Recent content by theclone

I have an E6600 that I finally can get to boot into bios on a Asus P5W DH (I floundered about a bit with a P5B and then when the second failed I switched to a P5W). It had been booting before and running a bit hot (58ish on load without OC). Hot but not enough for me to mess with it as it was...

I've RMAed my motherboard _and_ the RAM I was using (From gSkill to Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800) and it still won't post. Anyone else run into issues with this motherboard? Suggestions?

After some more search and long hours of staring at the motherboard, I realized that the BIOS revision is 0302 and that it needs to be flashed to 0701 before it'll support Intel Core 2 Duo processors. I'm sending off for a bios replacement tomorrow and hoping that'll fix it.

My P180 came with three brass standoffs and the case had three holes where you could screw them into . . .

Could I get a small transistor one at radioshack? What should I look for? I'm a bit new at this and probably shouldn't have gone with the P180 - oh well, live and learn. Thanks.

Do external speakers play POST? I hooked up the speakers and turned it on (They're on full blast) but I'm not hearing any beeps. >.< Everything else appears to be normal. If the processor pins were bent (The little cap that was supposed to protect them on the motherboard was off when I...

My computer isn't POSTing and I'm unfortuently stuck with a case with no case speaker (an Antec P-180) so I'm kind of running about blind here. It's an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (Stock heatsink) Asus P5B-DH 2 1-gigabyte sticks of G-SKILL DDR-800 Antec P-180 Antec TruPower-II 550w eVGA...