Hey guys i've had a couple of questions for quite a while now.
And i would like it very much if you could answer them correctly.
One of them:
The motherboard has ata mode 100 lets say. And you have a burner of
ata 33, and a dvd (asus) that supports 100, and your harddrive is 100 too. How does that work? is there lets say enough ata ? and how about
the two slots where you put the cables in. Are both of them ata 100? so does that mean that both of them at the same time supply ata 100?
Ok next question.

I want to buy special memory from OCsystem. (http://www.ocsystem.com)
Its the 512mb ddr pc2100, and it has the best cas times or something.
And also the best cl times. I want to know, if when you put them in, do you need to do anything in the bios? like do you need to change some
settings for the cas timings? or does it automatically adapt. I want to buy 2 of them. So that makes 1gig. Will a motherboard support this?
My mobo's are : asus a7v266-e and asus a7v266-c.
Ok next question
Is there a special boot edition of windows XP? cuz i have it, but if i dont have windows me or something installed, and i want to install cleanly, it won't read from boot. I was told that this should be possible.
Last question.
I seem to have a very weird problem with my a7v266-e set.
First of all, after a crash in the car, when i was going to a lan party,
the first two dim slots fucked up. Meaning i can only use the third one, if i put memory in the first two, it simply won't boot up. And now my asus burner (48x) is doing something strange. It used to burn in 2 minutes.
But now its beginning to take longer and longer. It now takes like 10 minutes when i burn at 24x. What the fuck man! And also my harddrive is ata 133 and my mobo doesn't support that.. does that have to do with it?
Cuz i couldn't imagine it being my just newly acquired burner.
Then lastly, my fucking athlon gets realllly hot, its an 1800+ and its green from color. I have a volcano 7+ but i still get 60 degrees. And in the midday i have to shut it down, if i close my case, thats what mobo monitor tells me. Weird. So well i hope this wasn't tooo long or boring. Please reply to all the questions i really need to know. Thank you.

RMA everything from the car crash.

Uhm the green XPs are newer and they are USUALLY the AGOIA cores they are newer, dont run as hot and are overclocker friendly. 60c is very high and will eventually lead to mobo damage or CPU damage. I would recommend getting the Mother Board Monitor proggie so U can see the cores temp from the CPUs diode. I have a 2000+ XP running at 42c with the cooler master heat pipe HSF.

Also, get a program such as CPU Cooler Pro to allow the CPU to shut down when it is idle -- that will drastically reduce the core temperature and let it live longer. Won't help you much while the CPU is busy, but all idle time will be used to cool the CPU with no impact on performance.

well as far as i know (people correct me if i am wrong) the motherboard supports 2 ide ports both running at 100, this allows you to put the DVD and harddrive on one and then they will both be running at 100. The burner at 33 can be put onthe other port, all IDE ports are backwards compatible and so it will go to the speed of the burner (33).

hope that is some help ... may be not ! :-?

boy oh boy lots of questions :evil: :o what you said about he best ram yeah right whtvr
and it may not even work with youre "mobo" by the way 8)
and second what the last guy said is good about the cdrom and hardrive you put together and then the writer on its own . :evil:

That's Yngwie's problem, he tries to do everything by himself it. If just concentrated on tunes and let Doogie work on the melody and the lyrics, it would be more of a band thing. Now it's just hired guns (ex-Blackmore bandmates preferred!) kind of thing.
:evil:

There are several possibilities, but the most likely one is that you're
trying to write more quickly than your source will supply data. Once you
go into buffer underrun protection, the system slows down dramatically -
and usually keeps filling and emptying the buffer to stay slow. Watch
the burn light on your drive; if it goes off and on, regularly during
the data burn, that's your problem. Use the usual fixes for buffer
underrun and you should be okay.

yo Yngwie malmsteem rocks
don know if ispelled it right ehhe

I would hook my Hard Drive to the Primary Master... thats a given.
Then the other drives on the Second ATA slot... another given. I have my 2 Hard drives on primary and my DVD and cd burner on secondary.