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if for no reason other than to amuse myself I've taken a rampage 3 Extreme

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put on a 980x and an old school 8800 GTX

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that actually has an Ultra Cool on it uh but I assure you it's a GTX so this is

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the Rampage 3 Extreme that I unboxed and one thing I did want to talk about

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briefly was these four buttons here this is pretty much the coolest feature ever

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and if they had a unit of time large enough then um I could probably tell you

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how much time this would have saved me over the years if I'd had this on my

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motherboards because typically whenever I'm setting up a system for myself I'm

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water cooling the video card so when you're troubleshooting something it

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would be a lifesaver to have these basically what they do is they turn on

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or off each of the four PCI Express 60x

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slots individually allowing you to

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easily troubleshoot without removing graphics cards which is uh very very

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difficult to do when you've got water blocks on the all anyway so for my m m I

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have a rampage 3 Extreme set up with 24 gigs of ocz RAM and the stock shipping

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BIOS 980x and I just wanted to see if it

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would post so I press start and let's find out

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you can discover with me how compatible this is with uh 24 gigs of ocz uh DDR3

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1333 C9 1.65 volt memory let's see if it

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can handle the heat CPU fan is spinning

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up do we have any diagnostic uh

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diagnostic diagnostic diagnostic LEDs on this wow I want my camera Focus this is

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kind of weird it's like

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uh gone all blur chastic here oh there

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it goes okay it did not

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work so it looks like you'd need to do a

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little bit more work on optimizing it in

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order to get it to post with 24 gigs of RAM so what's quite possible is that I'm

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just going to turn it off here now I think this is the memo K button although

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I'm not sure it's positioned in the same spot as the memo K button on so many

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other boards pressing it seems to have turned on the board so uh we'll see what

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happens here and then maybe I'll just keep the camera rolling and see if I can

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get this to work here for uh for my

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viewers so far no dice oh oh oh there it

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goes I think so I saw the number lock turn on come

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on well we got no display

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output I'm

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99.9% sure that that video card works so

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why don't I just quickly make sure that my DVI cable is plugged in correctly

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which it is okay so that isn't the

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problem why don't we try something else really quick here let's make sure sure

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that my8 pin connector is plugged into the correct one of those two yeah yeah I

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got it in the right one maybe we'll try a quick BIOS reset although I've I've

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yet to run into a situation where you actually have to clear simos on a brand

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new board usually they come with a a very cleared SOS so I've gone ahead held

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down the clear seos button let's see what happens this time what I'm going to

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do next is I'm going to remove one of the kits of memory because a lot of the

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time that can be what's causing the problem is that you need to go into the

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BIOS set the memory to the correct settings and then you'll get a uh a post

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situation now what made me think it was going to post last time was all three

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LEDs were on and then only one Switched on which typically means that we're

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about to uh see a display yeah see there it's losing focus

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again that's so bizarre we look at something else and look back I've never

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seen my camera do this before it's pretty strange

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yeah well there see it's back now okay so that didn't work this let's call this

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Linus Tech tips episode on troubleshooting so with

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99.9% of socket uh 1366 motherboards uh

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it'll that's x58 boards you're going to want to take out the modules that are

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closest to the CPU socket so the the

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triple Channel set that starts here because most of these boards are are set

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up so that the primary channels are further away because when you're using

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big air coolers they W will often overhang that first dim slot so that's

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why the motherboard manufacturers typically do that for

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you so let's see if we get it to post

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here hopefully we don't have a more serious problem and we are actually able

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to get a display and I sure wish it would stop

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doing that huh

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so that didn't work either there you go we might uh we might

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have a more serious problem here so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to put

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my camera down for a second and I'm going to run and grab another video card

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because you never do know going to make

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sure that this uh adjustable rail power supply is

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uh going

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correctly okay why don't we try an 8800

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GTS 640 super super clocked if it matters

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but it doesn't Okay 8800 GTX goes there

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GTS 640 goes here this one I know Works cuz I pulled it out of my little

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brother's computer on the weekend and it's been running Rock Solid in there

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for months and months and months so I'm

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going to go ahead and throw that in there and then let's see if we can get

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it to uh give me a display play

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output wonder if I've got a DOA board actually I guess I could have DOA RAM

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too it's hard to say I know the CPU Works cuz I've been using it in the quad

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SLI rig but I don't know the motherboard is

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a bit of an unknown the RAM's a bit of an unknown and I've actually had a little bit of difficulty with this power

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supply posting with some boards um it's a very very good unit but it seems to

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have a little bit of trouble posting with certain boards from time to time

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yeah that didn't that didn't do it either okay so it wasn't the video card

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so that's uh typically one of the next steps that I go through so what we'll do

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is we'll pull out some more RAM so I'm

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just going to keep those keep each

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triple Channel kit sort of with its uh correct dims let's find out which one is

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actually slot number one ABC so I think a is actually at so a

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is over here so we're going to just go ahead and run it with just that one

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stick and see if we can get it to go for us I actually have some other DDR3 on

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hand here I'm just going to go back out into my computer room got some G skill

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here so I'll go ahead and pull that off

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that board see if we can make it work with that you know I feel bad for anyone

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who has to do troubleshooting like this uh without a bunch of tester Parts on

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hand because it really does make life a lot easier it might just be that it

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doesn't like um 4 gig dims right off the

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bat here so let's pull that one out put that with its brother and sister let's

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throw a two gig stick in here

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okay and let's see what happens with that start hopefully it'll start this

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time this whole experiment could be just one big failure but uh you never know

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until you try right okay

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come on eat times a charm okay all

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right we have new solid light on the

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monitor well this was fun maybe I'll do an

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updated video when I figure out um what

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went wrong we have a cat visiting us hello oh there you are he's exploring

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my uh my room full of random junk

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including obviously Wildlife

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here okay

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well yeah hopefully this is as simple as a uh

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as a dead board or something or maybe

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it's something as stupid as I've gone

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and you know I wonder if you actually have to plug in these Molex these extra

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Molex connectors although I've never seen a board yet that requires them if

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you've only got one video card installed well better luck to me next

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time I suppose hopefully I'll have a chance to do an update thanks for checking out my video blog on the

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Rampage 3 Extreme and how so far it did

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not work uh at all yet but we're getting

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there