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Mot according to the WAIK documentation. Which is apparently completely useless.

Yup, always at the root and I tried autounattend.xml Autounattend.xml and AutoUnattend.xml. Needless to say it never worked properly.

It is when I force it (and it works... partially). It isn't loaded automatically. Pretty much as stated in the post. That was fixed by a Hotfix/Vista SP1 (can't find the link right now). Now it should only affect upgrades (not interested in Ultimate, and when there's a new windows I'll do a...

want to install windows 7 with both the ProfilesDirectory and the ProgramData on my D: partition, but I've run into a series of problems: 1. When I run the installer from booting the DVD, the autounattend.xml is ignored (I tried various usb ports for my flash drive) 2. When I run the...

I don't mind the higher idle temps (40° really isn't any problem at all) and I'd much rather have those than more noise, the problem was (which seems to be mostly solved, although still not as good as I'd hope) the high temperatures under load. I mounted the HSF inside the case again, and it...

I finally received my thermal paste & cleaning supplies (along with two S-Flex fans, which although quieter than the lian-li ones have more of annoying high-pitched sound instead of the "rumble" of the lian-li fans...). I removed all the previously applied thermal paste, applied the silver 5...

Yeah, I'm probably going to order some better thermal paste. Anyways, what do you guys think of that Scythe stabilizer? (And maybe also this case fan http://www.alternate.de/html/product/Gehaeuse_Luefter/Enermax/UCMA12_Magma/286155/?baseId=146170 which seems pretty good)

"micro center"? Is that some shop? In any case, it's unlikely we have one around here (germany). Besides, I went to the 2 local computer shops I know, and they both only had the aforementioned spire stuff and I'm pretty sure there are no other computer shops nearby. So, no chance to get any AS5...

You get 40-45° idle (with cpu clocked lower and voltage lowered), 80° at ~50% (at full clock and 1.2V) and your TJmax is reached long before 100% load is reached with water cooling????

I was at two local computer shops today and the only thermal paste i could find was this cheapo Spire Sp-420 stuff rated at <0.06°C-in²/W. Is it even worth trying with that stuff? For comparison: Arctic Silver 5 is rated at <0.0045°C-in²/W. Also, I wasn't able to find any appropriate cleaning...

You sure about that? Most of the guides (at least those i found) to installing these push-pin coolers seem to recommend doing it after mounting the mainboard. Besides my first, failed attempt was "outside the box" and mounted in the case it at least seemed easier (though it didn't do any good...

BTW: about the voltages: in idle my CPU is clocked down to 333x6 and the voltage is lowered at the same time

If it didn't go over 71°C under a 30% load I wouldn't be complaining... I don't mind 40°C at idle but it shouldn't be overheating under load...

I think so too. I have been trying to find an official intel document stating the correct voltage, but was unble to find any... Will do that tomorrow if possible (and if I find a local shop around here that sells thermal paste...)

I believe you read the wrong sig ;-) BUT I actually am running the Q9550 at 1.2V because thats what the VID says (IIRC) and what my mobo automatically set. But again... shouldn't the stock cooler work correctly without undervolting??

Possible. Guess I'll go shopping for thermal paste tomorrow (if I manage to find the time for that...) Shouldn't be too bad, two 120mm case fans (one in the front blowing in past the hard drive cage, one blowing out the back, both running at full speed at the moment) and a 120mm PSU fan...

No, I just removed it (EDIT: the HSF, not the paste) to check if it was making correct contact (which it appeared to be). Going out to buy some thermal paste & thermal paste remover (for the leftovers of the preapplied stuff) was my next thing on the list of things to try. 100% sure? No. But...

Just great, the removing, checking and reinstalling of the HSF made the idle temperature go up a few more degrees... (50° now...)

