disconnect everything, only have the cpu, 1 stick of ram and vid card attached to the computer then power it up (leave your fans powered of course), if it boots, swap the stick of ram, if it still boots after the swap then connect the HD, slowly add the other stuff (sound card, dvd drive) until it boots. i know on my computer it'll take a really long time to boot if i have my 6in1 card reader connected and will refuse to boot if i have my external burner attached (go figure).

edit: oh yea, disconnect all the USB headers, reset switch, speaker, etc.. from the board, all you need to boot is the power switch connected

 

So, I finally got this bish runnin

I paid $20 for a professional to troubleshoot it. It turned out that the heatsink was screwed in too tight and it pushed the proc too far into the socket for it to work in a stable manner. I've never heard of anything like that. So, we had to loosen the mounts, and just barely tighten them fingertight. Needless to say, the mounting of this unit is as flimsy, and I'm not very happy with it.

So far, this setup roxors, except for the heatsink. Thermalright's online instructions were written in jap-arab-span-fren-glish and I could barely understand it. They were too cheap to print out a freakin instruction manual and include it with the heatsink. It was also packaged sloppily. When I tried to peel the protective plastic tabs off of the contact surface, the plastic kept ripping, and when I finally got all of the plastic off, there was still sticky adhesive all over the contact surface. I had to use paint thinner to get every single trace of it off, because alcohol wouldn't dissolve the adhesive.

So yea, all in all, thermalright 947U = teh :ghey:. It's a well designed unit, but in the end, it came up short of being satisfactory.

I have yet to try out the tuner function of the vid card, or the graphics function for that matter. The case is awesome. The screwless design made it easy to assemble. My friends tell me it's on the loud side, but it is quieter than my old comps so I can't complain. Most of the noise is from the cpu fan (vantec tornado) anyways. I haven't tried the nec2500 burner, but I've heard it's good stuff. The wd 200gb ide drive works great so far.

 

never had any problems with amd setups, built one for my friend and booted within minutes...

 

BTW, I cant seem to get my onboard ethernet controller running. Any suggestions?

 

turn it on in the bios? install the drivers?

 

enabled lan in the bios and installed the lan drivers, still doesnt work :/

 

Did you install the chipset drivers off the CD? I believe the driver is in there. Is it showing up in the device manager?

 

yep, installed those:happysad:

 

does lights light up at all?

 

no lights. and i dont know if it's showing up in the device manager. I'll look at it tomorrow