Recent content by mxa

Hi everyone - Just reporting that the flashing red LED problem with my Tyan S8812 mobo, the subject of this thread, was definitely just a problem with the mobo. After replacing it (convenient since Tyan is in Fremont which is close by), the earlier problems went away and now I have a...

Yep, keeping the Seasonic 850, already RMA'd the Athena. I like the modularity of the Seasonic PSU, and in general it has wonderful ratings. It turns out that the Athena was probably fine in terms of generating power, and I think my previous experiment demonstrating the Athena was...

Hey everyone - I received the Seasonic 850w supply suggested by colinstu. It's a very nice power supply, and I'm happy I got it, but this does not fix the problem (no post, just an annoying red blinking LED). Based on jebo's statement above of having the same problem, RMA'ing, and...

Hi Pjkenned- Actually that was a pretty good guess. SF State University Chem Dept, I live in San Francisco. You're saying you have a couple good power supplies? thanks -mxa

Thanks to everyone for all of the useful comments. Musky: sure, will do in a little bit. The basic mods (in text for now, pix later): (a) break off two little metal flaps, that were intended to support a power supply. This left behind some metal roughness. The rest of the steps were...

Thanks for your advice colinstu. Yeah, the 1100w PSU is probably overkill for the system I'm building, without a video card, and rather simple hard drive usage. I think the SeaSonic one you mentioned might be perfect, thanks for the tip. Now I'll just try to be hopeful that replacing the...

Hi everyone, Excuse my noob-y-ess here, I thought I'd ask about an error I'm having with a Tyan s8812 server build. The system is for academic drug discovery /medicinal chemistry (parallel "docking" of millions of small molecules into proteins associated with human disease, as a means to...

Hey Jebo - I saw your post on the Tyan S8812 motherboard, and the strange problems you were having. (red LED flashing, mobo won't post), etc., and how it may be related to your power supply or maybe the motherboard. I just bought and received a Tyan S8812 and am apparently having the same...