are the red felt washers included when you buy a new motherboard necessary when you install them. i have my PIII on an asus p3v4x running without them and never had any problems for a year now. now i have a new athlon 1.2 on an epox 8kta3pro with the washers installed and have had any imaginable nuisance coming with it. i have them in this order from the mobo tray:
tray screws
mother board
felt washer
screw
also, if you can shed some light on what might be the culprit here. my hard disk sometimes becomes undetectable (about twice a month), the fsb goes down to 100 instead of 133 upon boot (i have no idea why this happens. its configured at default 9.0 x 133)
tray screws
mother board
felt washer
screw
also, if you can shed some light on what might be the culprit here. my hard disk sometimes becomes undetectable (about twice a month), the fsb goes down to 100 instead of 133 upon boot (i have no idea why this happens. its configured at default 9.0 x 133)