Recent content by nickeleye

All seems to be well now. New mobo fixed the issue. Unfortunately Frys wouldn't take the tester board back tonight because they said it had bent pins. I'll spare the rest of that annoying story. Needless to say I brought it home to see if I could restore the 2-3 minorly tweaked pins to see if...

I just built a new gaming system with Windows 7 and all seems to be working well so far for the most part. I'm still installing apps, games, etc. I have noticed that during installation of games utilizing my bluray drive multitasking comes to a stand still. For example, the 1st disc of a game...

Well, some interesting news. I stopped by Fry's after work today and picked up a new mobo (Asus P7P55D) and PSU (Antec EA-650). First I tried the Antec PSU with the hardware above. I thought the issue was fixed because after the "Loading Windows" screen it brought me back to the install screen...

I'm going to try one quick install before work with just 1x stick of RAM in the 4th slot. Somebody else in another forum had an issue where that board only had one working slot in pos. 4. All connections are definitely solid. I was extremely anal when putting the AS5 paste on. I use a razor...

Tonight was full of all sorts of issues. When I got home from work I turned on the power and the computer turned on, but my CPU fan wasn't spinning anymore and I got no image on the screen. After fooling around with everything for a while I decided to just pull the mobo out of the case to...

Thanks. I'll see what I can dig up when I get home. All I know is the bios is whatever came shipped with the board. I know the mobo is rev 1.0, but I don't know if that's an indicator of a particular bios revision or not. Also, thanks for the PSU wattage confirmation. It's been a couple years...

I put together a new system last night and proceeded to install Win 7 64-bit and all was well. It's a legit retail copy of the Win 7 upgrade disk bought from Amazon. After a handful of restarts (Windows updates, driver updates, etc) the computer decided to freeze at the Windows welcome screen...