Recent content by Saltgrass

If you have a motherboard that won't do anything when the power button is hit and everything else looks normal, try replacing the CMOS battery. I just had a ASUS board which showed the green LED for power, but did nothing when turned on (shorting the pins on the board also). The CMOS battery...

I was thinking it wouldn't be good for the Video card to drop to 8x. Then I started thinking about other boards where I have left slots unused, and the ones I am looking at have enough other slots to fill my needs. I will probably go ahead and get a board with two 2.0 slots and an X48 chipset...

Anyone know if you only use one of the two PCIe 2.0 card slots, if the other one becomes useless? I noticed some motherboards auto configure the two slots as 16x0 or 8x8, depending if you have a video card in both. Can you use a non-video type of card in the second slot without effecting the...