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    pc not power up but led light on mobo is on

    hi i have trouble with a pc of mine which is very strange my pc's specs is core 2 duo 6300 ASUS P5B-E Zalman CNPS9500 hsf antec truepower 2.0 550W 2 sticks of corsair 1gig xms2-6400 win2k pro it's been running fine for months without problem until recently when i tried to swap the...
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    Need help with front panel connectors - asus p4s533-VL

    Hi I have a sony vaio PCV-RX950 (asus P4S533-VL board) which I am trying to relocate to a bigger generic chieftec case, but I am having trouble figuring out the connections for the front panel; I found the manuals for P4S533-MX, P4S533-VM, P4S533-X, P4S533-E, and plain P4S533 but their...
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    First timer: Installing SATA without floppy?

    yes, sata drive should work without needing the floppy (i think the floppy is only if you install a raid setup which i dont think you are) if you plan to use the new sata drive as boot and other ide drives as data, make sure to change the priority in bios; for my systems with asus p4p800se...
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    need advice for psu for systems fully loaded with large HD

    need advice for potentially picking a new psu for a few systems fully loaded with large (300-400GB) 7200rpm HD http://takaman.jp/D/?english doesnt seem to have all the same stuff that i have so i'd like to confirm with you guys since this is dedicated to psu knowledge board 1/ pentium 4...
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    question about weird problem w/o video

    ok, i put the 2.8 ghz northwood back in asus p4p800se with everything else still connected (except power of course) and it boots up like normal, except for the resetting of the bios i put the 3.2 prescott in the ecs mobo 848p-a (i bought them together as combo) and hav the same deal; no...
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    question about weird problem w/o video

    ah ok; i just realized that i mistook the asus inf update util as the bios update utility; so i have never updated/flashed any bios before in my life until today i just updated it from version 1007.003 (in 2004) to version 1008.015 with date 02/17/05 the other system that has a working...
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    question about weird problem w/o video

    hi, thanks for responding ok, i put the 2.8 ghz northwood back to the asus board and it works (after reconfiguring everything in bios since i resetted the cmos earlier) but now i'm back to square 1 - the older system that freezes at least once a day so what does this mean? the new cpu is...
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    question about weird problem w/o video

    hi hope this is the right section; if not, i apologize when installing a system from scratch, what can be the cause of no video (besides the agp card and/or ram not seated tightly - those are ruled out b/c i have tried 2 different video cards as well as reseating the ram and same...
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    need help from techy brainies here regarding pc freezing up

    thanks a lot you guys for your advice; i think i'll reinstall the video drivers first and then the chipset drivers since the video card seems to be the last big addition before this happens (plus, it's prob.easiest and fastest); then i'll try the stress tests (have never done that before so it's...
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    system panel connector for an older asus board

    hi i have a sony vaio PCV-RX950 with an asus board P4S533VL (according to cpuz) and i'm trying to move it to a bigger midtower for expansion but i notice that the front system panel connector on the vaio case are in a block like the power supply cable; i look in the vaio manual but no...
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    need help from techy brainies here regarding pc freezing up

    ok i have 1 pc that's a p4 2.8ghz northwood running on asus p4p800se flawlessly (almost but asus is great) for a couple of years now; before the asus, that cpu was intsalled on a ecs cheapo board which kept freezing on me all the time, esp. when i m on emule; so i suspected it mgiht have been...
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