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    Audio CDs causing BSOD and restarts

    The AHCI was enabled, the drivers installed before installing XP. Yes. Chipset drivers were all updated and reinstalled whilst troubleshooting and didn't fix the problem. I don't see how that would help as I have tried 3 different DVD drives with this PC and they all had the same...
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    Audio CDs causing BSOD and restarts

    Here's the stop error when I put an audio CD in the DVD drive: 0x000000B8 (0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000): Which the page you linked to says is an "ATTEMPTED_SWITCH_FROM_DPC", a hardware and/or driver issue. BTW, I'm not seeing any errors in the Even Viewer. OK, where do I...
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    Audio CDs causing BSOD and restarts

    With one of my PCs if I put any audio CD, old or new, into the DVD drive it causes it to BSOD and then restart itself. The BSOD vanish too quickly before the PC restarts itself for me to catch the error code. It will read CD and DVD data/software disks as well as burn CD and DVD disks just...
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    ASUS P5Q-E CD/DVD drive boot question

    With my other PCs (re: different motherboards) I have ask, after POSTing, if I wish to boot from a disk in the CD/DVD drive if there was one in there whether it be a bootable disk or not. With my ASUS P5Q-E it didn't ask at all. If a bootable disk (Windows, Norton Ghost, the ASUS support...
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    Silent Power Supplies

    I seen 26-28dB being banded about (unscientifically). That's quietly audible, but not loud. EDIT: This will help you from the Corsair website. Anything above 30dB is very audible, a bit loud, in my books.
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    Silent Power Supplies

    Since you're in the UK Yogi, I'd definitely recommend a Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 650W. I put one into a PC I built for someone not long ago who values a silent running PC. Actually made me do a double to take when it first fired up, it was so quiet I thought it wasn't working. :D Here's a...
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    (cleaning) PSUs and the dreaded dust-bunny invasion

    Is it safe to do this?
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    (cleaning) PSUs and the dreaded dust-bunny invasion

    I keep my work environment pretty dust free and clean any dust accumilation out of my PCs on a regular basis. However there is one component I cannot clean out....the PSUs. I've noticed that two PSUs in different PCs have an alarmingly high level of dust-bunny build up inside them, "furry"...
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    Holy crap, it worked! Dead video card, resurrected!

    Very interesting thread this, I may very well be trying this oven bake method of resurrecting dead graphics cards on my 8800GTX this weekend. But here's a poser. If it's 200C for 10 minutes in a normal oven, what about fan assisted ovens? Normally it's a shorter cooking time, so 8 minutes?
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    Need help: dead motherboard (?) and what to do next

    UPDATE: It was not the Commando motherboard....:( Rebuilt the PC with the ASUS P5Q-E inside, popped a blank DOS bootable floppy into the floppy drive so it would boot to A:/ rather than into the OS and fired it up. It POST beeped, but the screen remains blank as before. However this time...
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    Need help: dead motherboard (?) and what to do next

    It was 50/50 between the ASUS and the Gigabyte board, but I've swung in favour of the ASUS P5Q-E because it has better audio and the only UK vendor of the Gigabyte has known RMA/customer problems. So I played it safe with a trusted vendor.
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    Need help: dead motherboard (?) and what to do next

    Sadly the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R (or UD3P) is no longer available anywhere in the UK. Otherwise that would have been the motherboard I'd have gone for. The Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3P, ASUS P5Q-E, and ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo all cost exactly the same in the UK, $123 (£76). So none are cheaper than the...
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    Need help: dead motherboard (?) and what to do next

    OK, decided due to financial reasons that I'll go with just replacing the motherboard. After a lot of reseaching I've narrowed my choice down to it being either one of these two LGA775 P45 motherboards: the Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3P and the ASUS P5Q-E. One paper, and from reviews, they're an...
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    Need help: dead motherboard (?) and what to do next

    FYI, I actually live in the UK. I've been a long time lurker here and this forum has allowed me to make some very informed decisions on hardware in the past. :) Sadly it appears the Gigabyte GA-P45-UD3R is no longer available here. I can get my hands on the GA-EP45-UD3LR (US$116) which...
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    Need help: dead motherboard (?) and what to do next

    Yes I've tried one RAM stick already. I could try a fresh CR2032 battery, but don't know how that would help? Surely a dead battery means nothing will happen (i.e. it won't power up) as I've had a dead battery problem just like that in the past with a different PC. That was my initial fear...
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