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I seemed to have found an unlikely answer to my problem here: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1030972927 Apparently my F*(*#@& internal CD drive was causing problems, maybe because it is SATA and being managed by the RAID controller. RAID seems to have installed XP 64bit just...

Yes bro I used those drivers and extracted them. I was very careful to have the exact matching drivers for the install i was trying to do. I even compared the driver versions from all of them (website vs. cd; x64 and x86) and their versions differ slightly. Anyway, Epic fail... RAID under XP...

Tricky, thanks for replying. [EDIT: NOTE: anytime i said "USB drive" i have meant a USB flash memory stick] I already did try both the ones from the website and the ones on the mobo CD, same results (I tried them separately, not both on the same stick) OK maybe you're right that I could have...

Or could my processor for some reason be unable to handle 64 bit processing? Does this even make sense? Could it be the RAM?

Here's the deal: There is no floppy connector on the Asus Crosshair III mobo. External USB floppy drives are required. I don't have one. I want my PC running now, so I start hacking at it. The bios allows you to set a USB stick as a simulated floppy. Sweet, right? Set up RAID 1 in...

I could get a few HD projectors and turn my room into a command center What would you buy?

I want to use 1600+ DDR3 RAM and I was attracted to dual x16 crossfire, but some searching shows that maybe the difference between x16 and x8 is not worth it for an extra $50-100 on a mobo? I'd still like the extra RAM bandwidth though. The motherboard is going to be the core of this gaming...

I'm building a computer in stages (just got a new job). I want to throw down on the best quality motherboard at first for obvious reasons, but the other high-end components - loads of RAM, Dual 16x crossfire video cards, Raid array, and apparently the CPU could wait while I have a functioning PC...