Recent content by mattknows

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    Moving system to new MB/CPU

    I want to replace an Asus A8N SLI Premium mb/AMD X2 4600 CPU with a Asus M4A78-E AM2+/AM3 AMD 790GX and and an AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750 Kuma 2.7GHz Socket AM2+. This system runs WinXP. I've upgraded systems enumerable times and never had the thought of trying this. Is it possible to load the...
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    PCIe x16 and PCIe x8 at the same time?? CONFUSED!

    I have a question that I seem to find conflicting information from in the manual and the specs online for the GA-MA790GP-DS4H that I just got. Online specs say that you can have both a x16 card in and an x8 card at the same time. I want to put my GeForce 7950 GT (x16) and install a new RAID...
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    System haunted by lockups

    Nope, XP Pro 32 bit. No lockups yet since driver change to generic ms IDE drivers, however getting an oddity all of teh sudden built in ethernet adapter going "deaf", disabling and renabling fixes it, twice now. Need a reboot to check it out...but never did that before. May or may not be related.
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    System haunted by lockups

    SATA. LOTS of free disk space (drives are 250 gb) I've just pulled memory, etc. no change. WILD GUI flashes and then lockups. Stop code is 0x0000009C I just removed Nvidia drivers and am using standard MS IDE controller drivers now. There really is nothing left to try....?
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    System haunted by lockups

    I think my CASE may be haunted. I have totally new hardware, AMD XP64 4800, 2 gig DDR 400, ASUS A8N-SLI-Premium MB, two 250 gb SATA drives connected to the NVIDIA Controller (one of the two SATA controllers on the MB). Radeon X1800 GTO (1 card, not two). No other cards installed right now...