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Managed to by-pass the blown connection on the PSU.......short term solution (and a bit dubious at best).

Hopefully, I'll get RMA confirmation tomorrow and get it shipped of for repair/replacement.

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Sorry to hear about your troubles with the PSU loudbob :(

I've got every thing back up and running again now after my break for Christmas and new years, annoyingly I can't get one 460 to fold for some reason though, it just says error when starting folding core :confused:.
 
dekez said:
Sorry to hear about your troubles with the PSU loudbob :(

I've got every thing back up and running again now after my break for Christmas and new years, annoyingly I can't get one 460 to fold for some reason though, it just says error when starting folding core :confused:.
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Thanks for the sympathy - PSU gets collected on Thursday for repair/replacement. Have been informed that they currently have a 3 to 5 day RMA turnaround.........will wait and see.

So, looks like you'll have at least a week to gain some ground on me as I'll be restricted to just two 2600k's @ 4.8GHz.

And I hope you get your 460 sorted :)
 
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Arghh, something seems to have gone awry with my output which had been climbing towards the 30,000 PPD mark and suddenly has dropped to under 10,000 :( The client seems to be chugging away but it seems to be taking ages to complete even 4000 pointer WUs. Can't see anything that is eating performance :confused:
 
Mine done that this morning. Had to reboot to fix it.

42k down to 3 :( even tho the client was at 100%
 
I had the same thing as you guys yesterday! Sitting at around 4k PPD for the entire work unit, with a TPF of something like 6 and a half minutes! Restarting the pc/client didn't change it, just had to wait it out :(
 
DAnDan said:
I had the same thing as you guys yesterday! Sitting at around 4k PPD for the entire work unit, with a TPF of something like 6 and a half minutes! Restarting the pc/client didn't change it, just had to wait it out :(
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Ah so that's why you've dropped behind me ;)

After seeing how close you are to me I've just ordered another 2600k and mobo. Have everything else needed inc ram.

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Loudbob did you have the 8 pin molex plugged into the mobo? You can't push that much power through the 24 pin, had the same problem with my rev 1 p6tw7 along with some others at the time with various boards when we we're pushing multi gpu rigs
 
Biffa said:
Loudbob did you have the 8 pin molex plugged into the mobo? You can't push that much power through the 24 pin, had the same problem with my rev 1 p6tw7 along with some others at the time with various boards when we we're pushing multi gpu rigs
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Had the 24 pin connector plugged in, along with 2 x 8 pin connectors and 2 x 4 pin connectors (the ones for the old style hdd's and cd drives) - was on the Asus RE3 Board.

I have just dismantled it all and found what looks to be the source of the problem - the 24 pin connector was plugged into the MB via a 24 pin extender cable and one of the wires on the extender cable had come loose from the connection socket. So I guess too much power was being drawwn through the wire that blew.

Anyways, the PSU is getting collected tommorrow - so hopefully I'll have a replacement by end of next week (fingers crossed).

Just checked the stats - and mine seem to be an inflated 380K ppd - knocking on your door with that average (short lived as it will be) :D

Gonna be cold and quiet in my room for a change :(
 
Trying to keep dan away ;)

Resulted in some ghetto modding. The fan was bust :D

Gives 7k PPD. 8800 GTS

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loudbob said:
Had the 24 pin connector plugged in, along with 2 x 8 pin connectors and 2 x 4 pin connectors (the ones for the old style hdd's and cd drives) - was on the Asus RE3 Board.

I have just dismantled it all and found what looks to be the source of the problem - the 24 pin connector was plugged into the MB via a 24 pin extender cable and one of the wires on the extender cable had come loose from the connection socket. So I guess too much power was being drawwn through the wire that blew.

Anyways, the PSU is getting collected tommorrow - so hopefully I'll have a replacement by end of next week (fingers crossed).

Just checked the stats - and mine seem to be an inflated 380K ppd - knocking on your door with that average (short lived as it will be) :D

Gonna be cold and quiet in my room for a change :(
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Re the extender, sounds like probable cause, good luck with the RMA.

Nice output, I'm down for the count this week, bedridden and weak as a kitten with some bug, and both my big rigs have been out of action with issues of an unknown hard to diagnose nature :( unfortunately that very probably means big money.
 
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