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Just a quick question as I don't have much time to research this before I order, but does anyone know if, with the new FX series of AMD processors if you can just use one processor on the dual socket MB? I would imagine you could but I haven't really been anble to find it anywhere. The reason I ask is that I want to build a system on it but really can only afford one processor after buying an almost $400 mobo and another $400 in memory. Thanks for any responses. I also feel you can since AMD allows you to buy one processor at a time as opposed to the original stance of buying them in pairs. Thanks again.

Nevermind, I found my answer (for those who care, yes you can run one processor at a time). Now though I am not so sure I want to double my electric bill. I even read one article that stated the guy was tripping the breaker for his room when he ran a QuadFX full system. Geez. Looks like I am jumping on the Intel Quad-core band wagon (the new Q6600 will save me around $100 over the QX6700).

Just wanted some opinions of good spam software to use with Outlook Express. My mom gets both her work and personal emails on her home PC. Even after deleting over 50 emails this morning, when she logged on this evening she had almost 200 to sift through. Some are legitimate emails but most are blind mailings. Short of changing her email address (my suggestion) and because that doesn't really solve the problem (eventually it will probably put her in the same situation), I suggested a spam blocker but since I use web-based Hotmail, I don't really have any experience with Outlook/Outlook Express. Any feelings/opinions/recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Yeah I will look into that too. Thanks as always guys.

Yeah. I myself have been slowly migrating over to gmail. Now if I could only get my wife to start sending my messages there I could drop my other two services...

She has Time Warner Road Runner for work and home so her email service uses the domain nc.rr.com.

A friend of mine somehow completely screwed up his computer by visiting "inappropriate" sites. It is now a spyware/malware quagmire. His wife who is fairly computer competent tried to reformat the hard drive and all she succeeded in doing was removing explorer.exe from where it is supposed to be (or this may be a result of something they have been infected with). I have a few problems now. I have removed some of the spyware and such with Spybot. I can't even get a web browser open to download Ad-aware. Unfortunately, the most stubborn spyware on there opens up its own website and shuts down IE when you try to navigate away from it. I found out also they are only on SP1a of WinXP. I made a disk at home of software to help i.e. Ad-aware, Hijack This, etc. and a copy of Firefox to get around the IE issues. My real two questions are is there a way to retrieve the CD key from their installation of Windows legally? Reason being that their father built his for them and they have the original disc (Verified to be a true copy) but they don't have the COE so I can't do a clean install. Second, to prevent a format and to make the system more stable, what do I have to do to get explorer.exe back to where it was? Right now it says it can't find explorer.exe in the A: drive. Please insert the correct disk. Obviously windows is searching for explorer.exe there but I know that isn't right. And Windows comes up but acts ridiculous so explorer must be where it can find it but is corrupt (maybe)? Thanks for any help.

It worked! Just used msconfig and Checked All Boot Paths and asked me if it wanted to remove the invalid entry. Sometimes Windows IS easy.....

Thanks. I will post contents if I need to. I looked up editing the boot.ini file and I am pretty sure deleting that one line like you said will do it. I thought about the msconfig route too so if neither of those work, I will post again. Thanks for the help.

Thanks Cormac. I got the key and did an install but had a complication. Windows is installed and spyware free. BUT when you start the computer, it gives you a menu for Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Home Edition setup (which then leads you to installing Windows again). I am pretty sure I need to adjust boot.ini or something but I don't want to mess with that and mess something up? Any ideas?

Thanks Cormac. I will try this and update with results.

I know there are probably several ways to connect these two hardware items together but I want to know the BEST way to do it. I plan on using balanced TRS plus for the speakers and obviously I have to use mini-plugs with the soundcard but what should I use to make the connection between the two?

I vote for a merger too. You could even obviously have more categories but all on the same starting website. This would be the perfect situation for someone like me who was interested in running a Linux box but drifted away when I felt it was a little more than I was willing to exert. Plus like the other people have said, for those who have heard of Linux but had no idea how to get started, it would be readily available anytime they came to this one site. Now if I could just get the motivation to get my watercooled HTPC and Gaming rigs assembled I might actually check the forum a little more often than the once a week that I do from work.

