Upgraded to an AMD

I bought an A8V MB and an AMD 3200 CPU. Of course things never go as
planned and I had the following issues:

1. The heatsink and fan did not go on easily. I even unscrewed the plastic
retention bracket and practiced with it a little bit. The piece of metal
that actually hooks up has a lot of play in it and if it is not perfectly
lined up, then the heatsink does not snap in place. I eventually got it on
and thought to remove it, just to see, but removing it seems just as hard.

2. I bought an ACARD SCSI Controller and during installation, winblows xp
told me twice that the driver is not ms certified, xp will be unstable, I am
a barf bag, etc. I continued with the installation and do not seem to have
any problems so far.

The only issue is every once in a while, when doing a reboot, 'restart the
computer', xp goes of into la la land. The reset button fixes it.

-g

"geoff" <spam.DeleteThis@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> I bought an A8V MB and an AMD 3200 CPU. Of course things never go as
> planned and I had the following issues:
>
> 1. The heatsink and fan did not go on easily. I even unscrewed the
plastic
> retention bracket and practiced with it a little bit. The piece of metal
> that actually hooks up has a lot of play in it and if it is not perfectly
> lined up, then the heatsink does not snap in place. I eventually got it
on
> and thought to remove it, just to see, but removing it seems just as hard.
>
> 2. I bought an ACARD SCSI Controller and during installation, winblows xp
> told me twice that the driver is not ms certified, xp will be unstable, I
am
> a barf bag, etc. I continued with the installation and do not seem to
have
> any problems so far.
>
> The only issue is every once in a while, when doing a reboot, 'restart the
> computer', xp goes of into la la land. The reset button fixes it.
>
> -g
>
1. Unless you are using the stock HSF that comes with retail AMD processors,
you are at the mercy of the manufacturer's design, none of which are like
another. I've struggled with too many of these so that now I only use stock
cooling. Then again, I don't game or OC, so no biggie.

2. That's what happens when you buy a no-name SCSI adapter. You can't expect
XP to cozy up to every cheap card and its half-ass drivers written mostly by
chimps. Back when I thought I needed SCSI, to avoid driver issues (and this
was with Win98), I used Adaptec only. No problems, ever.