Claimed the Venice chip as you've probrably noticed by now. Good thing I had a decent DC run too since I also won something there.

Man, I'm happy to see you got the 170 - It's a good stepping and date too, very close to what my 175 is. My 175 is an excellent chip and this one should be about the same.
Have fun with it and show us what it can do but please don't kill it.

Sweet, my Venice 3200(E6 like yours)was pretty nice. :) I hope yours is just as good. I got 3375Mhz out of mine.......but am really looking forward to receiving the Venice 3000+(boint collector) chips I bought.

Did you find the 4000+ yet.....why do you need more than 1 of them anyways? Just give me the good 1;). I have 3 chips for you now....152, 146, and 3000+Venice(E3). :taunt:

I haven't found it yet but it's here as stated somewhere. As to why I need more than one it's simple, One is delidded and the other two aren't. I have to keep one with a lid just in case and the delidded one is the best of the bunch :) I've been using for the most part since I got these chips - It's a true keeper.
The one I'm referring to hasn't been used much at all since new and don't worry, I'll find it this weekend or I'll just send you the one I used for the comp and be done with it. It's the one I got validated at 3394MHz on H2O during my comp runs so it should be a nice one but the one I'm looking for is of the same stepping and date with similar tendencies - In fact it should perform identical to it or so close you coudn't tell the difference.

Either way, you'll be pleased.

I think I have another dead board.

Tha Expert that I repaired the traces on had been working perfectly. I benched a bunch on it since the repair.

I was testing a $15 set of 2x512 Ballistix pc4000 on it....and surprisingly the memory works very well.

But all of a sudden when I was rebooting one time I got no video...nothing to the screen, so sign of signal. I tried the other 16x slot and got the same thing.

I'm thinking my 2nd 4890 is now dead, but I put it back in the Intel and it works perfectly.

The board starts up and goes through the sequence all the way to the last light and that stays on. Retested after overnight CMOS clear and same results.

Any ideas? I admit I haven't even tried to search for an answer yet.

I better try a different cpu, memory, and HD all 1 at a time first.

1 led on = vid card not detected

Thank you for that info.:thumbsup:

The video card works fine in other systems.......tested and retested. Something wrong with the board apparently if it's not detecting a card in either slot after several tries.

Any suggestions.

Try a different vid card, and try a PCI vid card. If you don't have one, you need one, just to diagnose problems like this. If it doesn't work with different vid card, and it works with a PCI card, the PCI-E slots are history.

OK.......the only other PCI-E card I have is a 4890 I'm about to RMA....but, it does show the splash screen with artifacts so that shuld be good enough for this test.

Don't know what a pci vid card is so I doubt I have one.

Well I tested some more and when I put my set of OCZ in I get display....Ballistix = no display, but they worked initially on this board and then on another Expert in between then and now. I tried orange and yellow slots.

Strange, I guess this calls for a few more rounds of testing and another board swap or two. :keeporder:

Could be a simple matter of cleaning needed.
If you have some, a can of circuit board cleaner may fix things for you. Be sure you get everything cleaned, esp down in the slots where your RAM, GPU's and all else would go.