Have a A8N-SLI Deluxe sitting on the shelf and finally have the time
to set it up.  In your opinion, what's the best "bang for the buck"
cpu for this board?  Would like to keep my budget as low as possible!
thanks in advance....

I've reinstalled XP about 5 times so far.  At one point I had it
running ok, but I'm trying to get XP to work with AHCI instead of IDE.
I have all SATA devices.  Two hard drives, and two SATA DVD's
3Gb of Ram and EVGA 8600 video card.

Cant even remember who it was , but heres the adapter you were wanting to use
with your PS/2 less motherboard.
http://www.sabrent.com/products/specs/SBT-PS2U.htm

P5K board. 2 x 1 gb DDR2 RAM...which are the best two slots to use?
Thanks
Gary

Thanks to Lars, Dave & Pauls's advice & help I can now see my sata
drives on my P4PE board. I put two Seagate 250 MB drives in as striped
rather than mirrored. I noticed though that the jumpers on these drives
are set to limit the speed to 1.8 GB's so I left them there, can I

I just installed the stock heatsink on my  new quad core 6600 on a P5K
MB. I had a lot of trouble getting all four of the fasteners to go in
correctly and after I finally got them in, I noticed a small amount of
thermal paste on my fingers even though I was being as careful as I

Hi Again,
I have an M2A-VM HDMI that I (finally) got setup (after a bit of a
run-in with RAM voltage)
Now that it's running, I have to say I'm a bit dissapointed with the

Is there any problem with running an NVidia card in the P5B series boards?
Looks like there set up for ATI crossfire but I've given up on running any
ATI based boards after my last encounter using them... I don't intent to run
crossfire or sli. Just a single 7xxx or 8xxx series ...

P5WD2-E PREMIUM/ 2 X 512 DDR-2 800/ PENTIUM D-805/2.66G/ 2-
WD2500KS250G SATA
The system is about a year old.
This particular issue never happened before.

In order to turn my wma files into mp3s, (no posts about copy rights
please) I use a small program called "MP3 My MP3". It captures the
playing WMA at the sound card output and makes the mp3 out of that.
On my Asus P5KPL-VM, the program cannot get the list of sound inputs,

Thanks to the advice of people here, notably Lars, I got my 250G SATA
drive up and running with my P4PE MB just fine.
.... at least I thought it was fine until I noticed that now my DVD
writer (Master on IDE-2) continually shows data errors during

P5wdh
Anyone know if the SATA_raid1 and the 2 ez_raid connectors can be used
for non-raid? I am already using the sata1 2 and 3 connectors and want
to add another sata drive. I don't want to do raid on any of the

    I just ordered a P5N32-E-SLI Plus and received a P5B Premium
Vista along with it. Obviously I can't use both. I have a duo core
Intel CPU and the first board states it supports the duo and quad CPU.
I don't want to open either one because one of them is going back.

How can I get my new P5E mobo to talk to my HP 4mv printer?  The
printer has a centronics connector on the back, which if memory serves
is a parallel port.  
Walt

We just got a whole new system for Christmas in kit form.  We've put
together tons of PC's in the past but this one we keep running into
problems with.
Christmas night when we put it together it wouldn't even start up.