urgent help on 1st build!

I bought a speaker from the bay a few days ago.
It is rubbish :(
Very quiet and not a particularly nice tone either.

I suppose I need only connect if if I am having problems though, or just reconnect the decent speaker from my old PC case. :)
 
Minato said:
packed up the box and everything, so now I just need to get them sent off (Motherboard and RAM.) Do you think it's possible to send them both in a single box? with two RMA numbers on it...would save a bit on postage lol.
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If they've only requested the MB - only send the MB!

If you have a request for both - i would web note them as andi suggested.
 
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I've got a second RMA for the RAM from them though, so as soon as they get that they'll refund the price of that.

the motherboard is part of the new RMA, so i'll send them a webnote and see what they say.
 
I would agree with you lol, weather seems ok so i'll pop down to the shopping centre. Might pick up ArmA II while i'm there.
 
Minato said:
Might pick up ArmA II while i'm there.
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Is that any good i've seen it for under £15 and was tempted as an impulse buy? (BTW, i don't play online so would only be interested in the campaign.)

Having said that, it would probably stay on my shelf still in its celophane wrapper with loads of other games as i never get the time to play them :/
 
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it's a brilliant game in campaign, multiplayer just makes it a little more fun since you can do things co-op. But i'd get it for that price =)
 
I don't suppose it has a 'co-op campaign' option - i.e. you can play the campaign against the computer as normal but with online allies?

My brother has, finally, moved to an area with BB plus i have a friend who has been waiting patiently for me to get back into gaming - and co-op games with a select group is the only thing that would interest me now as my Q3 days a long behind me.
 
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I'm pretty sure it does, carry on the story mode but with online friends. Check out a review or description to be sure though.
 
Here's hoping the MB turns out to be faulty.

Are you swapping the memory again or just getting it tested along with the MB for good measure? (or is it the original stuff that you're yet to post back?)
 
We can only hope, but looking on the bright side of life, if the motherboard is fine, we'll know it's either the PSU or CPU, so we'll be another step closer to finding out what it is.

and the RAM i'm sending is the original set I hadn't sent back, because I like the kingston, and it's confirmed to work with the gigabyte lol, because it would be extremely painful if the motherboard was faulty, I got a new one, and then we find the RAM is actually incompatible lol.
 
Minato said:
We can only hope, but looking on the bright side of life, if the motherboard is fine, we'll know it's either the PSU or CPU, so we'll be another step closer to finding out what it is.
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Christ, i wish i had your outlook on life...

...i'm not even sure i had it when i was 14 :/

Thankfully, i have 2 great young kids to keep my cynical nature in check.
 
I highly doubt it's a ram.
As long as it meets the speed/type (ie 800mhz ddr2) on the mobo, it MUST work, over my looong many year experiance with the PCs I've never seen an example where just the brand of the memory would matter and be incompatible if the speed/type is correct.

It would be obvious if your motherboard only used DDR2 memory and you tried to put in DDR3, or if your mobo only could take DDR2 PC6400 and you tried to put 8500 but just just a brand? Nah it must work ...
 
I think it's faulty or incompatible RAM to be fair exactly the same thing happened to my Shuttle and it was the wrong type of RAM!
 
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I think it's faulty or incompatible RAM to be fair exactly the same thing happened to my Shuttle and it was the wrong type of RAM!
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It seemed like it was the RAM, but after further testing it seems like it wasn't (or at lease it didn't cause the problem).

Minato has tried both Corair and Kingston DDR3 RAM, neither worked. He then talked to OCUK and they told him to RMA the motherboard. Hopefully it is the board's fault so he can get a working computer.
 
Memory has been ruled out as a problem - the PSU and the MB are the leading contenders at the moment.

He's rma'ed the MB as it's the most suspect, at the moment, of the two.

EDIT: beaten by seconds... see above.
 
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