Upgrade Time

[VH-CC1]

took new cpu in today, the reply "gimme a couple of days" will be standing out the shop at 0900 wednesday morn

[VH-CC1]

still waiting, BUT got one of the three 22" LCD's today

[VH-CC1]

took new cpu in on the 23rd. now the 31. rung today and got told that its "keeps pulsing when started.. starts no beep and shuts down." what a fluncking JOKE!

nearly one month of being frigged around.

[kimz28]

Sounds like a dead motherboard, had the same thing happen to me just last week, replaced motherboard, and she purrs....sweet as...

[VH-CC1]

had a look round & this caught my eye.


(image from asus site)

P5K Deluxe/WiFi-AP

PRODUCT DETAILS

Description ASUS Super Memspeed Technology Enhances Memory Speed
up to 75%
- Intel® P35 chipset
- Intel® Core 2 Quad / Core 2 Extreme / Core 2 Duo
- Heat Pipe & Stack Cool 2
6*SATA/2*SATA on the Go/ 1394
- WiFi-AP
- All High-quality Conductive Polymer Capacitors

CPU LGA775 socket for Intel® Core 2 Quad / Core 2 Extreme
Core 2 Duo / Pentium® Extreme / Pentium® D /
Pentium® 4 Processors
Compatible with Intel® 05B/05A/06 processors
Support Intel® next generation 45nm multi-core CPU
*This motherboard supports FSB 1333/1066/800

Chipset Intel® P35 / ICH9R with Intel® Fast Memory Access Technology

Front Side Bus 1333 / 1066 / 800 MHz

Memory 4 x DIMM, max. 8GB, DDR2 1066*/800 / 667 MHz, non-ECC
un-buffered memory
Dual channel memory architecture
*The chipset officially supports the memory frequency up to
DDR2 800MHz. Tuned by ASUS Super Memspeed Technology, this
motherboard natively supports up to DDR2 1066MHz

Expansion Slots 2 x PCI-E x16 (blue @ x16 mode, black @ x4 or x1 mode)
supports CrossFire Technology
2 x PCI-E x1
3 x PCI

Storage Southbridge
- 6 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s ports
- Supports RAID 0 and 1
JMicron® JMB363 PATA and SATA controller
- 1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 for up to 2 PATA devices
- 2 x External SATA 3.0 Gb/s port (SATA On-the-Go)
- Supports SATA RAID 0,1 and JBOD

LAN Dual Gigabit LAN controllers, featuring AI NET2
Marvell88E8056® PCI-E Gigabit LAN controllers
RealtekRTL8110SC® PCI Gigabit LAN controller

Wireless LAN ASUS WiFi-AP Solo
54 Mbps IEEE 802.11g and backwards compatible with
11 Mbps IEEE 802.11b
- Software Access Point mode
- Station mode : Infrastruceure mode and Ad-Hoc mode

Audio ADI® AD1988B 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC
- Coaxial / Optical S/PDIF out ports at back I/O
- ASUS Noise Filter

IEEE 1394 Agere® FW322 1394a controller supports 2 x IEEE 1394a ports
(one at midboard; one at back panel)

USB 10 x USB 2.0 ports
(4 ports at mid-board, 6ports at back panel)

ASUS AI Lifestyle Features ASUS Quiet Thermal Solution:
- ASUS AI Gear2
- ASUS AI Nap
- ASUS 8-Phase Power Design
- ASUS Fanless Design: Heat-pipe solution
- ASUS Fanless Design: Stack Cool 2
- ASUS Q-Fan 2
ASUS Crystal Sound:
- ASUS Noise Filter
ASUS EZ DIY:
- ASUS Q-Connector
- ASUS O.C. Profile
- ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3
- ASUS EZ Flash 2
- ASUS AI Slot Detector
ASUS WiFi@Home
- ASUS WiFi-AP Solo

Other Features ASUS MyLogo 3
Multi-language BIOS

Overclocking Features Intelligent overclocking tools:
- AI NOS (Non-delay Overclocking System)
- ASUS AI Booster utility
Precision Tweaker:
- vCore: Adjustable CPU voltage at 0.0125V increment
- vDIMM: 16-step DRAM voltage control
- vChipset: 4-step Chipset voltage control
SFS (Stepless Frequency Selection)
- FSB tuning from 200MHz up to 800MHz at 1MHz increment
- Memory tuning from 667MHz up to 1333MHz for DDR2
- PCI Express frequency tuning from 100MHz up to150MHz
Overclocking Protection:
- ASUS C.P.R.(CPU Parameter Recall)

