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wow, was that fun, a 2 week old case, new power supply, new motherboard, new pci-e video card, new processor with stock cooler, new memory, and new round ide cables...
my first build where rmaing would've been an option, and I get everything together, flip the switch and...nothing...
wtf...? I start thinking through what I may have to rma, is it the mobo...? it was an open box purchase...maybe the cpu...? maybe the difficulties getting the heatsink on messed it up...? everything was racing through my mind at once...
then, remembering what a jackass I am, I decide it's gotta be something simple, the mobo power light is on, the power supply worked in another system yeasterday, probably the memory, g-skill was not on the qvl list for the asus p5nsli...
oh wait, maybe instead of just flipping the power switch on the power supply, I might want to turn the power on with the button on the front of the case...
duh...
the build/upgrade went off without a hitch hardware-wise (had to reinstall windows xp though), operator error ended up being the culprit of my anxiety attack, the two pieces I was worried about (the open box asus p5nsli and the non qvl memory) both work fine (so far)...
automatic overclocking in the bios (up to 20%) has me running at 3.36GHZ as we e-speak, I now have one computer overclocked and one underclocked...
only one problem thusfar, PC Wizard has my mobo and processor temps flipped (30* cpu and 45* mobo, this can't be right, can it...?)...
my first build where rmaing would've been an option, and I get everything together, flip the switch and...nothing...
wtf...? I start thinking through what I may have to rma, is it the mobo...? it was an open box purchase...maybe the cpu...? maybe the difficulties getting the heatsink on messed it up...? everything was racing through my mind at once...
then, remembering what a jackass I am, I decide it's gotta be something simple, the mobo power light is on, the power supply worked in another system yeasterday, probably the memory, g-skill was not on the qvl list for the asus p5nsli...
oh wait, maybe instead of just flipping the power switch on the power supply, I might want to turn the power on with the button on the front of the case...
duh...
the build/upgrade went off without a hitch hardware-wise (had to reinstall windows xp though), operator error ended up being the culprit of my anxiety attack, the two pieces I was worried about (the open box asus p5nsli and the non qvl memory) both work fine (so far)...
automatic overclocking in the bios (up to 20%) has me running at 3.36GHZ as we e-speak, I now have one computer overclocked and one underclocked...
only one problem thusfar, PC Wizard has my mobo and processor temps flipped (30* cpu and 45* mobo, this can't be right, can it...?)...