New Computar

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[Sammus]

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[Saratoga]

[spud]

oh man, besides rotten fish, that is the most dreaded of all smells. I would have thought a 9800GTX + 5 HDDs would be pushing a 550w PSU, maybe that overloaded and juiced something it shouldn't have juiced? But really, I got no idea, I just wanted to post something, so even tho he doesn't come here any more I'll just call jof a cunt.

[spud]

oh blink = 666 posts. You should immediately put on some Iron Maiden and worship satan. Turn of post increments for your account as well, that's what I'll be doing when I hit the almighty number of the beast \m/

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Well, I took the motherboard into the store today, and the technician there got it to post first time. Boy did I look like a fucking idiot...luckily he was nice enough to not charge me anything... so I took it back home, reinstalled the essential parts, and I got it to boot into windows first time. However none of the USB ports or onboard network card work - so I think the burning silicon smell was the chipset that drives those ports being cooked.

My working hypothesis at the moment is that we did a bad wiring job and/or the power supply didn't have enough juice as spud said.

If it was a bad wiring job I can maintain some sort of dignity, because I had a friend helping me with the build, and he wired up all the IO ports the first time around... but in any case, I think I will spring for a new motherboard and power supply to be safe.

[GURU]

doesnt sound very good, the smell of all this burning stuff. the p45 chipsets are a way good cos you can run them in a proper dodgy Xfire mode with 2 x 8x which works reasonably well. pitty no body ever uses it!

One of the latest atomic mags has the new Gigabyte P45 m/bs using twice the thickness of circuitry in them making them super stiff and strong and are Xcelelnet overclockers although they are a little more expensive. around $240. I WANT ONE ! hehe