Bonedoc

OOoops... and sorry for the time waste here. I had to RTFM and found that a power supply pin from the PSU had not been PLACED where it should go. Fortunately all seems fine and XP is installed, running great. Sorry for my mistake.

Thanks FOR the extremely fast (and helpful) response. I 'had' decided to go ahead and RTFM and noted that there it was mentioned that a "CPU" power pin should be included with the PSU (Of course the OCZ had '2', marked CPU1 and CPU2 - which for some insane reason thru me)... I decided to plug BOTH INTO the 8 pinout connector and the 24 pin ATX power. VOILA, first time boot, installed XP and good to go (or so it seems)... I do not see a pinout for the PCIe (and there is NOT one on the PNY card itself - which was where I looked initially - I am not sure if the BldIron has a connector for the PCIe power source on the PSU?) - so WE ARE GOOD to GO. Many thanks... Doc [Remember - the sig system is NOT the one I'm currently trying to set up]

Having some first install difficulties with a BldIron P35 and trying to isolate the issue. BldIron-P35 T2RL ; Q6600; Crucial Bllistix 2GB Kit and the GameXStream 700. PNY G8400 display card, PCIe. Initially with the 24 pin ATX power cable "and" the six pin PSIe power pin connected, I could get NO start (no fans, no hdrv spin, no PSU fan spin or jump, and of course no video display). In one of the several efforts to boot the new machine (board out and on cardboard by this time), I DID NOT CONNECT THE 6 PIN power connector, just had the 24 PIN ATX power connected. The FANS, HDrv, CPU fan, PSU fan, etc.. all started up... but alas NO VIDEO display although the fan on the display card was spinning. I tried an old PCI video (removed the PNY) and again no video display at all. What "pin out" on the GameXStream 700 "should" be in the six to eight pin connection on the BldIron P35 board? Or should NOTHING be put there? I'm not getting any display and trying to "eliminate" the "GOOD" stuff before RMAing the potentially bad item(s). Thanks for any help you can provide. Doc:)

Update... OF interest, while the system is not running, I can get the fans to start and the hard drive, etc... "IF" I don't populate the 12V power connection on the Main board. I found this out by accident as I simple plugged in the ATX 24 pin connector and had forgot to plug in the 6 or 8 pin 12V connection. VOILA, CPU cooler, hard drive, PSU fan, basically everything "started up", put NO display output, and I even tried an old PCI video card aside from the PCIE that would not display. So now leaning towards RMAing the Mainboard. Believe the video card is good as I've tried two of them and neither work, figure one would. Strange behaviour.

Bump... Anyone? Figure on RMAing the PSU... the board lights come on but gotta start somewhere. Thanks.

Just rec'd DFI BloodIron P35-T2RL - have Q6600 2.4 - 2GB kit (1GBx2), Ballistix 240-pin DIMM, DDR2 PC2-6400 - using a PSU (OCZ700GXSSli - 700W). Placed DIMMs in Slot 1&3 - CPU is stock w/Intel Cooler, etc.. Fan plugged into Fan1. Video card is NvGeforce (Pny) 8400GS in the sole PCIe slot. Connected 24 Pin Power cable from PSU to board; also the 12V power cable (tried both 8 pin and 4 pin during this issue). Plug PSU into wall, note TWO led (the DRAM Power LED & the POWER LED) ON! Quick 'jumper' of ATX-SW jumpers PRODUCED nothing... quick jump of the RESET produced nothing. Reset CMOS jumper, tried above again, nothing. Board is on cardboard box, ESD pad, etc, etc... removed ONE DIMM, tried AGAIN, nothing. PSU FAN does NOT COME ON (??) - unfortunately I don't have a second such PSU on hand to swap out and try. Hooked up 'start' button wire from 'case' to motherboard, hit 'start' button, nothing. Hooked up the jumper wire from the reset button, tried that, nothing. I may have been lucky these many past years but this is the first time I've had absolutely NOTHING 'turn', 'run', or 'start' (no fans, nothing). And of course no POST, ;^) Kinda hard to say what is bad. PSU? Could be... Mainboard, oh yea... any secrets I'm too old to know? Many thanks for anything you can help with. Doc:confused: PS: This system is NOT the same as my signature.

Follow up to my own question... looks like the board has to be pulled to place the 'new' chipset fan/heatsink - ouch. Might wait on this until (or if) the noise increases)...

Many thanks... RAID0 / SATA0 - you bet. Backup an 'image' to the larger drive each month. Nice for restoring if needed. Say, PSYCLONE - you said, "I've added the Evercool VC-RE to replace the stock nF4 chipset cooler" - does that / did that require you to pull the board? I have really cleared ALL cables and it was a job (all tucked "neatly" and unobtrusivly out of the way) but the air flow is nice. I'd hate to pull the board... I hear the Chipset fan... did you have to pull the board? Thanks.

