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    Biostar NF325-A7, Skt 754

    Thanks for the response. Will switch the old one with a 400W. Thanks again.
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    Biostar NF325-A7, Skt 754

    Ok! Just to update, I got a 4 pin HDD power connector to 4-pin P-4 connector (square connector introduced by P4) - essentially to make my 20 pin 250W PSU an equivalent of 24-pin 250W PSU. I think I have made all the connections correctly. When I press the power button on my case, the...
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    Biostar NF325-A7, Skt 754

    From your response it seems that 250W should be enough to run Sempron - although it would be good to have a 350W PSU. I would really like to re-use the old PSU if possible. Is there an adapter of any kind which would convert say a HDD power connector to 4 pin 12 volt CPU power connector...
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    Biostar NF325-A7, Skt 754

    Am trying to salvage my old chassis (some box) and power supply (250W). Got Biostar NF325-A7 socket 754 based board with a Sempron 3400+ for free (both brand new). I installed the board and CPU in my old box and connected the 250W PSU (it only has a 20-pin connector which connects to...
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    how to create a windows xp 64 installation DVD

    All I have all the files that usually come on an installation disk for xp 64 copied onto the hard disk. From these files, I want to create an installation DVD. How can I go about this process? Can I just burn all the files onto a DVD? I think this will not be an installable DVD. Can...
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    System reboots after I plug in USB wireless adapter

    I have not flashed the bios in ages on this one. It is an old Athlon XP (Socket 754) based ASU motherboard. Just to update: 1) It is not the wireless adapter driver problem. The MB has 2 US ports and one has the wireless plugged in while the other has my webcam. Both working fine. 2) Now if...
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    System reboots after I plug in USB wireless adapter

    Hi I had an old PIII Dell system from which I am moving to another old Athlon XP system. My USB wireless adapter (some Netgear) was working fine with my old Pentium. But now I am trying to install it onto the Athlon based system, I get a system reboot everytime I plug it in. Infact, I...
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    Want to add a new OS hard disk

    Folks, I have a workstation which is currently running a dual processor (each processor is dual core) Opterons and I want to make use of its 64-bit capability for my computing applications. Currently to explain what hardware I have: Three HDD: 1) XP Pro OS HDD (C:) 2) Data HDD 1 (E:)...
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    Barebone systems

    I want to buy a new system purely for internet/email/photoshop/blogging/ and my old 733 MHz pentium now feels really slow. Am looking for a cheap solution where I can just upgrade the MoBo, CPU, PSU and recycle all the remaining components from my old Pentium. The following deal on Tigerdirect...
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    L733r chassis recycle

    Hi All I have an age old Dell system (733 MHz) bought from Dell (model L733r) which I do not use any more. But I would like to recycle the chassis and upgrade it to AM2 based Athlon64. Am not sure whether I can re-use the chassis if I want to. Can somebody help me out? Ideally I would not...
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    AMD X2 4200 owners

    I have Athlon 64 X2 4200+ and at idle it runs at 34C. Even with 2 instances of Super Pi running, the peak is about 42 - 43 C.
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    USB to IDE adapter for my laptop HDD

    Hi, I just got a USB2.0 to IDE driver for my laptop hard disk which I am planning to use as a USB storage device with my desktop. The adapter that I bought from Fry's came with a drive disk - the model is GL811E. I installed the driver, with some error - "Copy file error !", although after...
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    Ideal hard disk and optical drive configuration

    Hi, I have put together my system and it has been running fine. But I never paid attention to how I am connecting my storage devices when I built it. I have 2 hard disks (one system, one data) and 2 optical drives (CD/RW DVD ROM and DVD RW). Current configuration is as follows: IDE Channel...
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    2 hard drive on a 2P machine

    HAve been away from the forum a long time, and coming back with an issue that I am having with a new system that I built. Relevant system summary: 1) 2P each processor 2.2 GHz dual core Opterons 2) 2 hard drives (maxtor and seagate) 3) HD1 -> partition C: and E: has windows server 2000...
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    Flash based games run VERY slow

    Just built a new system based on Athlon64 X2 4200+ . Video card is ATI X800GTO. I was looking at some macromedia flash based graphics / games, and they are running very very slow on my X2 4200+ compared to the Athlon XP-M laptop (with some ATI graphics card). Any possible reasons?
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    Coolermaster Centurion 5

    Yes I did, and I double checked too -- although that was at 3 am in the morning when I was setting up my system and was damn sleepy. So may have missed or connected it in a wrong way. Will again go over it tonight, but I doubt that is the problem.
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    Coolermaster Centurion 5

    Have put together Athlon based system in this case -- MB is Chaintech VNF4 Ultra. Everthing is running smooth with the on board AC97 audio driver if I use the speaker sockets on the back panel. The front ones dont work. Any suggestions on how to go about debugging this? Thanks.
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    AthlonX2 drivers

    Did set the PerfEnablePackageIdle to 1. I tried searching for X2 4200+ performance to compare my system with, but could not find any. Can X2 4200+ owners please comment on their experience? Although it is very hard to find anybody who has not overclocked the system. Am running everything...
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    AthlonX2 drivers

    Why the performance hit?
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    AthlonX2 drivers

    Fresh score after a reboot (Windows XP SP2, AMD X2 drivers and Windows hotfix installed): CrystalMark : 44429 [ ALU ] 16170 [ FPU ] 18513 [ MEM ] 9746 Earlier system confi: Windows XP SP1, NO AMD X2 Drivers, No Windows X2 hotfix. MARK: 46979...
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    AthlonX2 drivers

