Recent content by smitty2005

I'm going to be replpacing my Epox nForce4 Ultra MoBo (garbage, garbage, garbage) for a new MoBo. Here's my question: What is the difference bewteen the Sli and the Ultra, and would I need any other hardware changes if I replace my current Ultra board with an SLI board? My rig's other hardware...

I'm looking for a socket 939 nvidia nforce-4 ultra atx amd motherboard. I'm replacing an Epox board that was absolutely garbage. I'm relatively new to this, and this is my own personal rig. I won't be doing any overclocking. I've seen alot of good things about Asus, but I also heard alot of...

My father in law has asked me to build my broter in law a new PC. He's given me a budget of 400 (hey, what can I say?) This doesn't have to be a gaming-intense machine. A decent hard drive, perhaps a DVD-RW (not comeltely neccessary). This will just be a web surfer, home productivity deal. It's...

I'm not getting sound from things being played by me DVD drive. I get sound from things on my hard drive (Windows, etc), but when i try to watch a DVD or even play a game from from the optical drive, I hear nothig. Any ideas?

Oh yeah, I went all through that with Epox. The drivers are current. I think it might just be a compatibility problem.

I'm building a rig based on an EPOX 9npa+ultra MoBo and an Athlon64 3000+ processor. I wanted to use an ATI AIW X600pro (PCIe) to do some minor gaming and video capture. I put the machine together, and the display was FUBAR. Absulutely unintelligible. I plopped in an old Voodoo card (PCI circa...

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anybody else have any ideas?

I was thinking either I need to update my BIOS or the MoBo is dead. I'm a brand newbie though, so what do I know. I'll say this, I'm very frustrated. I've been looking forawrd to building a PC for years, and now that I've finally done it, I can't seem to get it to work the way I want.

Yes, I connected the 24-pin connecter and the 4 pin connector near it

I'm building a new sytem with an EPOX 9npa+ultra MoBo and an Athlon64 3000+ processor. When I put the AIW card (purchased at trade show) into its PCI-express slot, I get an unreadable screen when I boot up. So, I took it out, and put in an old 3dfx voodoo3 card into one of the PCI slots. I was...

Oh, here's my stem by the way: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice Processor EPOX 9NPA+Ultra Thermaltake SOPRANO VB1000SWS Silver ATX Mid Tower Case OCZ PowerStream OCZ420ADJ ATX 420W Power Supply Corsair Value Select (Dual Pack) 184 Pin 512MBx2 DDR PC-3200 Samsung Spinpoint 200GB: ATI...

The newbie first-time build from hell continues... OK, so I solved my MoBo grounding problems (see earlier thread, "Help! Help! Help!"), got my system to start up with all the right lights lighting and proper sounds, uh, sounding. When I finally plugged my monitor in, I got a garbled...

After a frustrating night with my first build, I've determined my I/O shield causes everything to short out when I apply power. It's metal parts must be touching something on the MoBo In short, everything works when the MoBo is installed with the shield out. Otherwise, the system only powers up...

I'm using an EPOX 9NPA+Ultra. Nothing appears to be touching it. It makes perfect sense not to keep trying it the case. I certainly don't want to screw anything up. My only question is, how do I know if I've fixed it without trying it in the case? Oh the humanity.