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My intel DP35DP detects my Q8300 CPU as: Intel genuine processor Em64t capable And is showing a constant 26.00°C for Processor thermal margin. On Ubuntu everything is fine. Should the BIOS be flashed?

For several weeks a clicking/popping/cracking sound was coming from the case. Some threads here suggested a PSU or graphics card problem but I suspected one of the HDDs. I have Linux, Windows and an external HDDs. When booting into Windows the sound became more frequent and the computer froze...

The problem with overheating is actually because of old age and is not AMD specific?

What do you mean by driver? I've never heard of installing drivers in BIOS. If I understand this, the motherboard specification must specifically state that one is able to boot from a PCI card?

People constantly complain/joke how AMD CPUs and GPUs are overheating and can turn an entire room into a sauna. Is this true or is it just some Intel/NVIDIA fanboy or other master race gloating? My Intel's E8400 idle temperature is 38°C and Radeon's HD 4850 is 46°C.

Wikipedia's article on live USB states that add-in cards are almost never capable of booting USB but does not say why exactly. Does my motherboard (ASRock G31M-GS R2.0) have a native USB controller? I have this "problem" (booting from a card reader works fine though) - it's more annoying than...

I've upgraded my RAM from 3 GB to 4 GB and now my available memory is 3200 MB (according to POST and Ubuntu) yet the BIOS says the installed memory is 4096 MB. I was trying to set the frequency yet instead of the usual DDR2_800 and DDR2_667 i got DDR2_144 and DDR2_120. I fixed this by removing...

I have G31M-GS R2.0 motherboard with P1.80 BIOS and sometimes there is no beep after POST (the system still works OK). The problem lies with the ODD (Optiarc DVD RW AD-7240S). If I disconnect/reconnect it, it works fine (for a while). Does the problem lay in the drive itself or is it something...