Getting a CMOS Checksum error during post... The BIOS post screen comes up showing the BIOS rev, the type of bios, drives attached, memory installed...and at the bottom it says CMOS Checksum Error and stops at that point....locks up completely, can't enter BIOS screen...computer stays in the same state.... In my experience checksum errors have been related to either the actual software or memory related. Since CMOS is more of a firmware type thing since you really can't write code to it (semantics, I can't write to it though obviously the creator and any malicious programmer can), it shouldn't be a "software" issue right? Pretty much just need to change out the memory and go from there?

Brand new battery installed......and...... Same problem. Going to see if a memory swap does anything... As good as GeIL has been recently I have had some issues with this memory....going to switch with old reliable Corsair.... Will update when I have results...

My uncle has an unusual problem on his computer. When clicks on hyperlinks from web pages or Outlook emails, two windows open with the same web page. So every link he clicks he gets two open pages. Not only is this annoying, I am sure two web pages use more resources than one and obviously something at the software level isn't working correctly. Any advice on possible causes or better yet, solutions regardless of the cause?

Worked perfectly. Thanks.

Sorry. I should know better too as I use Firefox. He uses IE6. Thanks for the fix. I will see if it works.

That article on particular almost made me consider switching to Intel for at least one rig.... It directly shows you how to OC your processor... Good luck.... Oh..and just because you overclock your processor and something breaks and the computer no longer works....doesn't mean it is the processor that broke...memory and northbridges are sensitive too....

Originally posted by tool_462: Quote: I guess my main concern is messing something up, I have read a few things about the "PCI Lock" and I have no idea what it is or what I have to do to it. PCI lock is a fix for older overclocking problems. When people would raise frontside bus speeds it would raise interface speeds for AGP bus and PCI bus as well. PCI lock prevents this from happening or allows you to overclock the PCI bus independently of the frontside bus. Your main concern with overclocking should ALWAYS be messing something up. Products are released for the most parts at their particular spec because that is what they have been proven to run. This is why most overclockers take low end stuff and try to crank it up, because if they fry a $100 CPU, oh well. You take a $500 or $600 CPU and start tinkering, your investment to return ratio goes down. Try looking at this.... http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/10/dual_41_ghz_cores/

Well it most certainly is nVidia related, whether hardware or software (most like the software). One issue I also see is that you stated you are running at 797Mhz on an Athlon 64 processor. Either you have Cool'n'Quiet turned on (which is fine but you may want to try disabling it while you figure out your probable driver conflict) or your processor speed in the BIOS is messed up (which could also cause instability). Two things to consider. Anyway, if it is driver related you may want to find some older drivers (the newer the better but obviously not the ones you are using) and load them and see if that takes care of the problem. Also what video card are you running and is there a certain even that causes these errors (playing games, running GPU or CPU intensive programs, running demos, watching videos, etc.)? And I don't necessarily have a fix, just things you could try so you will have to read the post.

Thanks for the good advice as usual Relic. It is right at about a year and half old. I will try the battery replacement first. Then the memory changeout. The motherboard is an Asus K8V SE Deluxe. It might even be closer to two (can't remember exactly when it came out but I pretty much bought it when it hit the streets). I'll let you know the result. Thanks again.

Nothing like a random restart of a thread almost a year old..... Maybe I am just cranky but I would have thought that most people who even know how to navigate to this forum knew how to use Google.... www.google.com.... type in Braai... Find the first Wiki entry... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braai

Did you figure out which board revision you had (2.x or 4.x)? The file you download from the link should also have a Read Me file in it. It will tell you exactly how to do it. You could also search MSI's site for LiveUpdate and use Windows to update you BIOS. Once you have the program up and running you can ask it to search for BIOS files and it will tell you which one you have and then allow you to update it from within Windows... Good luck....

I know it might be tough but you need to use more comprehensible English...very few people where I work speak English and I can't even understand what you are asking.....