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    Computer boots to snow screen; Mobo fried?

    Background: I haphazardly installed a second hard drive yesterday. In the process of fitting my hard drive into my computer, I unplugged the power cord to my 6800gt video card. Before I attempted to boot up my computer, I forgot to reconnect the power cord into my VC. As soon as I hit power, I...
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    Logon screen hangs XP boot

    I recently swapped mobo's and reinstalled windows. With my old mobo, it took 20s or so to boot to windows but now it takes over 2 minutes. I knew this couldn't be right so I ran Bootvis here are the times: Disk: 1.24s Drivers: 5.94s Prefetching: 7.67s Registry+pagefile: 5.63s Video: .47s...
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    xp-90 install on 754

    When I place the hsf on my cpu which way are the pipes suppose to face? I currently have then facing the back of the case and the fins are over the ram. Does it matter?
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    Worth it to upgrade

    My current rig is: a64 (754( 3000@ 2.35 running a 166 splitter 1024 mushkin green 3200 Chaintech vnf3 6800gt oc onboard sound slk3700 case w/ 350 antec power generic dvdrw/dvd 120gb SATA Hitachi I'd like to step up to a 939 3200 and an MSI k8n neo2 platinum board. I'd keep...
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    A64 3000 running at 1.8ghz?

    I've got a chaintech vnf3/a64 3000 w/ the 5/7 bios. The problem is that the chip is only running at 1.8ghz. In cpu-z 123, the multiplier shows up as 9. What's up with that? To my knowledge I did not change the multiplier. Anyone have any suggestions?
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    Chaintech vnf3 users in here

    Here's the deal, I put together a a64 3000/Chaintech vnf3 combo a couple days ago. With the original bios I was able to overclock to 2.25 w/ my Mushkin 3200 ram running 1:1. Today, I downloaded the 7/29 bios and flashed it. W/ the new bios my cpu temps look accurate 42c on the stock HSF but I...
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    bios disaster

    I have a chaintech vnf3 motherboard. I've been using the bios that came wiht the board and did a little overclocking (a64 3000 @2.25). I decided to flash the bios to the 7/29 version. After I did this, I was no longer able to overclock the board. When I did the boot screen would just hang, so...
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    First overclock a64 3000

    I just finished a 9 hour torture test with no errors or warnings. I overclocked my newcastle 3000+ to 2200. I simply raised the FSB to 220, Multi was set at 10. I'm using Mushkin pc3200 512mb so the ram is now running at 440. This is on the stock cooling system and stock voltage. I'm very...
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    New Rig 3dmark2001 results

    I just put together a: A64 3000 Newcastle Chaintech vnf3 512 mushkin pc3200 9500pro My score was 12,800. Is that alright? I know my video card is holding me back. I plan to upgrade this winter.
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    Problem w/ new build

    I've got an issue w/ my new computer. This was my first build. I put together: 3000 a64 chaintech vnf3 mushkin 3200 512 Antec 3700 IOmagic dvd rw Generic floppy SATA Hitchachi 120g When I booted the computer it brought up, "Disk Boot failure, insert system disk and press enter."...