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January 23rd, 2017 23:00

Area-51 R2 Not powering up

I wrote this post only as a heads-up I suppose.

The computer is only 12days old and worked faultlessly out of the box but when I moved it from its temporary location where I placed it for testing, 1.3m away on its final position a few days later, it did not want to turn itself on at all. It was making this soft regular clicking noise from somewhere around the general area of the power supply I guess. As if was waiting or looking for some signal…or whatever!

Tested the power supply with its button, all was well. Took the cover off in the power supply side and wiggle gently everything (with the computer off of course). Then I’d try to turn it on to see if it made any difference. Took the SLi bridge off, unplugged the video cards's cables, etc, etc, etc. After a few failed attempts I wiggled a bit more vigorously the bunch of many cables coming out of the power supply and at the next power up attempt it started with no issues. (it gave me a message along the line of ...computer lost some factory setting (maybe because I unplugged those things possibly), "press F1 to load defaults" I think it said, "F...some other number, for something else" and "F...some other number, for something else" again. Anyway I wish now that I've red that more carefully just for curiosity) I suspect that the processor is not overclock anymore. Does anyone know how to check if the processor is still as it was from factory (i7-6900K) or maybe what the message was...?

I'm assuming that perhaps during the short move or maybe even in transit from the factory, some little connector could’ve come a little loose and made an imperfect contact.

But… it happens and all’s well when ends well.

 

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January 25th, 2017 09:00

Send me a private message with the service tag, so I can check.

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January 24th, 2017 10:00

Hi,

 

Open the AW Command Center and look for OC Control. You should be able to see it there.

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January 24th, 2017 22:00

Hi, thanks, you're right. I knew about it, I didn't explain it properly. Is at 3.2 now but I don't know what was from the factory for this processor. Anyone knows?

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