I built a pc from parts ordered off of newegg. Had a *** experience (not neweggs fault) due to faulty parts and the Intel recall. Here is my story.
Bought the following parts off of newegg:
-Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3-B2 -Intel core i5 2500k sandy bridge
-stock heatsink
-G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
-Asus EAH6870 AMD Radeon HD 6870 1gig PCI Express 2.1 x16 video card
-Crucial RealSSD primary
-Samsung 500gig 7200 storage
-Antec EarthWatts EA650 650W Continuous Power ATX12V Ver.2.2 / EPS12V version 2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC "compatible with Core i7/Core i5" Power Supply
-Antec 300 case
(no optical drive since i plan to later add a blu ray burner...just not in the budget...i know 16 bucks to avoid making usb boot drives but hey im an idiot)
Put the computer together everything went fine. Did get a reboot cycle when i put the computer to sleep. So I removed the cmos battery and that solved the issue. I was running the machine fine but then one day the graphics card started getting terrible flickering, polygon distortion, and artifacts. After two and a half weeks of calling, emailing, and live chat (never is working) I finally got an RMA for the card.
As many of you know Intel has recalled a problem with the sandy bridge chipset. So newegg hooked me up with the advanced RMA for the GA-P67A-UD3-B3 (note not B2). So while that was shipping i knew I had to pull the old heatsink and instead of messing around with the stock one and new thermal paste. I bought a Cool Master Hyper 212 heatsink.
Went to best buy and bought a AMD Radeon 5570(512mb vid card, no power cord needed from psu) for a temp card while the 6870 RMA goes through. (need the comp for work). So I finally got the heatsink, new mobo, and a temp vid card.
Last night I disconnect all cables and disassemble the computer. Remove RAM, 6870 gpu, disconnect psu cables, and sata cables, remove the board, removed old heatsink, cleaned off thermal paste with a very lightly dampened cotton piece (no material was left behind) and place the cpu directly into the new board. I applied the thermal paste to the hyper 212 by filling the grooves and smoothing with a card, then three tiny lines of thermal paste and installed. I then went on connecting the cables and connections.
I installed win 7 64-bit on a 7gig thumb drive...booted to it and first got to 29% of setting up system files (second step). It stopped there and the thumb drive light was glowing brighter, then dimmed...like it was idle. I forced shutdown (boot for one second, shutdown for one, boot for one second, shut down for one, then booted fully this time) then created a gparted usb, formatted the 64 gig ssd, plugged the win7 usb in the back usb port and successfully installed windows. I had created iso images of the vid card and mobo install cds so i installed daemon tools lite, mounted the mobo drives, installed fully, then same with the vid card drivers. Restarted with no problems.
Then, i go to watch the new battlefield 3 trailer and my screen freezes in the middle and the normal sound your speakers make when watching a video and the system freezes. So I force shutdown the PC and I ams tuck in a boot loop now. Power up for one second, down for one, up for one, down for one. No bios, no action on the screen.
This was late last night so I quickly tried removing the cmos battery. I dont know if I exactly did it long enough but it was out for at least 30 seconds.
I read a few things. One major possibility is RAM. The hyper 212 fan is sitting directly ontop of the first ram slot. I cant remove that stick without removing the 212 fan. I think tonight i will try moving the 2 sticks from slots 1/3 to 2/4. I also will remove the cmos battery for a solid 5 minutes. Also double check the vid card.
Anybody else have any other ideas?
Bought the following parts off of newegg:
-Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3-B2 -Intel core i5 2500k sandy bridge
-stock heatsink
-G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
-Asus EAH6870 AMD Radeon HD 6870 1gig PCI Express 2.1 x16 video card
-Crucial RealSSD primary
-Samsung 500gig 7200 storage
-Antec EarthWatts EA650 650W Continuous Power ATX12V Ver.2.2 / EPS12V version 2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC "compatible with Core i7/Core i5" Power Supply
-Antec 300 case
(no optical drive since i plan to later add a blu ray burner...just not in the budget...i know 16 bucks to avoid making usb boot drives but hey im an idiot)
Put the computer together everything went fine. Did get a reboot cycle when i put the computer to sleep. So I removed the cmos battery and that solved the issue. I was running the machine fine but then one day the graphics card started getting terrible flickering, polygon distortion, and artifacts. After two and a half weeks of calling, emailing, and live chat (never is working) I finally got an RMA for the card.
As many of you know Intel has recalled a problem with the sandy bridge chipset. So newegg hooked me up with the advanced RMA for the GA-P67A-UD3-B3 (note not B2). So while that was shipping i knew I had to pull the old heatsink and instead of messing around with the stock one and new thermal paste. I bought a Cool Master Hyper 212 heatsink.
Went to best buy and bought a AMD Radeon 5570(512mb vid card, no power cord needed from psu) for a temp card while the 6870 RMA goes through. (need the comp for work). So I finally got the heatsink, new mobo, and a temp vid card.
Last night I disconnect all cables and disassemble the computer. Remove RAM, 6870 gpu, disconnect psu cables, and sata cables, remove the board, removed old heatsink, cleaned off thermal paste with a very lightly dampened cotton piece (no material was left behind) and place the cpu directly into the new board. I applied the thermal paste to the hyper 212 by filling the grooves and smoothing with a card, then three tiny lines of thermal paste and installed. I then went on connecting the cables and connections.
I installed win 7 64-bit on a 7gig thumb drive...booted to it and first got to 29% of setting up system files (second step). It stopped there and the thumb drive light was glowing brighter, then dimmed...like it was idle. I forced shutdown (boot for one second, shutdown for one, boot for one second, shut down for one, then booted fully this time) then created a gparted usb, formatted the 64 gig ssd, plugged the win7 usb in the back usb port and successfully installed windows. I had created iso images of the vid card and mobo install cds so i installed daemon tools lite, mounted the mobo drives, installed fully, then same with the vid card drivers. Restarted with no problems.
Then, i go to watch the new battlefield 3 trailer and my screen freezes in the middle and the normal sound your speakers make when watching a video and the system freezes. So I force shutdown the PC and I ams tuck in a boot loop now. Power up for one second, down for one, up for one, down for one. No bios, no action on the screen.
This was late last night so I quickly tried removing the cmos battery. I dont know if I exactly did it long enough but it was out for at least 30 seconds.
I read a few things. One major possibility is RAM. The hyper 212 fan is sitting directly ontop of the first ram slot. I cant remove that stick without removing the 212 fan. I think tonight i will try moving the 2 sticks from slots 1/3 to 2/4. I also will remove the cmos battery for a solid 5 minutes. Also double check the vid card.
Anybody else have any other ideas?
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