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still restarting board is coming out f###in hell:headvswal:headvswal

not looking for a popularity thread you don't have to read it dude i'm trying to sort a build that's cost me near to £1k thread says what it is, don't likey...... no readie :tongue:

BIOS Flashed via USB pen(feck that's cool f2+alt on boot find file...enter done no more cranky magentic floppies when your hearts pounding 'til the end of the flash) and................... seems all good.... looped 3dmark loads and no probs(touch wood) the boards got an infant chipset and is in it's early days (intel p45(sounds about right in the current economic climate)) looks good for an ass pounding in the future the P35 was good for 3.8ghz q6600 on air with what I have murty I shal bow down for pushing me in the correct direction thanks for your time and help whooop whoooop murty!!!!!!!!!!!! :bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow: and thanks to all others who replied and put their experiences forward as suggestions I lurve this board

now my tumble drier has snapped a belt and drum shaft snapped:headvswal:headvswal:headvswal £30 to fix in parts online but my mrs reckon it would worry her as the motor is also a little noisey too and she thinks it may go on fire so new one it is :mad: spose she has a point it is full of feckin fluff. they are a real dangerous design. It draws air from the drum (full of fluff from clothes) and throws it directly onto a heating element via an impellor.

I was gonna flash the bios but it won't hold stable for long enough to trust and I think it's a windows util. I downloaded a newr bios file before I did another format so I'll have to download it again. I don't have a fdd in it either so I guess if it was self boot util I could use a usb drive i'll have a check on the asus site definately a worth a shot . Tried the RAM last night it wouldn't pick it up...seems to be ram fussy. I should email asus support too added.........yup bios is a boot floppy job. Have to "pull a floppy" out of an old unit will give it a shot

congrats dude you also get to drive through red traffic lights legally now

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_OwrEZ7vWNA&eurl=http://widget.slide.com/version/20090119142852/widgets/fw/adapters/wrapper_youtube.swf?playerUrl=http://www.youtube.com/

I've checked everything is seated about 20 times to no avail I have had faulty floppy cables in the past that preventing a pc from posting. gonna have an hour with it now involving some spare ram banks a p4 and a baseball bat :headvswal

I've pulled sata out and now it's been running in another machine I have for 2 days without a prob. it was one of my thoughts also .... I freeckin hate pc's why they go wrong.

tried xp yesterday it locked up whilst installing motherboard drivers arrrrrrrggggg . I have a 3ghz LGA pent 4 to try next and some other ram just incase there is a conflict or the board dont like the ram. See how that goes it's doing me nut in. In the last 10 years I've built about 15 different pc's for myself family and friends icl. a few powerful builds but this one is being a knob with a capitol K :headvswal

formatted .... reinstalled vista, all usb's removed ,all cables changed different monitor used, still reboots.Ultimate boot cd.... Memtest86 came back pass complete no errors, did a surface scan with one of the tools too and that came back all good with no bad sectors. so that just leaves new mobo(brand new)psu(checked by shop that sold it me said it's goo),cpu(will try a P4 3.0ghx today see if that works) and video card. Getting nowhere with this

egg timer clockwork type ..... nuff said

core volt is stock 1.24v as here http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45822&d=1231679949 ... but will take on the box max 1.35v(have read they will take 1.6v!!!! :eek:) I increased it slightly to see if it would stablise it, did not help so set it back to stock. my ram boots on auto at 1.8v on both my asus boards ,corsairs stock volts for these is 1.9v when I built my last rig 2gb was stable at 1.8v and worked for months put 2gb more of same in and I had to up the voltage.

i rigged it up and guess what .......it restarted twice wouldn't even boot. I have changed the dvi connector to the other port and it started so I will leave it on for a bit and see what happens

I have few other option to look at now

cheers for that will come in useful

the shop i bought mobo from has had it running for over 4 hrs without a sigle reboot. So now I need to start looking at the keyboard/mouse(brand new xmas pressie...hmmmmm) surge protector router all cables and monitor.

agreed bringing back the stocks in the middle of town and branding would be no worse than what she has inflicted on that poor animal which can't go and tell anyone what it's being put through by it's owner.

"Dear EarthTalk: Is it better to drive an older, well-maintained car that gets about 25 miles per gallon or to buy a new car that gets about 35 miles per gallon? " seems an odd question ........... cars are going to run their course regardless of the enviroment. A car doesn't get scrapped until it's no longer financially viable to keep them for one reason or another. It'll get sold on and used by someone else to carry the "Eco burden" for someone else to point the finger at. If they get more efficient and cleaner to make/run then that's progression and it'll have to work it's way down the car food chain.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tXFrfVTMfrE&feature=dir :D

temps fairly good 40c idle new paste nice and fresh.will try boot tool ta :)

did that after reinstalling windows also upped the ram and cpu core volts with no luck

it was reformatted just after fitting the mobo that was first port of call it restarted even when reinstalling windows. I'll try the ultimate boot cd see how that fares i have a spare new sata drive to try too cheers all

bi turbo's take it both ways dude :rofl: