Some of the bios settings i do without thinking (a habit I guess)
Setting my first boot device to be Harddrive and disabling all other boot devices and also disabling "boot from other device".
Disabling all other drives not used etc etc etc
Perhaps this is why I rarely get into trouble
Good choice despite the rambling from Iron Woode. I use it in my HTPC and have the 4000+ over clocked - see sig. I also bought some Crucial Rendition very cheap (2 1G sticks), I think 20.00 each stick. There is a setting in BIOS to assist the overclock stability - post here and i will give you...
I would have tried WindowsME - this was far superior to WinSE and should run whatever software he has. I hope you told him that there is no security left in W98SE and he will be open to viruses/hacking or anything out there.
WinME has been condemned by many but I had zero problems with my...
I like the Biostar 570SLI works great - no onboard video.
Also the Gigabyte 690G-S3H - (or newer version 790G) has on board video, sound, lan and HDMI
Asus is also my pick for boards except that i did not like their offerings for the AM2
Both boards overclock well
That has been around in Gigabyte boards forever. Good point about reading the manual - almost every new board I purchase I sit down with the manual before installing anything and just flip through for any new stuff.
Eeryone should learn to do the same - short attention span is what most people...
SO use sots 2 or 3 - the problem is some HW conflict (the days of the old IRQ problem and swapping around solves). Slot 1 is usually blocked by the video card anyway.
I have a TV card in slot 2 and the Dlink 54g wireless can't remember the model now (so many of these wireless cards I have) in...
First get the Via 4.43 all in one drivers frm www.viaarena.com
This should have most of the drivers you need
Then download the driver for the video card - assuming you are not using onboard video.
You still need to clean out all the ghosted devices afterwards to get a pseudo clean install so not entirely BS. And it is best to reinstall drivers afterwards (e.g. Chipset and video) even though you already installed those under the old install.
For IP35 and IP35-E. Waste of time to flash (unless if you are getting an E8400).
With my rig I have a power centre so I kill the power entirely. I guess I will always be stuck with this issue.
And a reminder to all - do not flash using abit's flash menu - especially beta bioses; almost lost the bios chip recently - but good fortune it booted to floppy and I recovered in DOS mode. Not everyone will be so lucky.
Hope 16 makes some attempt to fix the double booting. Out of the 3 P35...
I remember a video a while back with the old AMD thunderbirds (or was it an Athlon XP) - they tested a MB and cpu and in a few seconds a loud explosion - booom! Punched a whole into the motherboard - use your imagination.
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