Recent content by Maverick69

I'm going to give it in a try in about an hour and report back. Thanks for the tips.

Hello all. I just got a new sata drive and it didn't come with any software. First off, I plugged the sata drive into the sata1 plug on my motherboard. Bios detected the drive fine but it is not detected by windows. I'm hoping that this will be remedied when I mirror the old ide to the new...

Hi everyone, I'm looking into getting an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium motherboard and I want to put 4 GB of RAM into. I was going to do it in a fashion of 4 x 1 GB sticks. I know that some boards have a difficult time detecting RAM of this setup. Does anyone know if this is a problem with the...

Guys, I'm looking to getting a MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum and I've read from a single source that they were only able to put 3 Gig of ram into it. I haven't been able to find any other information about this and was wondering if anyone here has had one or any knowledge about this? I'm looking...

Thanks bud. That cleared up a ton.

I'm confused by all of this notion. Can anyone sheed some light on what are the main differences between the Opteron and FX line of chips. I know the FX series up to recently were only single-core, but what about the Opteron. Also some other main differences? I'm much confused. I'm...

Yeah, something like that. Good point :)

Bootable win xp cd = death of the floppy However, I still have one because a pc without one just doesn't look right.

Guys, just looking for alittle input. I'm looking to do some HD editing. As of right now I'm going to use a X2 4400+. I know that the advantage of having dual processors over dual cores is that a dual processor setup won't have to use the same hyper-transport or memory controller like the...

Is that some kind of notation I missed somewhere along the way? :)

A weak psu could cause your machine to not turn on at all.

In my experiences with electronics, providing too little power has never messed up a device. I can't imagine how it physically would. It would be more likely that a power supply would be toasted from a device pulling too much current through it which the power supply couldn't handle, however...

Thanks guys, I had my notations and stuff all mixed up. I've been out of the loop for a couple of years now and I'm just getting back in to find all kinds notations and variations (i.e. amd) that after a week of reading to catch up from 2003 have my head spinning. Anyway, you guys have...

Guys, I was wondering if the dual pci-x slots on the new SLI motherboards can be used separately or can they only be used in a dual videocard setup? I want to do some HD editing and a good HD capturecard needs a pci-x slot. Which, apparently, leaves me without a place for my videocard. I...

New idea. I had a bad stick of ram before. Now, whenever I boot I get windows errors or my pc freezes right as it begins to read the hard drive. To fix it I boot from my winXP cd rom, and I use the repair command to repair the masterboot record. Whenever I do this it tells me that I have a...