New build, no boot...

[UpTheToon]

Thanks for the advice.

I had to pick my wife up but tomorrow I will try and re-build out of the case.

I still have a feeling it might be a memory incompatibility problem but I dont know anyone else with any ram I can check... I will be buying some 6400 soon anyway so I might have to get it early and try that.

[Clunk]

Is it just value select ram?

[UpTheToon]

no, its this stuff...

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=291363

I'm pretty confident the memory isn't knackered, the chances of both sticks being broken is fairly low. Plus the guy in the local shop took a stick straight out of a working machine and that didnt work either.

[UpTheToon]

Ok, I am sick of this build...

I took it apart and built it outside of the case with bare essentials... exactly the same. (well, I didnt get the beeps but thats just because the internal speaker wasn't hooked up...)

I have taken it round to another local computer shop so they can have a look. At least they will have parts to swap in in case something has been broken all this time.

I think I will just point my dad to the mesh website when he next needs a new PC

I hope my own build is smoother than this...

Thanks for the help clunk.

[UpTheToon]

I am nearing the end, I can feel it!...

The VGA is dead. I took it to another local PC repair shop and they had another pci-e card to swap in, boots first time.

Contaced scan for the rma, another wait ahead though...

Should have stuck with the first instincts!

[DecomposingStar]

Your PSU has an incompatibility issue with that motherboard. This is perfectly possible, I have had to replace a perfectly working Enermax Galaxy because an Asus Commando refused to play nice with it, yet a Silverstone Zeus psu worked first time.

Does that mean your Commando's whistling was due to a power supply? Well i'll be damned...

Good luck gettting anything out of Scan, if Clunks experience was anything to go by, it's like getting blood out of a stone for the first couple weeks.

I would have guessed the beeps meant dead RAM. But then i've never head of a VGA being DOA.

Good luck!

[UpTheToon]

Scan seem pretty decent, I have a RMA number already and am awaiting confirmation of when the courier will come (or, if its city-link, when they say they will come...)

[DecomposingStar]

That's all well and good, but they'll probably test it on one of their systems and it'll be "fine".

[UpTheToon]

Maybe city-link aren't so bad...

I think the communication between scan and city-link is superior to that of ebuyer and city-link.

Scan were able to give a half-day pick up window which ebuyer cant and (this is the big plus) they actually turned up and collected the thing.

*starts twiddling fingers waiting for a working one to return*

[DecomposingStar]

Maybe city-link aren't so bad...

I think the communication between scan and city-link is superior to that of ebuyer and city-link.

Scan were able to give a half-day pick up window which ebuyer cant and (this is the big plus) they actually turned up and collected the thing.

*starts twiddling fingers waiting for a working one to return*

City-link are brilliant, i've never had a complaint about them and my dad's been using them for 5+ years for his business.

[Clunk]

Does that mean your Commando's whistling was due to a power supply? Nope, that was another issue, where the commando wouldnt post after a restart, a later revision psu sorted that, the whistling, I wasnt able to mend.. Well i'll be damned...

Good luck gettting anything out of Scan, if Clunks experience was anything to go by, it's like getting blood out of a stone for the first couple weeks. They processed a refund yesterday for the 3rd commando, so waiting for 2 refunds for 2 commandos.

I would have guessed the beeps meant dead RAM. But then i've never head of a VGA being DOA.

Good luck!

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[DecomposingStar]

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I see. Well good luck anyway.