Recent content by overlordstu

Normally a 10second shutdown on an Asus board indicates the CPU is overheating...check the CPU and heatsink. The power switch could be the fact that if the PSU is on the blink, no power is getting to it. I once got Asus to reflash my BIOS chip for me (was in UK and cost £3) when it didnt...

Optical mice work by comparing images against eachother taken at many times a second, if a piece of dust or grit is in the optical 'eye' and big enough to influence the pictures, then it blowing in the breeze from your fan may be causing it to think it's moving when it isnt. Turn it upside down...

The more recent Asus boards have been having issues with Antec and Qtec PSU's - if poss go for thermaltake, enermax or Hiper. :)

I think that realistically you will find that any Athlon based motherboard using AthlonXP is DDR based as it was mainly the VIA KT/KM chipsets that dominated the start of the AthlonXP + DDR rollout needing to combat Intel and the RDRAM they supported at the time (and soon realised their mistake...

Asus also have various blue PCB VGA cards (predominantly PCI-Express Nvidia ones)....I think that blue is the new red! ;)

Memory is a very personal thing imo - I tend to use Crucial for its robust stability and sensible overclock tolerance - I have heard and read very good things about OCZ RAM - its a matter of personal taste I think but I'm sure someone will have a comparison for you to show you if your wasting...

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks...well thats RAID Raid comes in a number of configurations from raid 0-10. On a home PC, the most common use of RAID is for mirroring or striping- striping is used mostly for performance gain and mirroring is for backup. The following is taken from...

I have an Athlon64 3000+ based system, and to date I have had no software issues (including macromedia (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, etc), and Adobe programs (photoshop, acrobat etc)) or performance troubles. I havent tried 64bit Windows yet, although some people reported issues running 32-bi...

Control Panel > Network Connections > right click properties Choose configure controller and click on the power management tab - it probably has 'allow this device to turn off to save power' ticked - uncheck it and you should be fine :)

Windows Power settings - try taking a look at them *sorry I thought the problem was something else initially!*

In the graphics card settings (I think in advanced) there is a tickbox that says 'use extended desktop' - your desktop will then 'stretch' over both monitors and you can freely drag applications between the two.

Nope, I'd agree with your first thoughts of it being a motherboard issue, and get it replaced... :)

I also have Creative Gigaworks - and despite being warned that they arent as 'good' as logitech or Klipsch, I think they are great for the price, and certainly more than enough for what I need them for (surround gaming and DVD watching) - I can turn them up louder than I can bear to listen to...

Refurbs are things that were broken and have been fixed. The fact that even though they should work fine (and usually keep the warranty in case of another failure) and operate as good as new, they arent new - and therefore cant be sold as new, so instead are usually sold at a cheaper oprice as...

I'd go with Crucial Memory personally, I've found it will handle pretty much anything you throw at it! :)