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Well, I tried that using the utility that Asus supplies. Problem is, it runs through the first steps but fails to verify on the last step and won't finish flashing the bio's. I'm going to check my setup to make sure its not blocked from being flashed or something. So I'm still with the ver...

Thanks, I'll do it. This crashing problem seems to affect everything, IE 5.5, Windows, Games, drivers, etc. My computer has become very unreliable except for cruising the internet. If IE crashes, I just go back to where I was and pick up reading. Thanks again.

If its mechanical failure, I'm not sure there is a way you can test it. Programs will tell you that the drive is working correctly as far as checking the disk surface and read/writes. If it is getting ready to fail mechanically, it will start with making noise. It is probably the component that...

Hola, I'm looking for some help on this. I've searched and found nothing so far on it. This problem has been around for awhile. I built my computer Christmas before last and it has worked great till recently. I love to build computers and have tinkered with electronics since 1973, when I got a...

If the MB supports ATA 100 and you have it setup for it with the proper cable, it should be fine. Some of the MB's have to be set in bio's for the ATA 100, some only support ATA 66. My son's MB supports ATA 66 in the documentation, but it had a flyer added that says the manual is wrong and it...

I am thinking about going back to AMD and trying to build a fast AMD Athlon DDR computer. What MB, cpu, memory would be the best? I started out using AMD a long time ago and had a K6-2 300 and 400. Both gave me the blues. I had FIC boards then with Via chipsets. Seemed everything was...