Decided to call off the effort. Have stabile system at 2450 - Pi and Prime finish well with no hangs or stops. DID decide to set the FAN for CPU to be always on... this seemed to make a difference vs. the "on at a certain temp" (I just lowered the temp to be below the 30deg mark and it is, for the most part, always on). System seems very fast. Did an Office 2003 Suite install in 42 seconds. That is pretty fast and especially as it was custom with more selections made than default install. Several other programs installed remarkably quick. Will see how it works over these next few days. My system is always on, does not get shut off. AMD is the boss now. Thanks.

:confused: See the sig for incidentals... Took the CPU with Zal7700 to 2650 at 1.55v X10(Multiplier) - had the RAM down low so it wasn't effected. Took the DIMMs (2x512 Mushkin RedLine XP4400) to [email protected] (active cooling is not directly on the dImms). At both limits, testing individually, PI 32M finished w/o issue and Prime ran all night. Put the two together and tried 255FSB and the same voltages for each (CPU and DIMM), it hung after 8 hours of prime... PI did finish, that is when I went to Prime. Using ZAL and wondering if there are thoughts about temps (CPU seldom gets above 38 or 39 even after all the testing... idle is 32 or lower)... ambient is not bad in the room. Thoughts about balancing this out? What is GOOD for the X2 3800 Core? Good for the Mushkin Redline? Many thanks for ideas or comments.

F10 ? The default for most boards is DEL. Lots of manufacturers use F2 and some use F10. My DFI Ultra-D requires DEL to enter the standard BIOS setup... F10 gets me into the RAID configuration later, but not thru the BIOS>

CRIPES! Okay, fixed that ISSUE... Here's what I've (ahemmm) learned... 1. If you are going to RAID (in my case the SATA RAPTORS), then "enable" the SATA *RAID* connectors you are using... KEEP the OTHER SATARAID connectors disabled (as RAID connections only - YOU WILL want ALL SATA CONNECTIONS enabled, just NOT all RAID - unless of course you are using all FOUR connectors (or more depending on your board) for RAIDed drives! Once I "disabled' the SATA3 and SATE4 connectors as SATARAID3 and SATARAID4 in the bios, leaving them "straight" old SATA connections, the big WD 400YR, showed UP!... NOW MY last question of the NIGHT, why in thunderation does the DANG drive demand to be knowns as DISK0??? My RAID0 Raptors "where" disk0 in the the 'disk management' console UNTIL Windows found this big drive and now it wants to call it "disk0" --- nonono... I'm going to disconnect it , reboot once into Windows and then shut down and see if I can leave it as "disk1" Updated 11/13 - no go, still insists on being DISK0 - why? Thanks.

Update.. All is well. I do NOT know why, but the latest 6.7 version seemed to have been the cause. I did a 'repair' (NOT from recovery console, pass that up if you have this issue) and the F6 got the orginal (5.1 version I think) nVidia SATARAID drivers. AFter that all went well, install, etc.. BUT I HAD disconnected the 3rd HD in the system (a WD new 400YR SATA drive) and NOW that I've connected it and powered it, the Windows OS will not see it. It does show up in the 'device manager' BUT NOT under disk drives, under the 'nVidia nForce4 ADMA Controller' , under one of the channels as a SATA I drive at 1.5Gs - this is perhaps not really at 'true' SATAII drive, but either way it is NOT showing up... weird. I'm using the same cabling that I had earlier when it did SHOW up and was seen by Windows, but windows would reboot. Kinda leery about 'using a later' driver, but maybe?? Thoughts? Thanks again.

OUCH - install went all the way thru to final 'reboot' - did not (as it did earlier) look for CD and try to boot from it nor did it require the CD to be present. BUT in either 'normal' or 'safe mode' booting, WinXP flash appears (well, in normal it does, the drivers scroll by in safe) and then there is a super fast "BSOD" in the back ground and the machine reboots. All as in sig, I'm thinking that the latest Nvidia RAID drivers are at fault. Will try a rebuild with the ones that came with the MOBO (did go to nVidia and download the nForce4_amd_6.70_winxp2k_ english drivers - just used the SATA RAID ones under IDE directory for F6 on boot... but maybe it was not enough (not running any IDE except BenQ and figured I don't need the nVidia drivers for that, but????) Back to the drawing board.

As we speak - did not connect the 3rd (400YR) SATA drive, kept all SATA active in BIOS, setup RAID in F10 and selected the 'seen' 72GB (dual raptors) - formatting for CD setup of XP Pro w/SP2 streamed... that is one "driver" happy install (saw DELL Perc drivers, the latest types). Normal format of 72GBs appears very fast. More later, 10:40PST - thanks.