My Prelude

[stragi]

I just received an email with my shipping information! I made my own thread so I can update with pics when it arrives.

I placed the order on Feb 14th and there was a slight delay due to the bad shipment of ram, I'm glad it's out the door though! (The wait is killer!) :)

Stats below:

Customizations:
Exterior Automotive Color: Black Aluminum Finish
Power Supply: MAINGEAR 750W Ultra Quiet Power Supply
Motherboard: Asus P5N-E SLI nForce 650i SLI
Processor: E6600 Core 2 $165.00
CPU Cooling: Zalman CNSP8000 Ultra Quiet Heatpipe Cooler $65.00
Memory: 2GB Corsair XMS2 PC2 6400 $229.75
Hard Drive One: Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache - SATA II $35.36
Optical Drive One: 20X Dual Layer DVD±RW Drive w/ LightScribe Technology - black $30.75
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX 768MB PCIe $675.75
Sound Card: Onboard 8-channel High Definition Audio
Network Card: Dual Gigabit LAN
Security Software: FREE! eTrust™ EZ Antivirus
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition $16.81
Warranty: 1 Year Maingear Warranty


The ram was downgraded to pc5300 as the 6400 was faulty.

I also just received my 22 inch widescreen to go with this bad boy, w00p.

edit: tracking updated, estimated arrival date is the 16th.

edit2: ETA 17th now

[theDreamer]

Looks good, can not wait to see pictures and a review of what you think.

[XBarbarian]

Hell yea! Grats m8! You'll be stoked, Im sure of it!

[stragi]

I received my monitor last night, one dead pixel :(

It's pretty huge and hard to get accustomed to.

Does anyone know of any way to try to fix dead pixels on LCD monitors? I've seen people reference programs and such that try to fix crap like that but I have no idea what they'd be called or where to even start looking :o

[theDreamer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_pixel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_pixel

[stragi]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_pixel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_pixel

good info! looks like I have a stuck pixel, I'll try some of those fixes tonight :)

[stragi]

Mar 17, 2007 6:19 AM

On FedEx vehicle for delivery

PHOENIX, AZ



Come soon Mr. Fedex :o

[stragi]

Posting from my new pc!

[stragi]

So I'm getting everything setup before I post pics, I just tried to play the might and magic game that came included and about 10 minutes in the machine blue screened and rebooted, I think it's a heat issue.. my 8800 is idling at 67C and after the bluescreen right when I got back into windows it was 73C. Is that normal?

[stragi]

I ended up speaking with Giovanni earlier this afternoon as I was unable to access my bios and we were able to resolve that by tripping the jumper.

I am having problems so far in any game I've tried to play (BF2, the Might and Magic game included) the computer keeps blue screening and rebooting. I reinstalled the newest Forceware drivers and that didn't fix it. When the PC rebooted after I reinstalled the forceware drivers the PC also blue screened on the reboot. This really sucks :(


Anyhow, here are the links to the pics:

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t47/stragi/mg1.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t47/stragi/mg2.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t47/stragi/mg3.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t47/stragi/mg4.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t47/stragi/mg5.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t47/stragi/mg6.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t47/stragi/mg7.jpg

[RottynDawg]

Sorry to hear about the blue screens...awesome pics! My 8800GTS is idling at 55C as we speak if that helps.

[stragi]

I don't know if it's a heat issue or a driver issue...
Stop 0x0000000A or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL is the bsod error but it doesn't seem to specify the piece of hardware or software giving me the issue

[RottynDawg]

You've probably seen these articles already but just in case I thought I would post them. The mention of virus software caught my eye; might be a good thing to at least try...uninstall any antivirus software you have.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/183169
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314063

[stragi]

I haven't installed any yet :/
Same BSOD with World of Warcraft also.

[theDreamer]

System (visually) looks good.
Also, MG nice background provided. :homer:

[stragi]

The worst part is I'm going to have to wait until saturday to call support because of the 3 hour time difference and my terrible 12-14 hour work days. :cry:

That is unless I can get this resolved over the support forum or email.