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Nah, you should have gone with liquid cooling. Good idea. That worked so well for the surge suppressor.
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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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I am the Doctor, and THIS... is my SPOON!
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Pioneer PDP-5020FD, Marantz SR6011 Axiom M5HP, VP160HP, QS8 Sony PS4, surround backs -Chris
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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.
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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)
"Those who preach the myths of audio are ignorant of truth."
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Re: PC hardware troubleshooting help needed
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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. 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.
"Those who preach the myths of audio are ignorant of truth."
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