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    Wink :P System feedback and first impressions

    Thought I would post an update and first impressions of my new Scan 3XS P55 OC Custom series, which arrived yesterday. First of all, the case is huge! I had forgotten how big a full tower case really is! Luckily it still fits under my desk, just

    Booting up for the first time, I got the "Windows 7 did not shut down properly" message. I tried the "start up normally option" but it hung on the animated startup logo. Rebooted, this time I went for the "attempt to repair" option. It prompted me to restore to a previous point, but I declined thinking I didn't want to risk not having drivers which you had installed recently. After several minutes it finished repairing and booted up ok.

    Going into Windows 7, everything looked very pretty compared to XP, and I noticed my test results on the desktop (thank you). However I soon also noticed I had no sound card or wireless card detected, even though I could see you had installed the drivers. A quick call to Scan 3XS support, and they told me to try to re-seat the wireless & sound cards, as this can often be the cause of the Windows 7 boot problem I described too. I was cynical, thinking they looked ok when I unpacked, and it was more likely a Windows 7 driver issue, but I hung up and gave that a try. Wireless was fine, but the sound card made a noticeable click as I pushed it in. Possibly due to the cable routed between it and the mobo?

    Anyway, tada, success! Windows booted with both now detected and working happily. Thought I would give detailed description for anyone else with similar issues.

    Installed Batman Arkham Asylum first, which looks great, maxed out, super smooth. In general everything seems to load incredibly fast! So very happy there.

    Other observations are the CPU fan is spinning quite high on idle, due to the overclock I guess. It's not that loud, but a noticeable hum if you're just browsing the net. Temperatures while idling are between 36-39 deg, which seems good for that overclock? Probably because the fan is spinning that high, that and the Optimus Prime heat sink.

    I saw an Asus one, but is there a guide for the MSI BIOS, for things like reloading the BIOS, and switching to/from non-OC profile?
    Last edited by inter8ection; 24-10-2009 at 01:49 PM.

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    Re: System feedback and first impressions

    Sorry I meant to post this thread in the 3XS Systems Support forum, please could somebody move it when they get a chance, thanks.

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    Re: :P System feedback and first impressions

    Replied to wrong thread I'm sorry!

    Oh and I found your feedback usefull in deciding to go with Scan so thanks for that inter8ection!

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    Re: :P System feedback and first impressions

    Hi inter8ection

    I have updated the Overclock I7 Sticky to Include MSI Overclcock Profiles

    http://forums.hexus.net/scan-3xs-sys...7-systems.html

    Please make sure you load the Overclock Profile and test the system in games
    if in certain games you have issues (World of Warcraft is one that has issues with Overclocked components) Load profile 1 and test.

    The Fans have to run a little faster if the system is overclocked so I recommend if you are using an Overclcock turn your speakers or headphones up

    Regards

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    Re: :P System feedback and first impressions

    How common is the "Windows 7 did not shut down properly" first boot error message on new systems then ? I don't mean just with scan, i mean in general - Is it something that i should expect to see with windows 7 ?

    Anyway cheers for posting the feedback inter8ection.
    You are lucky man, managed to get a 5870.
    Last edited by Dave_07; 25-11-2009 at 01:59 AM.

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    Re: :P System feedback and first impressions

    Not very common at all, in my case it was just a dislodged sound card in transit. Windows 7 recovered gracefully by just disabling it until I re-seated it, then it worked perfectly.

    So if you do have any issues on the initial boot-up, the first thing to do is just re-seat your cards and memory.

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