    I upgraded from SP1 to XP SP2. Then I got all the drivers from AMD website and also installed the hotfix. Did set the PerfEnablePackageIdle to 1. This may not be relevant at all to this thread, but I just tried running CrystalMark again on the system, and the score has reduced slightly CPU...
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    AthlonX2 drivers

    Has anybody installed these drivers for Athlon64 X2 XP SP2 that are available on AMD website? http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Tec...lResources/0,,30_182_871_13118,00.html I thought I should ask before installing myself. Thanks.
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    CrystalMark 2004 performance

    Earlier I had posted the MEM/ALU/FPU performance for my Athlon 64 X2 4200+ system on the thread which is ranking different systems. Then I had Windows XP Pro SP1 and the CrystalMark Score for above three tests combined was @46500 Now that I have upgraded to Windows XP Pro SP2 (everthing else...
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    Slipstreaming SP2 into XP SP1 CD

    For some reason when I try to use the following command: F:\sp2\i386\update> update -s:F:\xp nothing happens. What could be the issue? 1) I am on Windows 2000 Server Enterprise Ed. 2) F: is my second HDD and is not a system/bootable disk. -- if this info is of any use. On some...
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    sata drivers

    I was just going through the system summary that CrystalMark showed me and following is a part from it: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Device ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ChipSet : NVIDIA...
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    CrystalMark 2004 Competition! Stress your System!

    Athlon64 X2 4200+ 2x512MB Corsair NO Overclocking More system information in my signature Here are the results: MARK: 46979 ALU: 16198 FPU: 20664 MEM: 10117 Any scope for improvement anywhere? Thanks.
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    Passmark benchmarking

    Anybody?
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    Passmark benchmarking

    Hi I just tried running Passmark performance test suite on my system, and when I try to run 3D graphics test suite I get the following message: "Invalid video mode. The resolution and color depth you have selected do not appear to be valid for hardware acceleration. Please ensure that...
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    sata drivers

    XP did recognize the entire 160GB space. And I did not partition that drive, so it is @154GB after installation.
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    Windows XP Pro

    I am not too inclined to upgrade to SP2 just for security issues. I have all the bells and whistles -- firewalls, anti virus real time protection, etc. Is there any performance benefit to move to SP2? I dont want my computer crashing again just like it did when I was trying to install SP2...
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    sata drivers

    Apologies for being ignorant here : But when I installed windows, my 160GB Sata2 was recognized as an IDE drive and I went through with the installation process. Then I installed the nVidia drivers that came with my Chaintech motherboard. But I have not installed any specific SATA drivers...
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    Windows XP Pro

    All, I have Windows XP Pro - SP1 (and I have downloaded all the updates through Windows Update). Am wondering whether I should be upgrading to SP2. I did it earlier this week, and while SP2 was installing, the system became unresponsive, and it has to be forced reset. When it came back, it...
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    System performance

    Thanks to all the replies that I got from you all, I have finally finished putting together my system. To check whether it is stable I have used memtest, everest, pcmark04 (free ver), super pi and tonight will run prime. Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2x512MB Corsair, nForce4 chipset, ATI X800GTO...
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    RAM help

    Ok! So I read up the documentation for Chaintech VNF4 Ultra Mobo, and I read this fineprint: "Due to CPU specifications limitation, two DDR400 memory modules inserted into DIMM1/3, three DDR400 into DIMM1/2/3 or four DDR400 into DIMM1/2/3/4 is not recommended." I have an Athlon 64 X2...
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    Can chipset driver make my boot time worse

    All The CD that came with my mobo was a version 3.6 nForce driver set. So I built my system with that, and the OS was loading very fast and everything was smooth. Then I upgraded my drivers from Nvidia website to ver 6.66 and now my boot time went up. Also my HD makes a lot of clatter...
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    RAM help

    All If I put the 2 Corsair sticks, my computer shows DDR400 and CL2.5 which is fine. The moment I put in the 3rd stick (Ultra), when the computer boots, it says DDR333, CL3. The Ultra stick is rated PC3200, CL3. Is the Ultra stick crap? THe Corsair sticks are dual channel, and...
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    **Official Chaintech Zenith VNF4 nForce4 Motherboard Thread**

    Anybody got issues with 06/03/05 bios update from the Chaintech website? I am not OCing the system or anything -- but I am not able to run Everest benchmark test. Whenever I run Everest, my system freezes and the only way to get out of it is to reset. Could this be a bios issue? Am...
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    Lavalys Everest makes system unstable

    I installed the latest NVIDIA chipset drivers, ver 6.66 from Nvidia website. Restarted the machine -- my machine took longer to load Windows XP. Then I re-ran Everest, only to get new kind of error -- now after running everest, and in about 3 seconds, my monitor went blank --- poof. The...
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    Lavalys Everest makes system unstable

    Thanks for the prompt responses. I opened up the task manager and then ran everest. The CPU utilization went up to 50% and in about 3 seconds it came down to 10%. And everything froze. Nothing on my monitor is getting refreshed. Not even the taskmanager. No activity with the HD. My screen...
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    Lavalys Everest makes system unstable

    I am trying to benchmark my system (built a new one) and am having some trouble. I have loaded Everest just now, and the moment I run Everest, my keyboard and mouse stop communicating with the system. Both USB and PS2 have been tried out. What could be the issue? I flashed the bios...