Re: gigabyte 8s655tx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-08, 21:13

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by Nemo1985

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... I'm out of ideas, what would you do? I would replace the APM3055 just to be sure - hot airgun is useful for it. If there's no change maybe I will try to buy another mainboard. I see, any advice of what buy precisely to replace the apm3055? Because I have no idea... Anyway for what it matters, …

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Re: Which is the best and most memory efficient CD-driver?

Posted on 2021-08-08, 19:42

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by Nemo1985

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The bug was fixed because the author has received an email about it and he has been very nice to fix it in a matter of days. He is looking for a new developer but he may be available to fix other issues, I just sent him an email last time.

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Re: gigabyte 8s655tx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-08, 18:33

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by Nemo1985

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Hi! A hot airgun is useful only for little and middle components but not so big as a chipset's bridge (hub). To solder big BGA chips with the hot airgun it's necessary (at least) to have and use a bottom pre-heater. Its size ideally should be as big as a mainboard itself. Just for example the most …

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Re: Which is the best and most memory efficient CD-driver?

Posted on 2021-08-08, 07:00

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by Nemo1985

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In my experience the most memory efficient CD driver doesn't necessarily means the most compatible. One example is that on Warcraft II (DOS version) when using the CD playback for music and the entire faction soundtrack finishes playing the music will stay silent for the rest of the game session …

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Re: gigabyte 8s655tx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-07, 15:01

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by Nemo1985

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From what I could see it only stucks after I changed the date (day, month and year), I managed other options (in other menus) without issues. I missed your mention about the date settings. It can point to trouble with southbridge itself or its soldering balls (of course :-) ) or maybe with …

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Re: gigabyte 8s655fx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-07, 09:04

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by Nemo1985

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Thank you for the tips. Typo fixed, I checked the voltage it is: v1.883, so I guess it is ok... The board boots less and less, during last try it booted just once and it did after some time it was turned on, I was busy pushing chips and it suddenly started. Anything gets hot, cpu, nb and southbridge …

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Re: gigabyte 8s655tx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-07, 01:19

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by Nemo1985

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I gave a look with a magnifier loupe, everything seems in order, do you have any suggestion what I should watch precisely? The only thing I could notice is a capacitor which is lifted from one side (but still soldered), other than that the board seems in pretty new conditions. The capacitor lifted …

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Re: gigabyte 8s655tx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-06, 20:35

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by Nemo1985

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First of all I wish to thank you all for the educated guess. So we have 2 main suspects: the bios and solder joints. Eeprom damaged: When I tried to flash the bios with the utility provided with the bios I had this error, then I used uniflash and everything went fine, it may help to troubleshoot the …

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Re: gigabyte 8s655tx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-06, 16:32

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by Nemo1985

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Make a long term project. If you solder the second socket it'll work despite not being the dual bios model from the start. I remember reading it just detects two chips and works accordingly because the part of the flashing program is the same. If you'll ever try you'll know. Hope you get it going …

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Re: gigabyte 8s655tx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-06, 14:14

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by Nemo1985

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My model is not dual bios, it is the ultra model that have dual bios and it is also socketed, mine has the pads for soldering on the second bios. I checked on my stash and I haven't any similar bios chip (it is a W49F002U rated for 5 volts for reading and writing). The most similar I have it's a …

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Re: gigabyte 8s655tx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-06, 09:59

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by Nemo1985

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I see, I refkashed the bios, but actually it didn't solve the problem, what I noticed is this: when I try to set the date time the bios hangs, while if I switch any other parameter it works fine. I honestly do not know if a damaged eeprom could give those issues, but I doubt.

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Re: gigabyte 8s655tx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-05, 22:29

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by Nemo1985

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That was my first guess... corrupted bios, but since sometimes it works fine, may I ask why you suggest so?

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gigabyte 8s655fx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-05, 21:52

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by Nemo1985

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So I just received this motherboard sold as non working. When I received it I watched and it seems there are no visible damages, caps are fine, bios is unlucky soldered and after installing memory and cpu other than the debug card it didn't boot... what was weird is that sometimes it got c1 code but …

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Re: Gigabyte GA-8ITXE and rambus noob

Posted on 2021-08-03, 11:57

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by Nemo1985

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So today I got the other 2 rimms modules, now I have 1 gb of ram, the motherboard works like a charme. There were few non updated microcodes, so I updated them manually as I always do. I post them there in case someone may be interested, I also disabled the full screen bios image. That being said, …

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Re: Gigabyte GA-8ITXE and rambus noob

Posted on 2021-08-02, 12:43

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by Nemo1985

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Thank you for the tip, rambus are installed in slot 1 and 2 while crimms are in 3 and 4. Actually the 3 short beep ：basic memory 64K address check error. But i'm going to give a try anyway, I'm going to switch the rambus on slot 3 and crimm on slot 2 Aaaaaaaaaand it boots fine! Thank you very much! …

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Re: video card for athlon 64 build

Posted on 2021-08-02, 10:55

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by Nemo1985

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I don't care to be period correct, I'm looking to be power efficient and retrocompatible, but as SScorpio mentioned the driver overhead could be a problem. Thank you Matth79, for the clarification So I'd say: gtx 750(ti) or 950 if I go with nvidia, while with amd\ati I'd say R7 260x?

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Re: Gigabyte GA-8ITXE and rambus noob

Posted on 2021-08-02, 10:48

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by Nemo1985

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So I installed 2 rambus modules and 2 crimms, when I boot the motherboard it gives me 3 short beeps. I fear it is dead, I had some 775 motherboards that were doing the same despite the installed ram was working :\ The chipset gets warm, while the memory keeps being cold

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Re: video card for athlon 64 build

Posted on 2021-08-01, 21:15

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by Nemo1985

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Sorry for the bump, so the Nvidia series 9 wasn't a viable option, since it lacks the windows xp drivers. I still didn't find the right card for this system (in the meantime the price of video cards went insane), I would go for a 750 ti, what about the ati\amd? I still would like to get something …

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Re: Another Radeon 9800 pro with artifacts

Posted on 2021-07-23, 18:18

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by Nemo1985

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It's not conductive it's cheap chinese thermal paste (the one that they give you with the cpus when you buy from online websites). I do not use expensive paste before testing the stuff.

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Re: Another Radeon 9800 pro with artifacts

Posted on 2021-07-23, 03:41

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by Nemo1985

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Thank you all for the tips. The artifacts do not change with temperature, nor if I push the memory chips (as much as I can do since there is an heatsink on any of them). Oven time?

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