I've looked through my manual, and may have overlooked the answer to this,
but here goes.
The motherboard sports both SATA and PATA connectors for the Promise
controller. Am I limited to using one or the other connector, or can I use

Hi, all.
My A8N-SLI (plain) has started acting strangely since I
added RAM to take it from 1GB to 2.  Now, occasionally
while playing a game, it will simply exit, leaving me at

OK. my computer will not turn on. I have an ASUS A8N-e motherboard and
the status light on the board keeps flashing green whenever i geive it
power. However, it will not turn on, no fans or anything come on.
THe first thought that came to my mind was "bad PSU"...this was because

I recently bought a new asus k8v-mx motherboard and am trying to work out
what each of the 20 pins on the system panel connector are used for. The
manual gives descriptions of pins which arent labelled in the diagram, and
there are several pins that are not labelled at all. If ...

So I have about a dozen and one "issues" with my current Windows XP
installation that I think the best way to fix them is to just to a
repair install.  That being said, I think I know the answer to my
question, but I'm looking to make sure I haven't screwed up logic.

I really like these Zalman coolers.
It is a pain to remove the mobo to install the new Zalman bottom plate.
Also the stock bottom plate is so sticky that when you remove it some
surface mounted

This ones got me stumped:
Sempron 2800+ @ 1.6GHz on K8V-MX  rev 3.00 M/B
Lastest 2.07 beta BIOS (but did the same with v 2.04)
2 Kingston KVR400X64C3A/512 DIMM's

Does anyone know what keys control Instant Music or how it works? Thanks.

I would like to build a system(s) for testing hardware... primarily
SDRAM modules (PC66, PC100, PC133)... I also would like to use this
system or systems to test other devices such as Video cards, Sound
cards, Hard drives, CD/DVD drives...

We have two A7N8X systems
Original DLX with semperon 2400 with GE 3-Ti200
E version of the DLX with that 333 barton 2500 but running at 3200 with GE FX  5600 video
I dont want to upgrade to AMD 64 bit and find it is not much faster than what we got already.  I assume I will have to ...

got the usb crapout .what can i do besides an returning for reflash.can not
seem to find any post on the subject any more.thanks

I seem to have the strangest problem with my PC.
The other morning my PC decided not to start at all...pressing the
power button at teh front resulted in no activity whatsoever, looked as
though there was no electricity at all. I then tried coldstarting it a

I have an A7n8X with a 2500 Barton processor. What would the proper settings
for this chip be as for FSB, multiplier, Voltages etc. This is the
axda2500kv4d. I am experiencing frequent lockups with this combination
unless I run it so that the board thinks it is an xp 1900. memory is ...

I have tried to get the Silicon Image JAVA SATA RAID Management utiliy
to work on my A8N SLI Premium with no luck. Everytime I load it, the
machine gets the BLUE SCREEN of death and reboots. Any help would be
appreciated.I am running RAID 5 on the controller. Three WD2500KS

I bought the excellent A8N-SLI deluxe mother board, and now I'd like to
enable the instant music feature.
I set up all the configuration, when I press the 'esc' key the system
wakes up, the cd rom led blink as if the music is playing, but no sound