if for no reason other than to amuse myself I've taken a rampage 3 Extreme
put on a 980x and an old school 8800 GTX
that actually has an Ultra Cool on it uh but I assure you it's a GTX so this is
the Rampage 3 Extreme that I unboxed and one thing I did want to talk about
briefly was these four buttons here this is pretty much the coolest feature ever
and if they had a unit of time large enough then um I could probably tell you
how much time this would have saved me over the years if I'd had this on my
motherboards because typically whenever I'm setting up a system for myself I'm
water cooling the video card so when you're troubleshooting something it
would be a lifesaver to have these basically what they do is they turn on
or off each of the four PCI Express 60x
slots individually allowing you to
easily troubleshoot without removing graphics cards which is uh very very
difficult to do when you've got water blocks on the all anyway so for my m m I
have a rampage 3 Extreme set up with 24 gigs of ocz RAM and the stock shipping
BIOS 980x and I just wanted to see if it
would post so I press start and let's find out
you can discover with me how compatible this is with uh 24 gigs of ocz uh DDR3
1333 C9 1.65 volt memory let's see if it
can handle the heat CPU fan is spinning
up do we have any diagnostic uh
diagnostic diagnostic diagnostic LEDs on this wow I want my camera Focus this is
kind of weird it's like
uh gone all blur chastic here oh there
it goes okay it did not
work so it looks like you'd need to do a
little bit more work on optimizing it in
order to get it to post with 24 gigs of RAM so what's quite possible is that I'm
just going to turn it off here now I think this is the memo K button although
I'm not sure it's positioned in the same spot as the memo K button on so many
other boards pressing it seems to have turned on the board so uh we'll see what
happens here and then maybe I'll just keep the camera rolling and see if I can
get this to work here for uh for my
viewers so far no dice oh oh oh there it
goes I think so I saw the number lock turn on come
on well we got no display
output I'm
99.9% sure that that video card works so
why don't I just quickly make sure that my DVI cable is plugged in correctly
which it is okay so that isn't the
problem why don't we try something else really quick here let's make sure sure
that my8 pin connector is plugged into the correct one of those two yeah yeah I
got it in the right one maybe we'll try a quick BIOS reset although I've I've
yet to run into a situation where you actually have to clear simos on a brand
new board usually they come with a a very cleared SOS so I've gone ahead held
down the clear seos button let's see what happens this time what I'm going to
do next is I'm going to remove one of the kits of memory because a lot of the
time that can be what's causing the problem is that you need to go into the
BIOS set the memory to the correct settings and then you'll get a uh a post
situation now what made me think it was going to post last time was all three
LEDs were on and then only one Switched on which typically means that we're
about to uh see a display yeah see there it's losing focus
again that's so bizarre we look at something else and look back I've never
seen my camera do this before it's pretty strange
yeah well there see it's back now okay so that didn't work this let's call this
Linus Tech tips episode on troubleshooting so with
99.9% of socket uh 1366 motherboards uh
it'll that's x58 boards you're going to want to take out the modules that are
closest to the CPU socket so the the
triple Channel set that starts here because most of these boards are are set
up so that the primary channels are further away because when you're using
big air coolers they W will often overhang that first dim slot so that's
why the motherboard manufacturers typically do that for
you so let's see if we get it to post
here hopefully we don't have a more serious problem and we are actually able
to get a display and I sure wish it would stop
doing that huh
so that didn't work either there you go we might uh we might
have a more serious problem here so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to put
my camera down for a second and I'm going to run and grab another video card
because you never do know going to make
sure that this uh adjustable rail power supply is
uh going
correctly okay why don't we try an 8800
GTS 640 super super clocked if it matters
but it doesn't Okay 8800 GTX goes there
GTS 640 goes here this one I know Works cuz I pulled it out of my little
brother's computer on the weekend and it's been running Rock Solid in there
for months and months and months so I'm
going to go ahead and throw that in there and then let's see if we can get
it to uh give me a display play
output wonder if I've got a DOA board actually I guess I could have DOA RAM
too it's hard to say I know the CPU Works cuz I've been using it in the quad
SLI rig but I don't know the motherboard is
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
supply posting with some boards um it's a very very good unit but it seems to
have a little bit of trouble posting with certain boards from time to time
yeah that didn't that didn't do it either okay so it wasn't the video card
so that's uh typically one of the next steps that I go through so what we'll do
is we'll pull out some more RAM so I'm
just going to keep those keep each
triple Channel kit sort of with its uh correct dims let's find out which one is
actually slot number one ABC so I think a is actually at so a
is over here so we're going to just go ahead and run it with just that one
stick and see if we can get it to go for us I actually have some other DDR3 on
hand here I'm just going to go back out into my computer room got some G skill
here so I'll go ahead and pull that off
that board see if we can make it work with that you know I feel bad for anyone
who has to do troubleshooting like this uh without a bunch of tester Parts on
hand because it really does make life a lot easier it might just be that it
doesn't like um 4 gig dims right off the
bat here so let's pull that one out put that with its brother and sister let's
throw a two gig stick in here
okay and let's see what happens with that start hopefully it'll start this
time this whole experiment could be just one big failure but uh you never know
until you try right okay
come on eat times a charm okay all
right we have new solid light on the
monitor well this was fun maybe I'll do an
updated video when I figure out um what
went wrong we have a cat visiting us hello oh there you are he's exploring
my uh my room full of random junk
including obviously Wildlife
here okay
well yeah hopefully this is as simple as a uh
as a dead board or something or maybe
it's something as stupid as I've gone
and you know I wonder if you actually have to plug in these Molex these extra
Molex connectors although I've never seen a board yet that requires them if
you've only got one video card installed well better luck to me next
time I suppose hopefully I'll have a chance to do an update thanks for checking out my video blog on the
Rampage 3 Extreme and how so far it did
not work uh at all yet but we're getting
there