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sparky, yes i M. LOOK at the pic. TAT says my CPU is about 35C. everything is running fine. someone said to take off one memory stick. then the other. would that be a problem? ever since i buillt it, i must say it takes a min or two until i can open the first application after the desktop appears. i...

sorry for the late reply. it has been awhile now and everything still runs fine. i believe i changed the heat sink, cleaned the CPU surface before i installed my arctic cooler. before i had a different heat sink, which i did not like. bought the cooler and cleaned the top before putting it on there....

IRQ, thanks for the reply. but just to let you all know....EVERYTHING is running fine. no smoke, no burning, nothing.....everything is perfect. it just takes a bit too long from the moment i start the computer to the time the first Mozilla window opens. however, not sure what you mean. sorry, i am n...

sparky, thanks so much for the detailed explanation. i did what you said, but it still does not work. i get the same old error like i did before. i disabled only watchdog...not the other one, EC1 or something like that. also, the temperture in the bios also showed 127C. should i be concerned about it?

what is Watchdog?

is that a term for a setting in the BIOS? i did not see anything like that when i was fiddling with it.

sparky, last night i uninstalled it, downloaded it from the intel site, and shut the computer down (like i always do at night). i just tried installing it again, ran it and got the same error. I did not un-install theintel desktop utilities (the app that gives me the pop up window every 2 min for hr...

thanks, sparky. i will try it and report back tomorrow.

sparky, i have it, but this is the error i get EVERY time i try to open it. in addition, i uninstaller it and then re-installed it. same error. dicecca, i do not have a fan on my video card. i got another black case fan and not much improvement. i think it's the Zerotherm heat sink fan. I am thinkin...

thanks, guys... yeah, after about 15-20 pop ups, it stops appearing. the thing i dont understand is what exactly are the zone 1 and zone 2 temps? on a different note, my machine is pretty loud. My wife is in the other room and when she talks to me, i can't hear it. granted, the case is still open, b...

as i stated in my previous post, i am put together my first intel board. i installed a few utilities, Intel TAT, CPU-Z, Intel Desktop Utilities and Intel Desktop Control Center (which crashes every time i try to start it. it gives me and error). ANyway, every few min, Intel Destop Utilities pops up ...

ok, since i have not built a new system since 2003, dont laugh. it could not recognize the CDROM because it was set to master (since it was just one, get it?). i had no idea that if it's one IDE cable, it must be slave. it's counter intuitive. so, now i am installing XP and hope to update the BIOS a...

ok, i went into "hardware" i think and i set the secondary SATA to "disable". that fixed the "No Array is defined" and "No Hard Disk is defined" after reading and digging info for over 4 hrs. Then i connected my IDE HD and IDE CD-ROM in series, put my XP in th...

Hi guys, i am new to this board and i'd like to get some help. I was reading a post, but since it was too long and it veered off course, i wanted to start one from scratch. Here is what the story is: I got this board a few monts ago but since i was happy with the current setup, i did not try to inst...

what is the outcome? i am having the exact same problem and have no clue what to do.

oh, btw, i am new to this board.