It does actually say "100 Mhz" on the initial boot up screen. I went into the BIOS to try and investigate this but could find nowhere to change it. Any thoughts? Does this affect the speed the memory is working at? Currently PC 3200 DDR 400 in there and it appears to be slightly slower than before (due CPU or memory ?????).

MOBO is an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe.

Cheers

Oggin

edit to say found it by downloading and scrutinising the Mobo user manual. Should be able to change the CPU external frequency setting to 200 Mhz which will give a FSB speed of 400 Mhz next time I access the BIOS. Should be detected automatically but somehow hasnt, maybe due to a CPU overheat.

To answer your earlier question -

right-click on an empty part of the taskbar and then click 'Properties'
Then check the box marked "Show quick launch"

FLB

Not necessarily. These things are made user definable in the bios to allow overclocking etc.

Download CPU-Z

It'll allow you to check in realtime in Windows what speed your CPU and Memory are running at.

:cool:

TOG

Booting Problem
 

My PC is back to its old tricks. Basically it is dumping the SATA drivers on shutdown therefore the system cannot find the drives during boot up. So I get boot up problems, ending in "Disk Boot Failure, please insert setup disk ..."

So in goes the Win XP CD, hit F6, load the SATA drivers, then exit setup with no reinstall, then reboot into Windows ok. Every time.

So how do fix this snag ie the BIOS(?) dumping the SATA drivers every time power goes off the PC. The disks themselves working in RAID 0, once recognised, are fine.

Oggin

Deja-vu ;)

Did you remember to go back into the bios and set the SATA RAID as first boot device instead of CD-ROM?

:cool:

TOG

Yep - from the PC manufacturers website is says set SCSI as first boot device - so I have. Post load up of SATA drivers this works fine. Its just after a full shutdown to zero electricity then restart up it wont recognise the SATA drive. :confused:

With the Silicon Image controller already plugged in and the driver already installed. Follow the instructions below to update SiI 3112 driver.


1. Click Windows [Start], then move the mouse to stay on [Settings].

2. Click [Control Panel].

3. Double Click [System].

4. Click [Hardware] tab.

5. Click [Device Manager].

6. Right Click [Silicon Image SiI3112 SATARaid Controller]
under [SCSI and RAID Controllers], then click [Properties].

7. Click [Driver] tab.

8. Click [Update Driver].

9. Choose [Install from a list or specific location].

10. Click [Next].

11. Choose [Include this location in the search].

12. Click [Browse] to specify the file path where the driver is,

e.g. "X:\Drivers\Si3112"( X is the drive you put the support CD).

13. Click [Next].

14. Click [Finish].

Yup, did that already. Same problem :{