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    A8N-SLI Deluxe Hard Drive problem

    My SATA hard drive has started acting up, sometimes it recovers and sometimes it just gets stuck. When accessing the drive, it occasionally seems to get stuck and the drive will sit and spin. Windows XP eventually locks up, and locks up right away if I try to launch any other apps. I first...
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    SLI support for CAD

    With the advent of the nForce Professional motherboard (seems like only Tyan has one out right now, but others will no doubt be available soon), I am looking into revamping and upgrading the workstation configuration here at work. We have a lot of heavy CAD usage, specifically Pro/ENGINEER, so...
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    A8N-SLI O/C Memory Divider Oddity

    I have been tweaking the overclock settings on my A8N-SLI system, and came across something that seemed a bit odd to me. Maybe it's to be expected, which is why I am posting... I am able to push my O/C up to 240 MHz using the 1:1 (DDR400) memory divider setting, and everything works pretty...
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    A8N-SLI HDD performance

    So I have been having fun tweaking my system, and running this benchmark and that to see how it stacks up. I ran the nTune hard drive performance benchmark, and it comes out WAY below the "standard" that the Ntune utility shows. I have also run a Pro/ENGINEER (CAD) benchmark, and the drive...
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    A8N-SLI chipset fan error on boot

    I changed out that sketchy stock chipset fan on my A8N-SLI last night for the Zalman NB47J. Installation was pretty easy, except for removing the stock fan, a bit dodgy getting those push pins to come back out. I also swapped out the stock cooler on my eVGA 6600GT for the Zalman V700F. Now my...
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    A8N PCIE Clock Speed

    So I am pretty happy with my A8N-SLI MB setup, it's running pretty well and decently overclocked with no problems (I finally fixed all those that I inflicted on myself, heh). I have an eVGA 6600GT graphics card OCed to 580 MHz GPU/1.16 GHz RAM, and that's been serving me well also. I have...
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    A8N-SLI BIOS not recognizing SATA HD

    Sorry if this is repeating a topic and problem already posted and answered, but after a few fruitless forum searches I haven't had any luck... I finally got my A8N-SLI MB yesterday and built up my system - hurray! It was fun straightening the bent pins on the CPU I got from Newegg :-p and...
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    Upgradeable System Specs

    My system just turned four years old, it's been very reliable but the old dog just don't hunt like she used to. Time to turn her over to the wife, I guess :-p I am planning to build a completely new system, with a view towards upgradeability. I am going to try to skimp on a few components...