Recent content by nick5ter

i used the 4core-dual vsta as a jumping platform, ive now finally moved all my stuff to DDR2 and PCI-E and a new motherboard was done just a few weeks ago :) defo a good board for a jump onto Intel if u have all the old stuff from say a Athlon Platform. will be using it as a server when...

mobile athlon xp? 100fsb? thats just stupid. set it to 200 and set the multi to like 11.5 or 12, 2.4 gigs easy with the right cooling. higher FSB was always better as i remembered it when clocking the athlon xp-m or atleast try 166, with say 13

i have 6 copies of xp from msdnaa, only use one and have had to reactivate it like 7 times lol, had to do it over the phone for 5 of the 7 times... no big deal tho as it only took 5 mins to do. ive just installed the vista business verson and and getting it all setup before i activate the...

I have the 4core Dual Vsta. i have managed to install a BFG 8800GTS 320 OC on this system and get it working, though it did take some persuasion :) Initally it was crashing, untill i removed overclocking. It works fine in XP or Vista 32bit or 64bit, and playing around with the power to the...

does'nt vista have DEP like windows xp? if so i think the exe might need to be added to the expection.

Ok basically i have 3 hhd, one has just died. when i installed windows, i put windows onto the sata drive which is drive E: the 2 other drivers are c and d. d has just died, if i take this out i can no longer boot, because E: defaults to D :( and it nolonger can find the boot record...

sounds like u got the engirneer sample, which has 4mb of cache instead of the standard 2mb, run CPUz and check there and the steping and revision. if thats the case just overclock it to the default 266 and u basically have a e6400 with 4mbs of cache. performance should hopfully be somewhere...

what do you mean you cant get into safe mode?

try going into safemode, open up device manager and find display adapters and uninstall the ati graphics adapters... the reboot and see what happens.

ive come from the same setup. had a asus nForce2 mobo, how i shall miss it ;) with a Athlon-XPm 2500+ at 2.5gigs and with the asus x800xtpe im loving the performance boost i got :). and it only cost 150 quid to upgrade :D only problem was the bios on the asus x800xtpe was changed by asus...

im just guessing here, but the asus ati card might have slightly modded bios's to work with there speical drivers.... causing it to fail to intiliaze the display when the ati drivers are installed. a flash to the standard ati bios might be required, tho as you havent got the card yet it might...

ive PM you on how its done... took me 2 days to figure it out when i got the board. after i figured it out, asrock mail me back 2 days after getting it working telling me to get a new bios from Asus which is impossible as they have no others.... kinda figured out why it happens, asus has...

should of just flashed the bios on the x800, u did remove all the drivers for ati b4 putting that nvidia into the system right?

what the hell are u on about?

well this problem was kinda narrowed down to one thing, when windows starting it would freeze.... the primary ati display card would fail to initialize. donno why but seems a few cards have slightly different configurations in there bios that makes this difference