Originally posted by: spectre8
i'll probably order this puppy here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814161012
It's received great reviews (although my current problem card did too), and after mail in rebate will only cost me $6 more + shipping, and judging by the reviews, it runs rather cool, which gives me some peace of mind before buying yet ANOTHER part for this computer. Only bought 4 components initially (mboard, cpu, ram, vcard) and it looks like i'll end up having to replace 2 of the 4. Yeesh.
Originally posted by: phile
Originally posted by: radicool
I have an Asus A-45GA PSU to power my new motherboard. It has a small 3-pin connector on it that isn't documented, that looks just like the fan connectors on the chassis fans.
At first I didn't plug it in anywhere because I wasn't sure what it was for. But I tried to read up and from other references it seemed like it must be a fan monitor cable. So I plugged it into the P5W, into PWR_FAN1, and started it up again.
Straight away I could smell something burning, so I shut everything down. It doesn't seem like the mobo is damaged or anything, and the PSU still works too, but does anybody know whether the connector is in fact a fan monitor? Or was I supposed to plug it in somewhere else? What could I have blown on the motherboard?
Thanks!
The connector certainly sounds as if it's a fan monitor. Have you powered-up without the fan monitor wire connected? Are you certain the burning smell was the result of connecting this wire?
-phil
Originally posted by: browsing
So the platinum OCZ works fine with this board? What about 1ghz ram, would it improve the OC or is it incompatable?
Originally posted by: Foert
will this combination work :
the P5W DH
a conroe E6400 or E6600
2x 512Mb + 2x 1Gb DDR2 ECC PC3200 IBM (with samsung chips)
Thanks
Originally posted by: radicool
Originally posted by: phile
Originally posted by: radicool
I have an Asus A-45GA PSU to power my new motherboard. It has a small 3-pin connector on it that isn't documented, that looks just like the fan connectors on the chassis fans.
At first I didn't plug it in anywhere because I wasn't sure what it was for. But I tried to read up and from other references it seemed like it must be a fan monitor cable. So I plugged it into the P5W, into PWR_FAN1, and started it up again.
Straight away I could smell something burning, so I shut everything down. It doesn't seem like the mobo is damaged or anything, and the PSU still works too, but does anybody know whether the connector is in fact a fan monitor? Or was I supposed to plug it in somewhere else? What could I have blown on the motherboard?
Thanks!
The connector certainly sounds as if it's a fan monitor. Have you powered-up without the fan monitor wire connected? Are you certain the burning smell was the result of connecting this wire?
-phil
Yes, the first time I started up without it because I wasn't sure if it was a fan connector. Everything worked fine, but then after reading up, I felt fairly confident it was a fan connector and connected it and restarted. Immediately there was a burning smell which seemed to come from the PSU, even though the PC appeared to be starting up fine, but I shut it down str8 away. I disconnected the cable, restarted again, and everything was fine, no more burning smell.
So of course I'm too scared to plug it in again. Plus although the mboard is working, I am worried I have blown something that will bite me further down the line.
Originally posted by: Foert
so i read on the asus website :
4 x 240-pin DIMM sockets support max. 8GB DDR2 800/ 667/ 533 ECC and non-ECC memory
so ECC memory as well ..
oh my bad.. it's the deluxe version..
but ok.. my question remains.. will the 400Mhz of the ecc memory be sufficient for the e6400/e6600 or does it really need 533Mhz to be able to boot up .. ?
Originally posted by: phile
Originally posted by: browsing
So the platinum OCZ works fine with this board? What about 1ghz ram, would it improve the OC or is it incompatable?
Yes, it works perfectly. PC2-6400 is the highest officially supported memory on this board. I've seen a lot people having trouble getting faster mem to work. In any case, PC2-6400 will run 1:1 at FSB 400. How much do you plan to o/c?
-phil
Originally posted by: browsing
Originally posted by: phile
Originally posted by: browsing
So the platinum OCZ works fine with this board? What about 1ghz ram, would it improve the OC or is it incompatable?
Yes, it works perfectly. PC2-6400 is the highest officially supported memory on this board. I've seen a lot people having trouble getting faster mem to work. In any case, PC2-6400 will run 1:1 at FSB 400. How much do you plan to o/c?
-phil
Thank you for finally answering this! I'm torn between the 6600 and 6700, I'm interested in squeezing every bit of goodness I can out of the RAM- that's why I've been asking. Is there any other well known memory kit that works better than the OCZ for this board? More overclock friendly, even if more expensive?
Originally posted by: machined
Yes, at both manual and default settings it (the stick that will enable a POST) produces errors.
I left it running 1hr30 and it produced errors in every test - the most relevant ones(?) being 10K in 7 and 3K in 5. Maybe just relative to the software, but trying the 'advanced' tells me chipset not supported. A red herring, probably...
I've tried to run memtest with what I have read to be the best settings too eg. Hyperthreading(transport?) disabled, and disabling the legacy USB support too.
I'm about to call for an RMA; I'm sure I've seen people running this Corsair XMS2 6400 RAM with this board and chip (or at least a faster version of the same chip), and can see no further.
Incidentally, I could get to safe mode in Windows XP, but to try normally gives me a flash of a BSOD before restarting. Now when trying safe mode, it appears to hang at the loading(?) of JGOGO.sys...aaaaaaaaaaaargh, a Jmicron job? Getting sidetracked though...I guess the RAM is waht's creating this problem...