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I've got an MSI Z68MA-ED55 that was running some older BIOS, I've been looking at maybe upgrading my I5-2500k to one of the new Ivy Bridge CPUs, in order to do that, a BIOS update was required. Followed the instructions laid out here: Instructions Put the Update on a USB drive, ran it, it...

Man, exact same story. I've been putting money aside for an i7 build, but that deal at frys was too good. They originally gave me the wrong motherboard (1136 socket gigabyte, whoops). When I went back in I happened to wander into the video card department as a guy was pulling a lone XFX5870...

Frys of all places. I went in last week for the i5+gigabyte deal and they had one on the shelf shoved behind some other boxes. Didn't think twice, in the cart it went. Wife wasn't so amused with the extra money spent over getting it online, but I get to play Borderlands with it now!

I just got my XFX 5870 and its so quiet. Amazingly so. Much quieter than the 4870 it replaced.

The Wilsonville OR store still had at least a dozen in stock as of 4pm this afternoon. About to start the win7 install on my new mobo/cpu now.

just called the Wilsonville OR store, they've got them in stock(i5/gigabit board), I'm on my way there from work now.

I've been running Intel quite a while, but after playing with a friend's new phenom II system, I'm thinking it may be time to upgrade. I'm running an e6320(1.86Gzh) at 2.4GHz and 4GB of DDR2 memory. Video is a 1GB 4870, so that should be fine. I'm thinking of the following upgrade to my...

It was an older 400w enermax, probably 4 years old now, I was using an adapter to power the additional 12v input on the motherboard. I tested the PSU in an older box with less draw and it seems ok, tried it again with the q6600 and no go. I'm thinking it just can't keep voltages stable with...

Turned out to be the PSU, tested the rest of the components by themselves, everything was fine, swapped the PSU out and hallelujah, system is ok. Booted right up from the original drives. Weird.

Pretty much the system just stops, screen goes blank. Drives are still spinning, but no activity on the drives or CD. Using a rescue cd (ubcd) I can boot into memtest or memtest86 and the system just reboots the minute the tests start running. Both HDDs are 100% fine when put into...

Hrm, interesting idea. I'll try that, thanks.

You have a shitty video card, that's why.

I have a windows XP cd, and like I said, you see the "windows is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration..." screen, and it instantly locks up. My UBCDW (http://www.ubcd4win.com/) also locks at that same point. I'm going to plug the drive into another system and see if the data...

My new quad box this morning decided to reboot itself when I was doing something trival (changing screen resolution) After the reboot, I was informed that <Root>\system32\ntoskrln.exe was missing or corrupt.... uh oh. I try to reboot to a windows rescue disk, but it hangs immediately...

Turns out the issue was with my PCIE freq, moved it to 105, testing now at 400x7 without a problem.