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more than likely its PS. Try to borrow one to verify. Or just buy a new one for like $40, and return it if it doesn't fix the problem

Hey, just assembled a new box using this mobo. Question: Will I be able to run dual monitor setup using the D-Sub and DVI connectors? Manual seems to indicate yes, but I would like to verify. Thanks

or even a screwdriver will work...

No prob - you helped more than anyone else did (including Crashman -how come he didn't chime in????) ;-)

Thanks - I already ordered a replacement board (Biostar) from Newegg for $60. It's not worth the trouble to replace the capacitors (or whatever they are). But it's nice to know this wasn't an isolated incident. Hopefully the CPU is still good.

They both work for me...

A friend has this board (4 years old) and this happened. Note the 2 black cylinder shaped components near the CPU. Question: Can these be replaced? Or is the board finished? Original: Problem:

Thanks for the suggestion - the drive I had removed wasn't the C drive, so it shouldn't have had any effect on the real C drive, but anyways I got very lucky and stumbled across the problem. It turned out to be a bad 512MB stick of RAM. The manufacturer is TwinMOS - I'll be returning it for...

My server, starte experiencing corruption problems when I removed a PATA drive the other day. I took the drive off to try it on another machine. When I booted back up, aplications started crashing, it had to check all the disks for consistency etc. After living with it for a few days, it...

I did a search on SATA RAID expansion controllers, they seem to be more expensive than a new mobo would be, unless I'm just not finding the right ones. I'm still interested in the answers to the 478 chipset anyway, regardless of which way I go for the solution Edit: I found cheap SATA RAID...

I've got an Intel 865 chipset on a Soyo Dragon2 with a 2.4 Socket 478. I want to setup a RAID mirror set with 2 SATA 250G drives. My board does not have a RAID controller on it. I'm looking into either getting a new mobo that supports all my existing hardware but has a SATA RAID controller...

duhhh.... I had the error message wrong. I was posting from memory. The real error message is: RAM R/W Test failed. Any more ideas?

Actually it's a CR2025

Yeah, I remember replacing a few of those - I think they're a CR2010 or some such, right? There is a possibility that your mobo battery is dieing or dead. You can buy a replacement battery at circuit city, walgreens, wal-mart, (anywhere really) and see if that fixes things. Just take the...