Is my IC7 Max3 a defect?

[VincentMalloy]

Hey guys, long time no see. <BR><BR>I have a question. I put together this system the other day, an IC7 Max 3, TwinX 2X 512 pc 4000 Corsair, P4 2.4C, sb audigy 2 platinum. at first I didn't reformat the os, just took out the old stuff and plopped in the new mobo. Worked fine except that IDE 2 on on secondary is not recognizing my CD-ROM drive unless I go into the add new hardware wizard in win xp and scan for new hardware. It finds the drive each time but I am unable to set it to "auto-detect" in device manager. Bios rcognizes it during POST but unless I set it to boot primary device - CD ROM windows will not recognize it.. There is also a contact in DIMM 1 that is flattened across the bottom, such that when I put in a dimm the computer only reads one dimm. so I put dimms in 2 and 4 so I could have dual channel mode still. I also can only overclock the 2.4C I have to 250 fsb without some instability in games... even with agp/pci fixed at 66/33 or whatever its defaults are. I have already sent for an RMA from newegg.com and ordered the board again. <BR><BR>Any answers would be good. And, it's good to be back. Please keep the intel comments to a minimum.. I'll buy a new AMD system when they start getting good also.<BR><BR>-Will.<BR>

[TranceJunkieXL]

<br><br><< <i>I'll buy a new AMD system when they start getting good also. </i> >><br><br><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif" border="0"><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif" border="0"> Blasphemer!!!!!<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">LMAO! Apparently you have not seen any reviews of the Athlon64 or AthlonFX then......<BR>Sorry to hear about the P4 system Will. Hopefully the RMA will fix all this.<BR>On the CDRom, do you have the jumpers set correctly? Cable select? Does it still do this to you when you swap the IDE channel, or the master/slave connector?<BR>If a Dimm contact is flat/partially missing, then RMA is probably your only choice if you ever want to be able to add more RAM in the future (non-dual channel though).

[VincentMalloy]

Heh, well, actually, it's because I have thre hd's and one of them was on the CD-ROM's IDE bus. With this particular mobo its better to not use it because most CD drives will not auto-detect. There is a BIOS update that claims to fix this but It didn't. So, instead of having three 40GB drives, I bought 2 120GB WD Caviar 8mb cache SATA drives and plugged those in today. Transfered stuff I needed and formatted my old drives.. those will go into the two other computers I'm building right now. I got the new mobo anyway because of the DIMM slot that had a bent contact and will be sending the other one back soon. I can run the system at a stable overclock at 3.12Ghz and 1060 FSB with a 1:1 bus : ram. My Radeon 9800 Pro didn't used to like overclocking, but I'm gonna give that a try.<BR><BR>So, new system specs are:<BR><BR>SLK-94U w/ 90mm Vantec tornado<BR>2.4 ghz @ 3.12/1060fsb P4 <BR>IC7-Max 3<BR>2x PC4000 512mb Corsair TwinX<BR>2x 120 GB Western Digital SATA 8mb cache<BR>Radeon 9800 Pro 128<BR>Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum<BR>SONY CD-RW 48x<BR>Win XP pro SP1<BR><BR>EDIT: I'll post pics taken from my new digital camera.<BR><BR><BR>I'm waiting on the AMD mobo's and cpus to mature, right now it seems a little early to buy one. I've got the money for whenver it comes time to buy a new AMD system though. Unless of course Intel suprises us with an AMD killer.<BR><BR>-Will.

[§hinoßi]

whats ur 3dmark2001se scores??