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Solved. I found the error code at Intel's site under "Other Boot Issues." http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-010254.htm#pxeerror The solution is to go into the BIOS, to the Boot section, then disable "Boot to network." I threw a XP Professional DVD in there a...

I installed a Western Digital 74GB Raptor hard drive and cabled it to the SATA 0 port. I then installed the only cheap component that I purchased a Philips DVD drive (SPD2415BD, interface: ATAPI/E-IDE) as the master and connected the IDE cable to the board and the DVD drive. I powered up the system,...

To answer my own question, if you mount it so that the arrowed piece is at the back of the motherboard, and you put the slotted bracket on and then tighten the screws, you can manage it. But if I tightened the screws first I would not have had enough room to then insert the bracket. Hope that helps ...

Has anyone successfully mounted this particular fan on the 975XBX2KR motherboard? The blue heat sink fans on the board seem too close to the processor to mount the fan successfully. If someone has installed this combination, using a vertical configuration, how did you orient the mounting bracket?

I am not a gamer, I trade stocks and program. My current Athlon based system hits 100% CPU utilization way too often and going forward I will be adding a number of background tasks. So I decided to build a lot of machine and ordered up the 975XBX2KR, Intel Quad Core 2.4Ghz Q6600, two 74GB Raptors, a...