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    Attaching XP-120 to mobo makes it curved

    Hi all, After I attached xp-120 to my X2 4800 on Asus-a8n sli mobo, the mobo is not flat anymore.... XP-120 kinda made it a little concave... so I can't really it in to the case at all of the points it's supposed to be screwed in (especially near the cpu area). I didn't try to force it in...
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    2x 74G Raptor and 1 x 320G Caviar question

    Hi all, I connected all three drives to the nVidia SATA connectors of A8N SLI Premium mb. The two Raptors were connected to first two SATA slots (Sata 1 and Sata 2). The Caviar was connected to Sata 3. Sata 4 slot was left untouched. In the BIOS, I setup the onboard NVRAID for the...
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    Bad places to buy a motherboard

    Instead of having people suffer in the future, let's list the places where you should NOT get your motherboard (or other critical components like CPU, HD, Memory). I'll start: Place: MonarchComputer.com Reason not to shop: They often send you open items and in case of motherboards...
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    Updating A8N SLI Premium bios

    I want to update the bios. But I don't want to lose my settings (especially cause I got RAID... and I don't feel comfy messing around again with it...). When I try to use Asus update utility in Win XP, there's a checkbox that says: "Clear CMOS checksum to load default BIOS setting". What is...
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    Onboard has 7.1, my speakers are 5.1

    Hi all, The title basically says it. I've got an Asus A8N-SLI Premium mobo and it has 7.1 audio output (and so, I skipped buying a sound card... plus I'm broke after getting AMD 4800). I've got Logitech x-530 5.1 speakers. I've connected the center/sub speakers to the 'center/sub' jack...
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    fans stay on during standby..... ????

    Hi all, First off, until two days ago, whenver I put my computer into standby, everything stopped spinning... but now the fans stay on and keep making a racket.... :( The only thing I did since then was that I enabled cool 'n' quiet feature in the bios. Anyone heard of this issue? Is...
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    How to prevent dust/dirt from being sucked into the case?

    My Antec p180 is really sweet and neat, but I fear the day when it's gonna be full of that dust... almost like a layer of lint you get in your clothes dryer... and it's gonna make it look ugly when all the tiny openings (like around the cd/floppy drives, front intake vents, etc) get choke full...
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    Case surface has slight current flowing

    Hiya, I've got an Antec p180 case with Antec TP II 550 psu, A8N-SLI Premium w/ X2 4800 cpu. I just noticed that there's a slight current flowing through the surface of the case... it's only very little that you feel it with touch... kinda like how it feels with those "touch me to turn...
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    Help~!! RAID setup not working after MB replacement.

    Last month, I built a new computer with two 74g Raptor raid drives (sata) and the A8N SLI Premium MB. Today, I replaced the board (the first had some memory issues)... but my computer would not boot... it'd give me a uit wouldn't recognize that there's an OS already installed on it. It...
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    What is a solid HS for my AMD 4800+ / A8N SLI-Premium

    The stock heatsink for my 4800+ is super noisy after 30 minutes of use. The damn fan ticks me off big time! So I'm now looking into getting a better cpu heatsink/fan. Here are two that I was looking at: 1: Thermaltake Big Typhoon 2: Zalman CNPS7700-Cu I've got ASUS A8N-SLI Premium mb...
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    ~HELP!!! my new machine unable to boot

    It was working fine this morning. But I just got back from work... turned it on, and it posted fine, but wouldn't boot into XP. I inserted a bootable CD, but it would not get to the point of booting from it either. At bootup, it shows that the HD's are recognized and the raid 0 setup is...
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    How do I know if my memory is running in dual-channel mode?

    How do I know if my memory is running in dual-channel mode? I've got two sets of these for a total of 2GB. Corsair TWINX Dual Channel 1024MB PC3200 DDR 400MHz Memory(2x512MB) My mobo is Asus A8N SLI Premium with the 4800 X2 cpu. The machine boots fine into XP and in 'my computer'...
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    Using room a/c to cool the computer

    First off, my computer cools self-sufficiently... just that it gets noisy when under load (e.g. playing games, etc). I was thinking of directing some cool air from my a/c using a duct right where the case intake fan is sucking in air. What do you guys think? And if it works out, I would...
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    4800+ stock heatsink/fan ... revving VERY fast

    Hi all, I just built a new system... but the AMD 4800+ fan is revving very fast after 10-15 minutes of operation... and it's VERY noisy as a result... and I'm not even doing any real computing on it either... just start it up and in 15 minutes or so, gradually the fan starts revving faster...
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    noob's self-built comp not doing auto-shut or auto-restart

    Hiya, First, thanks all for your help elsewhere on thermal material / heatsink, etc. Finally, I got my comp up and running!!! Even installed xp on raid-0 config... works awesome! But my machine is not able to shut down or restart ... i.e. the software does it's part of...
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    noob confused about "thermal interface material"

    I making my own system (for the first time)... Just received the 4800+ retail (box) version that comes with heatsink/fan. The instructions say "Thermal interface material is required.. use only recommended thermal interface material..." But then I read somewhere on the web that the heatsink...
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