Crucial and Micron are really one and the same. Four out of five geeks prefer the following brands: Corsair Samsung Crucial Mushkin :D
That's exactly what I've heard, Paul but it seems that the legend of ATAPI devices slowing down hard drives is one that will never die!
I always use Lite-Ons (CD, CD-RW, DVD) and have no troubles. I also slave my burner to my DVD-Rom drive without trouble.
I think the Gigabyte site said that FSBs over 100 were officially unsupported on that board but they may work. Actually, you may find that...
There are extremely expensive services that may be able to pull data off of dead drives. But the price may not make it worth it. And it surely...
ROFL! :D No, Panda, I'm not offended...I'm just talking in general...saying that the BCC solution isn't exactly what I'm looking for. The...
Not much except that it's used in some "Intel-type" boards and that you have to use it in pairs. And you have to use a terminator like you do...
Rockster is saying that your board only takes class 'B' Athlons, not class 'C' Athlons. The 'B's are 100FSB processors while the 'C's are 133FSB...
Putting myself in your shoes, I'd do the following: Clear CMOS ReFlash BIOS Try a higher-wattage power supply. I have heard of IDE...
I think purplemtm has an odd fascination with chip death! ;)
Hex92, I think that you'd be protected. When I was researching for a new mobo, one of the models I considered (Soltek SL-75DRV5) had that option....
Cas Man, if you had a newer system, I would have said that you hadn't found the "magic" bios setting. The last two systems I've built would not...
Bimmer, I wouldn't worry about the switch to DDR. Your P4 is hamstrung by your SDRAM and would continue to be hamstrung with DDR. P4s need the...
The options in the bios to shut down when temps get too high is not for a "meltdown" situation. It's for a gradually worsening situation. It will...
Dale, I've got the link at work on a article all about "the VIA PCI Bus problem ". Tomorrow, I'll edit this post with the link. Basically it...
Dale, as I said, I've personally never had any problems with VIA boards but others have - probably most problems related to the PCI latency issue....
No, they're not offended by it, I'm offended by it. From a business perspective, I need to be able to send them an e-mail that's simply addressed...
I've used VIA boards since '98 and have not had any problems with them. The "party line" is that VIA's implementations of USB, as well as the AGP...
If you're going to do that I'd stick with Zepyhr's first recommendation - going with Partition Mgr. I've never used it myself but it's the premier...
That's exactly what I did Paul. From what I can remember something was very weird about the e-mail - like the person could tell it wasn't...
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