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[Britton30]

I read your article. That's when I started my scheme to try and buy one. I'm having trouble convincing my Wife I really need one. But, that's never stopped me before. She'll get over it.

Same here.."why do you need so many motherboards?"

 

[GeneO]

I should have mine updated sometime this week. I have already gutted the PC, cleaned up th cabling and rerouted for different MB connection points. Will report back, prob on the weekend, once I have it up and going for a few days.

Cheers

Well I have it up and running at 4GHz right now. The memory, even though it is 1600 Mhz C8 vs 1600 MHz C7 on my P55 is quite a bit faster.

I didn't even have to reinstall the OS. I booted up from my drive I had on my P55, removed offending programs (old AI suite etc), installed the correct chipset software, and cleaned up remnants of old devices with the magic of device manager show hidden devices and uninstall. The only repair I have had to do is to rebuild performance counters. Saved a lot of time reinstalling programs and digging up license keys.

I also have my primary monitor on my discrete graphics card and my secondary on the integrated. There is no need for Virtu if you are using two monitors like this.

I will post some pictures when I crack the case open next - still need some SATA cable tidying up.

 

[essenbe]

Good job, GeneO. Congratulations. Mine is in my shopping card. Just waiting for me.

 

[paulpicks21]

As I said in the email Steve, line the cursor up over the 'buy' button, shut your eyes and fire at will

 

[Solarstarshines]

As I said in the email Steve, line the cursor up over the 'buy' button, shut your eyes and fire at will

Fire at will but don't get to Excited and Mis-Fire

 

[paulpicks21]

As I said in the email Steve, line the cursor up over the 'buy' button, shut your eyes and fire at will

Fire at will but don't get to Excited and Mis-Fire

True, he might accidentally order another M4 to add to his collection lol

 

[essenbe]

As I said in the email Steve, line the cursor up over the 'buy' button, shut your eyes and fire at will

Fire at will but don't get to Excited and Mis-Fire

True, he might accidentally order another M4 to add to his collection lol

I am thinking about it, after all, I only have 5 SSDs. Maybe I coud Raid a couple.

 

[GeneO]

Well things are not happy in toyland. I was getting fairly frequent mouse freezes. While I was investigating that late last night I thought I had started loosing my mind. I was hearing faint voices - I had my PC speakers muted in windows. Well it started getting loader. It turns out in windows, anytime I moved the mouse or graphics changed, I was getting weird noses on my speakers. I verified that this only happened with my gts450 and not the iGPU. I doubt it is my grap[hics card, so it may be this board is already needing replaced after a couple of days

 

[essenbe]

Well things are not happy in toyland. I was getting fairly frequent mouse freezes. While I was investigating that late last night I thought I had started loosing my mind. I was hearing faint voices - I had my PC speakers muted in windows. Well it started getting loader. It turns out in windows, anytime I moved the mouse or graphics changed, I was getting weird noses on my speakers. I verified that this only happened with my gts450 and not the iGPU. I doubt it is my grap[hics card, so it may be this board is already needing replaced after a couple of days

Darn Gene, I'm sorry about that. And, it dosen't make me feel very confident. Mine is in the mail. I'm curious if there is a way to disable the on board graphics in bios. wondering if the lucid logic thing may be causing feedback. Just a thought.

 

[GeneO]

yes, you can disable the onboard graphics. Further investigation reveals it does it with either the discrete or onboard graphics. I tried another graphics card I had as well. Same issue. Fresh install of windows in case it was a weird quirk. Same issue. It worked fine when I got it!

Well, I got it through Amazon. No hassle exchange, I get a new board shipped before returning the defective one through UPS dropoff. It should be on its way today.

Wish me luck and I'll wish you luck

 

[Britton30]

I tell eveyone with new build issues, but go and reconnect everything. It could be something isn't fully seated. I have even pulled out the GFX card and RAM and switched slots. I have found I have for gotten to connect something too.

 

[GeneO]

I tell eveyone with new build issues, but go and reconnect everything. It could be something isn't fully seated. I have even pulled out the GFX card and RAM and switched slots. I have found I have for gotten to connect something too.

I did that of course. I also disconnected everything that was not essential to boot to windows and still the problem and only getting worse actually.

 

[essenbe]

Thank you, Gene and I do wish you a lot of luck. That sounds like a real different type problem. I don't recall ever hearing anything like it. I hope the new board works much better, but it's still a pain. I never like building the same computer twice. Best of luck on your new board.

 

[GeneO]

Thanks Steve. You too.
Gene

 

[Britton30]

Best of luck to both of you! Gene, disconnect the speakers to see if the noise stops.





Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

 

[GeneO]

Best of luck to both of you! Gene, disconnect the speakers to see if the noise stops.





Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

Oh my god, it did! Following that lead I disconnected all those noisy fans and it ran real quiet but then all of a sudden it completely stopped working. Any ideas?

You now when I was trying to decide on a replacement MB I read the reviews from the reviewers. Lots of motherboards with good performance reviews by reviewers but lots of these mid tier boards had like 20-30% 1 star reviews on the buyer's review boards like newegg and Amazon and most of those were DOA or failed after two days or failed after a month or two or this major thing didn't work or that didn't. So I wasn't too devastated. Now I might be if the replacement is a dud.

 

[A Guy]

Perhaps a ground issue with the front panel header? A Guy

 

[GeneO]

I am using the same header from my previous board - they are pinned out the same and I didn't change anything just unplugged it from one and into the other - but I checked. It is some fairly loud high frequency noises and chirping - that changes with the graphics. And it was was working fine with no problem for a day and it was getting louder over time so I've shut it down. Thanks though, but it is off and I hope history now.

 

[smarteyeball]

Fingers crossed you get a gem in return.

 

[Dave76]

Well things are not happy in toyland. I was getting fairly frequent mouse freezes. While I was investigating that late last night I thought I had started loosing my mind. I was hearing faint voices - I had my PC speakers muted in windows. Well it started getting loader. It turns out in windows, anytime I moved the mouse or graphics changed, I was getting weird noses on my speakers. I verified that this only happened with my gts450 and not the iGPU. I doubt it is my grap[hics card, so it may be this board is already needing replaced after a couple of days

Just a FYI.

Hope this issue is resolved by now.

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