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I like Opera more; looks, feeling, speed (and who cares if it slower . I´m sure some one told here that they do the same things if you tell them too , don´t we love these topic wars, let´s start AMD AM2 vs iNTEL S775 Core2Duo again .

On a KM400A chipset, I would like to see that with an Athlon XP , some Semprons(32) can do it I know but 40MHz for PCI bus could give problems on VIA chipsets...

The only problem I have with keyboards is with DELL computers, USB still sux for a keyboard I tell ya...

Looks like your timing is a bit bad, push F8 after it detects your harddrives. The error you get is from your BIOS so it will see the keyboard with keys stuck.

About the RAM; CPU @ 333MHz with RAM @ 400MHz works fine, you will get a little more out of it altrough it´s just 1 to 3%, get CAS 2.5 if you can or even 2.0 if the price is almost the same .

Yeah, and put some finger prints on him too, then slap it off again, , .

You are asking the impossible, you can’t just put 2 interfaces together .

They are nice but so hard to get, any way, he got a 5200FX just to run Vista

Diferent AGP sloths, diferent voltage and speed. The Asus is a 2x/4x and your ATI 1x/2x. Googled for 2 seconds and found this.

You know how this happens? It’s when some one almost breaks the screen with a finger. Some one pushed to hard on it and made a line on your screen. This is not a joke... I had it too, but like white spots on one of my screens.

Okay, got the point . 1 Gig isn´t much indeed . Your program is way cool and so helpfull .

No you are not... "...could it be HT holding me back? I can't find an option in the bios for altering it?" You already gave the answer your self, the chipset normally works on 1000MHz (2000) bridge speed, so set to 230MHz it will give you 1150MHz and that could be a problem on a NF4. Set it to 800MHz in the BIOS en try again to OC more. Look for it in the BIOS, it MUST be there. EDIT: If you get stuck again with the OC then it must be your RAM. ASRock is a budget but not low-end...

Before you take it back test it on an other computer, some older VGA cards have problems with the sync...

Chip-size not module-size . AM2 boards are a bit more picky on RAM then S775, but I even found S775 motherboards that won’t accept 667MHz even when the specs say it will.

bonestonne is going in the right direction; it’s the chip size. The RAM is just incompatible with the motherboard .

5200FX when you can get a 5500FX for the same price?

Yup, double clicked it and it unpacked. Some how I missed that step, why is it compressed any way? it´s already small by it self...

Time for a party then... YEEEAAAHHH! I´m happy for you, so it was a dirty motherboard after all .

It was for a customer, I would never buy it for my self...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814143059 The nVidia 5500FX will be the best choice with Vista because it has more hardware DirectX 9.0x and OpenGL 1.5. You can even play Need for Speed Underground 2 with it at 800*600 . If it was for XP I would go for the ATi 9250 128bit...

Yeah, crahak is right, and don’t forget that you need to get DDR2 also. It’s even useless to go with a core2duo, tried the 6700 here and it doesn’t perform that much better then a X2, and it’s slow on 64 bits.

There could be dust in between the contacts of your PCI/AGP card(s) or RAM check that also, and did you use new cooling paste?

The MX4000 from nVidia doesn´t have so much performance altrough the RAM is the same as the 5200FX. I persony go with ATi for PCI; http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....250&Ntk=all In general the ATi Radeon 9250 works better then the nVidia 5200FX. What kind of CPU do you have, how much RAM and what OS? What are you planning to do with it?

AGP 4x pro also is 3.3v, well, try to put in an AGP 8x and see how long it works . EDIT: i tried it before, worked good for months with some cards, later blownup caps and replaced them, the voltage regulators algo get too hot...

Those screens have 3 years of warranty, so try to get your warranty .