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Won't fire?
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.... |
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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 |
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"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. There are several connection from the power supply to: 24 pin motherboard 8 pin motherboard 6 pin video card ? pin to sata hard drive 4 pin to dvd player unless there is a cable I missed that should all work. Power supply fan never turns on but motherboard lights are lit. Any other ideas? I don't have a ddr2-800 stick of ram to try. thanks, charles..... |
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"Howard Goldstein" wrote in message
... 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..... |
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On Sep 10, 10:56 am, "***** charles" wrote:
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). Everything you have posted says nothing about RAM. Your help (even from the memory supplier) is vastly limited by information you have provided. Others are suggesting problems directly traceable not to memory. For better answers from people with electronics training (and that probably does not include the memory salesman), then two minutes with numbers from this simple procedure would mean your next reply says everything. No more 'it could be this and could be that' answers. Do the two minute procedure in "When your computer dies without warning....." starting 6 Feb 2007 in the newsgroup alt.windows-xp at: http://tinyurl.com/yvf9vh Then have an answer that says something definitive - no more wild speculation. |
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