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@crahak You talk logic. And it wins my vote too. So I shall be going in for DS3 with p965.

This motherboard is ddr400 only, so I may have to rule it out. What about Gigabyte GA-965G-DS3 Don't bash me for using onboard x3000 graphics crap. I have simpler reasons, firstly this one is not going to be used as gaming pc, but subsequently I may use the onboard PCI 16x to install some good Graphics card (provided this option is available) and free my RAM. But can someone really help me rule this particular board out or in? Another feature I require is RAID option, the manuals of ga-965g-ds3, p965-DS3 and S3 mentions availablity of Gigabyte RAID, but performance wise I am not sure if Intel Matrix is winner or Gigabyte RAID controller would do well. Any comments!

Agreed. I just decided to use the DS3 in my new rig too. The Asus boards seemed nice too, but they basically offered nothing extra besides costing a bunch more. CPU wise, I thought about going with the 6600 at first, but it seemingly doesn't OC as well (usually), and the performance gain once OC'ed seemed somewhat negligible over what you get out of a 6400 - not enough to warrant the 100$ price gap IMO. The extra multiplier is half-negated by not OC'ing as well, but it also has twice the cache - nice, but not worth 100$ more IMO. The 6400 OC'ed can beat the 6600 (even seen it beat the 6700 on some encoding benches if OC'ed a lot), which is plenty fast for most stuff already (the 6400 un-OC'ed is already fast enough as far as I'm concerned) But if the cash's burning a hole in your pocket, why not get a 6600? Agreed and must admit that Asus board may not match the OC abilities of Gigabyte. For one thing, RAM voltage of P5B is max upto 2.1v but that of Gigabyte goes upto 2.3v. Certainly, my choice of going in for e6600 is not that rigid, and also going by various benchmarks, performance ratio and OC abilities of e6300 and e6400, either of the two can be considered to make a right choice. But the choice is getting clearer for Gigabyte, I think!

Probably e6600!

Thanks! I was just reading the review of gigabyte m/board on Anandtech. Your solution is perfect!

Hi everyone! Can someone suggest a good motherboard based on conroe processor to go with a pair of OCZ PC2-6400 800MHz Dual Channel Kit - OCZ2P8002GK (this one I got here in India and cannot be returned). This particular RAM works on 2.1v, and latest 965 chipset doesn't go beyond 1.8v (as per Intel specifications). So can someone suggest a good Asus or other motherboard to go with this pair of RAM? Thanks in advance.

Replacing caps on m/boards isn't that easy without proper kit. The m/boards are multilayered and many capacitors have a miniscule copper socket going into the board. So taking it that simple soldering would do the stuff is wrong. Moreso you have to keep the surrounding components under controlled temp, so that you don't end up frying the things easily. Any service centre with good instruments can easily replace the damage.

Yes there are no cat files. The error was shown while compiling the drivers' backup. All the files backed-up shown in the attachment.

@IcemanND The program has copied all the creative drivers, but the OS doesn't install drivers from backed up folder, both in unattended mode using, winnt.sif and manually after installation. Secondly, the names inf files of couple of drivers are truncated. Like that of of creative and my TV Tuner card. What I get in backed up directory is only inf.

@tosk It's been a long time since this utility was released. But I am unable to download it. Can you please upload it again.

Good piece. I hope it will work well with creative audio drivers. They are rather tricky to backup and restore.

Great release after a long time! Thanks!

Your idea is good, but may create compatibility and stablity issues with xpize.

1. Extract contents of the file using uniextract 2. I suppose you are using english language, so you would need a file oemsetup.ini with following lines in it: 3. Run the command path oemsetup.exe oemsetup.ini OR This process has gone tricky in 5.5, so after unpacking you can simply use: start "" /wait IP55.msi mm=16 /qb-! /norestart

I would like to see the registry tweaks of last page saved as reg file!

It is a part of my profession. It is collar bone of our body. I broke it many years back.

It is really very often, even more than thrice a day at time. My installations span over three different hdds. I use more of standalone programmes and this helps me to get the os rolling in almost 14-17 min. with all unattended installs.

Keep it going. Make an option to work in 800*600 or lower reso.

It is great news that you have zeroed in these few files for the stubborn behaviour of visual effects using nlite. I hope you find a solution pretty soon and we may all be relieved of manually setting the things right.

Indeed it is great find and strange too

AMD http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1826663,00.asp

Switching the power supply from 115 to 230v generally blows fuse in your psu alongwith few active and passive filters, and subsequently the high power diode package, and even worse, a few power regulating ics get blown off, but beyond that, the pc generally is not affected. You can get another psu to start over your pc, but the psu can be repaired also. Good luck!

Go to driverheaven.net forums or http://www.youp-pax.org:8005/forumdisplay.php?fid=13 forum. You will get all that you need.

A new workaround has been posted at http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/bo...&message.id=427

A nice workaround has been posted at creative forums This method needs to be given a try!