Recent content by Nando

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    How to disable onboard sound

    One more question, and this is to satisfy my curiosity. In the Bios the auio codect shows three options; AUTO, ENABLE and DISABLE. What does AUTO actually does? Auto is de default setting. I jus disabled it to avoid any conflict.
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    How to disable onboard sound

    Thanks DAPUNISHER, It is working now.
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    How to disable onboard sound

    I did look in the Device Manager but I was not sure what to disable since I saw a bunch of entries of "Legacy Audio" and something like codec.
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    How to disable onboard sound

    Well I did not find it in the BIOS. I went everywhere in the BIOS but no luck.
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    How to disable onboard sound

    How do I disable the onboard sound from the Asus K8N-E Deluxe? I want to install the Audigy 2 Platinum on this MB but I don't see the on board sound in the BIOS set up to disable it.
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    Safely Remove Hardware Icon

    NewParadime, How do I optimize for Performance or portability and how do check how they are optimized?
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    Vid card cooling fan dying

    I had the same problem with my AIW ATI card. ATI wil not help. Remove the fan from the heatsink by removing four screws (heatsink is glued to the chip). Look at the model number that is in the back of the fan. Is probably an ADDA fan. I ordered a new fan from http://www.mouser.com/ . The...
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    Safely Remove Hardware Icon

    I just purchased a new external USB memory card reader. In the installation and use instruction it instruct to double click the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon before unistalling the card. After the installation the mentioned icon show up in the task bar. Before installing this new memory card I...
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    Attention Canon Printer Owners

    I own a Canon i960 and I refill my cartriges using the Stratitec Injet Refill kit. I buy it from Sam's Club for about $16. They are the only one that sell this kit. I had been using it for about a year and have no problems. This kit includes 3 bottle of black ink and one each of the color...
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    AMD Throughbred vs. Thorton

    Thanks "Whatever". I also think that the Throughbred is faster than the Barton. I have a Barton 2500+ and is rated at 1.83 Ghz while the Throughbred 2400+ is rated at 1.93. Any reason why do you recomend the Abit over the Asus. I have five computers (2 belongs to me and 3 to my kids)...
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    AMD Throughbred vs. Thorton

    Yes, I an going to upgrade the cpu, motherboard (ASUS), ram, hard drive and anything else tha needs to be upgraded. I am considering the A64 but the high price of cpu and MB is holding me back. I have another computer with an ASUS A7N8X and an Athlon XP 2500+ (is a Barton). I still will like...
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    AMD Throughbred vs. Thorton

    Can anyone tell what is the difference between the AMD Throughbred and the Thorton. Also which one is the fastest AMD CPU other than the 64. I will like to upgrade my computer in order to do video editing.
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    Thorton vs Thoroughbred

    What is the difference beween the AMD Thoroughbread and the Thorton? I serched the forum but was not able to find an answer. Also, which one is the fastest AMD CPU other than a 64? The Barton looks like is slower thant the Thorton or Thoroughbread.
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    How to format a slave drive to NTFS ?

    Try using the utilities disk that came with the hard drive or go to the web site of your HD and download the lates utilities available. This utility will see that a HD need to be configure base on OS and will ask if you want to format it with NTSF or FAT 32. This is easy and fast. PS: Sorry...