Wee beastie

SiriusB · 26 Mar 2010 at 00:51

So tempted to WC my rig! I love fiddling with my computer's innards lol. I especially like the white tubing with the black anti-kink spiralling!

Must. Resist. Urge. To. Spend.

Biffa · 26 Mar 2010 at 10:42

Sorry bout that folks, got a bit hammered last night and didn't trust myself to touch the build

SiriusB · 26 Mar 2010 at 10:50

So you aren't really going to plumb it into the central heating system?

Biffa · 28 Mar 2010 at 11:51

In the garage it IS the central heating system :eek:

SiriusB · 28 Mar 2010 at 12:42

Good man

Biffa · 29 Mar 2010 at 13:05

Damn and blast, I think the memory I had is dodgy

So I setup a minimal install, with a low end nvidia gfx card, just the cpu loop, memory, hdd etc just the bare essentials, planning on installing the OS and getting everything stable before installing the 295's.

It wouldn't detect all 3 DIMMS only showing 4GB and was unstable as hell. Tried a few things, swapping DIMMS out and it was just failing all over the shop. Then after a while it wouldn't boot up at all

Or it would boot, stop, then reboot itself but no signal on the monitor and no beeps or HDD noises, just lights and fans. Exactly the same if I booted it with no memory at all.

Reset CMOS, removed hardware tried every bloomin thing.. then tried the memory in my other rig and it was all over the shop very flaky, crashing, not booting etc etc.

Popped the OCZ back in and it was sweet as a nut... so....

DAMN YOU CRUCIAL AND YOUR 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz/PC3-12800 Ballistix Memory (Part number BL3KIT25664BN1608)... DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!

Ordered some OCZ, hope the mobo isn't b0rked :eek:

miniyazz · 29 Mar 2010 at 13:15

Biffa · 31 Mar 2010 at 00:41

Damn new RAM makes no difference. Might be the mobo is fubar

Marine Iguana · 31 Mar 2010 at 00:45

Noooooooooooo...................oooooooooooooooooo

SiriusB · 31 Mar 2010 at 00:49

Oh man that sucks. And I thought I had it bad needing a new PSU. Can you RMA the board?

Biffa · 31 Mar 2010 at 01:22

Gonna take it apart. Hope its not the board, but its just time. Don't have another 1366 cpu to test but it could be:

1. Mobo
2. CPU
3. PSU
4. Something shorting on the case (would it short on an ally case?)

Can't be the ram now. Got a different PSU to test but eugh.. pita!!

dekez · 31 Mar 2010 at 09:04

Unlucky

I hate hardware problems.

Grimgoth · 31 Mar 2010 at 16:59

I had this memory problem with my i7 build- the 6 gb memory only showing up as 4. Tried many things, and searching forum, it seems that in some mobos, the things to plug the cpu cooler may be too close to the memory, and in effect, with inconsistent seating of the cpu cooler, may bend the memory slots such as they don't work too well- mine started detecting 6 after I changed cpu coolers, so I haven't touched it since, but that might be it- maybe try loosening the screws holding down the cooler a bit?

Biffa · 31 Mar 2010 at 22:47

Hmm yeah I'm gonna do a rebuild. But just in case have ordered a P6T7 WS

Marine Iguana · 31 Mar 2010 at 22:57

Lol nutter

Stelly · 31 Mar 2010 at 23:04

Biffa said:
Hmm yeah I'm gonna do a rebuild. But just in case have ordered a P6T7 WS

how much!

Stelly

Biffa · 31 Mar 2010 at 23:46

Well if I can get this working I won't need it. But to have something for the weekend if I have to RMA the original board meant I had to order something today.

The only option other than the two decently priced ASRock x58 boards with 4 double width slots are the crazily priced P6T7 and the amazingly expensive EVGA Classified 4-Way SLI :eek:

Maybe I should have bought all of them and done a review.

SiriusB · 1 Apr 2010 at 00:39

Biffa said:
Hmm yeah I'm gonna do a rebuild. But just in case have ordered a P6T7 WS

/looks at price again.

Nope, sorry....

ToxicTBag · 1 Apr 2010 at 01:55

Good luck Biffa!

mast3r · 1 Apr 2010 at 08:32

i can see so many diff cards up ^

What cards do you have in there?

4way