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Hi all, I am trying to restore an older IDE drive on a A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. After restoring (Acronis - which I have used successfully in the past) windows is looking for new hardware drivers. I don't have the cd that came with it and I've managed to find the ethernet drivers but I can't...

It had been working fine for several years. ??? I'm thinking maybe the SATA ports are kaput?

HI Blain, It doesn't show up in the bios or in disk management. Also I've tried plugging in another SATA drive that I have in both SATA ports and it doesn't show up either. I haven't tried another cable but I will. Is it possible that the controllers went out? G.

I have an old A7N8X Deluxe motherboard currently with an IDE drive that I use for backup but I need to install a new SATA drive that will contain the OS. Can someone refresh my memory on how I get the pc to recognize the new drive and then how to get the bios set to boot to it first, etc. ? I...

Good thought. Do most external enclosures support SATA? I've checked two that I have and they don't. They are a few years old. G.

Hi all, Here is what is going on with an older pc I own. The motherboard is a A7N8X Deluxe. I have two hard drives connected as follows: SATA connected to the SATA Raid_2 connector. This one has been the boot drive. I have an IDE drive that I use for back up slaved to the SATA drive and is...

I've built a system on a P5K motherboard, 6600 Quad core, 2 gb RAM. On bootup I get this message: 'Intel CPU uCode loading error' press F1 to resume. It boots fine after I press f1 but I find it annoying. I have searched around and it seems that a bios update should take care of it but I've...

I want to get a KVM switch for my two pcs. Most of the kvm switches in my price range seem to have vga video instead of dvi. If I go ahead and get a vga switch will there be a noticeable difference in video quality? What am I sacrificing? Tia for any info. Gary

HI all, Just put togther a new pc built on a P5K mb, 6600 quad core cpu. Got everything in place, press the power button and the CPU fan starts, but quickly shuts off -- nothing else happens. No HD whirl, nothing. There is a green light on the motherboard when I plug it in though. This also...

Thanks. Much appreciated. I checked the manual but wasn't sure. G.

Clever answer!! I'm impressed. Thanks

I have 2 x 1gb of DDR2 RAM. How should I populate the slots on my P5K motherboard? Thanks for any info. Gary

Hi all, I am happy enough with my Nano, but my wife is looking for a mp3 player that has "real" fast forward and not just that slow scanning that the Nano allows. Can anyone recommend a player that has this feature? Thanks for any info. Gary

Thanks. G.