LA_MERC_Spark
April 21st, 2005, 01:58 PM
well.. my sorry arse excuse for a comp has been giving me problems for a long while. Finally it ate a stick of ram and shortly after let out the fart of death. Well sort of. First I reformated a while back. Didn't seem to help. Then I replaced the PSU about a 2 weeks ago. In the meantime I packed up the RAM and shipped it to corsair. They were kind enough to send me two new sticks. Got sticks in hand and a smile on my face... finally I'll be back to operating status! NEGATIVE! Comp locks up during mem check. Im like wtf mate? So I throw in some other known good ram and bam!! the same result. So i reset cmos settings and guess what? It booted! Until it came to loading windows when everything ground to a hault. rebooted and back to mem check fail. So I take the HDD out and put it in another rig a it boots with no problem. So Im back to where I originally pointed the finger long ago..... mobo. So I've been looking for something to replace the MSI 648 max. I'm down to two choices. Well really I know which one im leaning towards, but I thought I'd invite some opinions so here they are.
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813127152
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131464
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813127152
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131464