IHC9:
I currently have V8.3.0.1011 installed. I see Intel has a newer
version (9.0.0.1008). Should I install this newer updated version or
leave well enough alone. ASUS update site only shows V. 8.3.0.1011

Hi,
I have the Asus P5K motherboard vanilla not the deluxe.
Can I run three hard drives such that the internal HD1 is for the OS
and the internal HD2 plus an external eSATA HD3 are in a RAID

Looking to install Ubuntu 8.10 onto an external drive using eSATA
offered by the Silicon Image ports set to normal mode.  However, all
attempts and most Google searches [suggest] that the Sil controller
might not be the best choice.  That is, although I can "see" the drive

I just noted that the stated output of my 901's charger is 12v
DC.
Unencumbered by any knowledge of electrical stuff, it sounds to
me like the 901 can be charged just by a direct connection to a

MY SPECS
* Motherboard and CPU: ASUS P5B Motherboard, Intel CPU Support: (Core
2 Duo/Quad, Pentium 4/D, Celeron), Intel P965/ICH8 Chipset, Socket 775
* OS: Windows XP SP2, fully up to date

About 6 months ago I upgraded my system and bought an HP Pavillion which
uses an
Asus M2N68 mobo,,, I still have my old Soundblaster Live 1024 soundcard
which was really good (way back),,,,,,, at present im using the on-board

Above the agp slot, group of flat-square-black three pin maybe voltage
regulators? One sparked and their is a raised nipple on it. Only one
of group. Machine boots, but hangs after 25 secs or more. I have
component level tech experience. Want to see if I can  repair. Any

I've been having trouble with an Asus p4c800-e. Ran Memtest86 v3.2,
which reported errors.
Burned the latest version of Memtest-86 (v3.4a) but it generates an
exception and halts almost immediately. I'm figuring that this may be

I want to install Windows XP Professional on a newly built computer that
includes the ASUS M3A motherboard. I'm having some problems and hope that
the gurus here can help.
I have two Seagate 750 GB hard drives that were originally set up in a RAID1

Some questions on setting up a RAID 1 set on a ASUS A7N8X-E mobo.
This board has a SiL3112A controller and driver, which is installed.
I have a 120GB SATA drive installed and wanted to add another 500GB
SATA drive.  There are no PATA drives installed on the computer.  If I

Well, I presume it's hardware. The system was running fine for a
while. Started intermittent lockups--Memtest86 showed bad ram. Pulled
it, and am now running on just one stick (1 GB).  Memtest86 says it's
OK.  I've Seagate's Seatools on the boot drive several times. No

Re-formatted my Linux 901 and used nLite to install Windows XP
Pro from my MSDN discs.
Seems to have worked: boot time 25 seconds compared to 27 with
Xandu and 1:01 with Ubuntu.  A little over 3 gigs on the system

I have a 250GB drive,  running  XP SP2.
I want to replace the system drive with a new one and consider a
larger drive but I can't remember or find what the size limit for this
hardware/software combo is.

I have noticed that when I transferred files over my LAN that they sometimes
became corrupted. I found it was the NIC in my main computer causing
problem. It is an ASUS P5B motherboard with onboard Atheros L1 Gigabit
Ethernet 100/100/1000Base-T adapter. I had Vista x64 look for ...

In the vein of trying to install Windows XP on a P4S(X with a single
sole SATA hard disk I managed to reach the point after typing F6 and the
Z to load the fasttrack 376 (downloaded from the ASUS site file:
pdc20376_15.zip) driver. But after doing the Windows XP driver choice