Upgrading CPU??

I currently have
Asus A8v Deluxe Socket 939 k8 Mother Board
AMD Athlon 64fx-53 1mb cache 939 pin
Corsair 2@ 512mb ddr pc3200xl xms
Seagate Barra 120gb 8mb cache serial ata HD(just plugged in too store files currently)
Western Digital Caviar SE 120gb HD WD1200
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 zs 7.1
BFG GEFORCE FX 6800 Ultra 256mb
480 watt Power Supply

I believe that the Power Supply was going, got msg from Video Card software stating that the secondary power hook-up might not be connected. Now the vid card gets artifacts and the main case fan doesn't seem to get enough power to spin.

Anyway I want to upgrade my Mother board to SLI, new vid card and new power supply!!

I already purchased a Silencer 750 quad ATX power supply. What MB could i get and still be able to use my 64 fx53. I wanna spend around $400 more ie. Vid card and PCI express MB.

This will be one of many posts I am gonna have to make, because my Tech skill is somewhat low.

Thx for All help in Advance
Grizzle

Well that is cool then because I was gonna buy and new PCI card.

Should it be pci-e x1 or pci-e x16?

Well I need more Help!!

I purchased a A8n32-sli Deluxe Motrherboard. I have been unable to post with my Western Digital HDD that was used with my old system config.

I have been able to post with the Seagate SATA, but only after I put a fresh XP operating system on it.

I would really like to get the WD-HDD to run.

What options do I have here?

In the BIOS, check out the "boot device priority" under "boot" from the main menu. Both drives should be listed, just move up the SATA drive before the IDE drive and all should be well after POST finishes and the INT13 will search the SATA drive for a boot sector first.

yea the old drive should work, but windows may have issues since the old A8v is VIA chipset and the new A8N is nvidia chipset, you might get it working but may have some performance issues. Windows mobo drivers are funny like that...

Since you have a fresh install on the new SATA drive, I would disconnect the old drive altogether, see if it boots up and works at all - if so, then connect the old disk, and set up the BIOS for SATA as the primary boot device and you should be good to go. Then I would recover the old data off of the old drive, then when you have everything completely remove the old partition in disk manager then reformat it - which should effectively remove the boot sector in the old disk as well as have a nice, fresh error-free data drive.

I took a peek at the user manual (pdf link) on page 4-37 it shows you the boot device setting I mentioned. So just arrow the cursor over to the SATA disk, then hit the "+" to move it above the IDE drive - save and exit, you are good to go.

Another windows hassle, if you installed XP with the other drive installed your XP may not be "C:" it might be "D:" - I hate that crap... I usually install on a standalone disk, then connect the other "storage" drives after the install is finished and all the mobo/GPU drivers are installed. If that is the case, I would do another install with the SATA as standalone then add the other disk like I mentioned before.

Yeah I am a CPU bonehead!! Hopefully Mpilch will know what to do.

I have no clue about linux!!!

Thank you for all of your help!!

I think I will go out and grab another SATA drives in the next couple of months!!

Get any Socket 939 NF4 chipset mobo OTHER THAN the Gigabyte ga k8n pro sli. That is, unless you want a nice, stable mobo with great features, but are not into overclocking. If that's the case, I'll sell you a great mobo for a fair price. 8)