e8400, query

[Hicks12]

any1 chance you guys tested with the intel board now? i really am hopeing you had time today as it like to send this cpu off, replacement and then buy my new heatsink for it.

Thanks

[Hicks12]

guess not?

[wesleyaldred]

Well, sort of, we tried with 2 brand new Intel boards both of which were PUND and we ran out of time, so we will be re-trying tomorrow.

Wesley

[Hicks12]

sorry i dont do many abreviations, what does PUND mean? physicaly uncapable neologicaly death?XD
Thanks for the update though.

[RabidDeathGnome]

What gas mark does it say to run the 45nm chips at?

It says try gas mark 3 but they suffer from temprature problems and should be watched. Best served with an 8800GT

[Bhavv]

It says try gas mark 3 but they suffer from temprature problems and should be watched. Best served with an 8800GT

That sounds tasty! Throw in some G. Skill ram for me please?

*gets knife and fork*

Mmmmmm...

[RabidDeathGnome]

That sounds tasty! Throw in some G. Skill ram for me please?

*gets knife and fork*

Mmmmmm...

In the serving suggestion it shows OCZ silver RAM. Doesn't say any sort of RAM in the recipe though.

On a series note, I need to flash my bios up to F8a from F5 to check if my chip is messed up or the bios are not reading right.

Problem is I don't have anouther 775 chip at hand to update the bios only my E8400 and I can't use @BIOS (windows updater) since it says I don't have the right AWARD or something which is due to my proccessor.

I didn't have a floppy drive so I thought I was FUBARed, but turns out I can Q-FLASH through a USB drive. But the only processor I have is the E8400 and don't want to brick it since I can't find the packaging which I think you need to RMA stuff.

Think it would work to flash through Q-FLASH and a USB drive with the E8400? Anyone done it and can confirm?

[JKL]

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[wesleyaldred]

sorry i dont do many abreviations, what does PUND mean? physicaly uncapable neologicaly death?XD
Thanks for the update though.

PUND = Powers up no display

[Oldjim]

The odds on two boards failing in the same manner must be very long indeed so it would be reasonable to suspect another cause - it wouldn't be a high temperature reading automatically shutting something down now would it

[wesleyaldred]

No we tried single core chips in them as well as standard Dual Core and Quad Cores, non of them work, so even though the odds are against us, it's not another cause, the boards were dead.

[Dreaming]

No we tried single core chips in them as well as standard Dual Core and Quad Cores, non of them work, so even though the odds are against us, it's not another cause, the boards were dead.

I had 3 dead hard drives that all got RMAd and certified faulty, but then I got pissed off so bought a better PSU and since then everything worked fine. My theory is 'dirty' power was causing the hard drives to write bad sectors until it failed not long after installation.

So even if they are dead it could be a duff PSU causing it.

[Hicks12]

any chance you got some new boards to test today?

[Hicks12]

any chance you got around to testing today wesley?

[stroberaver]

Patience is a virtue...

[Hicks12]

true. But they were planning on getting done monday, then wednesdays, just wanted to know if they had time today and if not, next possible time they could do it.....