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You are doing some thing that is not good, but you already knew that. You can’t simply use an 80GB drive and a 160GB drive in RAID. I’m surprised it worked as 240GB but most likely the last 80GB will be at the normal speed of the 160GB drive. It has nothing to do with the drivers; it’s not a "real" software problem. Just GOOGLE a bit and look what other people have to say about different drives in RAID configuration, but you will only find people that have problems .

I can see that you are new with this, but it’s okay . Your motherboard has 2 IDE connectors and most of the time it’s better to keep one connector for Harddrives and the other one for the optical drives like your combo. I didn’t see that your drive was a 160GB SATA drive so you don’t have to worry about “keeping them separately" because it always has its own cable. To put the jumper on your drive on CS (Cable Select) could help sometimes. Also resetting the BIOS can do wonders, it could be that the BIOS is set wrong for the transfer speed. Also Windows does strange things if it noticed that the connection between the Drive and the motherboard isn’t good, I have seen this on VIA chipsets, switching from UDMA mode to PIO mode witch is only 16MB/s. Change that cable to see if it helps, also you could try the other IDE connector on your motherboard. I hope I explained it better like this .

Register at the site of 3Dmark and check out the scores; http://service.futuremark.com/orb/projectsearch.jsp I´m sure it usefull for you .

- BIOS reset - Change IDE-cable and use a seperate cable for your HDD and Combo - Try the drive on CL - Install latest drivers These are the things you could try, tell us if it worked

Build or buy a mixer or a switchbox. that would give you some options, other then that; no software will do that for you on that soundchip. There are some soundcards that you can program ...

I thought we were talking about uATX ... And yes DFI rulez Yes indeed, new High-end motherboards indeed use ICs and MOSFET and no capacitors, giving a very smooth voltage for the CPUs. I’m only wondering if they produce more heat...

2 x IEEE 1394 (b is possible but this is too forward thinking I fear) – non of the motherboards I saw had that (or it must be an abnormal mobo) Let me correct that, there are motherboard with a pin-header and a connector at the back so there are boards that support it .

mATX layout – possible socket AM2 or 775 - possible 2 x DDR2 DIMMs – possible 1 x GigE network adapter - possible 8 x USB - possible 2 x IEEE 1394 (b is possible but this is too forward thinking I fear) – non of the motherboards I saw had that (or it must be an abnormal mobo) 8 x SATA II – only on ATX, not on uATX 1 x PCI-E 16x - possible 2 x PCI - possible 5 x fan headers – only on server boards so forget that with uATX, buy a drive bay fan controller for that or just connect all directly to the PSU switch to reset BIOS - no jumpers – There are some motherboard who have this option but hard to find in uATX a passive heatsink on the chipset – possible The ASUS M2NPV-VM Socket AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard came close to what you want (nice outputs for a HTPC machine only missing the optical in and outs (optional out is posible)), why did you change your plans? I know it has onboard VGA but the PCI-E sloth will take any thing you throw in it. For the powersuply look at the Antec´s, even the 400VA version will be enough for your setup .

Dude, it will fit . Almost all cooler that you buy now are well designed not like in the past that you needed to cut out parts of your cooler to fit on your motherboard when capacitors are placed in the way. This is why they found out the retention bracket so coolers will fit. The only thing I was worried about is the 12cm that will come close to the other 2 12cm fans .

Make money with them, build a cybercafé in Mexico . Seriously; they use d*mn old computers here like pII 233MHz, 128MB and a stinky 14/15" CRT... (NOT ME! )

Other then that, they use cheap *ss capacitors that don’t work for a long time…

Game Centre, sounds cool B) , Cybercafé puntoMX Computers is also to play games (80% of the custumers) like HL2DM and UT2004 and soon we start tournaments here. We use 17" BENQ screens FP71G+S, 8ms (gray to gray I think) .

Take a look from the side of the Zalman CNPS8000 and you will see that only the heatpipes could block your DIMM slots.

Jup, there are going to be BIG changes in the Video Card marked with those GDDR4 RAM chips other then that; we still have to see about the AM3 socket, things are not clear about that standard... B)

So, what you have is 1 12cm fan in the back sucking away air from the cooler and the power supply also will suck air away from the cooler with another 12cm fan. Blocking those fans will give you more noise be course that’s what you are going to do; block the fans with the 1" high side of the cooler fan although the cooler fan is not going to touch the other fans. My idea: By a cooler with a 8cm fan, those CPU´s you will use are not going to be that hot, even the stock cooling will do fine. Why would you go for another cooler (directly and not later) any way?

Re-install your computer that could help. (no joke)

The Cooler will fit, but I don’t know what kind of power supply you use. The cooler fan will be very close even touching the bottom of the power supply. Nice small case with BIG fans as intake and outtake.

Yes it´s more vulnerable, you can turn it on each month b/c the updates come each month from Micro$oft. And next time don´t bump your post and READ hat people are telling you please: "+ Reinstall your drivers for your network card". Zxian explained you how to do it step by step. i´m happy that it works for you now .

If you look at the cooler from beside then you will see that the base isn´t that big

Hi Ronaldo, welcome to the MSFN.org forums A - I've heard some dodgy reports about the Asus board. Has anyone on here had any good experiences with this board? It´s a good board but not ALL RAM will work, download the user manual from the ASUS site and look at the compatible modules that they are advising; Any thing that is similar to these modules should work, most of the time they prefer 64Mbit ships. B - If I use Corsair TWIN2X1024-5400C4 RAM (which operates at 4-4-4-12 timings) will I be able to underclock this to DDR2-4300 and operate it at 3-3-3-8 timings? Yes, but you have to see if you will have a performance gain from it, just play with that when you have the combo. I think I saw Corsair RAM in there list that I mentioned in “A” C - Will I notice a difference between operating at 5400 and 4300 speeds? That is, does an Athlon 64 3200+ need all that bandwidth? See “B” D - Will I notice a difference between the 4-4-4-12 and 3-3-3-8 timings? See “B” E - Is 1 GB of RAM sufficient if some of this will be going to the onboard graphics? Depends what you do with it, but you are not a hardcore gamer I think else you would buy directly a better video card F - Will any RAM slots be blocked by the Zalman cooler. I've checked both the Asus and Zalman sites but I'm still in the dark. What I need is first-hand experience from someone who's used this set-up. No it will not, not even if the RAM-banks would be 1mm from the CPU-brackets (black thing around the CPU to hold the cooler in place) I´m using these motherboards and I´m happy with them, even the onboard video can run most games at 800*600 very well, some games even on 1028*768 like HL2 and NFSU2. I hope I helped you a bit .

+ C:\WINDOWS\System32\RUNDLL32.EXE Kick that part out with HIJACKTHIS. + Reinstall your drivers for your network card + Check your RAM with MEMTEST or other program Let us know if that helped, but this should be the first test. If it doesn´t help then take out the network card and see what will happen .

Same thing with compUSA: "A sempron 64bits, that doens´t exists... It´s like a Celeron with HT... (give me one I was thinking )", that was in McAllen TX by the way, the "most technical guy" there the said...

In Europe for sure. http://www.akasa.com.tw/ http://www.akasa-europe.com/ http://www.akasa.co.uk/ And there nice controller: http://www.akasa.co.uk/akasa_english/spec_...ak_all_01bk.htm

Akasa is known in Europe, but not in America. I sold stuff from then in Holland as well and yes they have nice and good made products indeed.

Hmm, never saw those, way cool. To bad they don´t sell CRAP! here in Mexico, as always... *cries*