Recent content by Skoop

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    All of a sudden, Explore cannot create folders or shortcuts

    This is very odd. With an Explorer window open, the File menu has no "New" option. Cannot create a folder. Right clicking a window has no option for "New", if I wanted to create a shortcut, for example. Using "Save As" menu in Word, though, I can create a folder in a directory tree on the...
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    Motherboard BIOS Failure or Video Card?

    Flash the BIOS back to how you had it. Don't mess with the BIOS if you're not having a specific hardware problem.
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    Argg!! A8V Deluxe no longer loads Win XP after updating Bios

    Reflash it to the previous version of the BIOS. Then, get into the BIOS and enable the appropriate controller, and disable everything else that is not in use. See if you can get it to boot. If not, try a repair installation. You may have borked the boot record. BIOS upgrades are...
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    ASUS A8V Backplate Removal

    Use the hair dryer. It won't hurt it. Keep the air stream focused on the plate. After 30 seconds or so, grasp it by one edge and pry it off. Don't use a tool. AS will get you a couple or three degrees lower temps at most. Either the Zalman or AS will be fine.
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    Bios Flashing how?? please help

    Did you read your manual?
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    Asus A8V Deluxe user feedback? Stability? Problems? Need lots of feedback.

    And if you read closely, you'll see that many of the problems that you do find are user error or inexperience.
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    The best piece of advice to newbie builder...

    Read the manual.
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    Need help flashing my A8V-Deluxe's bios.

    Why do you think you "need" to?
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    Help With Asus A8V-D

    If it's not broken, don't fix it. The new BIOS adds support for CPUs that you don't have, as well as beeps for when there are no RAM sticks--two "features" that you likely don't need. Flashing a BIOS is not risk free. Unless you need to, don't. There is almost no likelihood that you will...
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    Help! Asus A8V deluxe rev2 + Crucial Ballistix problem...

    Roland, this thread is about memory timings. Start your own thread if you have a fan problem.
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    Bios Update

    Why do you need to do this? Unless there is a specific problem or issue with your motherboard that is solved by an update, don't.
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    Asus A8v deluxe (newest bios 1009.007) wont post in dual channel

    Get control of the situation. Stop changing multiple variables at one time. Reflash to 1008 and leave the memory and CPU settings at default. Disable all on-board peripherals that you're not using. Start with one stick RAM in B1. Test it with Memtest. Run CPUz and see what the SPD...
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    Asus A8V. I give up

    The A64 and A8V combination is finicky about memory. There are numerous posts in this forum similar to yours, almost all of which are resolved by hard setting RAM timings or by testing and replacing RAM sticks. The A64 is less forgiving of weaknesses in RAM chips. You've incorrectly...
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    Assigning IRQs

    Why exactly do you want to use this PCI card? Your motherboard has an on-board Promise controller that will support U133.
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    Asus A8V. Either VIA sucks or I do.

    Nsist on Nvidia! Spoken like a true fanboy. Check out the the threads for help on the A8V, the AV8, and the Neo2. And any of the others. Nearly all of the issues are user error, unfamiliarity, and failure to read the manual. Every board and chipset has quirks and requires particular...