I ran several passes of memtest86 and the ram 'seems' to be ok.
However the computer crashes in XP and sometimes reboots.
I have an old ASUS A8S-X Motherboard and have installed 1gb of ram [it
already had 1gb of ram so this makes 2gb of ram, they are identical

Hi... confused here.... I'm building a new Pc with the above mobo as the
backbone.  I was going to put an E6600 CPU in it.  Running XP Pro.... as
Vista is poop.
Anyhoo... suddenly got me thinking about 64-bit in general  i.e. 64-bit XP,

im waiting to buy a new MB ,  i think X48 chipset release is close ,
but how close ? should i cave and go X38???

I've just built a new system with an Asus board, and I want to try q-
fan, but want to be sure that it's safe.  I'm using the stock AMD
cooler at the moment, so I don't know what the fan specs are.  If the
voltage goes below the startup voltage will the fan just stop?  Or can

Got 2 problems, have the P5KR Mobo, just installed windowsXp, enabled the
Realtek HD Audio in the Bios, but tried to install the driver and it
progresses so far and then I get an error message Install Realtek HD Audio
Driver Failure.

I'm going to replace my MB and processor in my pc with an
Asus P5KE-Wifi board which has built in Lan. Do I still
need a router etc to start a Lan with a 2nd pc? I'm not
familiar with lan's etc and need advice. Any help will be

some advice please, I am in the process of building a computer using the
A8V-SE and Sata Drives.  I have completed it but the computer does not
recognise the drives, I have enabled the relevant settings in the Bios.
Have the Mobo Disk but cannot find any drivers for sata, except ...

I have a P5K mb and Logitech 5.1 speakers. I'm using the onboard sound
on the mb. The speakers are connected according to the manual. When I
test the speakers using the Realtek HD software that came with the mb
all the speakers test fine. However when I play music with Winamp or

I try to install a 750GB Samsung SATA HD into my p4g8x. At boot sequence
the raid bios says I can enter the bios by F4 or Ctrl+s but nothing
happens. The HD is displayed on screen but nothing happens. Bios Version
is 1005. What can I do?

The vendor we have been using to build our AMD systems that have always had
Asus mobos, ATI Video, and Seagate disks has switch to exclusive Intel, MSI
board and video, and WD disks.  Sorry, but I have been having pretty good
luck for close to 10 years now and don't want to screw ...

Very good video card. I want gladly order a Second one. But I have no pcie
connection more from my powersupply. I can use adaptors also those which in
the box. From 6pol blacks, black, red ,yellow to 4polig, you know.I have
Antec Phantom 500w powersupply.

I'm thinking that I will upgrade to a quad core system some time later
this year. (see my other message about this).  But I'm aware that it's
early in the market for quad-core, and I'll admit that I haven't been
following the developments in detail.

I recently obtained an upgraded video card to put into my aging P4P800SE
mobo.  The card is great but problem is that the card came from a computer
that must have been used by a smoker.  It is a PNY Nvidia 6800 GT, so it has
its own fan and thus it is "spreading" the smell around ...

If I'm using a sata dvd rw drive and am installing a windows operating
system using the sata drive, will the installation recognize the
drive, or will I need to boot up with dos and load the sata drivers
before the OS installation?  Thanks

I'm building a new PC with a new Western Digital SATA HDD.  My mobo's
BIOS does not see this new HDD.  (I'm using an Asus P5K Premium board,
P35 chipset.)
I'm wondering if this situation is not a show-stopper however.  If I