OT - Need Some PC Advice - Page 2

Xrati · #1 September 2nd, 2009, 06:36 PM

The CPU better just drop in or you have problems. The cooling fan will be the biggest problem. The mounting points have holes and are calculated to be away from any circuitry, in or on the board.

As far as working on towels, what ever floats your boat...

Atrocities · #2 September 2nd, 2009, 08:23 PM

So here's what I now know. 1. Power was fluxuating from 107v to 120v. - Under powered memory. Needed 800mhz min, Kingston HyperX was only 667. To much memory being used. Had 4 gigs but XP only recognizes 2 to 3 gigs. So when I tried to run FarCry 2 using SLI, it killed the system.

MoBo was a POS. ASUS forum for the P5N32-E SLI is filled with issues, many just like mine.

So I have ordered Corsair Dominator 1066mhz memory (2x 1Gig), a Cyberpower CP1285ACRLCD back up PS, and I am looking at a coolmaster UCP 700w PS.

A crap load of extra money but I guess needed. If this PC fails now I don't know what I am going to do.

Fyron · #3 September 3rd, 2009, 04:58 PM

Sorry you don't like people having contrary opinions on good system work practices, Xrati.

AT:
Yes, just plugging it into another slot will get it detected by the BIOS automatically. if you need the drives mounted in the other order, you should be able to simply swap the ports the SATA cables are plugged in to.

You should also consider creating two partitions on the drive; one 50GB for XP and big programs that cannot be effectively installed outside of C (eg: Adobe products, Visual Studio, sometimes MS Office), and one to hold your documents, photos, videos, and other installed games and programs. You can use TweakUI (from microsoft.com) to relocate "My Documents" type folders to other places, such as D:\Documents. This makes it easier to reinstall windows in the future for the next inevitable meltdown.

Atrocities · #4 September 3rd, 2009, 05:40 PM

Thank you Fyron I will do that. That is good to know. I was wondering if I just went out and bought a new Sata II HD and did a fresh install from the get go and then after that was up and running and updated and such, then install the old drive as a slave would be a better way to go?

Fyron · #5 September 4th, 2009, 12:10 AM

It shouldn't matter one way or the other; the OS installer asks you which drive to use, and warns you if there is an OS already on it.

You probably need to put the new drive in the first SATA port, to make sure it comes up first in the BIOS. This will prevent any weirdness like Windows setting up the new partition on the new disk as "Drive D" instead of the more canonical "Drive C."

If you want to be absolutely safe, it couldn't hurt to disconnect the old drive entirely during the installation on the new drive.

Atrocities · #6 September 4th, 2009, 03:22 AM

Thanks Fyron, I will let you know how it all turns out. Thanks Xaiti for all the help as well.

I miss the activity of this site. To bad things have to change.

Atrocities · #7 September 7th, 2009, 04:42 PM

ASUS IS A F**KING POS COMPANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everything is installed. Power up, no alarms and no video. Fans work, everything seems to be working, but no video. Swapped out the cards. Still no video. Call ASUS, and they are not there. Ooops holiday. WTF!!!

They sent me a POS used mobo without a serial number. Oh the joys of my life. I cannot exchange it now because they will not except a mobo without the serial number sticker. This I know because they made it very clear when I shipped my first busted Asus POS motherboard back to them.

Two months now this PC has been down. Its bad enough that ASUS made the first board a FAIL, but then they send me another FAIL!!

I WILL NEVER AGAIN BUY AN ASUS PRODUCT!!!

THEY SUCK! THEY TOTALLY F**KING SUCK!

I am going to go to every site that sells ASUS crap and post on every product to stay away from ASUS. Award winning my ***!!! They SUCK

Atrocities · #8 September 7th, 2009, 05:59 PM

Just to see what would happen I pulled the memory out and restarted. Nothing happened. No beeps no alarms, nothing. The board is bad.

God Damn ASUS sent me a bad Mobo! An entire month wasted on this joke! Now another month is to be wasted!

Atrocities · #9 September 7th, 2009, 06:20 PM

I don't know what to do here guys. I have no way of knowing what the actual problem is. Perhaps when the old board died if fried everything on it. I doubt that though.

I have all these components and no clue what my Intel C2D E6850 3.0ghz CPU (775) can be used on effectively. I have two EVGA 8800GT cards with no system now. And that new memory I just bought is useless in anything modern so it was a huge waste of money.

I am so livid pissed at ASUS right now I don't know what to do. I mean just climb a clock tower and thin the ASUS techs herd kinda pissed. (Not that I would ever do such a thing, its a figure of speech.)

I wanted to see what would happen if I installed the second video card but didn't add power. I got a long continuous beep. So I know the beep audio works.

If I could afford it, I'd take it to the geek squad or the local PC store but who has a spare $200.00 bucks to spend just to be told that the board is bad. (Money I could use to buy a new board.)

Speaking of that, any suggestion for a new board that I might be able to use with my socket 775 E6850 CPU and memory?