Broin's RIG

[Broin]

So looks  like the motherboard in my computer is shot.  Or so they say.  Though they also said they had it fixed and it was working...

Originally they told me the first memory slot was bad but it all seemed to be working for them other than that.  They did suggest I get a new board sometime soon but thought it would work till I got a new one.

Brought it home and plugged it in and the thing just cycles on and off.... Called them back and they said looks like the board decided to die sooner rather than later.  

Guess I need to get a new board then.  Any suggestions?  Definatley need one that has 6 mem slots, since I have 6 sticks of 2 gigs of ram each.

This is my current system.

Paladin Dr.I
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Thermaltake V9 Gaming Case (Black)
Intel� Core� i7 950 Processor (4x 3.06GHz/8MB L3 Cache)
Liquid CPU Cooling System [SOCKET-1366] with Enermax Dual Silent High Performance Fan Upgrade (Push-Pull Airflow)
12 GB [2 GB X6] DDR3-1600 Corsair
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 - 2GB
[SLI] MSI X58 PRO-E Motherboard with [Free] Internal USB 3.0 PCI-E 2.0 x1 Expansion Card
Primary HD: 128 GB Kingston SSDNow V Series MLC SSD
Data HD: 1TB SATA-III 64M Cache Single Drive
Blu-Ray Reader/ DVDRW Combo
3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard
Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium + Office Starter 2010 (Includes basic versions of Word and Excel) 64-Bit
Standard Warranty Service Standard 3-Year Limited Warranty + Lifetime Technical Support

[ExternalError]

how long have you had your pc id utilize that warranty if its still valid

[Broin]

So I call IBUYPOWER and they say it sounds like a RAM issue to them.  Motherboard no longer covered.  They suggest I start pulling out sticks and seeing if it boots up as I pull our or replace them.... pulled out three and the thing is working fine now.... I don't get it

[Broin]

Looks like just a bid stick of ram... all fixed

[Anamodiel]

Yay!!

[likwidtek]

This is the universe's way of telling you to buy a whole new system.