Recent content by AstroTaylor

This may sound weird to some, but its the situation I have currently. I have a laptop that doesn't have PS/2 ports on it. The location of the laptop makes it hard to use the power button (its mostly used as a desktop with an external monitor, keyboard, mouse). I am trying to find a way to...

Well I looked into the A7N8X mobo, but I have also seen a lot of threads on this forum about it not working for this guy, or failing on that guy, is the mobo any good or not? Does the A7N8X work with a GF4 4200ti? Does the APG voltage match the GF4? Anyone out there have this mobo with this...

Ok, you guys raised a good point about the RAID card, I will look into that now for sure, but the only mobo that I have seen suggested has at least 2 threads on here about it not working with someones system, or that its not working with their video card. I want to keep my GF4 4200ti that is in...

If your friend has another sound card he can drop in then disable the onboard sound and try using the card. It shouldn't cause any problems to disable the onboard (in fact if your using a card you should always disable onboard). Just my two cents. I am the noob that asks questions constantly...

I would prefer on board raid, since I am positive I can make my raid array bootable then. I have never really heard if a raid controller card is still able to be booted to or not. My main concern is that I can use my GF4 4200ti on the board I get. Thanks for responding though, I'll look into...

Hi everyone, I am pretty new to custom computers still and would like to pick the brains of those of you out there with more knowledge then me. I am planning to build my own computer here soon and would like help deciding on a new mobo. I would like to have an AMD based system, on board RAID...