undertheradar
[H]ard|Gawd
- Joined
- Oct 26, 2004
- Messages
- 1,792
Yeah, its been a while... what can I say. The ole i7 920 was enough to run triple screens, so I didn't upgrade, but last Friday night, I turned it on, and it shut off a few minutes later. Tried to turn it on again, and it just shut off right away. Then it just got worse and worse until nothing at all. The onlly thing that has changed recently is that I removed my dual GTX 580's and replaced them with a single GTX 980 Ti so that I could go from my old triple Asus 24" monitors to a single Acer Predator x34 (3440x1440). Yeah, the old cards don't have DP, so I had to get a new card to support the 3440x1440 monitor. Love the Acer x34 by the way... freakin' sweet display (for the last week that I have been able to use it).
I need help on 3 things:
1. maybe help trying to diagnose WTF went wrong... I've never seen a computer do this sort of thing before.
2. pick out some new stuff.
3. how do I go back and get my stuff off those old HDD's and SSD's that aren't going to recognize the new computer's motherboard and CPU as the right ones?
1) Rampage 2 Gene, i7 920: The power supply is providing standby power because I see LED's on the mainboard lit up. I tried starting the PSU by jumping the green wire to a ground and it fires up. I also swapped out the Enermax 1050 watter for a Seasonic 850 watter that I have in another box. The PSU seems fine. So I disconnected the sound card, video card, SSD and took all but one ram stick out. Still no power up. So I jumped the green wire to a black one WHILE the ATX connector was on the board. This caused the mainboard to fire for a second... things went blinky blinky, and then the PSU shut off again. Then, every few seconds, the mainboard tries to fire up again and again, as if it knows its trying to start, but it must detect a short or something???
Now, this system is watercooled (the new 980 Ti is the EVGA with the hydro block on it), with a block on the NB and CPU (the mosfets have a heatpipe attached to the NB so they get cooled too with one block)... so I did look the board over for signs of water getting into something. Nothing though. Not a drop. No signs of something dripping, arcing, burning, corroding, etc.
I wish there was some way to diagnose what happened, since this happened 1 week since I put the new 980Ti in the box. I am concerned that I will get a new board and CPU and just fry it if something is wrong with the GPU. I guess I will have to put the GPU in another box and see if it fries that also... lol.
2) What bites the most is that I really think RIGHT NOW is a horrible time to upgrade. Hell, I really didn't want to throw down cash on a 980 Ti right now with Pascal coming out later in the year. I also wanted to see what happens with Skylake and the LGA2011v3 socket, but oh, well... life can suck it sometimes.
So I need suggestions, but this is what I was thinking:
Mainboard: Asus Rampage V Extreme/U3.1: Best of the best? I was also looking at the x99 Sabertooth and the EVGA x99 Classified. I don't see a need for the Rampage, as its an overpriced almost 2 year old board, BUT... it seems I can find waterblocks for it the easiest. Its only $100 more than the others and has the best PCI-E layout for my likely eventual expansion into SLI again in the future (yes, I am considering triple Acer Predator x34's). I would like the Classified, but I hear the manuals are "short" and although customer support may be great, what happens after 5 years and I need to look something up? I was able to pull my R2Gene manual out and see what all the blinking LED's mean and what I could do to try and get this thing running again... no longer finding any support on the Asus website. I doubt whoever is at EVGA right now will still be there and remember what I need about an x99 Classified in 5 years. Anyways, thats what I thought. I also believe that although the Rampage 5 Extreme is getting old, its still top dog for an x99 and with maturity also comes stability in firmware (I hope!). But please, if someone thinks I am being an idiot here, let me know! If there is another x99 mainboard that I should be looking at with great waterblock support, I'm all ears.
CPU: i7 5930K Haswell-E: I would go lower, but I don't want to choke up the SLi lanes. I have had Sli 3 times in the past (dual 9800's, dual GTX 280's, dual GTX 580's), and will likely use it again. Is this the best bang for the buck CPU wise? I was considering going with the Asus Maximus VII formula since it has the waterblocks built in and then get i7-6700K (its a newer board and chip with slick new features)... but going down to an LGA1151 just seems like I might be shooting myself in the foot when I end up doing SLi again.
RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum Series 16GB DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz C15 Memory Kit for Systems 3000 MT/s CMD16GX4M2B3000C15 RAM is RAM. I buy it to match up with the mobo and cpu. I like Corsair. I'm open to suggestions or being told that I have made a mistake... rather hear it now than after I buy it all.
WATER BLOCKS: I run dual D5's in series (for pressure) with a MORA2 (9x140mm) radiator. I don't like "monoblocks" because then every time I just want to remove say, the CPU block I end up having to redo everything else on the board. That's a PITA IMO.
I currently have a Watercool Heatkiller rev3.0. I think I will have to buy some bolts or new brackets to mount it to an LGA2011 board. BUT, will it work for the hexacore LGA2011v3 that I'm using? Should I be looking at the Heatkiller IV instead? Or, is there some other water block rather than Watercool that I should be going with?
What about mainboard blocks? I could go with the Watercool brand, but once again, I haven't been keeping up with the reviews since I wasn't anticipating buying right now, so I could use some advice... perhaps I will repost this in the watercooling forums. What blocks should I get for the mainboard?
