Recent content by NHHokie

Geez, I just found the ATX12v cable. :o It was NOT bundled with the mainboard power cable (that was the ATX2.0 cable) but it WAS separate. It had gotten lost in all the extra cables and bound up with a molex cable so I hadn't noticed it. Talk about embarrassing. I must not have had enough...

Okay. my power supply has an ATX 2.0 cable with orange and red along with black and yellow and my board has an ATX12v socket. So I got the wrong power supply for my mainboard. The descriptions of power supplies and mainboards on NewEgg.com did not provide that level of detail or at least...

If you're talking about the front panel header (SW1) the info is as follows: Pin 1 HD LED + Pin 3 HD LED - Pin 2 FP PWR/SLP MSG LED+ Pin 4 FP PWR/SLP MSG LED- for completeness: Pin 5 Reset Switch - Pin 7 Reset Switch + Pin 6 Power Switch + Pin 8 Power Switch - Hope this helps...

Do I have the wrong power supply for this mainboard? I have a Fortron Source Group 450W SAGA power supply (vers 2.2) and it says it supports K8 mainboards. I have an ECS nForce3-A K8 mainboard. I put the 20 pin power socket together fine. But the 4 pin seemed to have the wrong...

One tip that might help figure the issue is to go to "Properties" of My Computers. Choose Advanced and then in the Start Up and Recovery section click on Settings. Under System Failure UNcheck the "Automatic Restart" box. Then you will be able to read the error message on the blue screen...

I've got a blue screen problem with XP Pro after I upgraded some peripherals. Microsoft Tech Support hasn't been able to come up with an answer why I'm getting an IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error screen after the hardware changes. I am talking to EPOX tech support. I went from IDE HDD's to SATA...

THANKS to all respondents! Success was mine, but a couple of notes: It had been working so well so long that I had forgotten how I had set up the RAID. I had actually used two different RAID 0 arrays (the first on RAID IDE channel 1 with two disks and the second on RAID IDE channel 2 with two...

I have a RAID main board that apparently died. Tried checking and reseating all chips and peripherals but machine occasionally boots as if nothing is wrong, then it just completely hangs on boot...no video, no nothing and LED indicator on board reads "FF" which means bad motherboard, RAM or...

Easiest thing to do is get a sort of "every day" boot disk with Win98 and a CDROM driver (the Toshiba driver seems to work on every IDE CDROM drive I've come across). Have format and fdisk on that boot disk. Run boot disk, fdisk and clear partition and create new one. Then reboot with...

My Epox 8k7a+ mobo died. I don't know what happened, but suddenly it won't boot at all and the LED remains at FF. I tried reseating all the chips, tried removing everything and reinstalling. Nothing. OCCASIONALLY it would boot ok and would work as if nothing was wrong, but if I had to...

Two years ago I put together a computer: EPOX 8k7a+ Athlon T-bird 1GHz CPU (Glaciator heatsink & cf) Mushkin 256MB 2100 RAM (x 2) Radeon 64MB VIVO AGP IBM 40GB 7200rpm x 4 with striping Case from A-top with 2nd cooling fan and 350W supply Running Win 2000 This computer shares a Belkin KVM...