Dual Xeon Voodoo magic is a succes

[Entity_Razer]

HOTDIGGIDY DAM!!!!!!!!!!!!

my DX Voodoo magic worked. a dictionary of cursewords, some eye of newt, a sacrifice of blood and a virgin or 2 but it worked :D

Clients are downloading and comming on line as we speak :D

[Martijn]

HOTDIGGIDY DAM!!!!!!!!!!!!

my DX Voodoo magic worked. a dictionary of cursewords, some eye of newt, a sacrifice of blood and a virgin or 2 but it worked :D

Clients are downloading and comming on line as we speak :D
How many cands/day will it produce? If the DX isn't able to make a little difference with the cows, we need something else :D.

[Entity_Razer]

about 200 daily i think? still need to OC'm back to his old glory though :D

poor fella is only running at 1.8Ghz instead of the usual 2.7 ^^

[[XC] Duc]

How many cands/day will it produce? If the DX isn't able to make a little difference with the cows, we need something else :D.

I think a DX @ 3.2 does about 240 average a day.

[Entity_Razer]

BRING ON THE VIRGINS AGAIN!!!!

I can't get it to boot no more.

I was trying to OC it back to its old glory in steps, i booted up perfectly at 16x 133

to bios, to 140, perfect, 145 perfect, 150, perfect and incremented my way up to 154 and at 154 it doesn't boot no more.

I get like: BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPBIIIPBIIIP

So a looong beep and 2 short ones (dash dot dot)


according to the manual:

2 beeps: parity error (wtf is this?)
3 beeps: mainboard read/write test failed.

But i unplugged EVERYTHING except CPU's and 1stick of ram and still i get beeps so i don't think its the ram, besides the ramstick i'm testing it with is BRAND new.

parity error, whats parity? :s

And can't seem to fix it with:
Reset bios
Set jumped to their default for FSB

[[XC] Duc]

Since you don't have anything connected, it's either the board , ram or cpu's (or a combination of those parts).
No spare parts around to switch them around?
Are you sure the board doesn't have any faulty connections on the back?
That sometimes happens when using the IWT's on this board.

[Entity_Razer]

no i'm not sure but i'll check in the morning. the thing worked like... 20 minutes ago, i turned it off already for the evenign but realised i needed to get back on for a sec and i get this :s so think a short perhaps.

Ram is 100% ok CPU's as well normally since they have been crunching D2OL for 4 instances 100% for the entire time i posted this message till the last oneµ

So CPU's are stable to.

I logged in and oc'd 'm a bit and bam nothing no more :s

lets hope its just a short and i can fix it without costs or a new mobo because i'm honestly starting to dread this thing's power to screw my mind over :)

[Entity_Razer]

Quick question for tomorrow, i don't have any nylon washers or electrical tape to use to isolate the lot but could i use some nail polish?

I'm at my dorm with not a DIY shop in sight nor a PC shop to get a new tube of AS5, so the AS5 on it now will have to do if i breack the rig down tomorrow, and since i don'thave nylon washers....

would nail polish do? I can get that of off the female dormies here :D

[Entity_Razer]

rejoice my bretheren for at long last this thing is FINISHED.

this morgning i turn on the power and BAM it works :s

Got me baffled :s

[SoF]

lol sometimes hardware can really go nuts :rofl:

imagine me jumping around screaming "DX FTW! WOOOOT" over here :D

[[XC] Duc]

Would you believe I had the same thing happening this afternoon with an Asus A7N8X board?

Installed the OS, everything works fine, I have to restart after a driver install... board doesn't boot :eek:
Even had the same beep you did: long one followed directly by two very short ones.
I believe it's the board causing the problems, I completely unhooked the HD and DVD, reattached them and I could boot up right away :rolleyes:
Guess it's an Asus glitch or something...;)

Btw: points will be a bit lower today, I had to shut down the FX60 while working on a friends rig (the A7N8X in question)

[LordofDoom]

Yeah, my A7N8X-E just died yesterday too :)

[Entity_Razer]

Asus, NEVER AGAIN

Next time it's a nice board like a tyan or something, they cost more but are defenitly worth it from what i hear :s

I lovingly baptised this rig "dreadnought" since i dreaded it with all the errors, plus it does kinda sound cool :D

everyone on the LAN going 'wtf is dreadnought? :D

[KaptainBlaZzed]

you need to check and see if the backpaltes or the cpu retention mechenism are shorting out the mobo. it is a knowen issue with the PC-DL's.

I had this problem on my first one, ever since then i put in paper spaces and have not had a problem since.

good luck with the mobo, asus makes a good product. My pc-dl's are rock solid and run like champs.