SilentRawr

Is there a difference between a unified driver pack and the regular nForce driver downloads available? I made sure to not install the nVidia IDE drivers and the stupid firewall, if that's what you mean. The NIC wasn't even showing up when XP first booted up though, before any manual driver installs, so I don't think it's has to do with them. I tried manually setting the MAC addy in the BIOS, but it didn't do squat...

Blech... just checked, and it's from 6.23.05 :- Think it's worthwhile to flash it to a newer one?

Well, after some thorough searching and tweaking of anything and everything in the BIOS and XP, I still can't find my nVidia NIC whatsoever. It has power going to it on the board, because the link light comes on when I plug a CAT-5 cable into it, but nothing happens at all, not even any network activity like on the Marvell before I installed it's drivers. Windows doesn't pop up any warnings/baloons, no new devices show up in Dev. Mgr., and no new network connections show up in MNP (obviously. I've checked all the recommended settings from the few other threads made by people who had this problem, but nothing seems to help. Any ideas?

After killing *three* fresh installs of XP last night just trying some mild OC'ing of my new Opty (I think I forgot to put in a divider /doh), and deciding to format a separate system partition on the my main drive so I can just Ghost the damn thing once a week and restore when I screw it up again, I started to do some pondering. Why/how exactly does an installation of Windows (or Linux, don't know if it doesn't happen when you're not running a bloatware OS) get corrupt if you OC too hard too quickly? And why does it sometimes only corrupt one or two files, but other times seem to destroy the entire boot-sector or most of the core Windows install? Also, i've pretty much already assumed this, but is this an indication that I should slow down a bit in terms of how quickly I try to OC my CPU/FSB?

Thx for that Roadie; I bought the board used, and the seller forgot to include the manuals.

Oh, not really on-topic, but where can I plug the CD-Audio cable from my DVD-Rom into on the Karajan(sic) audio thingy, or is it somewhere else on the board that I missed?

So, 24-pin is ATX, CPU is the square 4-pin (like the original P4 connector that Socket A Athlons didn't need), and Molex is Molex, but where does the floppy connector plug into the board? Is that why there are two floppy power connectors on my PSU? When I installed this thing (my first look at a modular PSU; my gaming-PC building experience is pretty out of date), I was thinkin', who the hell uses two floppy drives... :shake:

Ok, that's what I figured. Thanks BTW, these boards are absolutely amazing... I just plugged in my iPod dock to charge da' pod while i'm re-installing XP, and on the friggin boot menu, it showed up, not just as a USB drive, but as an iPod with the current version of the software on it. Talk about awesome technology :drool:

I just upgraded for the first time in years from an A7N8X-Deluxe/XP-M 2500+, so i've got new acronyms, concepts, and now power-plugs coming out the ears :confused: Anyways, like the subject asks, what is the use of the the four-pin Molex (Molex is the IDE device power connector, right?) socket that's actually on the board? I just realized that after installing the new board, cpu, HSU, VCard, etc .. last night, I completely missed plugging one in there. Does it have something to do with SLi? Will the board not function properly without it? I've had no trouble so far... Already at a 1:1 ratio, I booted into windows with the FSB () set at 245, and MAN does this thing fly :angel: