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Skybuck Flying
Hello,
I just followed Cub's tips:
1. Load bios with default settings, which made the apm configuration return
!
2. Swap memory chip with another memory chip.
So far the other memory chip seems to be working fine. More testing needs to
be done though.
So the good news could be:
One memory chip is probably damaged.
One memory chip might be working ok.
Don't know about the other two.
This could mean the power supply is good after all.
For the bad chip:
Kinda strange though how the motherboard kept saying something was bad
during startup... like settings bad or something. I kept losing it's bios
settings... maybe it will remember it now. Also ECC was enabled by default ?
When I turned it off with the bad memory chip the system hang... haven't
tried that with the supposedly good chip.
The bad
I already ordered a new power supply. So that's probably 170 euro's wasted
or so
Back to the good
Fortunately I was only using 2 GB out of 4 GB when the system was working
ok.
So if I can find another memory chip which is good... then I am in pretty
good shape...
Just shame of the waste of money... gje...
One graphics card: 700 euro pretty much wasted. < too hot.
Motherboard sli: <- wasted.
One memory chip: dont know how much this cost... mabe like 80 euro's or so.
Power supply wasted: 170 euro's...
Bad case wasted: 80 euro's or so.
Close to 1000 euro's wasted on pc.
If I can sell some stuff maybe it's ok... lol... I never sell that kinda
stuff but ok.
Currently I am running PC Mark 2005... so far no system crashes.
Gje.
So the end the story memory chip was probably damaged by sticky tape which I
put inside on in the old case to experiment with airflow... so partially me
to blame... but also partially old case to blame... if it had good airflow I
wouldn't have needed to experiment with it.
Thanks to Cub to helping me out !
Bye,
Skybuck.
I just followed Cub's tips:
1. Load bios with default settings, which made the apm configuration return
!
2. Swap memory chip with another memory chip.
So far the other memory chip seems to be working fine. More testing needs to
be done though.
So the good news could be:
One memory chip is probably damaged.
One memory chip might be working ok.
Don't know about the other two.
This could mean the power supply is good after all.
For the bad chip:
Kinda strange though how the motherboard kept saying something was bad
during startup... like settings bad or something. I kept losing it's bios
settings... maybe it will remember it now. Also ECC was enabled by default ?
When I turned it off with the bad memory chip the system hang... haven't
tried that with the supposedly good chip.
The bad
I already ordered a new power supply. So that's probably 170 euro's wasted
or so
Back to the good
Fortunately I was only using 2 GB out of 4 GB when the system was working
ok.
So if I can find another memory chip which is good... then I am in pretty
good shape...
Just shame of the waste of money... gje...
One graphics card: 700 euro pretty much wasted. < too hot.
Motherboard sli: <- wasted.
One memory chip: dont know how much this cost... mabe like 80 euro's or so.
Power supply wasted: 170 euro's...
Bad case wasted: 80 euro's or so.
Close to 1000 euro's wasted on pc.
If I can sell some stuff maybe it's ok... lol... I never sell that kinda
stuff but ok.
Currently I am running PC Mark 2005... so far no system crashes.
Gje.
So the end the story memory chip was probably damaged by sticky tape which I
put inside on in the old case to experiment with airflow... so partially me
to blame... but also partially old case to blame... if it had good airflow I
wouldn't have needed to experiment with it.
Thanks to Cub to helping me out !
Bye,
Skybuck.