Finally, after 3 mb's, 2 psu's, 2 sets of ram and 2 cpu's - the system is up!
Hi all,
After almost two months of waiting for rma'd replacement parts, my new NLE is finally up and running!
As it turned out, it was the new processor that went bad - all along. But i feel i need to correct some of my incorrect assumptions in my previous posts regarding the problems getting my new system to work.
My original original problems with the P6T - post http://forums.adobe.com/thread/494850?tstart=30 - indicated a bad interrupt controller, unfortunetly, i failed to realize that the hardware diagnosis pointed to the processor. Then i replaced the P6T with two GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5's - post http://forums.adobe.com/thread/504671?tstart=30. So, i spent the next two months suffering through constant power cycling and replacing every part until i was left with the processor as the only part that was not replaced.
While there are users out there that had and are having the same symptoms i had with the ASUS P6T and the GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5, in my case, the actual cause was different and not a problem with the motherboards. I did have a few bad sticks of bad ram that caused the mb to not post as well.
Had i properly deduced that the processor was the problem, as the initial hardware diagnosis indicated, i could of saved two months worth of headaches.
Anyway.... I now have the following stable working system:
processor: i7 920
motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5
ram: 12gb of Crucial DDR3 1333
graphics: GeForce 9500 GT
psu: PCP&C 910 watt
and lots of hard drives.
Nados: Glad you figured it out and got everything running now! Congrats.
Charles and Nados: I you both could run the http://ppbm4.com benchmark and send your results to Bill, it will give an indication of how your system is performing. Interesting would be to see the results of Jim Simon, since he is running with 3 GB of memory on an i7-920 and most here are running with 12 GB, so the differences may be telling what performance gain you can expect from the extra memory. For you Charles, it is interesting to see your current system in comparison to the one Nados now has. It will show you what the new system has in store for you.
I started out with 12 GB so I can't tell what the performance gain is of 12 over 6 GB.
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