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    Need a New Motherboard, Socket 478, Suggestions?

    I currently own an ASUS P4P800-SE. It has been a wonderful motherboard but the USB ports have stopped working and the PCI slots are beginning to go out. I need a new motherboard, my processor is a P4 3.0 HT EE, I have 2 gigs of DDR 400 RAM (4 512 sticks, so i need 4 dimm slots). I also have...
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    SATA HD Causes Extremely Slow Boot Up And/Or Hanging At Boot Up

    I just bought a new SATA Hard Drive and as soon as I plug it in, I restarted my computer. Normally, it takes around 30 seconds to hit the Windows XP log in screen, but after putting in my SATA HD, it will Hang on a black screen for about 4-6 minutes before it goes to the Windows XP loading...
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    Screen Stays Blank On Start Up

    I bought a new case for my computer and let my brother have my old case, which he promptly wanted to switch his old, old, old computer into. I switched everything into the new case for him, but I get an issue that I have had in the past (normall easily solving it thanks to these forums). I...
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    Computer Not Starting Up

    Hey guys, I just bought a new case for my computer and after switching everything over, my computer is having problems starting up. The system will power on but nothing comes up on the monitor. The monitor just stays in "standby" mode where it is doing nothing. The fans power on and it sounds...
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    Installing Windows Vista Beta 1

    Hey, I created a partition to install Windows Vista onto. I have it on the same drive that I have my C: on and Win XP installed on. How would I go about making it boot into Windows Vista or XP at my choice? Rather, how would I go about being able to run them both at once (kinda like how a...
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    Flashing/Updating BIOS

    I have an ASUS P4P800SE Mobo and wanted to flash the bios because the ones I have now are really gay and slow. I want to know, how do I go about flashing/updating the bios? Is updating and flashing the same thing? PS: I already downloaded the bios download and i DONT have a floppy drive any...
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    Computer Not Booting Up After Partition...

    I used Partition Magic yesterday to format a linux ext 3 partition last night and turned it into an NTFS partition because I wanted to install another operating system on that partition. Either way, I let it run and it formatted and reallocated (I think at least) but not my computer wont boot...
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    Trouble Setting Up PCI IDE Card

    Ok, so I am new to computer hardware, know a good amount, but still getting over building my first comp a few months ago. Any way, I already have 2 hard drives, adn 80 and a 60 that I put in my computer, and i also have to cd drives. So obviously, my IDEA slots are filled off my mobo. I decided...