Recent content by fishboy24d

The cables that came with the motherboard are DMA IDE PATA cables. I think all modern drive cables are DMA capable. So for now, ignore the IDE and DMA part. The PATA just means the cable is one of those 80 pin cables, the ribbon type. The motherboard should have come with one. Plug the blue...

My new Conroe E6600 is running 50 C. at idle, which I understand to be a little hot. I installed the ASUS monitoring software, and it beeps at me because my CPU fan is spinning under 800 RPM. I'm using the stock Fan/Heatsink. I plan to replace it as soon as I find something that fits. Is...

I think more and more people are feeling abandoned by the party they used to affiliate themselves with. Too much free spending, like you say, "beverly hills housewives"

Economic Left/Right: 5.13 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.10 I would like think most people would have a small amount of libertarian in them, meaning they just want the government to butt out. When it comes to economics though, I realize people swing both ways on that. In reality, I...

I'm no expert by any means, but I have your same motherboard, so I'll throw out my opinions. My motherboard came with the PATA connector enabled. I don't know if you can disable it, but you may be able to, which leads me to think yours may be disabled. I doubt your CDROM and DVD ROM are both...

I received my ASUS P5B motherboard the other day, and I was getting uCode errors from the start. I flashed the bios with the newest release, and that problem was solved. I racked my brain trying to get Windows XP SP2 installed, but I kept getting BSOD's when I installed drivers. Finally...