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MPC-HC Last night I tried to upgrade to the latest ATI driver (10.x). It only gets worse -- if the HDTV is turned off and later turned back on, the display gets corrupted.

I used to have nVidia 6600 and Asus HD 4350 with the same setting and it works fine. The driver is the latest from Gigabyte (dated 2010). ATI has more recent driver but my experience with non manufacturer driver has more issues.

XP SP3 ATI_8.70_RC2_WinXP_Jan15 1280x1024 primary display, 1920x1080p second display, extended desktop In full-screen theatre mode, 4:3 is stretched to 16:9 on HDTV In full-screen theatre mode, 16:9 is compressed vertically, with black bars on the top and the bottom of the screen...

If it ends with FF, yes it's good. However, it starts with FF and stays there.

The HD looks silent. I don't hear any spin. The screen remains black.

Epox 9PNA+Ultra mobo AMD A640 3800 2x1GB Crucial RAM nVidia 7600 card Seagate SATA drive Antec Sonata II case with Antec PS Machine was working last night. It fails to boot this morning, stuck at post code FF (attempt to boot, the first code). I've already tried to reset CMOS but it...

I RMA'ed one b/c of the fan. The second one is loud, though not as bad as the first one.

Is there any control for the chipset fan? Or does the temperature setting in BIOS affect fan speed? Thanks!

I am trying to move the OS from a PATA drive to a SATA drive. Does this mobo has a bios option to set the SATA channel to be compatible to IDE so that the SATA drive can be detected by drive copying software as an IDE drive? Or is there any drive copying software that recognize SATA natively...

This is my first epox mobo. The chipset fan is really loud, even louder than the fan on the X800 video card. And the noise is even a bit irregular. Is it normal for the ultra board? Or do I have a defective hsf? Thanks!

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Do you a passive one is good enough to cool it down? I don't intend to overclock. Thanks!

I have an Antec case with 120mm fan. My video card fan is also loud - Radeon X800, along with the chipset fan. I stopped video card fan and what remains is the chipset fan. CPU and case fan is quiet.

Anyone knows a quiet chipset fan? This one is really too loud for me. Thanks!

To answer my own question, you have to use DIMM solt 1&2 first. I used 3&4 and got C1 with the fan plugged in. Still, that is weird, with and without fan.