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Hi everyone, I too, got the email saying the rebate was invalid due to wrong sku# I emailed them back stating that the Circut City rebate form from their web site also incl a rebate for 256 DDR (I incl the model# ..OPT). I stated that everything as sent in order and to rereview my rebate...

Hi, I have been experimenting with my Iomega cd burner 12x10x40 under both win 98se and WinXP and I have been getting pc lockups with burning from an image file saved on my hard drive using the software nero 5.5. Buring on the fly works ok.The copy from the image file does get placed on the...

I thought I could do it, but I felt better posting the question first. I have the original box and a foam sleeve ....nice tip! Outside of shorting the power led to start the boot process. I dont think I will need to set any of the other case pins? Thanks for all the replies...

Hi everyone! My friend has a new motherboard that will not detect the floppy drive. He has tried different cables and floppy drives no luck. He even went in the bios to have all settings seek the floppy ...no luck. I have a spare power supply, vid card, floppy and hard drive ...can I test it...

Hi, If possible I would like to setup up a Win98se/winXp dual boot on a raid O setup. I have 2 matching 40 gig Maxtors ata133 and a Abit Kr7a-R motherboard. If possible, I know I may have to install Win98 first then winXP. But its the installation and formating the partitions for each OS and...

Any Asus a7v133 users who made the amd xp upgrade out there??

Hi, I tried doing a cpu upgrade on my asus a7v133 using the latest bios and a new athlon xp1700. Everything went in ok but on boot up the system freezes with only the red hard drive light on. For the heck of it I hit the reset button and it booted. I got into the bios and ran setup defaults...

Hi Iron Woode, Thanks for the reply, The only PS I have to try is a sparkle 300w...I tried it and got the same results. Thanks for the info regarding the transfer rates. I may try raid 0 or go to a 7200 rpm HD. My motherboard is a bit on the old side rev 1.05 but ran ok prior to the cpu...

Hi, I just had to try a new cpu upgrade. I picked up a XP 1700 and flashed my bios to 1009. Everything looked ok, I set the i/o to 3.3 the core voltage to 1.75 an left the rest jumperless. I later upgraded my via 4-1 to the new beta 4.39 . Windows is fine at restart but from a cold start I...

HI, I am not a big gamer but there is a overclock prog at I believe at rage 3d...it is a tweak program. It will intergrate itself into the ATI settings tab options. I ran final reality ...not the best benchmark , but I was able to overclock the VE to 200/200 with no problems. I only have a OC...

HI, I have not had a chance to play around much with my AE but it comes with one line out cable with 3 cables coming out of it C/LFE,REAR & FRONT. IT also has a S/PDIF CABLE with an spdif out and spdif in that plugs into its own din...as well as an anolog cd cable.On the card is also an...

HI, Thanks for the reply ....I will go the 7200 rpm route and move the 5400 rpm. Breeze :-)

HI, I just picked up a Phillips Acoustic Edge last week at Best Buy to replace the onboard sound on my asus av133a... It was $54.37 after a $20 mail in rebate . The rebate in my recipt says its good till 12/31. Its a nice card with a lot of features with settings for 2,4 or 5.1 speaker...

HI, Has anyone done a comparison of the above HD configurations? I may just by the maxtor 5400 rpm drive and try the raid 0 .....If SSandra scores show no improvment to justify losing the extra storage space I'll use it as a slave in my daughter's system.... Breeze ;-)

HI, I have an ata 100 5400 rpm maxtor HD on my Asus av133a. I have the raid 0 option. If I add a 2nd 54oo rpm maxtor ( on sale this week ) will it give me better performance than a single 7200 rpm HD? I am using win 98 se but will be upgrading to 2000 also. Duron 700 at 6.5 x 133 384 megs...