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    Asus a8n-e..

    I would most definitely get an new PSU 350 probably won't cut it. a 7800 plus a dual core sucks up some power. I grabbed a Neo HE 500 from antec and that is working great. but if you have the money i would pick up a PC power and Colling PSu those things are awesome
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    Asus a8n-e..

    You might be able to do it with out ripping out the MOBO. You gotta take the plastic frame thingy ( can't remember what its actually called) out that your current HSF is installed to and replace it with the one that comes with the unit. I had to Unscrew the screws that hold down the frame thing...
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    Asus a8n-e..

    Ok so reflashed my bios and my HDD's showed up. then windows BSOD'd me with Driver_IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. then after a reboot they don't show up anymore. windows loads fine. I wonder if they got software raid'ed somehow. I think I'm just gonna back everything up and rebuild the array...
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    My drives are SATA 1, Would being plugged into SATA 2 ports have anything to do with it? It would seem so but i thought i'd ask anyways.... and one off the topic question, does anyone have that Zalman ZM80D-Hp VGA heatsink I want to replace the turbine i've got on my x1800xt and was looking into...
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    updated drivers to 6.70 and BIOS at 1010....still showing my array in safely remove hardware icon....everything still runs fine...just seems a bit odd. any other suggestions outside of me destroying and rebuilding the array? Or should i try to reflash my BIOS? I have an X2 4400 with 2...
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    Asus a8n-e..

    I disabled NCQ and that seems to cure the hang up.... but i enabled everything sata related in the BIOS and still nothing.... i wonder if my HDD's are failing they are about a year and a half old. thanks for the info though.
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    Asus a8n-e..

    Im having the same problems as agathodaimon... the other issue I am having is the my BIOS doesn't show my SATA drives as being connected at all, but the NVRAID utility shows my 0 array as being healthy and in Windows XP the safely remove hardware icon appears in the system tray and it shows both...