Recent content by solas989

Ya, it stinks how I am the tester :) But anyway. Both boards are BAD. I got an Asus M2A-VM and it booted like a charm (I only hate the slot layout). But it works. When I have time, I will post information to hopefully get batch numbers.

I look viusally at the board. I did not notice anything abnormal. Caps are fine, no bad traces that I can see, mosfets seem good, all connections are solid etc. CMOS jumper is in correct position per board silk screen and manual. Only jumper on board. Other ram does nothing (Patriot 667...

OK, I have two Biostar TA690G from two different vendors. Is it possible both are dead? AMD X2 4200+ 65W 90nm (works in another system) Hanns G 19" Widescreen (DVI+VGA) I use Silverstone NT-06 (requires removal of AM2 bracket) Silverstone ST50EF-PLUS Short Cable Edition (have not powered...

You can do a basic upconvert from 480i/p to 1080i/p if your monitor/tv supports it. Doing so (just playing dvd at resolution of 1080p) is decent, but yo make it better, you will need real time conversion/tweak as mentioned. You can google many programs that do this, but first try...

If you want to know if it is your memory for sure, use MemTest86+. Say run it over night to to get multiple passes of the RAM. It "could" be the dvd/cd drive not being able to read the discs? Is the access light blinking while it "hangs"? Are your discs scratch free? Good Luck Solas

I got my board from Ewiz - DOA - no post or anything. :| Now I have to RMA it, and Ewiz does not cross ship even if they charge your cc twice. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. So I have to wait... Why dont ppl cross ship anymore? I did notice it was Ver 5.2....hmmm....dont know which batch. Dont know...

It would be nice to have one, but they do not exist as they said above, the chipsets were developed before PCIe was an official standard to implement. Solas

DVD Shink is a good way to go, as well as getting good compatible media (not your 100DVD's for $5.00 junk). I use it to shrink to 4.7GB and it does a great job. I think the latest version is 3.2 (plus it saves the original from being destroyed, at least it does in my house, darn rug rats....)...

I agree with the above - you need to upgrade to a non expired socket (ei AM2) - which is alot more money than what you want to buy. Plus you may not seem a huge difference between AGP/PCIe (given other variables are constant - good luck with that). Just get a good AGP card and be happy - I...

I am not aware of it being shipped with such a device (will know tomorrow). See Biostar Website I get half my order today, the rest tomorrow. The bigges thing 690G is tooting is the built in HDMI and low power consumption (in conjunction with their EE or 65nm cpus) I too preferred the...

THAT looks NICE It would look great in my home theater as I have wood enclosures around my TV and equipment - one would not even know the HTPC is there! Excellent work. So when can I expect to see it on the market ;) Solas

Both can kill a cpu. Temp - each manufacturer has certain limits on the cpu temp - anything greater will cause potential phycical failure. In General Guide. This does not mean that an overheated cpu will die right then and there, it is like slowly killing the cpu, how quickly it dies...

Even though you have a 700W PS, it does not mean you are drawing 700W from the wall (making your electric bill higher). Depending on your setup, you could be only drawing 140Watts to 250Watts, give or take. Obviously SLI setups, Quad/Dual cores draw more power etc. Now, if you have an...

I would go out on a limb and say no. I have the same drive (pending model number) but is setup on NDAS. It has a 10.25MB/s sustained rate (on 100MB network). I have not attached it to IDE port. What program are you using to benchmark? Solas

If it is like my Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe, there are a 3 ways to do it. Also refer to the manual. Bios-->Tools-->EZ Flash 2-->Proceede Boot with 3.5" Floppy or USB Drive (bootable) with the EZ Flash sw on it and the new bios. Proceede from there. Update within windows (I dont like this...