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Boot Mystery

The system worked fine for at least a year. I am not sure I understand how a connector could go intermittent, and then fail completely. I can see a connector getting bent during installation or at other times when it is disconnected and reconnected, but I have a hard time understanding how it...
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- Post #15
- Dec 4, 2011
- Forum: Computer Building
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Boot Mystery

One last correction, although I have pretty much decided to give up on this and replace the mobo and the CPU. The Scythe fan on the CPU cooler is a four wire fan, not a three wire fan. The CPU fan connection has four pins, so they should play nice with each other. Just out of curiosity, I...
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- Post #13
- Dec 4, 2011
- Forum: Computer Building
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Boot Mystery

Do you think the fan is dead? It is a three-wire fan and it spins when given juice, but then shuts down. I assume it does that as a 'smart' fan, not as a dead one. Of course I could be wrong. It should be a simple matter to connect it to something other than the fan connection marked CPU...
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- Post #12
- Dec 2, 2011
- Forum: Computer Building
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Boot Mystery

Disconnected all drives and pulled the second stick of RAM. No change. Swapped video cards with my home rig. Still no change, although the cabin card works fine in the home rig. Is there anything left to try, or is it time to get out my checkbook? Should I replace both the mobo and the CPU...
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- Post #10
- Dec 2, 2011
- Forum: Computer Building
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Boot Mystery

Nope, not a peep. I will try disconnecting everything with a single stick in the first slot. I will also try with the video card from this machine if that does not work.
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- Post #9
- Dec 1, 2011
- Forum: Computer Building
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Boot Mystery

Ahh, now you've caught me. Which slot is the correct slot? When I have tried troubleshooting with a single stick of RAM in the past, I've been able to get to BIOS with any slot. Of course then I was attempting to diagnose Memtest errors on a different system, but I was not aware that which...
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- Post #6
- Dec 1, 2011
- Forum: Computer Building
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Boot Mystery

I will try that, as it does not require much more than I have already done, but I do not see how this is going to cure the complete failure to post. I think I either need to find a way to restore the BIOS or else buy a new mobo. I wonder if it could be new CPU time as well?
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- Post #4
- Nov 30, 2011
- Forum: Computer Building
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Boot Mystery

Lotta views. Any ideas?
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- Post #2
- Nov 30, 2011
- Forum: Computer Building
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A very peculiar problem.

That takes out my ideas...
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- Post #4
- Nov 30, 2011
- Forum: Computer Building
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Boot Mystery

I posted a longer version of this before - let me try to be more focused this time. System includes: Gigabyte GA770TA-U3 mobo AMD 3 core CPU An enormous CPU cooler that has no visible name MSI 5750 GPU OCZ Modstream 500 PSU OCZ 100G SSD A standard HD and DVD drive 4 Gig of RAM from...
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- Thread
- Nov 30, 2011
- Replies: 14
- Forum: Computer Building
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A very peculiar problem.

If you turn it on and do nothing at all, how hot does it get before it reboots?
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- Post #2
- Nov 30, 2011
- Forum: Computer Building
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Blank Screen, Sometimes

Apologies in advance for providing what will likely be a lot of irrelevant detail, but I am not really sure just what is and is not important on this one... Bear with me, as the problem seems to be a moving target. A year or two ago, I built a machine for our vacation cabin. It includes an...
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- Thread
- Nov 25, 2011
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Computer Building
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Samsung Color Laser CLP-325W $69.99 FREE SHIPPING

Oh, I am all in favor of toner over ink. It just seems to make far more sense to buy three printers and throw two away, keeping only the toner from the discards, than it does to plan on buying replacement toner later on.
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- Post #7
- Nov 25, 2011
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Samsung Color Laser CLP-325W $69.99 FREE SHIPPING

Black toner is about $45, the three color cartridges will run you $51 x 3. All told, that is about $200 to replace toner on a $70 printer. If you are going to buy one, it might be smart to buy two or three, just to save money on refills.
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- Post #5
- Nov 25, 2011
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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External Hard Drive for a Macintosh Laptop

Thanks everyone.
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- Post #5
- Sep 24, 2007
- Forum: Laptops

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