Recent content by dirkoneill

Yeah you have to just pull real hard and twist a little to get some movement and hopefully air under there. It took me awhile but it will work if you put some strength into it. Those thermal pads are a pain.

I don't know if this is it. Something about the different motherboards reactions and then how windows reacts on the older machines compared to the new machines compared to linux working perfectly, makes me think this isn't it. All of those different instances do not make a consistent issue. The...

Is this only on newer motherboards because it works perfectly on my other windows xp machines.

I don't have a USB hub so I can't test that theory but it sounds pretty good. But would the OC protection only occur in windows? I"m going to buy a Logitech MX 310 mouse today and hook it up to the ps2 port. Hopefully that will let me get my setup going. I wonder if it will work as a USB device.

I've started building my new machine based on the Ultra 4 chipset but i've run into a huge problem, twice. My first board was a KN1 extreme but I returned it due to this problem and the new board is an MSI Neo4 Platnium. With both boards, my usb keyboard and mouse refused to work in windows...

I didn't think that it could be bad ram because my system worked fine with the kingsten value ram that I initially purchased. Could it be that the ram was not up to par? I can't believe that being an acceptable answer since a bios update should not change the ram requirements if it was working...

Thanks for the help. Twisting worked. Now when i order my new motherboard what do I need to get in order to clean off the heat sink and CPU? Also is it going to be ok without the thermal pad and only thermal paste?

alright i'll give it some more power. scary.

How old is your ata controller/computer? I just had this happen to me when i bought a new 250GB drive. The ata controller card was too old to recognize the size. What are you working with?

I am returning my motherboard(KN1 extreme) and I need to uninstall the CPU and heatsink. The heatsink is the standard one that comes with the AMD 64 3000+ and I have unhooked both side hooks that attach to the motherboard. This was my first time builing a computer and I was surprized at how easy...

Consider yourself lucky that you got 1.0f to work. I couldn't even get that. I used nTune, winFlash, and their provided DOS utility. All I got after each attempt is the ram beeps. Unfortunatly on my last attempt, I pressed the enter button, looked down, crap. The flash hat was still on the BIOS...

well the dos utility worked but the motherboard still beeps so i guess the bios isn't correct. And to really top things off, I just managed to overwrite the top hat flash too. Awesome. Any ideas?

I would like to apologize from the beginning if I am lacking some details. This happened to me last Thursday and I am posting from memory. Last Thursday I received my new ECS KN1 extreme motherboard and an athlon 64 3000 CPU. After assembly and installation, everything seems good except for...