veaviticus

and on another unrelated note, i'm trying to hook up a second hard drive to my mobo. its an older IDE hard drive (2003-2004 i think) and i'm using my IDE port for my DVD-RW drive. I have an IDE to SATA converter that plugs into the IDE port on the HDD and then you plug power into it too and a SATA cable to the SATA port on the mobo. The light on the converter comes on but i can't see the drive in Windows. I have the jumper on Cable Select. Any ideas on how to get it to work? Any help on any of these problems would be most welcome!

veaviticus

update! i removed the SATA cable connecting the second hard drive to the mobo and now the system boots up in seconds. So the problem with the bad boots and hangings came from that connection. now to get it to work properly...and to get a stable OC if possible :-)

freezingfire

I have exactly the same motherboard and cpu as yours, and i do have the same problem.
With the stock hsf, the temp is always above 55 C, after I bought a new Hsf( OCZ Vendetta 2) and new themal compound, the temp dropped to 42 C on idle, I have done anything to make this cpu OC better with this mobo, but the highest stable frequency so far is only 3.6g, i guess the cpu just doesnt like this mobo... sad

powderdonkey

m8 if you've still got this problem, realtemp is the only temperature monitoring software that works for 45nm CPUs. coretemp is generally 10C too high XD

don't go over 1.41Vcore and you'll be fine

linderman

nvidia chipsets dont overclock nearly as well as their intel competitors! I hope it was the "SLI" you were chasing at purchase time and not the overclocking potential

hell; the intel P35 will allow you to overclock the E8400 with no changes whatsoever other than just bumping the FSB to the value of "400" and you have instant 3.6 ghz ......... from there on...... its tweaking your way to 4.0ghz