timw86

I see, so how did you solve this problem?

Hey guys. So this might be a stupid newbie question. I just set up my system, mobo is a p6t deluxe, installed vista on it. But when I go and shut down the computer, the screen says that windows is shutting down, the screen turns off, but all the fans and the lights are still on in the motherboard. The GPU fan is still spinning, and so is the cpu and the cpu cooler fan. I tried holding the power button for five seconds thing, and nothing happens. When I hit it again, the computer restarts. How can I get the system to actually shut down and the fans to stop spinning? Right now the only way I can turn everything off is by shutting down the power supply. But there's got to be a better way than that right? Does this have anything to do with suspend mode? Any help here would be great. Thanks alot!

o my god... it was the power supply! that is the second power supply and it still didnt work. I used my friend's psu and it booted right up and stayed on while i installed vista, and everything. im never buying corsair again. That was a 1000w psu too. unbelievable...

so going into bios would count as being idle right? I didn't realize 60c was that bad. I thought most cpu shut down at 110c?

using a cooler master v8 cpu cooler, not a stock fan

the first mobo would not post no matter what I did. This is the second mobo. I'm about to give up on asus and just going with the evga

yea, oops, i meant 60c. way too hot?

yea, but the bios wouldn't save. When I do save&exit out of the bios the computer shuts down. Sometimes it shuts down in the bios itself. I'm not sure if its a temp problem as my temps are around 60f when I checked not sure about the power supply. But the only way i know how to test it is with a jumper test with a paper clip. Will try it with a different power supply when i get home. If a psu doesnt work wouldn't it not power up at all? instead of powering up and then crapping out after 3 minutes? Really hoping its NOT the psu as I have already RMA'd a DOA psu and this is the second one.

Hey guys. So after alot of research I FINALLY bought my computer. After weeks of waiting and hours of assembly, I got the thing built, and it simply refuses to work. First, the motherboard would not post, then the power supply went dead, now, after massive RMAing, the computer still won't work. And I am stumped because I have NO idea what is wrong with it. My setup is asus p6t deluxe motherboard i7 920 cpu corsair dominator 6 gb ram evga gtx 285 corsair hx1000w psu western digital caviar black 750 gb hd antec 1200 case and a cooler master v8 cpu cooler When I turn on the computer, everything seems to work fine. But after about 3 minutes, the computer just shuts down on its own. I couldn't even hit the power switch on the motherboard to turn it back on. I have to turn off and turn on the power supply and then hit the power button. Once the system is on again, the same problem occurs. I have tried to remove all but one ram, the same problem happens. Removing all the ram results in no post. Removing gpu results in no post. I've tested the psu and it passed the psu jumper test. I have unplugged the power to the case, removed all unnecessary components, and nothing works. I am just stumped. I have no idea which component is failing, or if they are all failing. It's been two and a half weeks since I got the computer and nothing seems to work. Please, if anyone has any idea what might be the problem, I would really appreciate it. i am just at my wits end right now

Well, to answer the question about how long i've owned it, it was brand new when I started building it. So everything was brand new. I used the corsair 1000w to power it. I've no way to know if the cpu is fried because it is an I7 and the board i got, asus p6t, is the only board that I have that supports it. None of my friends have a x58 board so there is no way to tell. I actually have NO idea what kind of thermal paste it is. It came with my coolermaster v8 cpu cooler. It was a pretty small tube, but there was still ALOT of it... As an side question, if the motherboard DID short, will that affect my GPU, RAM and HD? as those were connected the first time I tried to boot.

So my computer finally arrived. And idiot that I am, when I was assembling it put wayyyy too much thermal paste on the cpu, the entire tube that came with the cooler I believe, which is ALOT. Some of which may have leaked out and splattered on the motherboard itself. I couldn't see anything when I first tried to boot up the system, but the motherboard will not boot. It would start for a millisecond, all the lights would come on and the fans start spinning, and then just shut off. This happens everytime I try to turn it on. So I removed all the components but the motherboard and the power supply, same thing happened. It was at this point that I noticed that there was a small amount of grayish silver stuff on the pins of the cpu socket on the motherboard, and some even on the cpu itself. My only conclusion is that the thermal paste has shorted out the motherboard. But I'm not sure. Supposedly thermal compound ISN'T conductive. I went at the mobo with cotton swabs and 92% alcohol solution, and tried to clean the tiny bits of thermal paste off the mobo, but it still would not boot. Has anyone have this problem happen to them? How damaging is thermal compound to a motherboard and cpu if it gets on it the wrong way?

WOW thanks! Thats a really helpful article. So when you set the BCLK everything changes. I know I can't change the CPU multiplier, but every other multiplier is adjustable? So if I want to achieve a stable overclock, lets say by increasing the BCLK to 160, does that mean I need to reduce the DRAM, UCLK, and QPI multipliers so they remain the same?

Hey guys, I'm so new to the overclocking scene that I don't even know where to start. Just bought a new rig and about to build it. But I figure since I'm getting a whole new computer, might as well try to overclock it to really unlock the potential of it. Being a 3d animator, I have to do alot of CPU intensive rendering, and it would be nice to have an overclocked processor do it super fast. My rig is i920 cpu, antec 1200 case, corsair 1000w psu, western digital 750GB HD, corsair dominator 6gb ram, gtx 285 gpu, asus p6t deluxe motherboard, coolermaster v8 cpu cooler I guess my first question is, what is a good and stable overclock on the i920? I have been reading some guides and it seems that all I have to worry about is the BCLK frequency and the CPU voltage? And what would be a stable number for those? I'm not really trying to hit those crazy 4.0ghz overclocks, just a relatively stable, maybe 3.2-3.5 ghz area. My second question is cooling. I have a coolermaster v8 cpu cooler, is that going to be enough to cool the cpu when I over clock? I'm trying to keep the voltage relatively safe, maybe even not change it if I don't have to. And finally, when you reach a stable overclock, how long can i leave it running? Can I overclock for a bit and then restart the computer and change everything back to normal? I guess these are REALLY newb questions, but I gotta start somewhere. I'm pretty nervous about the whole thing, wondering if the whole cpu+motherboard is going to explode on me when I start tweaking around in the BIOS. So any help would really nice. Thanks!

alright, cool! thanks guys. I will be posting again once my parts arrive and i start overclocking! can't wait. I feel like the gtx 295 will be really bottlenecked by the i7 920 unless I overclock it.

i'll be running it internally, i have another 750 GB running externally for backups, but that doesnt require power from the psu