Project - Charity Build- Narcolepsy UK

PhillyDee · 2 Jul 2012 at 07:51

doyll said:
And where is Connor's sig/logo?

Hmm . . .

~bones~ · 3 Jul 2012 at 18:47

Nice to see it coming along well, looking forward to more updates

glent · 7 Jul 2012 at 09:19

News

Nvdia 560ti Arrived

Thanks to Intel UK
Intel 3570k
Arrived

Patriot Memory Joins the project! details to follow

ShakMods Extremely friendly and proffesional company ...
Joins the project!details to follow...

Early discussions with ...

!!
details to follow...

TTeSports are on board!

And of course we STILL have more to announce :eek:

Now that Connor has One of the Two required CPU's, he was finally able to start assembling. The build was just a mock to test the other components he has had sat here for some time now!

Connors set about building the Fractal Rig Last night.
Only issue we have are 8pin and 24 pin cable length due to the size of the XL case...but that won't be an issue soon...

Corsair H80 contents

Stock Fans will be replaced soon

Backplate installtion

CPU install

H80 Fan install

GPU Install

Booted first time! Will install Windows this weekend

Till next time

doyll · 7 Jul 2012 at 09:46

Great work Connor!

Love the black/yellow. Too bad you don't have yellow fans

and yellow HDD trays and yellow PCI slot covers

CaptainRAVE · 7 Jul 2012 at 10:00

Looks fantastic, loving the choice of colours. Great to see the new sponsors on board too, you have done really well!

T345 · 7 Jul 2012 at 11:34

Very good, just need to manage the cables

Stoner81 · 7 Jul 2012 at 13:05

Whoa! Some big sponsors coming in! Outstanding job!

Stoner81.

glent · 7 Jul 2012 at 21:19

CaptainRAVE said:
Looks fantastic, loving the choice of colours. Great to see the new sponsors on board too, you have done really well!

T345 said:
Very good, just need to manage the cables

Oh yes this is just a mock, their will be nice sleeved cables soon

Stoner81 said:
Whoa! Some big sponsors coming in! Outstanding job!

Stoner81.

Yep! Was talking to a friend earlier, Hes not really into computers , I couldn’t emphasise how big this is, I don’t want to sound arrogant but honestly I've never seen a build/project with this many sponsors before..its just amazing

Connor installed Windows this morning, Its been nothing but problems since.

The actual install was faultless...but

first boot was suuuper sllloooowww..
System froze after a minute or so (Not BSOD)
SATA mode is set to ACHI

Rebooted something happens.
Next Boot was fine..

.

Next odd one after install the GPU drivers (latest Nvdia)

After the Windows boot logo, The monitor goes black and just stays that way..if we do CTRL_ALT_DEL it opens task manager , and the desktop appears..

Installed a few apps like Hwonitor etc, Temps all good 20-30's

Then USB starting playing up, mouse not moving or keyboard responding, He rebooted and it does it again after a few minutes.

Some boots the kb /mouse didn't respond for a minute or two...

The on-board WIFI will not install, Code 10 in device manager.

Things we have tried

Bios update,
Driver updates
Monitor Temps
Set XMP profile for RAM
Everything is stock in bios.

So a real head scratcher, we do have the privilege of having more PSU's. RAM,SSD and such at hand to eliminate the issue.

I'm thinking PSU or RAM but we'll see. :confused:

T345 · 7 Jul 2012 at 21:28

try memtest 86

doyll · 7 Jul 2012 at 21:46

T345 said:
try memtest 86

This

glent · 9 Jul 2012 at 12:00

T345 said:
try memtest 86

doyll said:
This

Thanks for the suggestion.
We Ran memtest for 8 hours or so yesterday. All passes.

The machine was still not right so we've done the following since

Updated the firmware for the Corsair SSD
updated/downgraded chipset drivers
Reseated RAM
Updated the bios to a more current version build date more recent the one from the .TW site
Reinstalled windows
Change the SSD to the Kingston one
Ran Windows update.

In the process of the above we have fixed

Freezes
Slow boots

We still have the following issues

USB devices slow to start eg keyboard/mouse not useable after windows logon screen, generally 30 seconds

Onboard WIFI wil not install This device cannot start. (Code 10) in device manager

We just updated the bios again just now to a newer version , via our ECS rep. Will explain to them its still not right

doyll · 9 Jul 2012 at 12:16

How is Connor holding up to all these problems?
You can deal.... Connor is only a kid.

glent · 9 Jul 2012 at 21:01

doyll said:
How is Connor holding up to all these problems?
You can deal.... Connor is only a kid.

Dissapointed but patient. Have the system more stable now . USB working as it should.

Thoughts on this, Colour scheme for fans

I'll upload a better shot soon, camera is being a pain :mad:

We would like to have both systema done before end of July, Just need to source a CPU for the antec build

Have a GPU giveaway competition coming up soon too

T345 · 9 Jul 2012 at 21:10

Nice, did you paint the fans? They look mighty good

Wish me luck on installing windows on my new build!

~bones~ · 9 Jul 2012 at 23:14

Liking the look of the fans... Hope you manage to get the issues sorted

CaptainRAVE · 10 Jul 2012 at 08:14

The fan looks excellent, hope you manage to sort the issues you are having.

glent · 10 Jul 2012 at 08:46

T345 said:
Nice, did you paint the fans? They look mighty good
Wish me luck on installing windows on my new build!

Yeah Connor painted it few weeks ago, just waiting on our paints to be deliver to do the rest now

Good luck and enjoy the new build!

~bones~ said:
Liking the look of the fans... Hope you manage to get the issues sorted

Thanks we hope so too

CaptainRAVE said:
The fan looks excellent, hope you manage to sort the issues you are having.

Agree, time is running short, Speaking With ECS today. Only issue left is the onboard WIFI now.

Biffa · 10 Jul 2012 at 12:35

Great idea,donation made to a worthy cause, wish you and Connor all the best and am looking forward to an epic build

Couple of tips and/or suggestions ;p

1. Stop building on the carpet if you can try either moving onto a wooden table or roll up your rug before you get started, I'm not one for excessive antistatic precautions but it makes me wince seeing some of your shots :eek:

2. I used a great window cutting guide when I cut my first window, if you are planning on doing any more in these cases, cant paste the guide url as its on a competitors site but if you search for "welshtom Howto : Cut a simple window" you'll find it

Anyway, good luck with the fundraising

glent · 12 Jul 2012 at 11:22

Biffa said:
Great idea,donation made to a worthy cause, wish you and Connor all the best and am looking forward to an epic build

Couple of tips and/or suggestions ;p

1. Stop building on the carpet if you can try either moving onto a wooden table or roll up your rug before you get started, I'm not one for excessive antistatic precautions but it makes me wince seeing some of your shots

2. I used a great window cutting guide when I cut my first window, if you are planning on doing any more in these cases, cant paste the guide url as its on a competitors site but if you search for "welshtom Howto : Cut a simple window" you'll find it

Anyway, good luck with the fundraising

Thanks for that, Took onboard what you have said! Cheers for the donation and good luck!
No build news today sorry, We are running a joint give-away with XFX Europe via Facebook.
I know Facebook isn't for everyone but its great for publicity...

It Only takes a few second to enter. Won't take long to announce a winner at this rate. more details at ,

http://www.facebook.com/ConnorsCharityBuildForNarcolepsyUk

&

https://www.facebook.com/pages/XFX-Europe/116557138366296

CaptainRAVE · 12 Jul 2012 at 13:17

I liked XFX Europe too, it is only fair