Back Panel I/O Ports 1 x PS/2 Keyboard
1 x S/PDIF Out (Coaxial + Optical)
2 x External SATA
1 x IEEE1394a
2 x RJ45 port
6 x USB 2.0/1.1
1 x WiFi-AP Solo antenna jack
8-channel Audio I/O

Internal I/O Connectors 2 x USB connectors support additional 4 USB ports
1 x Floppy disk drive connector
1 x IDE connector
1 x COM connector
6 x SATA connectors
1 x CPU Fan connector
4 x Chassis Fan connector
1 x Power Fan connector
1 x IEEE1394a connector
Front panel audio connector
1 x S/PDIF Out Header
Chassis Intrusion connector
CD audio in
24-pin ATX Power connector
2 x 4-pin ATX 12V Power connector
System Panel(Q-Connector)

BIOS 16 Mb Flash ROM, AMI BIOS, PnP, DMI2.0, WfM2.0, SM BIOS 2.3,
ACPI 2.0a, Multi-language BIOS, ASUS EZ Flash 2
ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3

Manageability WfM 2.0, DMI 2.0, WOL by PME, WOR by PME, PXE

Accessories UltraDMA 133/100/66 cable
FDD cable
4 x Serial ATA cables
1 x 2-port Serial ATA power cable
I/O Shield / Users Manual
ASUS WiFi-AP Solo manual
3 in 1 Q-connector
1 x 2-port USB2.0 / 1-port IEEE1394 module

Support CD Drivers
ASUS PC Probe II
ASUS Update
ASUS AI Suite
ASUS WiFi-AP Solo Wizard
Anti-virus software (OEM version)
Image-Editing Suite

Form Factor ATX Form Factor, 12"x 9.6" (30.5cm x 24.4cm)

[benwynn]

thats what I have Craig!

[VH-CC1]

lol, whats ur specs?

[VH-CC1]

i think this puter building has turnt into a soapie tv show :|

Puter Shop rang yesterday to say that the CPU wasnt compatiable with the motherboard.. Hmmm. So they said we'll try some stuff and see if ur cpu will go in it.. Will still get the P5K

[VH-CC1]

2 months later minus around $800 still nothing.

[creator2003]

Yeah i cant belive this shop of yours has taken so long to work this out ,man they seem backward in everyway ,,"yeah haaaa cowboys let go round up some more suckers"

[VH-CC1]

lol, had a few probs along the way, but still its sh!t

[HardCorePawn]

This is why I DIY whenever possible...

if you've never done it before, try buying an old (working) second hand comp for like $50-100 and practice pulling it completely to bits and putting it back together...

its really not that difficult... I learnt how to assemble from scratch in about 15 minutes when I got my first job at a computer shop

The hardest part is usually finding the right screws for mounting the motherboard, drives etc... coz the mobo manufacturers usually put about a thousand of them of various sizes in one bag

[VH-CC1]

LOL, next box WILL be a DIY job.

[Chookie]

Tee hee.

Its FINALLY ready and Craig the poor sod has no idea.

Now, do I tell him or just wait for him to read this?

[VH-CC1]

YEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

its ready.. will be blasting tmw morning

[VH-CC1]

will post a vid of the results of the new box tonight.

[VH-CC1]

hmm, gt the box, but XK aint like it. the waiting game begins AGAIN!

[HardCorePawn]

I assume you mean XP... whats it doing? randomly falling over every X minutes?

If so, you might want to go get MemTest and see if the RAM is faulty...

[VH-CC1]

chuck the cd in, it does the "do u wanna install xp" does all that cr@p, then says its gotta restart. it restarts and nothing.

yeh, xp

[HardCorePawn]

Just to clarify:

1. You boot from CD
2. It does all the 'DOS'-based bluescreen stuff where you select a partition to install to, format it and then it copies the files over
3. Then it restarts <--- Does it crash here???
4. Then it actually gets to the windows-like installation part (asks for CD-key etc)
5. Then it restarts <--- or does it crash here???
6. Boots into Windows

is it dying at step 3 or 5?