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  4. cant get mic to work

    in Hardware Hell

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    have not tried another mic...this one works on the old system (just tried it)

    I cannot get the mic to work period (not even in the windows "sound recorder")

    I can open up the audio properties with the little speaker in the systray, but cant get mic to work.

    Not sure if this has to do with the new 8.1 HD audio system on this board that I'm not used to compared to the AC'97 software, or its something else (maybe something is checked/unchecked that should/shouldnt be)

    No web cams...

  8. Re: @Falconise - Overclocking advice

    in Hardware Hell

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    No worries, that tells us a lot actually.

    What settings you are on when this happens?

    /edit: sorry, I need specs too!

    Never seen the 2 CPUs (experimental) thing, I may be using an older version of memtest.

    Memtest doesn't stop, even when it errors (fails), it continues to test and error until you press escape to reboot. What is happening is the system is rebooting because it is somehow unstable and doesn't like what memtest is making it do.

    Can you not get back into BIOS setup? If not, try powering the system down with the rocker switch in the back of the PSU. Leave it for a minute then boot up and see if you can get into the BIOS. If not, then you will have to reset the BIOS using the jumper on the mobo -- let me know if you need help with that.

    With regards to the memtest......

    When it first boots up off the cd, the program automatically starts up (default setting, I guess). It fails/stops within seconds of the first test and the system reboots and starts the whole process over again, and again and again...........

    At first I thought I'd installed something wrong or had a bad component somewhere.

  9. IL2 install question

    in Gamers Hell

    Posted

    I am assuming that since this game use to be able to run (hopefully still does) from an external drive or even a usb key for instance, that it has no registry entries and for the sake of speeding things up with my new system that I can just copy my good/working Il2 AAA modded install from one pc to the next (assuming I keep the exact same directory structure)

  10. Re: @Falconise - Overclocking advice

    in Hardware Hell

    Posted

    With regards to the memtest......

    When it first boots up off the cd, the program automatically starts up (default setting, I guess). It fails/stops within seconds of the first test and the system reboots and starts the whole process over again, and again and again...........

    At first I thought I'd installed something wrong or had a bad component somewhere.

  11. Putting all the Parts together

    in Hardware Hell

    Posted

    system up and running.....

    CPU temp holding at 24 degrees

    MB temp at 30 degrees.

    All fan spinning and being monitored.

    With regards to SATA drives:

    In the bios, do I want to set the SATA Configuration to:

    IDE- if to be used as a PATA storage device

    AHCI -not sure what this is...the manual says its allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced SATA features, increasing storage performance by allowing the drive to internally optimize the order of commands

    Raid -NO

    I'm guessing the AHCI option...although the default is IDE.

    (I would have left this as is, but I was snooping while watching the temps and saw this and wondered what it was and what do do with it)

  14. Putting all the Parts together

    in Hardware Hell

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    think I found an answer to my question about the orange and white sata connector on some forum:

    ..........don't put the boot HDD or Optical drive on the funny coloured SATA ports. ASUS have rather wonderfully taken the shiny new ICH10R controller which is SATA only and added a pair of PATA channels with an add-on controller from Promise Corp. If you have anything plugged in to the PATA port, nothing will occur on the orange or white SATA connectors.

    This is also something of a pet hate of mine - the use of the term IDE to describe PATA drives. Both SATA and PATA are IDE disks, it's just the interface on the back that makes them different. I think if people understood that, they might be more awake to realising that plugging something into a PATA port may well knock out a SATA drive and vice versa. Part one of the rant over.

    And then, just make everything even more unclear, ASUS have added a further BIOS level function to the orange and white SATA ports. If you have nothing attached to the PATA connector and two drives attached to the orange and white SATA connectors, Drive XPert will attempt to back up the Orange SATA drive to the white SATA drive all by itself. This is sort of explained on page 3-40 of the manual, but I would have thought that it's only common sense to think 'Why am I using the only two oddly coloured SATA connectors, why don't I try the ones that are all the same colour, and three times as many of them?"

    Anyhoo - plug all your SATA drives into RED ports and I think things will work much better for you. And all ranted out now, thank you!

    My manual is pretty vague about these ports (vague, as far as a newb is concerned anyway)

  15. Putting all the Parts together

    in Hardware Hell

    Posted

    Ok, here is a pic so far..........

    As you can see I've used a zip tie to pull the EPS cable away from the heat sink (however, it still rides up and over the black casing and circuit backing of the vid card.) as it makes its way to the top of the board

    You can also see that I've plugged all 3 of my SATA devices into the red sockets not the orange and the whites?:huh: (which are hidden from view from the cables that I havent tied back yet)

    I dont understand what the exact use of those two yet.

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  16. Putting all the Parts together

    in Hardware Hell

    Posted

    Thats quite a mod from the last pics you posted.....LOL

    11) Get the SATA DVD out, place it beside the mobo box and system, and plug in the sata power to it. Open one sata data cable and plug it into the dvd, and the other end into the white or orange sata connection of the mobo (check the manual for what these are for, one of them should be for single drives or opticals, the other may be for an external sata connection which you do not want to use).

    I have 6 red SATA connectors, one orange and one white.

    The 6 red are:

    ICH10R Sata connectors (7pin SATA1-6 red)

    The other 2 are:

    Silicon Image Sata RAID connectors (7pin SATA_E1[Port0,orange], SATA1_E2[Port1, white]

    you indicated orange for the HDD, but I will not be using a raid.

    I was gonna just use the red ports (#1 for the hdd and #2 for the dvd and #3 for an eSATA connection coming from the front of the case)

    I got the impression that those other 2 were for raid setups and also used by the drive Xpert utility for backups and such, and all data on the drives could be erased if I used either the "EZ backup" utility or the "super speed" setup while connected to those ports.

  17. Putting all the Parts together

    in Hardware Hell

    Posted

    would this work to extend my 8 pin EPS cable from the PSU?

    http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=21040&vpn=8ATX12VP4&manufacture=nGear%20Technologies%20Inc%2E

    The cable from my PSU is actually 2 x 4pin connectors that are bundled together, but the end where the connector is is actually 2 pieces which snap together to make the 8pin connection.

    If this works I'm assuming I'd have to order 2 of them.

    [edit]

    or, just found this:

    http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=41168F

    this may help to keep me from routing the cable the way I have.

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