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Message 1517593 - Posted: 17 May 2014, 19:30:04 UTC

I must announce the passing of my i7/950 machine at approx. 9:50 this morning after being powered down to replace a fan on the LCS radiator and it couldn't pass the self-test upon be powered up. The board has been giving me problems ever since I brought it back to life after swapping out the 930 CPU with the 950. Being my original i7 board, it has served a long and valued 10 years of life. In lieu of flowers and cards, donations can be sent to cover the cost of its replacement.


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Message 1517926 - Posted: 18 May 2014, 20:32:29 UTC - in response to Message 1517593.  

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Message 1517940 - Posted: 18 May 2014, 21:14:09 UTC - in response to Message 1517593.  

Being my original i7 board, it has served a long and valued 10 years of life.
RIP, this must be a realy amazing type of motherboard, it has timetraveling capabilitys ;-) i7 comes to life ~2008

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Message 1517968 - Posted: 19 May 2014, 0:41:53 UTC - in response to Message 1517940.  

Being my original i7 board, it has served a long and valued 10 years of life.
RIP, this must be a realy amazing type of motherboard, it has timetraveling capabilitys ;-) i7 comes to life ~2008

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The board (Intel DX58S0) originally held my 1st i7 CPU, which was a 930, which I called B-SYS. In February of this year when an identical board for my 950, A-SYS died, I swapped out the 930 for the 950, including the drives and GPU. Last month I replaced the dead machine with an i7/4770K sitting on top of an ASRock Extreme4 board, using the drives and GPU from the 950, which became the new A-SYS. Three weeks ago I installed the drives and GPU of the 930 into the machine with the 950, which became the reconstituted B-SYS and started having memory problems. The bios was reporting 4GB of ram, and Windows was reporting 6GB of ram and only 3GB available for use. After running Memtest for several hours with no errors, and all else failed to resolve the situation I did a complete clean install. After the install bios and windows reported 6GB of ram were available for use. After that I started having problems with not being able to get into the bios. Changed out the cmos battery and everything worked for a couple of days until I powered down the machine to install a fan on the LCS radiator to get it back into a push/pull configuration. Never got the machine to pass self-test after I powered up.


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