3) Once the new computer is up and running with a new HDD, I want to plug in my other HDD's and SSD's that were on the R2Gene to get my files off of them rather than just wiping them. I did this a long time ago with Windows 7 but I can't remember how to do it, or if its different for Windows 10.
Thanks to everyone ahead of time!
I need help on 3 things:
1. maybe help trying to diagnose WTF went wrong... I've never seen a computer do this sort of thing before.
2. pick out some new stuff.
3. how do I go back and get my stuff off those old HDD's and SSD's that aren't going to recognize the new computer's motherboard and CPU as the right ones?
1) Rampage 2 Gene, i7 920: The power supply is providing standby power because I see LED's on the mainboard lit up. I tried starting the PSU by jumping the green wire to a ground and it fires up. I also swapped out the Enermax 1050 watter for a Seasonic 850 watter that I have in another box. The PSU seems fine. So I disconnected the sound card, video card, SSD and took all but one ram stick out. Still no power up. So I jumped the green wire to a black one WHILE the ATX connector was on the board. This caused the mainboard to fire for a second... things went blinky blinky, and then the PSU shut off again. Then, every few seconds, the mainboard tries to fire up again and again, as if it knows its trying to start, but it must detect a short or something???
Now, this system is watercooled (the new 980 Ti is the EVGA with the hydro block on it), with a block on the NB and CPU (the mosfets have a heatpipe attached to the NB so they get cooled too with one block)... so I did look the board over for signs of water getting into something. Nothing though. Not a drop. No signs of something dripping, arcing, burning, corroding, etc.
I wish there was some way to diagnose what happened, since this happened 1 week since I put the new 980Ti in the box. I am concerned that I will get a new board and CPU and just fry it if something is wrong with the GPU. I guess I will have to put the GPU in another box and see if it fries that also... lol.
2) What bites the most is that I really think RIGHT NOW is a horrible time to upgrade. Hell, I really didn't want to throw down cash on a 980 Ti right now with Pascal coming out later in the year. I also wanted to see what happens with Skylake and the LGA2011v3 socket, but oh, well... life can suck it sometimes.
So I need suggestions, but this is what I was thinking:
Mainboard: Asus Rampage V Extreme/U3.1: Best of the best? I was also looking at the x99 Sabertooth and the EVGA x99 Classified. I don't see a need for the Rampage, as its an overpriced almost 2 year old board, BUT... it seems I can find waterblocks for it the easiest. Its only $100 more than the others and has the best PCI-E layout for my likely eventual expansion into SLI again in the future (yes, I am considering triple Acer Predator x34's). I would like the Classified, but I hear the manuals are "short" and although customer support may be great, what happens after 5 years and I need to look something up? I was able to pull my R2Gene manual out and see what all the blinking LED's mean and what I could do to try and get this thing running again... no longer finding any support on the Asus website. I doubt whoever is at EVGA right now will still be there and remember what I need about an x99 Classified in 5 years. Anyways, thats what I thought. I also believe that although the Rampage 5 Extreme is getting old, its still top dog for an x99 and with maturity also comes stability in firmware (I hope!). But please, if someone thinks I am being an idiot here, let me know! If there is another x99 mainboard that I should be looking at with great waterblock support, I'm all ears.
CPU: i7 5930K Haswell-E: I would go lower, but I don't want to choke up the SLi lanes. I have had Sli 3 times in the past (dual 9800's, dual GTX 280's, dual GTX 580's), and will likely use it again. Is this the best bang for the buck CPU wise? I was considering going with the Asus Maximus VII formula since it has the waterblocks built in and then get i7-6700K (its a newer board and chip with slick new features)... but going down to an LGA1151 just seems like I might be shooting myself in the foot when I end up doing SLi again.
RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum Series 16GB DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz C15 Memory Kit for Systems 3000 MT/s CMD16GX4M2B3000C15 RAM is RAM. I buy it to match up with the mobo and cpu. I like Corsair. I'm open to suggestions or being told that I have made a mistake... rather hear it now than after I buy it all.
WATER BLOCKS: I run dual D5's in series (for pressure) with a MORA2 (9x140mm) radiator. I don't like "monoblocks" because then every time I just want to remove say, the CPU block I end up having to redo everything else on the board. That's a PITA IMO.
I currently have a Watercool Heatkiller rev3.0. I think I will have to buy some bolts or new brackets to mount it to an LGA2011 board. BUT, will it work for the hexacore LGA2011v3 that I'm using? Should I be looking at the Heatkiller IV instead? Or, is there some other water block rather than Watercool that I should be going with?
What about mainboard blocks? I could go with the Watercool brand, but once again, I haven't been keeping up with the reviews since I wasn't anticipating buying right now, so I could use some advice... perhaps I will repost this in the watercooling forums. What blocks should I get for the mainboard?
3) Once the new computer is up and running with a new HDD, I want to plug in my other HDD's and SSD's that were on the R2Gene to get my files off of them rather than just wiping them. I did this a long time ago with Windows 7 but I can't remember how to do it, or if its different for Windows 10.
Thanks to everyone ahead of time!