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Re: PC hardware troubleshooting help needed
Ken.C #350920 06/24/11 01:39 AM
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Originally Posted By: Ken.C
Nah, you should have gone with liquid cooling.

Good idea. That worked so well for the surge suppressor. wink


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Re: PC hardware troubleshooting help needed
fredk #351058 06/27/11 03:16 PM
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Through trial and error and error and error, I was able to isolate the errors to one particular stick of RAM. Machine seems to boot and remain stable without it while I have another one on order.

Of course, to do the testing, I had to dismantle the whole freaking thing and replace the Zalman cooler with the stock one. Machine sounds like a B-29 now.

I hate Zalmans.


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Re: PC hardware troubleshooting help needed
tomtuttle #351061 06/27/11 03:45 PM
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Re: PC hardware troubleshooting help needed
Ken.C #351062 06/27/11 03:51 PM
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Re: PC hardware troubleshooting help needed
ClubNeon #351067 06/27/11 05:32 PM
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when i had my pc put together a couple of years back by a tech, he suggested buying a Zalman cooler for the Q6600; i said ok.
a few weeks later i threw the Zalman out and installed a good one; i did not even want to give it to someone else, thinking it would amount to a poison gift.
those Zalman sure look good, but that's not what a cooler is supposed to be about.

Re: PC hardware troubleshooting help needed
tomtuttle #351098 06/28/11 04:06 AM
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Originally Posted By: tomtuttle

The lovely and talented Mrs. Tuttle dumped a glass of water on the surge suppressor for her desktop PC. It stopped working.

I'm so sorry Tom.
I couldn't keep reading any further b/c i was laughing so hard.
That's just awesome.

I had a buddy who once mashed a slice of pumpkin pie into his keyboard as he rushed to the door and it quit working too. I still laugh at that one and he still has the keyboard.
(he couldn't bear to part with it)


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Re: PC hardware troubleshooting help needed
tomtuttle #351101 06/28/11 04:10 AM
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Originally Posted By: tomtuttle
Through trial and error and error and error, I was able to isolate the errors to one particular stick of RAM. Machine seems to boot and remain stable without it while I have another one on order.

Of course, to do the testing, I had to dismantle the whole freaking thing and replace the Zalman cooler with the stock one. Machine sounds like a B-29 now.

I hate Zalmans.

I had a similar problem with RAM a few years back. I was starting to wonder if the motherboard had power regulation issues since it went through 2 sticks of RAM before the 3rd set finally worked as expected. The vendor didn't have any problems replacing the RAM though on the third try i did ask them if this was typical or not.

As for Zalman, i've used some of their vidcard coolers, northbridge/southbridge passive coolers in the past with great success.
Quiet absolutely, but check the online reviews for the ones that are effective coolers.


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