I forgot to add in my previous post that I have XP Pro installed on one of those 10 gig partitions in that 20 gig hard drive. That partition has 4.5 gigs of free space left after the programs I use...

I had a spare 20 gig hard drive that I use as an emergency back up. That drive is broken into 2 10 gig partitions. It would not install on one of those partitions because it told me it needed 11...

I found a couple things about the installation that have really irked me. The first is the computer performance check after the files are installed.

The second thing is the hard drive...

I forgot to add in my previous post that when you're researching the motherboard you should also take a look at the cpu support list for it.

No, you don't need to format. Since you didn't list what brand/model motherboard you have, I suggest researching the motherboard on the manufacturers website to find out what socket it is.

Unless you want a processor of a different socket type, you don't need to change the motherboard when doing a cpu upgrade.

What you do need to do though is make sure the cpu you want to upgrade...

Thanks for the input you two.

Nathan

Subject says it all. I'm considering building a system with one of these cpus. For those of you who have these cpus already, what have your experiences been with them?

Nathan

Thanks for the info.


Nathan

God I feel stupid. ::chuckles::

An Antec spot fan solved the problem by creating a better airflow pattern between the front case fan and rear case fan. The core temp reading has consistently...

I have a core temperature reading occuring in comp running an Athlon 64 3500+ socket 939 cpu that's got me a little concerned.

Speedfan is giving me AMD K8 core temperature readings between 44C...

Thanks for posting that thread. I'll have to unistall Asus Probe and see if that fixes the problem.

Nathan

Here's some guidelines for you to follow when choosing a motherboard.

1.) What are your plans for this computer?
2.) How much are you willing to spend?
3.) Do you want an standard ATX or...

I'll start out by saying this is the first time I've seen this error message.

Shortly after installating WIN XP Media Center ver. 2005 onto my comps master hard drive I started recieving this...

You've got the wrong style DDR2 memory. The motherboard uses DDR2 533/667/800MHz Dual Channel memory.

Everything else looks good.


Nathan

Well, after posting this same question on ASUS's forums I found out what the problem was from a reply I got. The RAID controller was enabled but nothing was connected to it. Disabling the RAID...

I've got an ASUS motherboard that tells me during boot up there's no BIOS installed. However, the CMOS says there's a BIOS version installed on the board. I downloaded that BIOS version from ASUS's...

Well, the processors decided to start working with the boards tonight. I'm not sure why though. Looks like it's time to solve that mystery.

Just thought I'd add that clearing CMOS didn't solve the problem. As for the motherboard and processor being defective and/or incompatible, I doubt it. I bought duplicates of the motherboard and...

Is there a way to adjust cpu frequency on the motherboard to get a processor to boot?

I've got a Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000-G motherboard. When I install a firewire card into it and then turn the power supply on I get a long continuous beep until the power supply is turned off. This beep...