Hi,
[valley girl talk]
So this is like going to should like a flame thread but like it isn't...
[/valley girl talk]
Not like I post much on the [H] but my main computer seem to have had a slight motherboard problem. The board was a Gigabyte P35-DS3R with a 4 gb of Corsair XMS2 RAm and a Q6600. This problem started approximately a month ago to boot. I generally blow out my PC approximately once a month to keep the dust, dirt and general filth down inside. I take it back upstairs, plug all the wires back in, and power up but nothing. So I say "huh" and wonder what the problem is.
So I take the rig back downstairs and start pulling apart. I noticed a slight electronic order but nothing to really be alarmed about. However near the memory and processor the voltage controllers (as it turned out Google is awesome ) reside. The odor is a bit more stronger. Nothing thinking of it CPU and RAM, I figured the board cooked.
Well I order up one an ASUS P5Q Pro from the egg. Still the same result. From looking around on the net, I am thinking I got a DOA board which happens from time to time. Now this is kind of an important part of the story. As luck would have it, Micro Center is only 45 minutes away (38 minutes if I really step on it) for me. I drove down to pick an E8400 since they were cheap. Still nothing. Then I thought it was the video card. Back to micro center. Still nothing. Now thinking PSU, once again back to MC. Still the same result. (I got a nice Corsair HX520 Mod PSU ) When it was all said and done, I said to myself back to Newegg with a DOA. I will pay a slightly higher price from a board from a local place if there is a DOA issue.
So I go to a local shop and buy a P5Q. Once again the same result. I said screw I am going to RMA the memory thinking it crapped out. It took about 2 1/2 weeks but I got new memory from Corsair. (It came last night.) Once again, nothing. The only thing left was the CPU. I took out the Q6600 and put in the E8400. Bingo fires right up.
Now the second fun part comes. Believe it or not, the transition from P35 to P45 in Vista was not that bad. I remember the days of reformat and reinstall for the MB swap. However, this was not that bad. It took about an hour since I was only missing about a month's worth of updates and downloads.
As for Gigabyte, I have my board with them right now. I don't know when I will see it. I just know it cost me a bunch of money I really didn't have in the first place. It turned out it fried my cpu and RAM but left the video alone. I spent 400 in total to fix my PC. If GB turns around and claims I modded the board or not "their fault" I think will lose it on them
Big thanks to the guys who are out there and do hard mods to boards. They helped me out figuring out the problem. No I didn't do any thing of a mod to my GB board but Goggle has a ton of info. In short, it looked like a voltage controller fried and took out the CPu and RAM in one shot. Thanks GB! I think I will stick with Asus from now on and I am not saying they are without problems but I never lost a CPU and memory with them
[valley girl talk]
So this is like going to should like a flame thread but like it isn't...
[/valley girl talk]
Not like I post much on the [H] but my main computer seem to have had a slight motherboard problem. The board was a Gigabyte P35-DS3R with a 4 gb of Corsair XMS2 RAm and a Q6600. This problem started approximately a month ago to boot. I generally blow out my PC approximately once a month to keep the dust, dirt and general filth down inside. I take it back upstairs, plug all the wires back in, and power up but nothing. So I say "huh" and wonder what the problem is.
So I take the rig back downstairs and start pulling apart. I noticed a slight electronic order but nothing to really be alarmed about. However near the memory and processor the voltage controllers (as it turned out Google is awesome ) reside. The odor is a bit more stronger. Nothing thinking of it CPU and RAM, I figured the board cooked.
Well I order up one an ASUS P5Q Pro from the egg. Still the same result. From looking around on the net, I am thinking I got a DOA board which happens from time to time. Now this is kind of an important part of the story. As luck would have it, Micro Center is only 45 minutes away (38 minutes if I really step on it) for me. I drove down to pick an E8400 since they were cheap. Still nothing. Then I thought it was the video card. Back to micro center. Still nothing. Now thinking PSU, once again back to MC. Still the same result. (I got a nice Corsair HX520 Mod PSU ) When it was all said and done, I said to myself back to Newegg with a DOA. I will pay a slightly higher price from a board from a local place if there is a DOA issue.
So I go to a local shop and buy a P5Q. Once again the same result. I said screw I am going to RMA the memory thinking it crapped out. It took about 2 1/2 weeks but I got new memory from Corsair. (It came last night.) Once again, nothing. The only thing left was the CPU. I took out the Q6600 and put in the E8400. Bingo fires right up.
Now the second fun part comes. Believe it or not, the transition from P35 to P45 in Vista was not that bad. I remember the days of reformat and reinstall for the MB swap. However, this was not that bad. It took about an hour since I was only missing about a month's worth of updates and downloads.
As for Gigabyte, I have my board with them right now. I don't know when I will see it. I just know it cost me a bunch of money I really didn't have in the first place. It turned out it fried my cpu and RAM but left the video alone. I spent 400 in total to fix my PC. If GB turns around and claims I modded the board or not "their fault" I think will lose it on them
Big thanks to the guys who are out there and do hard mods to boards. They helped me out figuring out the problem. No I didn't do any thing of a mod to my GB board but Goggle has a ton of info. In short, it looked like a voltage controller fried and took out the CPu and RAM in one shot. Thanks GB! I think I will stick with Asus from now on and I am not saying they are without problems but I never lost a CPU and memory with them