Suddenly.. no POST

[Chris Sykes]

Ah sounds like your getting somewhere! Welcome to the fault find of RAM! Joy! Most likely in the BIOS theres the RAM checker, run each stick seperatly in slot 1 (check manual to check first)...

Just stumbled accross this beast... http://www.evga.com/articles/00656/

[DaveB]

Sacre bleu It's so beautiful, it's almost obscene EVGA are a good make too so I've no doubt their performance figures are accurate Just looking at the Asus board, that card would definitely take out at one PCI slot (I couldn't use it with the single Ti!!) and one PCIe slot though the chances of you needing anything more are remote What a Bobby Dazzler

I'll check the dimms individually now and see what pop's up

Cheers me dears

ATB
DaveB

[Chris Sykes]

Oh yes, highly tempting over 2x 560 ti's just shame that you can use one card only instead of two of them! But at those prices a 580 3GB might be better option...

[DaveB]

You don't have a rather deep pocket full of disposable cash do you Chris??

Right.. the removed dimm has replaced the known working one and guess what.. the system will not POST. Put the other one back in and up she comes. That's one thing sorted.. B@ST@RD! This test has been done with the new 'replacement' Corsair btw as it was sitting conveniently on the floor. Next step is to check the case so I have to build up the enthusiasm to remove Ben's ASRock and replace it with the Asus. If it works, I'm not sure what to do then. I've no reason to believe the QX6700 or 8gig of ram on the ASRock are faulty and the P5Q will take that processor and volume of ram. I have a brand new 512gig WD Caviar Blue waiting to be used along with Win7 Ultimate 64-bit. Would the slower clocked QX6700 be a better bet than the faster clocked E8400 in Win7 do you think?

ATB
DaveB

[ianhind]

Do you know whether the E8400 is working?

As to which CPU? Looking on the forums, those are two that get compared but usually form the point of view as to which one overclocks best. I don't think four cores (QX6700) will help with FS so the faster CPU could be the criterion that matters.

Ian

[Chris Sykes]

Nope, just bonus time of year ...

Sounds bang on with the problem there... I would say the Quad over the Dual any day, i went from the E8500 to the Q9650 which is slightly slower but i didnt notice anything bad... You could always OC it slightly to even it out... Deffinatly use the opotunity to upgrade! The quad will help FSX if you use it, FS9 wont, but will help if you run lots of other programs at the same time.

[ianhind]

Chris

I'm not sure that moving from an E8400 to a QX6700 is an "upgrade".

The QX6700 is 10066FSB and 65nm technology. Your Q9650 and the E8400 are both 1333FSB and 45nm technology so run cooler.

All this probably says more about Intel's naming system than anything else! The advantage of the QX6700 is that is is unlocked but Dave will know about Techy's experience of overclocking and probably doesn't want to go there.

Ian

[DaveB]

Ohh yes. Let Techy 'I'll overclock it or die trying' III's experience be a lesson to us all. It certainly was to me

Rgr (I think) on the QX6700 vs E8400 argument. The E84 does work as far as I know. I'll check it on the Asus while it's sitting on my desk Just sat here semi-dozing (afternoon nap time).. part watching/listening to STTNG (unification part 2) and looking at the mess on my desk, I noticed my C drive HD has a jumper over pins 3 and 4. For the last 2 years, I've been running the bloody thing restricted to 1.5 Gb/s and not the 3 Gb/s I thought it was running at! What's the betting my FS drive isn't similarly neutered! Sh1t shoot.. root toot! God.. this is gonna seem so quick when I get it back together (assuming it will all go back together!) Typical.. the jumper must be the smallest I've seen. The new CaviarWD5000AAKX I have didn't have one so I had to dig one out to restrict it to 3 Gb/s (basic interface is 6 Gb/s)

Ah well.. all this fun, frolic and dozing has to stop as work beckons

ATB
DaveB

[DaveB]

Update..

The E8400 is back in and running fine. The mobo detected the change immediately and prompted me to go into Setup I've put in 4gb of ram from Ben's board (I wanted to ensure it was just the old dimm and not the socket faulty) and this is also running fine. The Asus board doesn't give an obvious memory check at startup (unlike the A7N8X-E Deluxe on this pc or the A7N8X on my XP2400) but XP 32-bit is showing 3.2gb as expected. Am close to a point where it can go back into the case

ATB
DaveB

[Molyned]

Now that's all nicely put to bed I must comment about the warm feeling I got when I saw that the workspace follows the same rule as mine - the' it's all there somewhere' rule. Mine is remarkably similar except I can't afford a nice Meerschaum pipe, making do with an old trusty briar with a bit of tape over the hole in the bottom of it.
Cheers
Dave M(oly)