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    Motherboard bricked... need suggestions for replacement

    Updates!! I've been talking to my favorite vendor at lamington road, and he's found me a very decent solution for my budget. Asus m4a89td pro AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2x2 GB Ram Kit Corsair. Approximately 22.5K for this. ^_^
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    Motherboard bricked... need suggestions for replacement

    Thank you all for your suggestions. I wasn away for a month, so couldn't check back on this eaarlier. Thanks a lot. ^_^ ---------- Post added at 08:02 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:16 AM ---------- So this is what I'm pretty much arrived at From my old system, I'm carrying...
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    Motherboard bricked... need suggestions for replacement

    Ah! I can't believe I forgot to mention the budget. I'm looking at a motherboard, processor, and ram to fit in the range of about 15K And as for the board recovery, I tried the usual stuff. Resetting, CMOS, right down to recovery using a floppy drive with a bios recovery flash tool...
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    Motherboard bricked... need suggestions for replacement

    Motherboard: Striker II Formula (nforce 780i SLI chipset) Processor: Intel Core2Duo E6850 3.0 Ghz Ram: 4 X 1GB Kingston DDR2 800Mhz Graphics card: XFX Radeon 5770HD I bought an ATI 5770HD to replace my old broken 8800GT card. I was under the assumption that a firmware update on my...
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    Need a new UPS. 500VA isn't enough

    Thanks for the prompt replied... I'll be getting either an APC 630VA or microtech 800VA, depending on the price. I think have heard companies are equally reliable.
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    IRQL_LESS...system switches off

    Ive had problems implementing 4 GB configs coz of that error, among others. My solution was to use kingston RAM instead of transcend. But that was for 4 GB. AFAIK, transcend worked in 2 GB config
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    Post your latest Purchase

    Re: Post what you purchased. Intel Core2Duo E6850 (3.0GHz) + Asus P5N32E Sli = Rs 24,000 Galaxy nVidia 8800GT 512 MB = Rs 17,500 [Kingston 1 GB DDR2 800 RAM = Rs 1600 each ] x 4 VIP GOLD 500V PSU = Rs 3000 I bought these from PC Guide at Lamington Road, Mumbai, on 10th Dec 2007. :)
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    Need a new UPS. 500VA isn't enough

    This is my setup: Core2Duo e6850 3.0GHz 4 GB of DDR2 RAM 8800GT 512MB 1 seagate SATA HDD 4 cabinet fans 2 DVD drives 1.44 Floppy (Why do i even keep it? I've installed the same one for my last 3 PCs, and have never even used it!!) Creative 5.1 Speakers 2 x ADSL routers (for...
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    Dual SATA problems. PC keeps powering off

    Hmm.. my normal operating temperatures are given as 30 degrees to 70 degrees. >_< I'm guessing it could be a voltage problem. I've kept my HDD outside yesterday, trying to figure things out with different combinations to see what could be the problems. No unwarranted shutdowns yet...
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    Dual SATA problems. PC keeps powering off

    No more suggestions? :S
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    Dual SATA problems. PC keeps powering off

    Oops! My mistake in telling you about my UPS ratings... ! I use an APC ES 500, btw. My UPS is rated 500 VA, with a (230~v, 2.2A, 47~53Hz), 300W o/p, and (230~V, 3.8A, 47~53Hz) Surge protected o/p. Can someone tell me why my surge protected o/p Power (Watts) hasn't been specified on the UPS...
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    Dual SATA problems. PC keeps powering off

    HM... bad air flow could be a problem... I'll take out the extra fan i've installed at the side. Speedfan sucks, btw. Keeps tellin me my processor temperature is 127 degrees. <_< I use MBM. That gaves me a processor temps of about 41~45~47 the whenever i checked it. Processor...
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    Dual SATA problems. PC keeps powering off

    Oh... how come the UPS rating didnt strike me before!!!?? >_< And another thing about my cabinet... I have a total of 6 fans installed. including the CPU and video card fans. Now, this is more "testing" on my prolem: This evening, i plugged my new HDD in. Was playin my music off it...
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    Dual SATA problems. PC keeps powering off

    I connected my new HDD in addition to my existing one. But after about 20 minutes of use, while i was copying about 40 gigs of music from old HDD to new HDD, the PC just powered off. no warnings, no nothing. instant power cut. Whats more, the PC refused to start up. I switched the power...
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    Deleted boot.ini

    Using the boot.ini entry that kaustav_geek gave me didnt work at all. Looking up stuff on the internet, i found out that boot.ini does not support more than 4 partitions. So, I tried setting rdisk(1) and disk (1) [I got the idea from what I know about RAID and it's configuration I learnt in...
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    Deleted boot.ini

    I have 5 partitions... C:\ all the way to G:\ and G:\ is the one where i've installed XP 64 another question... what does "/NoExecute=OptOut" do?
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    Deleted boot.ini

    My brother very nicely deleted my boot.ini. <_< Kept getting the error BEFORE OS choices saying "NTLDR not found" Anyways.. I looked up some stuff online, and found this awesome site that deals with just about all cases.... *ntldrismissing.com/ (nice name, eh? :P) Back to the...
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    Azureus or other

    I've hated azures ever since I started using it. It's got a complicated inteface, and ate up all my memory. Even with my 1Gig RAM :angry: I prefer Using utorrent ^_^ small, and easy. :)
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    Can I Make WinXP Auto-Connect To Internet At Logon?

    I figured it out!!! I finally figured it out!!! I've set a schortcut to the standard WinXP dialer in the startup. I've set the dailer to save my username and pass. To make it start dialing automatically, this is what I did. ^_^ Network Connections >> Right Click on dialup connection...
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    XP 64 + XP 32 LAN compatibility Question

    Srry for takin so long to post back here.. I'd given up on my LAN problem. I've go ttwo ethernet ports on my 64 bit machine. one is a 1GB and the other is 100 MB. I'm using the 100 MBps link for my lan connection. The workgroup is the same for both PCs. So I don't think that is the problem...
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