Recent content by ImWolf

I went through "one last gasp" yesterday after I called ASUS Support (5x), which I would not recommend to anyone. Even though I never studied Chinese as a second language, the kind lady did repeat things often enough so I think I got the general idea of what she was attempting to explain...

XP didn't come with SATA drivers for any drive, bootable or not. I have only added the required SATA drivers needed to INSTALL XP on a SATA drive. I have done this with different machines, and in both cases I needed to obtain the correct drivers from the MB (chipset) manufacturer. However, I...

Am I the only member getting bombed with these ads? This "Temu spammer" is filling my e-mail in box with more of these ads all the time now. Today I received 9 Temu deals!!! (all from Tom's Hardware)...

Since I didn't have anything else pressing, I yanked one of the HDD's and the Graphics card which allowed me to replace the CR2032 battery. Didn't make a difference. Old battery tested at 2.92V while new one was at 3.3V. After replacing this battery I again tried shorting the Power Switch...

I took the machine out to my shop to use compressed air and do some initial clean-up. At the moment there is no monitor or keyboard attached. There is no "GPU". It's an ATI Radion Video card plugged into the primary PCIEX 16 slot. HD4670 1G DDR3 PCI-E HDMI/DVI/VGA |||||||| |||| | ||||||||...

ASUS M2N32-SLI DELUXE Earthwatts EA-380 PSU 3 HDD 1 Optical Drive Soundblaster Live Unknown PCI Video with VGA, HDMI, and DVI output. After sitting idle for a couple months, this old machine didn't fire up. The front panel power button is a bit flaky (sticking at times), so I suspected power...

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Thanks for all that info PaperDoc.... (I read some of it a few times). My old machine MB has 2 of the 3-pin headers for SysFan, and one 4-pin header for the CPU fan, which is the only one that has the PWM controller. From previous reading, I got the impression that the PWM function does not...

After all the replacement fans I've bought over the years, this is the first time I came across this issue, but I'll be looking much closer at fan wiring from here on. Since this site doesn't allow me to attach images except web links, I found something close. That attached image is strange too...

Thanks for the quick reply. You got me on the right track. On the little plugs I have, I actually had to stick a pin into a small rectangle hole just above the pin connector hole, and then pry the tab up and away from the plug body. Then the wire and connector pulled right out. Good Day, Wolf

I had ordered some replacement 3-pin fans, but didn't look at the auction page close enough. The wires are connected to the little Molex plug in the wrong arrangement. Apparently the fans were intended for use with some sort of Westinghouse product, but the seller did state that the wires can be...

Short answer.... YES (with a qualifier) If you're a multi-millionaire, or work in a sensitive job where someone wants to know what you have on your machine, then it won't matter what your OS is.... they'll find a way to get in. But if you're a retired machinist who only keeps minimum cash in...

Have you checked Device Manager? If there are any yellow exclamation marks under Universal Serial Bus have you tried updating drivers from there?

"I will have the motherboard drivers ready during install on a separate folder of the boot drive" This is a confusing statement. What boot drive? Boot to which OS? Your OP sounded like you wanted to install XP, while partitioning and formatting an SSD drive during the setup? And with all due...

Your post does not mention the first thing you will need, which would be drivers supplied by the MB manufacturer so that XP will recognize the SSD drives. If you can obtain the drivers, you would then need to supply them during setup either via a 3.5 disk, or by creating a slipstream CD or thumb...