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Have pushed the old CRT up to 1200 and something by 900 and something. It doesn't do the expanding/clicking stuff at this new resolution and it's just about big enough. Still going to go in, just need to find the time tio leave it off for a few days. Thanks above for all your advice. :toast:

Haven't been inside yet. Interestingly, it only does it on 1024 x 768 and the next resolution up from that, any higher resolutions and it's fine. That's a temporary work around. RE LCDs, I would love to switch to LCD's, in fact I have a 24inch ASUS which is mostly good. LCDs are bigger in...

Good point :eek:

Thanks for the advice. I'll go in and have butchers see if I can spot anything. Otherwise I did see one on Ebay recently, fingers crossed another one comes up. Cheers

My trusty CRT has for sometime now been letting out a click accompanied by the screen stretching. The left and right hand side of the screen stretch out of view but the height stays the same (so the aspect ratio goes a bit stretched). Normally a firm smack or two on the left hand side of the...

Thanks for your help. What it was was that there is a bit of plastic the seperates the pins of the floppy disk power connection at the end of the PCB (part of the sound card). It had slid forward and was not allowing the power connector to attatch fully. I just pushed the plastic bit all the...

Hello, I've just reinstalled my XFI Elite and its breakout box on 64 bit Windows 7. It's working fine apart from the breakout box is dead. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the driver, the floppy disk power connector is connected to the back of the card. Is there anything you have to do to...

It was the RAM. I was just going to send back the MB but decided to send the RAM and CPU as well. Just as well because Scans returns take ages. Any way, up and running at last.

Well the supplier thought it was the power supply as well, but it isn't because I just went and boght a new one and it does the same thing! Sending the board back :shadedshu It's a bit gutting as I was hoping to get it all up and running this weekend but, oh well, that's life. Thanks to you...

Thanks all. I don't think the PSU is the issue, it fails even with out the GFX, it does feel like a short circuit. Just had a look at the back of the mobo and the conformal coating is very rough looking. Noy uniformally shiney and the hint of a finger print here and there. It's going back.

LOL Well, its the mobo, power supply or Proc I think. Sometimes it'll work and kepp working evey time I cycle the power. Then I'll add sometinng and its tops working, take that some thing away and it still doesn't work. I took insurance on the bits from the supplier but I don't know what to...

ummm, it's coming and going.

Well, I took it alll aprt, stuck a bit of insulating tape on the case under the MB (although it didn't look like it was touching. ...and it did the same thing ... once. Now it is powering up. And no more CPU load leds on. I'm not going to start celebrating just yet, I'm going to carry on...

Cheers. Just had the CPU off and it looked fine, reseated it anyway. I'll stick the fan on and see if that works. Else, I'll have a look under the mobo to see if that is touching the case and stick some tape in, that seems like good advice. Ta all.

Thanks very much, I'll do that now. No beeps. Spec: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UDR3r Intel 950 proc 3 x 2G Corsair 1333 DDR3 XMS3 RAM Akasa Nero Fan An intel SSD (gen2) An ATI 5870 gfx card A seasonic 600W PSU. I say it's a new build but the case and PSU are from my old machine and were...