Took the cooler off and as far as I can tell it was making contact (the preapplied thermal paste which was already on the HSF was spread both on the CPU and the HSF in an approximately disc shaped area in the center). Any other suggestions what could be going on here?

ok i checked the pins as well as i could without removing everything, and two of the pins had somehow loosened themselves. anyways I pushed them all back in, but I didn't really see any change in the temps... if anything they became 2-3 degrees worse

As I mounted the heatsink I looked at the back of the mobo and the pins seemed to have gone in all the way... rechecking now would be a bit difficult... and yeah, i agree these new push-pin heatsinks suck. (esp for larger HSFs)

After initial troubles with my new build (see sig), everything is working fine... but my CPU temps are *way* too high. In idle they are ok (~40-45°C not great, but ok), but when there is any kind of semi-serious load, they rise far too quickly... For example today I backed up some steam local...

Also: found this thread: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1341913 Disabling dynamic energy saver corrects the weird behavior when on (haven't tested sleep mode)...

Nope, the HDD LED behaves normally and the two connectors are pretty far apart, and the name "PWR LED" is highly unlikely to mean HDD LED ;-)

I've been noticing odd power LED behavior on my new build with the GA-EP45-DS3R. (Since the power LED is controlled by the mainboard, this should be the right section, correct?) According to the manual (and usual expectations) it should remain on when the PC is on and blink slowly when it is in...

and again... removed ram, inserted ram, system works... and about the S3 issue:

And back to square one... I was having trouble with windows (and linux) crashing directly after waking up from sleep mode, so I assumed that probably one of the memory sticks still isn't inserted quite correctly... took out stick no.2 (with which I had a little trouble the last time) put it...

You should at least put something nonconductive in between though ;) Oh btw, thanks for all the help. I just put an ubuntu 64 bit live cd into the blu-ray drive and everything seems to be working so far. (I'll install windows as soon as the download completes --- yes, the download is legal! ->...

if i had any bench space :-P

Before going through the trouble of taking everything out of the case, I disconnected the drive that wasn't being detected. Guess what? POST is now much faster (couple of seconds instead of almost a minute) and the system gets past the DMI pool verification (to report that no boot disk was...

1) Something isn't quite right, hardware-wise. -- Any suggestions what it might be? 2) SATA or PATA? What is your SATA Controller set to? Try Native IDE. -- SATA (identical HDD type), AHCI and RAID are already disabled as far as i can tell 3) doh! I spoke too soon -- apparently :p :( 4)...

In that case, yes. Well, as I mentioned the POST screen is now actually reached, but 1) It is stuck there for almost a minute 2) My second HDD is not detected EDIT 1: 3) System does not seem to get past verifying DMI pool data. EDIT 2: and another one: 4) CPU clock multiplier is...

Interesting... after reinserting the ram (again) it actually posted, with sometihing on the display and everything. Now it's at "Verifying DMI Pool Data..." and doesn't seem to do much else.

Did you try it with a single RAM stick? -- No change Do you hear any beep codes with no RAM in the system? -- At first it everything was switched off for a moment, then i got beeping (probably the "continuous long beeps" Do you hear any beep codes with no Vidcard in the system? -- I remain...

Uhh... sorry? Just asking, nothing else. Sorry if you misunderstood it in some way. Is everything setup outside of the case? -- If by everything you mean PSU cable, monitor cable, mouse and keyboard, then yes (also tried it with just the PSU cable & monitor) I'll try these next 3 right...

after a lot of wiggling and more force than i am comfortable with the modular cable for the graphics card snapped in at the psu. didn't change anything though.

sorry for self-quoting... but what sounds like one long beep might of course also be a long one and to very short ones with almost no pause at all in between.

very funny. not.

I wanted to try that, but I am unable to move the graphics card... I pushed away the latch (as mentioned in the manual), but it won't budge. Why did you post a list of the error codes? I've already got that list in my MB manual. But the PC beeps only once so I suppose it's doesn't detect any...

Tried clearing the CMOS: result system takes a while longer up to the "beep". nothing else changes. As far as I can tell it's also only one long beep, not 1 long 2 short for a graphics card problem... Also tried the vga cable+adapter.. no luck, so it's not the cables (the vga cable definitely...