Recent content by jokn

SUCCESS!! Got the box back from the shop and: -reinstalled the CPU cooler PROPERLY -pulled out everything but one stick of RAM, one HDD, DVD-ROM and one GPU -cleared the CMOS -disabled audio, network controller and the 1394 controller in the BIOS -popped in the installation disc and.. VOILÃÂ￾...

Ok, the shop's convinced that either the mobo or the CPU is busted. Tomorrow they're gonna plug a fresh CPU in the socket and see if that'll fix it. Now I'm not so sure about the diagnosis of a bad CPU or mobo... in any case, I think tomorrow the box is going back home with me. If new components...

After messing around for hours with the darn thing, my resources are exhausted. So I took the machine to a local PC repair shop for some (hopefully) professional care. I called them up today to see if they'd made any progress, and was told that all the hardware checks out fine... except for the...

the BIOS is up-to-date. Tried the F8 boot device menu trick, no luck.

Kemical: no, it's not asking for drivers. The drives show up fine. Drew: I don't have a machine that I could plug the drive into for formatting, so I've only tried QuickFormat. The OS is an OEM version for the European market (I live in Finland) that I purchased from a component retailer here...

Asus P7P55D Pro Intel Core i5 750 4 GB DDR3 13333 Samsung F1 250 (as SATA 1) <-this is where I'm trying to install Windows 7 Samsung F1 500 (as SATA 2) Samsung DVD/RW (as SATA 3) 2x HIS Radeon 5770 in Crossfire Doing a clean install off a OEM 7 Home Premium 64 disc, the install gets to the step...