Oh dear, I knew this would happen!

Deleted member 77746 · 11 Mar 2020 at 09:49

scubes said:
Good luck with your RMA I’ve never had any problems with any of my components outa my pc with them they have been excellent .

OP is waiting for a new delivery of a new different board not the same one.

GIGA-Man · 11 Mar 2020 at 11:08

That's rare, two DOA. If there is any help needed my side let me know.

Bob Skidmore · 11 Mar 2020 at 16:20

RIGHT...THAT'S IT...........New Motherboard arrived today (along with the kettle lead they forgot to return) so the rebuild started. :confused:

MoBo, CPU, Cooler and one stick of RAM built outside case....AND.........

BINGO!

it only bloody worked innit!

so

MoBo, CPU, Cooler and one stick of RAM and one SSD drive - YES!

So

dismantle (again) and rebuild Inside the case - YES

So

Add GFX card and use that instead of onboard GFX and also add second stick of RAM and.............YES!

The only trouble now is trying to understand the hotlink I seem to have to NASA's control centre, I think its called the Boggling Information Overload System or something.

Thanks guys for all your support, you've been great oh, but if there are any budding astronauts....errr, I mean Boggling Information Overload System engineers here please stick around

StarShock · 11 Mar 2020 at 16:38

Glad to hear its all worked out.
I find that with the bios you can get away with relatively little fiddling these days. Tend to set the XMP profile for the ram and maybe MCE as you're using the 9900k and leave the rest alone

Mcnumpty2323 · 11 Mar 2020 at 17:08

Great to hear

Yeah set xmp and run away from the bios
Unless need to as too many things In there nowadays you don't want to mess around with

jimmy321 · 11 Mar 2020 at 18:38

You will be well pleased with your pc it's an excellent spec should be good for many years.

Bob Skidmore · 11 Mar 2020 at 18:53

cheers guys, Im Soooo relieved, I thought I was going daft LOL.

I'll have a look at the XMP thing, I also have a newer BIOS to put on but I think I'll just enjoy a working PC for now, I don't want to wreck it just yet

Mcnumpty2323 · 11 Mar 2020 at 19:32

Bob Skidmore said:
cheers guys, Im Soooo relieved, I thought I was going daft LOL.

I'll have a look at the XMP thing, I also have a newer BIOS to put on but I think I'll just enjoy a working PC for now, I don't want to wreck it just yet

Lol yeah last thing you want right now is a borked bios flash
You can check what speed your ram is running in the memory section of cpuz
X2 whatever speed it says

Bob Skidmore · 12 Mar 2020 at 09:48

I have somehow managed to miss most of the posts on page 3 of this thread.

Mrbell, I am so sorry for missing those posts but I sincerely thank you for reading those manuals and trying to help me.

Regarding the stepping of the CPU I have no idea so will have to research how to confirm that.
Regarding the ATX PSU connections, yes, I did connect both the 4 and 8 pin connectors as like some of you said, the power supply connectors could separate.
I’ll see if I can find where to check the RAM speed when I get back as I will be away from the computer for a couple of days, returning late Friday night.

The computer was running Black Desert non-stop since yesterday and when I checked it this morning everything was fine, so it seems as if (dare I say it) all is well.

When I get back I’ll sort out flashing the BIOS to get that up to date.

Once again, thanks to all of you

Best regards
Bob

orbitalwalsh · 12 Mar 2020 at 10:06

glad to see your up and running !

pics of the system or it never happened

Deleted member 77746 · 12 Mar 2020 at 10:07

Bob Skidmore said:
Regarding the stepping of the CPU I have no idea so will have to research how to confirm that.

Run a program called CPU-Z should tell you the stepping of the CPU and also some other system spec info will be there.

https://www.cpuid.com/

Bob Skidmore · 12 Mar 2020 at 16:40

orbitalwalsh said:
glad to see your up and running !

pics of the system or it never happened

Pics as soon as I get back home, I’m at Bisley ranges until tomorrow evening

CPU-Z thanks mrbell, will do as soon as I can

Bob Skidmore · 13 Mar 2020 at 20:23

Right, I'm now home and the first task is to show you the CPU-Z readout on the processor

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Asn3yHYpiYIPgY8mEzPbvZv-DMQttg?e=aoLddF

Mcnumpty2323 · 13 Mar 2020 at 20:28

Bob Skidmore said:
Right, I'm now home and the first task is to show you the CPU-Z readout on the processor

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Asn3yHYpiYIPgY8mEzPbvZv-DMQttg?e=aoLddF

R0 stepping
as its booted its moot whether your bios supported it

mainboard tab will show your bios version anyway
and memory tab your ram speed-x2 it as its double data rate(ddr)

Bob Skidmore · 13 Mar 2020 at 22:16

Oh OK, so here are the pages for memory and mainboard

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Asn3yHYpiYIPgY8o4UXHpbqVNyBpLw?e=U8ARZm

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Asn3yHYpiYIPgY8n0Rqby00WA9snqQ?e=E9eLVE

Mcnumpty2323 · 13 Mar 2020 at 22:24

Bob Skidmore said:
Oh OK, so here are the pages for memory and mainboard

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Asn3yHYpiYIPgY8o4UXHpbqVNyBpLw?e=U8ARZm

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Asn3yHYpiYIPgY8n0Rqby00WA9snqQ?e=E9eLVE

you have the latest bios

and 4000mhz ram very nice

Bob Skidmore · 14 Mar 2020 at 07:28

Oh cool, I thought I had to flash the BIOS

Akagi · 14 Mar 2020 at 16:36

Probably for the best. Imagine if the flash went wrong and you had to go through this again!

Glad it all worked out!

Mcnumpty2323 · 14 Mar 2020 at 17:08

Well that took a while
But looks like you now have a really good pc all up and running

Bob Skidmore · 14 Mar 2020 at 19:55

It certainly did take a while. The OCUK Tech support chap told me to RMA the second Gigabyte Motherboard and to save waiting time, purchase another brand and they will refund me the cost of the Aorus. I just hope they honour that and do not insist on sending me a replacement as I have now paid a substantial amount for the Asus.

Anyway, you wanted pics of the build and after all the help you have offered it would be remiss of me not to comply, so here they are, the insides and front of my new machine