Recent content by SLP Firehawk

Removed the PSU cover this morning and found a SATA power connection loose somehow going in the 6 pin on the PSU. Plugged that in and it booted to a new Megatrends screen showing all drives but saying C: was bad. Went through several more boots, plugging unplugging cables and with the "disk...

I unplugged all the SATA drives except C: same error. I removed the LSI SAS card. Same error. It will not detect C: drive or the other drives no matter what I try. And strange thing is whenever I shut the power down on the PSU and unplug it, it always has a strange boot afterwards - it boots...

Hi all. I have ASUS P9X79Pro. It has all Samsung SSD 2.5" drives. C: is connected directly to MB I believe. I have several other SSD drives connected via a LSI SAS card like this...

I prayed and decided to try to boot it again and one monitor worked! Specs said no integrated graphics I thought?! So I was able to check for the update (already updated it said) and install driver, and install bios update from nvidia. It is working now! I don't understand it. I went from no...

Thanks. I firmly seated the GPU in the MB slot and the power cable. My power supply has the special 40 series connector for the GPU and I securely attached it. The GPU has RGB lights which light up so it is getting power but isn't outputting a monitor signal at all apparently. As soon as I...

Thanks but my MB ASUS Prime trx40 -pro has no integrated graphics to switch to. My screens are totally black all the time so I cannot see POST, BIOS anything so I cannot select or change anything. I gave all my RTX 4080 info & serial to ASUS support and they are no help - check cable, unplug...

Thanks but how do you run the update tool if your monitors are blank and you cannot see anything? I installed a new 4080 yesterday and my screens are black (no signal) but the card lights up. The 3060 I removed was working fine. I have ASUS 4080 TUFF and ASUS MB TRX40 Pro. If I were to remove...

The only machines that still have any spinners are my old ones and a win98 P2 gaming that I was trying to convert to SSD after the HDD failed but haven't been able to get it to work and gave up for lack of time. My newest machines have a pair of NVME + several SSDs but now that Samsung has...

I used it a while last night and then shut it down. Today it started up fine. I'm very confused but happy

So i waited a little bit and then hit ctrl alt del and it rebooted straight to windows with no errors or no selections just fine. even my desktop icons are in the right places which I've never seen happen after booting to safe mode ??!!??

After a few more attempts, I put all the cables back as they originally were and rebooted. Sometimes it boots to the select windows startup screen. I selected normal startup and it went to a single screen low res OS. It worked for a little bit while I looked at some settings and then it...

I had a GTX Titan 6GB I suspected was the problem with the graphics suddenly going crazy and then freezing and causing a driver error message (see 1st pic) so I ordered a new exact replacement titan GPU. In the meantime I put the computer through a number of hard reboots via reset button or...

True. either way I am hopefully through with that problem and they will be refunded. You are tremendous help and I am grateful!

Well drat. I'm sorry I wasn't able to do this troubleshooting earlier. The silver ones gave a ton of memtest errors running with the gold ones but perhaps if we went at it backwards with CMOS cleared do the silver first and then add the gold to the silver they might have adjusted...

Thank you again. Darn oh well my return period was almost up so I shipped them this morning else I would have tried this. Question : since the sticks are all identical (same model/specs/timings) why is it that your idea would work? Not doubting the idea - just trying to learn. I realize...