with the XP CD but if you can't, try to get a...

Nope, I juts got the A8n32 and it had no such adaptor. Luckily for me I'd picked a 20-24 pin convertor up on flea bay for a couple of quid. I also bought a molex to 6 pin PCI-E power adaptor but didn't need it as the ATI card I got came with it's own. If your old PSU is up to the job (mine...

Thanks for the heads up, I have heard a few good reports on the LG writers and reckon it's time I gave one a whirl. The NEC is definitely on the way out, I hooked it up to my P4 server and it did similar things - though I did actually get the dual layer disk to burn ok. It is still doing the...

Yip, took the NEC to v1.07 and still no joy. I then plugged it into the Sil IDE card and had the exact same results :confused: . Works fine at 8x on single layer disks, but there are times during the burn where the buffer drops to zero - which it never did up until I upgraded. I only have one...