Recent content by joemadeus

I just opened it up and disconnected the second hard drive, the cdrom, the card reader, the front temperature display (lcd) and the rear fan (120mm), and removed the tv tuner card, and got exactly the same result. I don't think it's the power supply. I called AOpen and their cross-shipping a...

That article is one of the ones that made me want one of the mobos :) At the time it looked like the performance was good, but used less than a third of the power and generated a lot less heat than the other P4s. Since I had been running a noisy machine forever, the idea of a quiet, low power...

How high would you go? I tried a 420w but that thing failed, too (failed faster, actually, but that psu was pretty bad.) -j

This post is long, but I really can't figure this out and I think I've tried everything. I built this machine back in June, and I haven't ever been able to use it for gaming. Every time I start something that leans on the video card at all it freezes; I've never been able to get more than 1/2...