Recent content by Mclendo06

Yeah, I finally broke down after realizing that there is no such cable and did that. Well, not an Areca but a 3Ware due to cost. I think it will work well, though.

I have a new HP Proliant Microserver that I'm working on setting up. Its motherboard doesn't support RAID 5 so I got an Areca RAID card to help with that. However, I have hit an unexpected difficulty... The HDDs are set up in caddys that interface with a backplane. The four backplanes are...

Just FYI, a wierd thing happend to me the last couple of days. I have the P5B Deluxe Wi-Fi and am using G.Skill ram at the moment (2GB) with an E6600 CPU. A couple of nights ago, I was able to install the OS but then when I flashed the bios to the most recent one on the Asus website, I...

Just for everyone's benifit, it was a RAM issue. I got home from work today, unplugged the RAM, cycled the compy on and off a couple of times (got a blinking cursor - progress!), installed one of the dimms back into the machine, got it to boot to OS in single-channel mode, then took a risk and...

@Dan- I think you probably will have issues. I was putting mine together last night (E6600 and 2GB of 6400 G.Skill memory, F2-6400CL4D as I recall). I had OS installed and everything running ok except that the memory would drop down to lower speeds and I got that wierd "CPU uCode Error"...

I just tonight finally got my E6600 processor in from Tiger Direct and was setting up my system. During the boot up process, I kept getting a wierd error about a uCode for the CPU prompting me to hit F1 to proceed. Anyways I set everything up, installed an OS, installed all the MB drivers...