Long dark tunnel.
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alienware
Banned
Can't sleep so I decided to get some more done.
Fitted the molex modular cable. Wired up the DVD, LEDs fans and so on.
Fitted the ram and test fired the PC with no CPU in. Fired up like a champ.
Now I know I picked the right ram for this board...
You may have noticed I mentioned getting a white LED fan for £4.99? Placement is key when you're on a budget. Project has now been renamed 'Brittania' I shall leave you to figure it out
Front. Logo switch is now wired up so I can switch off the logo.
And after some subtle mods the fan is now in and running.
Fitted the molex modular cable. Wired up the DVD, LEDs fans and so on.
Fitted the ram and test fired the PC with no CPU in. Fired up like a champ.
Now I know I picked the right ram for this board...
You may have noticed I mentioned getting a white LED fan for £4.99? Placement is key when you're on a budget. Project has now been renamed 'Brittania' I shall leave you to figure it out
Front. Logo switch is now wired up so I can switch off the logo.
And after some subtle mods the fan is now in and running.
alienware
Banned
It's a shame I never notice subtle things..
What I should have done was download the manual at first and then I would have saved myself some aggro.
Third or fourth page of the manual...
"Fox Update (tm) comes with the motherboard on the utilities CD. It allows you to connect to the Quantum website and automatically download and install the latest bios. It also allows you to load a bios and install that one within Windows"
Well, that'll teach me. I'm now an IDE user
Mind you reading the manual has thrown up some awesome sauce. It's dual bios for a start. You have have them auto detect or force certain ones to come on. Sooo. What I'll do is put on this beta bios that allows the 4 series to work and then use the other one for trying out future bioses
What I should have done was download the manual at first and then I would have saved myself some aggro.
Third or fourth page of the manual...
"Fox Update (tm) comes with the motherboard on the utilities CD. It allows you to connect to the Quantum website and automatically download and install the latest bios. It also allows you to load a bios and install that one within Windows"
Well, that'll teach me. I'm now an IDE user
Mind you reading the manual has thrown up some awesome sauce. It's dual bios for a start. You have have them auto detect or force certain ones to come on. Sooo. What I'll do is put on this beta bios that allows the 4 series to work and then use the other one for trying out future bioses
alienware
Banned
Well, another day passes and I get to watch the postman walk past without an I7. I'm furious now. I paid extra because Amazon claimed -
ORDER THIS PRODUCT NOW TO RECIEVE IT BEFORE THE 11TH DECEMBER !
It's now the 13th.
What's pissing me off is I could have ordered it from Aria, OCUK, anywhere else and got courier 24 hour.
Any way the fan came.
ORDER THIS PRODUCT NOW TO RECIEVE IT BEFORE THE 11TH DECEMBER !
It's now the 13th.
What's pissing me off is I could have ordered it from Aria, OCUK, anywhere else and got courier 24 hour.
Any way the fan came.
alienware
Banned
Amazon decided to use the Royal Mail at this time of the year. Hence I'm currently on the phone to them after a 43 minute hold and still no CS rep has answered.
They're telling me to wait until the 20th. Sure, like I'm going to wait until then, spend an hour on the phone if I can even get through and then hope that there's any chance of it arriving before Christmas or even January.
Mongs.
They're telling me to wait until the 20th. Sure, like I'm going to wait until then, spend an hour on the phone if I can even get through and then hope that there's any chance of it arriving before Christmas or even January.
Mongs.
Im quite puzzled but all the different colours?
alienware
Banned
Well price really. Blue CM fan was £8 and any other fan was at least £20 (Enermax are £25). PSU in red was as it is really.. White one was £4.99 del. Red white and blue - Britannia
Just got done waiting on the phone for 59 mins to Amamong (tm) and no answer. Called back their 0800 number and am now waiting more. Couldn't even get through to that earlier and had to call an 0207. I only get an hour free then BT start charging you so I had to hang up.
I have a feeling this is going to be a long day.....
OH GOODY !
Got through after 1.5 hours and they're using the "sorry all of our systems are down" excuse.
Just got done waiting on the phone for 59 mins to Amamong (tm) and no answer. Called back their 0800 number and am now waiting more. Couldn't even get through to that earlier and had to call an 0207. I only get an hour free then BT start charging you so I had to hang up.
I have a feeling this is going to be a long day.....
OH GOODY !
Got through after 1.5 hours and they're using the "sorry all of our systems are down" excuse.
alienware
Banned
CPU arrived. Tried to boot from IDE to flash the bios, drive wasn't being detected. Booted into my old windows install (god I love that about 7, try that with feckin Vista) and in it went. Flashed the bios there...
PANIC.
The bios flashed OK. It rebooted with a beep, went into bios, saved, shut down.
Put in the 470. Rebooted checksum error. Into bios, set up what I could, rebooted black screen.
Cleared cmos, repeat above about ten times, started to get scared.
In the end I noticed the ram voltage was 1.7, miles off. The timings were 6 6 6 18 miles off (9 9 9 25 1.5v @ 1600).
Almost started crying from frustration and was just about to PM tom asking if he could ring me to help as I have absolutely no experience with these bioses.. In the end I found all the settings thanks to "overclock recovery" in bios that stopped it black screening and set it all from there. Also detected XMP (enabled) and the ram is 2T, now reporting 800mhz.
Time to begin a SSD secure erase and reinstall
PANIC.
The bios flashed OK. It rebooted with a beep, went into bios, saved, shut down.
Put in the 470. Rebooted checksum error. Into bios, set up what I could, rebooted black screen.
Cleared cmos, repeat above about ten times, started to get scared.
In the end I noticed the ram voltage was 1.7, miles off. The timings were 6 6 6 18 miles off (9 9 9 25 1.5v @ 1600).
Almost started crying from frustration and was just about to PM tom asking if he could ring me to help as I have absolutely no experience with these bioses.. In the end I found all the settings thanks to "overclock recovery" in bios that stopped it black screening and set it all from there. Also detected XMP (enabled) and the ram is 2T, now reporting 800mhz.
Time to begin a SSD secure erase and reinstall
