http://www.evga.com/forums/(c) EVGA Forums30Good catch , with the cmos. After rereading most of the posts here I noticed I asked op to "write zeros" to thier drive .....not something that is done on a sdd The main reason I stick with EVGA are these forums .The info andhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244984Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:05:05 GMTcyberT00th hay dude you certainly havent stepped on any toe's, and it is a good point none of us asked the O.P to clear the cmos and the funny thing is its normally thehttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244944Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:10:32 GMTI would submit a ticket or whatever it is through the website. They're probably not going to openly come out to the message boards and say sure we'll replace it out of warranty. http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244802Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:31:11 GMTIf you do have to get a replacement MB, not through an RMA, and you want a780i, TigerDirect has an Asus P5n-t new for $130. You could also step up to a 790i, but all I've seen are recertified. But the 790i would require you to purchasehttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244771Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:08:30 GMT OK Guys! I'm not gone, I just live across the ocean I guess ;-) In the Netherlands so a little time difference. I made another picture (thttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244687Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:58:07 GMTI have not - but I shall!http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244659Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:36:59 GMTI have the same problem it likes to freeze up mainly during Guild Wars, music, and cafe world all at the same time lol. Only way to get out of it is restarting the pc. Then it usually makes it to the windows logo screen after that and just sits there. Afhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244592Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:56:14 GMTFor VistaHead: I'm likely way outta my league here, and I know the OP also has a significant rating, so I'm basing this on the possibility that a "little" thing might have been overlooked. I had a "similar" problem (in that I had an out-of-the-bluhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244526Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:25:57 GMTI'm after the CPU water block only at this point thankshttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244376Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:03:45 GMTHave you tried using the drive in a different SATA port?http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244365Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:59:54 GMT790i waterblock for the CPU or just the entire board? because I used to own the 790i FTW version and I used a Swiftech GTZ no problems :Phttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244354Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:56:47 GMTThanks for the help, will look into buying one of these blocks very soonhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244351Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:55:52 GMTHeat Killer v3.0 http://www.performance-pc...&products_id=25215http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244334Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:51:08 GMTOccasionally, I crash, and then have a hard time restarting. The POST seems to stop as the computer looks for drives, and it will typically, but not always, stop on my internal DVD burner. Then, I typically (but not always) have a devil of a tihttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244325Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:48:02 GMTI have the EVGA 790i ultra & have not been able to find an water block to fit this board!. The problem is that there are some small capacitors VERY close to the CPU socket. Does anyone know of a tried & testehttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244321Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:44:53 GMTMy Fire Wire does not work. I got the WD My Book 1.5Tb EHDD and that one is working with a USB but not with a Fire Wire connection. In the BIOS the settings for the 1394 are set to Auto. My OS is Windows 7 64bit. The supplied disk from EVGA for the Mhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244282Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:31:05 GMTAll EVGA Products purchased ON or AFTER November 1, 2006 MUST be registered within 30 days from ORIGINAL DATE OF PURCHASE to receive our limited lifetime warranty. (All products not registered within 30 days will ONLY receive a 1 year limithttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244233Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:09:10 GMTI've owned this board for around 2 years now, and when I bought it, I totally never registered the board on your site for a RMA. Well guess what, the time has come for one. Am I SOL or can i register the board NOW in my profile and get a replhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244174Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:42:55 GMTGetting treated to a weekend getaway, feels good to leave a functioning PC behind! I'll get back to this on Monday, thanks again all!http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244097Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:01:53 GMTWhat is your correct CPU model number? I suggest the following changes, and keep a close eye on your temps. CPU Core: auto 1.20V (manually set 1.35 for now) CPU FSB: Auto 1.1V (mahttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244078Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:57:25 GMTThe best place to start is to please see post #3 and post a completed BIOS template. Is the PC a custom build, or did you build it yourself?http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244054Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:45:42 GMTPost a template with all or your current BIOS settings, to include the numerical values for all "auto" settings, and let's see what we can do.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244050Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:41:34 GMTThanks for the reply guys! @Chaos_21 I know that too much voltage can kill the CPU but I hope that I can lower the Vcore after the BIOS Update. Btw, I have two 240 mm radiators, hopefully they can handle the heat from the components. Which BIOShttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=244028Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:31:00 GMTThanks Mike. I bought the board refurbished from Tigerdirect. It came with nothing, not even a manual. Just the IO board. I would love to have a new one sent to me. Maybe I can get the manual and disks. I will register it shortly or message you with thehttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243988Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:09:40 GMTHello, If both cards are working separately and you can do "Soft" SLI without the bridge it could be a faulty bridge. You stated you got the bridge separately, did you purchased directly through EVGA? Might have wrong orhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243986Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:07:18 GMTmaybe it has a bad pciex bus. hope not but its possiblehttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243973Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:00:10 GMTI tried the whole driver thing. I took one apart the other day. The thing that gets me is if they work fine separately why wouldn't they work fine together.