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    Corsair Nautilus Disassembly Question

    I am brand new to water cooling so forgive this newbie question. I installed a Corsair Nautilus cooling system a month ago. As fate would have it, my northbridge fan on my Asus A8N-SLI deluxe motherboard no longer spins. To replace it (any suggestions?), I need to remove my motherboard but no...
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    SLI Question about Nvidia 7800GT and 7900GT

    I have a BFG 7800GT video card and I was thinking about buying a BFG 7900GT. I have a couple of questions. (1) Can I run a 7800GT and 7900GT in SLI? (2) If I cannot, would I do better buying another 7800GT and use SLI or wait and buy a G80 card? Thanks!
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    Chipset fans and other fans not working

    I recently upgraded my CPU and ever since the fans plugged into my Asus A8N do not spin. The chipset fan will not spin and neither will any fan plugged into one of the 3-pin slots on the motherboard. I have tried reseating them, but no luck. I tried to find some bios setting that might help...
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    How to disassemble Seagate external hard drive?

    I have an external Seagate hard drive and the power supply died. I want to remove the hard drive from the case so I can keep using the drive, but I cannot seem to find a way to remove the case. There are no screws. It seems like the case should be able to split apart but there are some...
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    CPU Upgrade and WinXP

    I am about to upgrade my cpu from an AMD FX 53 to an FX 60. I would prefer not to have to do a clean install of WinXP. Does anyone know if I can get away with this? I am a bit worried since I am going from a single core to a dual core. Thanks in advance!
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    Raptor 74gb Power Inputs

    I am having some stability problems (keep getting machine state exceptions) and I think it is related to power issues. I have a great power supply, so I know it is not the problem. I have two Raptor 74b in a raid0 array. It has been suggested to me that I plug into both the SATA and molex...
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    Asus A8N Deluxe Beeping Noise

    I have an Asus A8N deluxe motherboard with an FX-53, 2 gb ram, and a 7800 GT videocard. My PSU is an Antec Neo 480. I have a few fans, four SATA drives, two dvd drives, and two ide drives connected to the motherboard. I also have a RocketRaid card PCI card with 6 IDE drives connected to it...
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    Asus A8N SLI Deluxe Marvell Problem

    I have a Asus A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard and I am trying to use the Marvell Lan connector as a gateway. I have enabled the Marvell, Lan Boot, etc. in the bios. When I use the PEG link check it says that the cable is okay. However, when I boot up Win XP I receive a limited connectivity...
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    Marvell Ethernet Port on Asus A8N Deluxe?

    I have a question about the Marvell port on my Asus A8N Deluxe motherboard. I want to hook up my Xbox360 up to my internet connection but all of my router's ports are being used. My computer is using the Nvidia ethernet port but I am not using my Marvell ethernet port. Could I hook up my...
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    Major A8N-SLI Deluxe Prolem - Please Help

    I just flashed the bios on my A8N-SLI Deluxe from 1003 to 1011. When I rebooted, all of my bios settings were gone. The problem is that I cannot boot into Windows XP anymore. I have two raptors in a striped array on Nvidia Sata channels 1 and 2. When Nvidia raid is disabled, the bios detects...
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    Converting Neo 480 PSU to 2nd AT PSU?

    I have a Neo 480 PSU that I want to use as a secondary PSU. Of course, since I cannot connect a second PSU to my motherboard I cannot use it. In the new issue of Maximum PC they briefly discuss how to convert an ATX PSU to an AT PSU by "shorting" the main power connector. This involves...
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    Asus A8N SLI and RocketRaid Problem

    I am having trouble getting the RocketRaid 404 card to work with my motherboard. I have an Asus A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard with two Raptor drives in a raid-0 array using Nvidia's raid setup. When I check the Nvidia raid setup during boot up, it shows both Raptor drives as the boot device...
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    Asus A8N SLI and RocketRaid Problem

    I am having trouble getting the RocketRaid 404 card to work with my motherboard. I have an Asus A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard with two Raptor drives in a raid-0 array using Nvidia's raid setup. When I check the Nvidia raid setup during boot up, it shows both Raptor drives as the boot device...
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    How do I force the Asus A8N SLI to boot from a specific hdd?

    I need to force my Asus A8N SLI motherboard to boot from two raptors that are in a raid 0 array and attached to the Nvidia sata connectors. I have a pci Rocketraid 404 card and every time I try to add a hard drive to it and boot, it tries to use that hard drive as a boot disk and upon finding...
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    Rocketraid and Asus A8N?

    I just built my first system and I have a problem with a PCI Rocketraid 404 card. I installed Win XP on a raid 0 array of two sata raptors that are plugged into the sata slots on my Asus A8N sli motherboard. I have a bunch of old IDE drives that I want to take out of USB 2.0 enclosures and put...
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    Asus A8N SLI and Corsair XMS 4400?

    I have a noob question. I am building a system from scratch for the first time and I bought the Asus A8N SLI motherboard. One of my friends told me I should buy two sticks of 512 mb Corsair XMS 4400 memory for the board. I have seen a few people online who supposedly use this memory with this...