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That's what's bothering me. I really can't be arsed stripping the PC down and RMAing the motherboard. I'm almost tempted to pick up more RAM in the hope that it's simply an incompatibility between the motherboard and the RAM. Definitely not that in my case - CPU is only running at 32-35...

Hi all, My Windows install has been bluescreening every so often over the last few weeks - a mix of errors, mainly the IRQ LESS OR NOT EQUAL error. Quite often when it does this the BIOS reports "overclocking failed" and resets all the BIOS settings. Often the Windows install is trashed too...

Yep, tomorrow. US time I think, so probably middle of the afternoon sometime.

Not in order: Day of the Tentacle Monkey Island 2 World of Warcraft Canon Fodder UFO: Enemy Unknown Hmm, that turned out a bit retro... :S

Ditto - it's just so much nicer - I can't imagine why anyone would turn it off. :confused:

Right, one step forward, and about 24 back. It looks like the main issue here was memtest86. It doesn't like the BIOS setting for "Memory Remap Feature", which is enabled by default (so 64-bit OS can use all 4Gb). With that disabled memtest86 runs fine. So, I grabbed memtest86+, and that runs...

I've tried the two modules together in the black slots and run into a lot of problems - memtest basically failed as soon as it started with a lot of errors on the screen. I took that to mean that the board simply wasn't intended to have the yellow slots empty.

Could use advice if anyone can think of anything... This relates to 4Gb of Corsair Dominator DDR2 (2x2gb) PC2 8500 C5 5-5-5-15. Motherboard is a Asus P5Q-E running the latest BIOS. The computer has been running fine since the end of April when it was built. Over the last couple of...

Ordered. :) You can't go wrong for £20(ish).

No cable available. :D

No LLU available.

I'm currently with Zen, who are brilliant, but I need more download allowance and to go much higher is going to get too expensive to justify. Looking for the following: - Good support. - ADSL2+ - Free overnight/weekend allowance. - If the free overnight/weekend is possible, then I'd only...

Well after some bedding in I really wasn't impressed with the Arctic Freezer Xtreme - temps were sitting low to mid 40's - not bad, but still higher than I was happy with. I then tried the stock Intel cooler - the fan was quite noisy and temps were even higher - quite often up to 50 degrees...

I got it wrong... After further investigation it's actually the PSU that's making the noise, not the 4870.

Aye, I'll let it bed in for a few days and see what happens. Cheers. :)

I've never had it on any card before - and it's really quite loud. I'll see what they say anyway.

I'm getting this now on my XFX 4870. I've just emailed XFX to see what they recommend.

It seems pretty much on par with the Sunbeam, but fits far better on my P5Q-E. I'm running Prime at the moment, and whilst I'm not 100% happy with the temp, it isn't too bad, and most of the fans in the case are down low. Some pics: Removed all the case fans and cooler: Once it was all back...

Bits arrived this morning, slight damage to the cooler fins in one corner (bloody Royal Mail), but it's not enough to warrant sending it back, so I'll just quick-fix it. This evenings task? Finally sorting and tidying up all the cables now I have my fan controller. One of the issues I have to...

Yes, although Steam/L4D are giving me "old driver" messages when I launch it... even though I'm on the most up to date one.