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  1. mshirley001

    Need some help please...

    This is a new build (Asus P4PE) and everything has gone flawlessly, booted to BIOS on the first try, Ive just been waiting on my copy of win xp pro (full version) to arrive via UPS, the final piece to the puzzle. I knew it was gonna be a bad evening when I checked the UPS website and it said my...
  2. mshirley001

    RAID ATA/133 Controller

    My new motherboard (ASUS P4PE) has a RAID ATA/133 connector and the manual says that "by default the drive you connect will follow the ATA 133/100/66/33 protocol as an independent drive, not as a disk array". The Maxtor drive I ordered is an ATA 133 drive. Does this mean I can...
  3. mshirley001

    Overclocking... Pros and Cons

    As I understand it, overclocking is running the processor (and RAM?) faster that what it is rated at. How this is accomplished, I dont know but it looks like the board I ordered comes with software utilities to do just that. So I ordered these memory sticks (Corsair XMS) that claims to be made...
  4. mshirley001

    Thermal Compound?

    Well I did it, I ordered the Asus P4PE Board and P4 3.06GHz Processor and a gig of PC2700 DDR 333MHz. Was sitting here flipping through a Tigerdirect catalog and noticed a intel socket 478 fan and in the description it says "includes thermal compound". Im assuming it somehow reduces...
  5. mshirley001

    Motherboard Recomendation?

    I have decided to start shopping for components to put together a new system (so i can kick the crap out of this one everytime i walk by it). This will be used primarily for video authoring so its gonna need to be a workhorse. Ive decided on the Intel P4 2.8GHz 533 FSB processor. Can someone...
  6. mshirley001

    Can Read but cannot write to CD-RW drive

    I used to be able to write to my cd-rw but now I cant. I installed a dvd-ram/dvd-r drive and a bunch of dvd/video authoring software plus a new video card. Ever since that I have been unable to write anything to the cd-rw. I'm running Windows XP Home Edition and this is what I have done to...

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