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    EPoX EP-9NPA-SLI

    EPOX ROCKS!
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    Has anyone set up an Epox EP-9NPA+ Ultra yet?

    HI: YES SINCE UPDATING THE BIOS TO THE 03/02/05 THRU MAGIC BIOS MY TEMPS ARE IN MID 40'S IDLE AND LOW TO MID 50'S ON LOAD....THATS ABOUT 15 DEGREE DIFFERENCE FROM OLD BIOS WHERE TEMPS WERE LOWER...REGARDS
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    EPoX EP-9NPA+ ULTRA

    I HAVE THE MOBO...AWESOME
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    EPoX EP-9NPA+Ultra O/C problems

    hi: yes those 2 responses are correct for you lettered drive problem. Make sure in the bios that the sata drive is first. Unplug your other drives and boot up. go into disk manager and make sure its the "c" drive. then shut down and reconnect the other drives...regards
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    Asus A8N-E or EPoX EP-9NPA+ Ultra

    Hi: I have the Epox mobo. Board is awesome. I cant hear the chipset fan. dont know what all the fuss is. I have 2 case fans and an enermax p/s. Who's going to hear a little fan on a chipset? Its very quiet, take it from me...Regards
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    No problems with new EPOX NFORCE 4 mobo

    hi: I just installed a new epox ep-9npa+ Ultra mobo into my existing case. I had absolutely no problems. This mobo works flawlessly. I am not an overclocker so this may not be a big deal. But I'm reading about so many problems with the DFI's and MSI's and even the Asus's. I have 1 gig of...
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    SATA 150 Cables

    Sata II is now 300 but it still uses the standard 150 Sata cables...
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    [SOLVED] HELP - new motherboard wont work

    hi: It is very possible to change mobos and not have to re-install windows XP. I have a procedure that involves Microsofts sysprep and norton ghost. It works like a charm. I just setup my new epox ep-9npa+ ultra mobo and used my hard drive data from a via kt400 chipset mobo. Absolutely...
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    Ghost 2005 - Problem cloning

    barryng: Hi. I just got my copy of ghost 9 and am also a former user of ghost 2002. I received the same exact error as you did. My backed up drive seems to boot perfectly until the blue windows screen comes up and then it just freezes there. I have tried getting rid of the pagefile on the...
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    Has anyone set up an Epox EP-9NPA+ Ultra yet?

    Sam and Krose: Thanks for the replies. Hopefully I'll get to the mobo tomorrow. If not early next week. The Enermax P/S I purchased is a native 24 pin. Its 420 watts, noisetaker eg425p-ve sfma v.2.0. I'll keep an eye on those temps. Don't know which bios I have yet. Tonight I put the 8...
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    120GB 2nd IDE HD recognized as 33GB

    hi: Start with making the 120 the master just to see if the bios sees it as a 120...if so we know its not the bios...
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    Best memory <$200 for MSI Neo4 Platinum

    hi: I have always used Crucial memory and have never had a problem of any kind. Crucial uses micron chips one of the industry standards. I just bgt (2) 512m/b PC3200's from newegg but havent put my new system together yet. Cost $141 delivered. I'm not a gamer or overclocker myself. If you...
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    dead motherboard?

    hi: As we know it can be a hundred different causes. I have been building machines since the late 80's. First thing is try to boot with the mobo out of the case. If that is not feasible then start with the most vanilla system you can. Then its just a process of elimination. You have already...
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    Has anyone set up an Epox EP-9NPA+ Ultra yet?

    I just purchased the Epox 9npa+ ultra mobo from newegg and was wondering if anyone has set it up yet. If so any problems, hints, advice etc. I wont be able to get to mine until hopefully Sunday. I sold my Athlon 2200+ with 512m/b, 8meg agp 15 gig 7200 no screen etc for $525. I bgt the new...
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    nForce4 Users & AMD Cool 'N' Quiet

    hi: Just fyi...I purchased 2 hitachi 80 gig sata II hard drives 2 weeks ago at newegg@$61 each..regards