"Howard Goldstein" wrote in message
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On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:35:43 GMT, ***** charles wrote:
: "daytripper" wrote in message
: ...
: On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 10:56:32 -0500, "***** charles"
wrote:
:
: Hi all,
:
: I just got a Striker Extreme motherboard and put in it a
: QX6600. The ram I chose is four sticks of OCZ
: 2N1066SR2GK PC2 8500 1G dual channel SLI Ready
: EPP 5-5-5-15. The video card is a PCI-e 8800GTS
: OC2. The PS is an Antec 550W. The problem is that
: after I connected everything, the blue lights around the
: motherboard light up but when I push the little power
: button on the motherboard, nothing happens. The ram
: is rated at 1066 and the motherboard might be defaulting
: to 800MHz. How do I get this thing to fire up? I thought
: that all faster ram also ran at slower speeds. Do I need
: to find some 800 ram to get it to fire and then reset the
: cmos to 1066 shut it down and then put the faster ram in?
: If this is the case, how to 1333 ram sticks work for
: overclockers?
:
: thanks,
: charles....
:
: If you can't even get the power supply to fully turn on, your problem
has
: nothing to do with memory. Either you didn't plug the front panel
wires
: onto
: the mainboard correctly, or you didn't hook up the power supply
correctly,
: or,
: perhaps the supply *is* trying to turn on but the mainboard is
shorting to
: the
: case...
:
: /daytripper
:
: All parts are laying on my table, no case to short to. The
motherboard has
: a
: power button on the left side to push to start the thing so there are
no
: wires
: to connect.

You're missing the switch connection that should be connected to the
motherboard's power switch connection. It's two pins in a header
header that normally attaches to a case switch. ASUS has these neat
multipin white "Q connection" thingies that plug into all of the pins
on their header, you can attach something to that or whatever, you're
going to have to do something with the two motherboard power on switch
pins. Put a jumper on the appropriate pins if that other thing you're
referring to is actually the power switch connection.

The 2 pin power connector to which you refer that is supposed to connect
to the front of the case for the power switch I am shorting with a
screwdriver
or forceps or some other metal object (has always worked in the past). I
finally got a hold of the tech support person where I got the motherboard
and he suggested different ram (known compatible). Unfortunately I don't
have any of that around here, I tried to get him to send me some to try on
a borrowing basis, he couldn't. I looked up the cheapest ram stick micron
sells that is known compatible with this board and it is about $17 for one
256M stick. That would be enough to test but then if that doesn't work
the tech guy said I would have to get a replacement motherboard. Who
would have thought that one of the "best" motherboards ASUS sells
would be bad right out of the box. It turns out that the newer designed
power supply from Antec does not turn on the internal fan until the temps
rise inside it. I also heard that Antec used some really cheap parts in
their
cheaper models that made them unreliable. The one I have is a lot more
expensive so it has the better parts. Well I guess I'll order the test ram
and see what happens. I am afraid that the board is bad and it will take
weeks until my system is actually up and running. This is my first and
probably last attempt at getting a system and overclocking it. Next time
I will buy a set of parts that are known compatible since someone else
has done all the grunt work of testing what works and what doesn't. One
of the things I remember is that the box that the motherboard came in was
not sealed and I thought that was odd. Doesn't ASUS seal with tape all
its' motherboard boxes?

thanks,
charles.....