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    USB Ports won't show up as high-speed 2.0

    To be honest, I'm not sure when the problem started. I got my machine rebuilt with a new mobo, and I don't remember whether or not I ever put in a USB pen drive and had it work as USB 2.0. I find it difficult to believe I didn't, but...anyway. The board is an MSI K8N Neo4-F, that's nForce4 based...
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    What the heck is wrong?!?!

    Ok, so I had an A8V-E Deluxe (that's K8T890) that was working fine for several months. Recently, it stopped booting. It would go though BIOS POST, andall the way up to starting windows -- but it would fail around the time the resolution changes and windows boots. I switched to a new motherboard...
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    I think my Barracuda may be fried...help!

    On Friday, I had a fairly severe hard drive crash involving corruption of files and such, but apparently no hard damage, just soft failure. Afterwards, I had a lot of frustration trying to get the system set up -- a brand new install of WinXP would implode for no apparent reason. So, after...
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    Overclocking a GF 6600

    I was monitoring the temps of my GF 6600 while running it at a known unstable value of 450 MHz. The last read out from RivaTuner is 73 deg C, before the card fails, the screen goes blank, and the system freezes. So, first question, is this a typical temperature for a GPU to fail, and is it...
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    Replacing chipset fan

    The fan on this board has recently gotten messed up and started producing a lot of grinding noises from time to time, and generally just being loud. So I bought a CoolerMaster PAC-P01 chipset cooler. It's just a passive heatsink, no fan. I'm not worried about the cooling ability, since I've...
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    I think something is wrong with this fan

    http://www.levi.cz/image/AsusA8VEDeleuxe.jpg You can see the fan right in the center of that picture. Anyway, the standard running speed for this fan is 9000 rpm, and it lacks any sort of speed control. I recently heard a strange labored noise from inside the case and noticed that the fan...
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    Accuracy of various temperature sensors

    Ok, so here's my current temperature readouts: Case Ambient: 30C CPU Core: 29C Motherboard: 32C System: Athlon64 3200+ (Winchester) -- stock cooling Asus A8V-E Deluxe First off, it would appear that my CPU core temp is actually lower than ambient, which is clearly not true, not on...
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    Getting 1T timings on Asus A8V-E Deluxe?

    Is there any way to get 1T timings on the A8V/A8V-E? Maybe via a modified BIOS?
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    PSA: 64 bits and RAM limits

    I've read this in a couple places, most notably Toms's Hardware Guide, and it makes me cringe every time I read it, because it's not even vaguely true. Supposedly you can have a max of 4 GB in a system which uses a 32 bit processor. This is not true; the misunderstanding comes from this logic...
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    Cool n Quiet creates painful noise

    When I enable CnQ on my Athlon64, my computer begins to emit an extremely high pitched noise that is not terribly loud, but is loud enough to be disconcerting and occasionally painful. I'm not sure, but going by ear I'd say that sound is in the 18-20 khz range. It sounds like noise being...