marvin5881

Just bought a gaming PC with an MSI Z170a, I7-6700 and 2x 8gb Corsair ram. The computer will post and work with the ram in Dimm slots 3 & 4 so I know the ram is working perfectly fine, but if I move the ram to slots 1 and 2 the computer won't post. The Debug LED will just alternate between flashing on the CPU led and ram led. I also have extra ram known good ram that I've tested with and it will not work in slots 1 & 2 either. I've tried pressing down on the power for 30 seconds with power supply turned off and CMOS battery removed to reset the motherboard and no dice. A singe time out of many I've gotten it to boot in slots 2 & 4 but the system was super unstable and if you lightly tapped on the computer case the system would crash. I reseated the CPU cooler and reinstalled the CPU too. I found online a post with somebody with the same exact issue as me: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/2-x-8gb-in-3-4-slots-msi-z170a-sli.2747962/ He eventually wrote: "So come to find out it was the CPU the whole time. I hypothesize that it was the bent processor when I mashed it in the 1151 slot the wrong way, bending 2 corners, causing it to not recognize slots 1 &2. Switched it with a new one and everything is functioning." I just bought this computer yesterday so I don't know what the last owner did nor is he replying to my message. Do you guys think that this is plausible and I should try to test with a new CPU first before the motherboard?

After turning on my PC today, Whatever speakers or headphones are plugged into headphone jacks in my pc, I get this incredibly loud crackling/whining noise. I've tested this with known good headphones and speakers and they all do it. (the speakers/headphones have all been tested to work on other devices). This issue occurs whether I plug my headphones into the my case's front 3.5mm jack and it happens when I'm plugged in directly to the motherboard's 3.5mmjack. I notice that in Windows the computer struggles to detect whenever I plug in my headphones, before it would state 'Headphones - High Definition Audio Device' whenever I'm plugged into one of the 3.5mm jacks and now the headphones option in sound settings is disappears and reappears very erratically and if I adjust the volume, nothing happens and I hear no sound whatsoever out of them except except high pitched buzzing and crackling. I've uninstalled Realtek High Definition Audio drivers and reinstalled the 2.82 version. That allows me to hear audio out of USB audio devices, and my monitors via NVIDIA High Definition Audio perfectly fine but still when plugged into the 3.5mm jacks directly from the motherboard and my PC case I hear nothing but crackling, if I play a YouTube video no audio comes out whatsoever except for the crackling. I completely updated my Windows Updates and I've reset the motherboard to default BIOS settings and I updated to the latest 1.70 BIOS version yet the issue still remains. At this point, I took my hard drive with Windows out of my computer and plugged in a spare and started to install Windows on it. When I booted off the USB flash drive and entered the Windows Installation Utility I heard the crackling and buzzing again leading me to believe that this isn't a software issue. I don't know what else to try, I'm thinking the Realtek ALC1200 Audio chip is dying. ASrock B550 Phantom Gaming 4 Ryzen 3600 RTX 2060 32GB DDR4 3200mhz 1TB Crucial SSD Seasonic FOCUS PLUS 850 Gold

Wow, I thought they only used BNC's for networking. Here are the pictures.

I am retiring my R9 295x2 and will be using a more tame GPU that will not overload the PCI-E connectors. Warranty is expired and I would buy a new PSU if I could afford to. Just looking for tips on soldering on PCI-E connectors/cabling and would greatly appreciate it.

It's a really good PSU, very reliable it's made by Super Flower but PC Power Cooling put their brand on it. The real reason why the cables fried is that I was running my R9 295x2 on it. The R9 295x2 as you guys probably know only has two PCI-E Slots and the GPU pulls 500w, which causes a recipe for eventual disaster I've learned.

So I've bought a soldering iron along with some solder and electrical tape. I also have some generic PCIE cables I bought off ebay. I've cut off the burnt connector and the burnt part of the cabling off of the defective cables and I'm wondering what to do to ensure that the wiring is done properly. The power supply that had the cables burn on me was the PC Power and Cooling 1200w Silencer MKIII.

So we can confirm that the ram does in fact work because it is recognized in the Bios and it is recognized as hardware reserved in windows, it's some sort of incompatibility with the other ram sticks or the motherboard

Hmm this is a really weird issue, it's probably something in the motherboard bios I think. Anyone else have any suggestions

Even after using DDU, the device manager will still display history from a specific GPU, which tells me that something in windows still has parts of the install left over.

In Device Manager if you click on Events, you can see a history of what has been done with a device while it is connected to your computer. I know that if I can get the device manager to show no event history, it would be like the computer has never seen the device before, effectively making the device new to the computer. I have gotten the device manager to erase the event history before but I don't know how to recreate that. Do you guys have any ideas?

I wanted to build a cheap system so I got a HP 586766-002 motherboard (6-dimm). I used an adapter to make sure it would work with my regular ATX psu since the original PSU is proprietary. I got a Intel Xeon W3550 and I also got ddr3 non buffered ecc memory and my video card is the R9 290. On startup, all of the fans start spinning, including the ones on the GPU, but there is no video. The result is no different when switching to a known working gpu. I have tried resetting the CMOS also I have individually tried each stick of ram, as well as known working ram from other machines. I managed to get my hands on a system speaker for the HP Z400 and connected it to the motherboard, no sound came out. Any suggestions?

I tried a GT 240 first, I don't think that's the problem, plus I've seen much more powerful GPUs on this motherboard

I wanted to build a cheap system so I got a HP 586766-002 motherboard (6-dimm). I used an adapter to make sure it would work with my regular ATX psu since the original PSU is proprietary. I got a Intel Xeon W3550 and I also got 10600 non buffered ecc memory and my video card is the R9 290. On startup, all of the fans start spinning, including the ones on the GPU, but there is no video. The result is no different when switching to a known working gpu. I have tried resetting the CMOS also I have individually tried each stick of ram, as well as known working ram from other machines. The motherboard is not seated in the proprietary HP case (it's seated in a regular atx case) so I don't have to beeps or diagnostic lights to go off of. All of the fans spin the same even with no ram sticks in the system. The green power light on the motherboard is also on. Any suggestions?

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I just received a lot of product keys for Windows software (Windows Server, Windows 10, SQL Server 2017) from Microsoft Imagine and was wondering if these keys ever expire, or do they just last forever like regular product keys?