Asus

Power problem...
Asus A7M266 motherboard. (Pushing four years old) Last night when mother went to shut down the computer, the LEDs shut off, but the computer continued to run. Holding in the power switch would not shut down the system. You had to unplug it. When plugged back on, it would not boot (or even turn on). Presse... 8 Oct 2005 12:05

Using ASUS Probe
Hi all.... Just assembled a new system and have been using ASUS probe to check temps. All temps are OK (CPU ~ 30 C at idle, ~ 40 C under load). I can't figure out what the fan thresholds mean though. I thought these were to give a limit when the fan exceeded the rpm set as a threshold. My chassis fan is co... 3 Oct 2005 13:38

Asus P5LP-LE SATA dongle (IDE to SATA)
I have an HP 71070n with a sata hard drive installed. I'd like to be able to use my smaller Maxtor IDE drive to run Windows XP and use the bigger sata one for storage. The motherboard is an Asus P5LP-LE and has only one IDE slot which is being used for the two optical drives. So I bought an i2S IDE to SATA converte... 3 Oct 2005 14:40

Corrupt Downloads
I'm starting to get a lot of failures for corrupt CAB files or checksum violations on downloaded files when I attempt to execute the. ANy ideas what is or may be causing this? I can't even run downloaded nVidia video and ASUS system updates. I'm at a loss. ASUS A8N-SLI Prem AMD Ath-64 3800+ 2 Gigs Corsair DD... 2 Oct 2005 21:07

A7N266-VM bios flash
during bootup my computer shows A7B266-VM ACPI BIOS Rev 1004/AA A7N266VM 08/23/02 downloaded 1007.bin and tried to flash and got msg 1007.bin date of built current 08/23/02 1007.bin 04/29/02 check sum of 1007.bin is AA46 Warning! the bios model doesn't match with the one currently used tried... 1 Oct 2005 13:55

PEG Root Control and PEG Buffer Length
I found this: http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=3&var1=130&var2=0 after seeing something called PEG Link Mode in my BIOS. Since I didn?t know what it was and why my X700 Pro gave me "failed VGA test" errors on startup, I decided to read about it. Anyway, does anybody know about PEG Root Control and P... 30 Sep 2005 10:58

Asus P5WD2 Premium board not detecting PATA Devices?
I just purchased an Asus P5WD2 Premium motherboard. I have a SATA drive, and an IDE Sony DRU-710A DVD Burner. Problem is when i go into the BIOS, it does not detect the DVD Burner. Funny thing is if I go into the BOOT menu it shows the DVD Burner as a boot device which I can select a boot priority for. When ... 29 Sep 2005 21:04

Input needed!
Lo. I recently finished building a new PC, with an Asus P5GD2 - Deluxe at its heart. All was well until I noticed a problem with the onboard sound: when it is playing out of a set of desktop speakers, it only plays out of the left hand channel. I checked the speakers, by testing two pairs, and installing a sep... 27 Sep 2005 10:45

front usb ports
I have an asus A8N-e motherboard running windows xp sp2 with an amd 64 3000 in an Antec Performance II series case. The rear usb ports work fine but the two front ports are problematic. Certain devices such as mice and keyboards will work but others such as my mp3 player or jump drive do not. When I install suc... 28 Sep 2005 14:56

A8N-E ram question
Is there any advantage of using two 512 MB ram chips instead of one 1 GB ram chip for subject board? Thank you, Seamus J. Wilson ... 27 Sep 2005 17:40