ditto on the battery life of the netbook being helped by the SSD. Nevertheless, I'd put the SSD in the your desktop. I recently upgraded my daughter's computer to an X58 along with a Kingston V+ 64gb SSD as her boot drive and this thing screams. I have an ASUS netbook that I plan to install a...
I always thought that the CMOS battery is just there to retain the bios settings when AC power is shut off. I wouldn't think it would prevent the pc from booting up at all (but I could be wrong). Worse thing would be you lose your bios settings, time, date,etc.
They had this priced at $369 yesterday and they still sold out. Doubt this is a pricing mistake. Maybe an error in judgement on how high they can price them before most people balk.
1) new power supply >> same result
2) just mobo,cpu, video and memory >>> nada
3) new bios battery >>> nada
4) used all the above minus the mobo with another skt 939 mobo I had >>> boots, runs fine
In my case, sounds like mobo
I'm beginning to wonder if these ASUS boards have a defect in them. I had the exact same board in my primary pc. One day, without warning, it failed to boot. No video at all. Fans were running and power indicator on the board was lit, but no boot. I shut down and reset the video card...
Lately, Newegg seems to have finally got their hard drive packing system fixed. Order a couple of drives from them last week. When I opened the box (grimacing at what I might see), I was pleasantly surprised to find each drive wrapped in bubble wrap and placed in separate box of it's own...
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