"ASUS P5Q Deluxe discussion".

[wongnog]

Oh mother fracker. I think my P5Q-E is fried! I took it out to see about swapping the bios chips, but then noticed the EATX12V connector was burnt BLACK in places. I have an OCZ GameXstream 600W, they come with a 1 x 4+4-pin CPU connector, but I had only plugged 1 of the 4 pins in (I left the black caps on one half of the EATX12V connector). I really don't know if that was a mistake but honestly I was confused by the motherboard and my psu manual in this regard. Here is a picture of the damage:

[Seanie's Show]

Oh mother fracker. I think my P5Q-E is fried! I took it out to see about swapping the bios chips, but then noticed the EATX12V connector was burnt BLACK in places. I have an OCZ GameXstream 600W, they come with a 1 x 4+4-pin CPU connector, but I had only plugged 1 of the 4 pins in (I left the black caps on one half of the EATX12V connector). I really don't know if that was a mistake but honestly I was confused by the motherboard and my psu manual in this regard. Here is a picture of the damage:

OMG, bet your pissed, when you get a replacement board do not plug that PSU back into it, this is the 3rd time I have seen one of those OCZ modular PSU's do this to equiptment, the other two being me, where once one of my hard drives died, as you do I thought it a faulty hard drive, so I RMA'd it, it was a Seagate 7200.10, got my replacement back from seagate, installed and set windows up on it, 2 days later, both hard drives died at exactly the same time, they were not the only things that came out of my machine and got chucked across the room, I now have a coolermaster real power 850w PSU and never had any problems.

The culprit was my OCZ ModXtreme 850w PSU, it was only a few months old before it started killing things in my machine, this was about 6 months ago.

[xTKxhom3r]

dang thanks for the info bro now im never going to buy a ocz powersupply lol but anyways what do you guys think about this?

i have ocz ddr2 1200 ram flexII and when i open up memset i get this (notice the memory info at the top)


and when i click on the spd it gives me the correct info on my ram


but on cpu-z it doesnt give me anything


what could be the problem? is my memory taking a or is it just not compatible with my board?

[wongnog]

what could be the problem? is my memory taking a or is it just not compatible with my board?

You just need the more recent version of those programs, they are not reading the P45 chipset correctly. I`m using CPU-Z 1.46 right now and it is displaying the correct SPD info. I don`t use memset so can`t help you there.

[wongnog]

OMG, bet your pissed, when you get a replacement board do not plug that PSU back into it, this is the 3rd time I have seen one of those OCZ modular PSU's do this to equiptment, the other two being me, where once one of my hard drives died, as you do I thought it a faulty hard drive, so I RMA'd it, it was a Seagate 7200.10, got my replacement back from seagate, installed and set windows up on it, 2 days later, both hard drives died at exactly the same time, they were not the only things that came out of my machine and got chucked across the room, I now have a coolermaster real power 850w PSU and never had any problems.

The culprit was my OCZ ModXtreme 850w PSU, it was only a few months old before it started killing things in my machine, this was about 6 months ago.

Oh greeaaaat good to hear. OCZ has been great to me for RMAs, especially because I live close to the Canadian head office. I bought the PSU almost two years ago tho so I don't know if it will still be under warranty. Right now the system is booting up fine, instead of plugging the 4-pin burnt connector I am using the other 4-pin connector into the spot originally covered by the black plug. Once I get a new board and PSU I will for sure plug all 8 in. In the meantime I'm dialing down my Q6600 overclock from 8x444 to 9x333!