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Saturday, February 26, 2005

Accidents can be good.

I accidentally brought up the extended BIOS menu on my P4S533 's BIOS yesterday. ASUS P4S533 VX board has a very limited BIOS. One way to bring up the extended BIOS is by taking out all of the RAM from the motherboard, then switch on the computer. Wait till the missing memory's beeping sound (about 4 to 5 beeps), turn off the computer, put the RAM back in, start the computer, go into BIOS and BAM !! extended BIOS. I dont know if there's another workaround for this, but i did heard you'll get the same result if you take out the battery for like 10 seconds. But as far as i know, taking out the battery is a good way to erase the CMOS :S

Although i am finally able to get more options in the BIOS, theres not much that i can do. The only useful thing that i did was playing with the AGP aperture. My mobo doesnt allow me to change the voltage allocation to the system. I was planning to increase the voltage to RAM etc, too bad it's not there.

I'm still waiting for the new power supply. Oh and a new hard disct hat i bought an hour ago from Newegg. WD 80 gb/ 100 ATA 7200 rpm. Pretty good for a 50 bucks HDD.

p/s : WARNING : Newegg.com >> where you buy all your hardware needs. Neweggs.com >> Where you buy your hard-on needs ?

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Thursday, February 24, 2005

ATI oh ATI

It's definitely not a driver problem. I've downloaded and tried all version of drivers, from oldest to the latest Catalyst 05.2, but no luck. Now it wont even load Windows. The monitor shuts down after the logon screen. It just went black and went into the power saving mode. Gay. I m able to flash my BIOS. But it wasn't free. I called the customer support and paid 40 bucks for it. They sent me the latest BIOS version. Flashed it. Guess what? NOTHING HAPPENS! The only thing that changed was the BIOS version. I need an extended BIOS ... What a fukn rip off.

I think the problem might due combination of overheating and lack of power. ATI recommends a 300 Watt PS ( the GPU connects directly to PS ) and mine is a 350 Watts. I just bought a 550 W PS. Hopefully gonna be here early next week. Else, it would ruin my plan of 5-days non-stop of Counter Strike during this Spring break. Haha.

Right now im gfxless. Oh and i just know that PCI BUS1, device 0 ; function 0 IS the AGP bus. I'm soo uninformed.

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