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243968Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:57:21 GMTOK Guys! I'm not gone, I just live across the ocean I guess ;-) In the Netherlands so a little time difference. I made another picture (the last one of the pagehttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243953Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:48:58 GMTwhat board and cards are they and psu nvm. inmy haste i overlooked. maybe a fresh install of drivers. with using driver sweeper http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243948Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:47:59 GMTmight want to take the cards apart and have a look at the paste. i havent had very good luck with as5. oz freeze and mx3 been good to me. are the carda getting sufficient power. they work fine when using solo but no luck with sli?http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243945Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:46:22 GMTYea I did. They both work fine. I will tell you the only thing I did to them recently was to clean out the stock paste that comes on it and replace it with arctic silver 5. I put them back together perfectly and they still work, so as far as I can guesshttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243910Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:25:53 GMTI would give RealTemp a go. From what I see on your screenshot though, I would definitely say CoreTemp is much more accurate than Everest is for your setup! There is no way in hell you have a core @ 7*C unless you are using Phase or similar.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243898Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:19:39 GMTAre you sure you are using the correct type of pencil type? Sounds like maybe not. All I know, is my Vcore doesn't move now on my board! Load or not, it stays exactly the same consistent value in windows!http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243890Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:16:07 GMTI am guessing you have tried each card seperately? If not try each card one at a time.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243888Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:15:48 GMTHey guys, I just finished putting together my semi upgraded build. Just some new parts I was throwing together and I am having some problems. First problem is, I can not get my SLI to function correctly. Better to say I am not sure if my bridge ihttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243883Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:11:36 GMTim back with a new power supply and no more BSOD! I knew it. Thermaltake RMA process was smooth. Im back to standard settings now and will see if i get hard locks with the new power supply, if i do ill go back and change the settings to recommendedhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243816Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:42:47 GMTI've actually had some success with the RAM even with the non-production BIOS. I was able to run 8GB without problems. I wasn't overclocking anything, since all I needed was lots of RAM so I can run multiple VMs. What I've experienced ahttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243761Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:13:25 GMTI believe there is only one prior to this, but it did not allow for max RAM. I remember tech support did not believe me at first about it being shipped with the "Non production" BIOS till I showed them others reporting the same thing on NewEgg reviews. Khttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243709Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:54:10 GMT What slot is your ram in. I don't have the manual available, but I remeber mine did the same with the ram in the 1st slot. try each slot one at a time till it comes up. I believe when a single stick its the second slot, but double chttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243658Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:33:30 GMTOk, i made what i consider some progress so i`ll update. I got my rig to stop hard freezing, i did this by activating crash dumps (i think), i got a bsod PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA and a bsod pointing to a nvidia dll. After the first bsod i uninsthttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243631Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:22:32 GMTIf gaming is your priority then I refer you back to post #3, do you need 8 gigs? As VistaHead said unless your rendering video etc. 8 gigs is completely pointless and just puts more stress on the controller. That said you can only run your ram as fast ashttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243506Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:19:31 GMTWhat slot is your ram in. I don't have the manual available, but I remeber mine did the same with the ram in the 1st slot. try each slot one at a time till it comes up. I believe when a single stick its the second slot, but double check the manual.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243477Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:06:44 GMTSo if I get the ones that I posted initially and set the bios tCL 6 - tRCD 6 - tRP 6 - tRAS 18. Memory Voltage set to 2.0V will it work fine? And another question I have is do you guys think it's worth it when it comes to gaming to get the DDR2 12http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243457Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:01:07 GMT If it was me, I would sell the memory you have and get these instead... http://www.newegg.com/Pro...x?Item=N82E16820231194 The latency on thhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243433Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:53:21 GMT Have you tried using one stick of ram and the cd method? Also make sure the ram is manually set to manufacturer specs and everything else in the BIOS is default. I have never used the floppy method, but I prefer the CD methodhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243375Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:24:35 GMTHave you tried using one stick of ram and the cd method? Also make sure the ram is manually set to manufacturer specs and everything else in the BIOS is default. I have never used the floppy method, but I prefer the CD method myself.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243341Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:02:52 GMTHi all, Does anyone have an older copy of a BIOS for the 730i? I was trying to update to the SZOY, and it doesn't seem to finish even after a couple of hours. Now every time I boot up, I just continuous high pitched short beeps, and thehttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243294Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:43:48 GMTWhoot ,glad you got it working . I run an e8400 on my 750ftw board at a 3.6ghz everyday overclock ,it has been clocked much higher than this. My e8600 runs at 4ghz everyday oc ,and I have really onlhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243275Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:36:23 GMTPosting this from my PC. Fiddled back and forth with the settings until i ran out of patience. Applied 9-9-9-34 @ 1333 1.95V On these settings (synced with CPU @ 3GHz) i was stable enough to complete an OS install as well as another 20 passes of IBThttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243226Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:12:20 GMT"Formatted the drive and attempted a re-install. " Try writeing"zeros" to the drive and then run extended /test on drive.Most hd manufacturers have thier own software for this . Sorry if this is a repeat , are you doing the freshttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=243217Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:08:56 GMT