Recent content by blasimon

Finally. Thank you to all of you who helped with this. This forum has been great! The CPU was the only culprit. Ordered a 2.7Ghz CPU, plugged it in, and everything worked perfectly. Out of the box with Vista Ultimate, this board had HDMI output (sound and video) and played blurays-hddvds...

No worries! It got me convinced. Thanks for helping. I can return the memory anyway :) I followed a couple guides, but those two were so bent that they were very soft and despite by best efforts, one broke. Ohh well. Hopefully that's the only problem!

Ok, I think I found the problem. After trying two different types of memory (which didn't change a thing), I decided to take out the processor. And I find two bent pins: http://www.personal.psu.edu/sxb975/IMG_2792.JPG So this isn't normal correct? If it isn't, what do you think are my...

Resetting the CMOS didn't help. Could it be a problem with the CPU?

I just checked, and it does seem like the heatsink is in place correctly. I took it off and back in, and verified the retention bracket. The heatsink fan still does the same thing.. every second or so I still hear that little skip, like it's going off and right back on.

I took it out of the case, and i still don't get to the bios. For the memory, the precise model of sticks that I bought is written as supported in the manual. It says as a note: supports one pair of modules inserted either in the yellow slots or the black slots as one pair of dual-channel memory...

I'll try that tonight too :)) Thanks

Lol. But I just said I get a similar problem with an ASUS board.

Lol. But I said right after I get a similar problem with an ASUS board. For now, I got my hands on some DDR2 sticks that I'll try using tonight, following Rayjay's recommendation...

Rayjay, that makes a lot of sense but I'm not sure which memory to try next though. I had picked this one because so many people on NewEgg had reported succesfully used it with this board..

Thanks for your advice! I just went back to best buy (the only store available around here), and bought this one: http://www.svc.com/w0141ru.html Now, that skipping noise is a lot more subtle and is coming only from the CPU. The PSU runs smoothly, and so does the system fan.

Hi everybody, I'm trying to assemble a new system, well, and I can't get it to the bios. I'm running out of ideas, so let me walk you through what I've tried. Material: Rosewill case with 400W PSU AMD A64 2.6 CPU 500GB WD HDD MB FOXCONN A7GM-S AM2+ 780G RT 2GB skill RAM The...

I am not going to use a TV tuner card... and thanks for the windows 7 tip! I hadn't thought about it.

Hi everybody! I haven't built a PC in a long time, so advice would be very appreciated. I want to build a HTPC to go with my Samsung sam-hpt5054 50inch Plasma, to play HD content (MKV, blurays, HD DVD) through HDMI connection (sound and video directly to TV). Occasionally, surf the web in the...