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fixmbr in the recovery console made this sucker a non-bootable drive, btw. i've got a new install on what used to be the linux drive (now goners), which was a painful process. damn P5B-E... taks

AMI bios... i've got the P5B-E and i just got it running. what a pain in the ass. no where, no how, no way should they be selling this board. it is as confused as they get. anyway, either your mobo or your power supply are dead most likely. taks

which mobo is it (i.e. which model)? i just noticed that an IBM bios has a continuous beep for mobo/PS issues. taks

so you lied that impressions would follow. sheesh! had us all hanging in suspenders. taks

www.asus.com click on your desired country and look up the manual. not really. the bios is essentially in charge as soon as you hit the power button. what you're describing is that you can't make it to the _POST_ screen (Power On Self-Test) before things shut off. the beep, however long, is often a bios function that indicates what your problem is (i imagine supplies also have a beep, though i've never had one do it, they just fail on me). ASUS typically uses AMI bios, and the solid, continuous high-pitched tone is not one they use (that i know of). that indicates, to me, either a problematic mobo or power supply. taks

in those countries then, since there is no death penalty, there is no such thing as legalized killing, ergo, it is still not legalized murder. the phrase "legalized illegal killing" does not even make sense, even in your context, because there is no legal killing. the term "legalized murder" is often used as a hyperbolic phrase by those that are vehemently against the death penalty to stir emotion in those that are not. it is nothing more than a ploy, using a rather illogical statement. i agree with gorth, btw, on why the death penalty should be removed from the US. that does not excuse illogical statements, however. taks

interesting... i'd have to burn a new CD, but that's cake. hmmm, if this can be done while i'm already booted, there's potential. thanks for the tips. taks

unfortunately, you need a floppy drive, or something recognized as a floppy. the best suggestion i've heard to date came from one of my linux guru buddies (colleague from my previous company). he recommended simply booting into linux and deleting all of the linux entries in /boot/grub/grub.conf. i'll still have grub, which may be useful for future installs (should i put linux back into the mix). taks

technically, no. murder is, by definition, unlawful killing. so, actually, you have that "death penalty is lawful killing" and "murder is unlawful killing." taks

greeeeeaaaat, yet another piece to the puzzle. most SATA drives that i've seen use RAID, and winders never comes with RAID drivers. grrr. taks

well, here's a fun one. i've got two drives, both SATA, on my current machine. one drive, a nice 40 GB screamer, has winders on it. the other, the new 7200.10 parallel read seagate, has linux. the second is 250 GB. both are installed on a via 8237 RAID controller (uh, one might be on the promise controller...). i installed linux since my previous job sort of required it. no more previous job, no more need (i like linux, but nothing i use runs with it so my 250 GB drive is wasted). anyway, i've got all this nifty new pooter stuff on the way and i figured i'd get ready to redo everything, including my drive situation. it seems this was not a good idea, or at least, not in the cards... here's the problem: when you dual boot, you need to put in a multiple-OS bootloader. i'm using GRUB. i want GRUB to go away, right along with linux. no problem. the only way i've found so far is to boot into the XP Pro CD and get into the recovery console (gotta love MS for this brilliant idea) then run fixmbr. that'll re-write the master boot record, allowing me to boot directly into winders (i.e. it will remove the call to GRUB), and then reformat my now useless linux drive. yay! hehe... should i be so lucky. nope. turns out that winders XP, in yet another brilliant move, does not include hardly ANY useful RAID drivers with their OS. in spite of the fact that my bios recognizes my drives, and happily allows me to boot from them, means nothing when booting into the recovery console. suddenly they are not there. booo. "windows XP cannot find any boot drives, press F3 to quit." now the brilliance of the "recovery console" becomes amazingly apparent: why is it not accessible via password or something through normal operation, or just as a separate boot option instead of safe mode???? morons. sure, the next obvious statement is "why not supply 3rd party RAID drivers during XP CD boot process when it asks?" yeah, well, welcome to the 21st century when NOBODY delivers drivers on a floppy and even fewer than that have a freaking floppy drive to begin with. i fall into both categories: no floppy drive, and no drivers on a floppy. i've got a really cool floppy controller device in windows that i cannot delete, of course, does that count? so, anyway, it looks like my next best option is to wait for my new stuff (booo), trick winders into finding my drives yet again (i don't remember what i did last time) and just do a clean install on the 250 GB drive. THEN, i'll copy all of my relevant shtuff over to the new drive, and rotate the 40 GB screamer (it is a fast drive) down to my wife. in the mean time, if there are any suggestions for deleting GRUB and getting on with my now shattered life, please feel free to test your knowledge on me. i'm open to suggestion... grrrr. taks

that's not so bad. i mean, winders is already hogging much of the 2 GB i have anyway. taks

depends... every bios has different beep codes for failed boots. typically, however, a loooong beep means video problems. taks

that sucks... oh well, 3 GB in the mean time. taks

oh, and what bios? taks

how many beeps? taks

nevertheless, when the hint came out, i shuddered. on one hand i thought "wow, hades really has some intelligence to be able to impersonate his alter-ego as well as he does" and on the other i thought "what a cruel joke" and on the third hand (HHGtG i suppose) i thought "momma!" taks

from XP-64 or Vista-64? my biggest concern is MATLAB. i run out of memory regularly here at the office during simulations. i'll need to do vista/XP-64 update since i just ordered 2 GB of extra RAM to help that problem. total memory isn't actually the issue with MATLAB. it requires _contiguous_ memory for each data vector, and with only 2 GB, it's hard to get 250 MB of contiguous memory sometimes (i'm dealing with very large data sets). taks

oh, and there was scary suspicion that hades/visceris/nom du jour may have also been cantousent/eldar/nom du jour. very scary. i almost cried. taks

hotel dusk was captivating, but overall only a fair game. some major story-telling problems that i've seen pooh-poohed in reviews, but i felt were big weaknesses. sometimes the logic used to advance the plot was very lacking, too. i'm going to have to check out this etrian odyssey. my son plays super mario 64, and we originally got the DS because my wife's gameboy died and we wanted tetris anew (an original gameboy, still playable but it has major issues). taks

i watched children of men the other night. first movie that the dish guide (essentially tv guide) gave 4 stars to in a loooong time. pretty much anything since 1960 or so gets a 3/3.5 star at best. was it worth 4 stars? acting was outstanding, story was great but could have been executed better. very intense in some parts, slow in others. somewhat of a confusing plot line that left me hanging at the end. this is one that another hour or so of storytelling would not have hurt. i would have stuck around for it. worth the rent, and better than most of the crap that hits the screen. definite thumbs up. taks

three. taks

i can always upgrade to 64-bit XP, too, right? it seems i had an option to do that for free once... taks

yes, i'll be limited from what i understand. i just wasn't going to buy 2 GB and be restricted later on. taks

i already have a 250 GB seagate, 7200.10 SATA drive. it is currently housing my linux partition, which i never use (when i installed linux, i was working with linux for my job, i left that place so the need is gone). i _will_ run vista, but not till they settle out all the issues. i'm happy with XP pro for the moment. once DX10 becomes more widespread, i'll think about it more. taks