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Hi all, I've been trying to become participate here and become involved more and it's one thing after the next. Anyway about 6-days ago I was reinstalled my P5 550 from my Asus P5AD2-E Premium back into an Abit AA8 to finish up some testing. I was doing fine until I made one of the stupidest moves ever, after digging through a box to get the new TTGI 610 (an excllent new Rheostat) I didn't ground myself before picking up the CPU to install it. The box was filled with the packing peanuts which seem to suck static electricyt into themselves and hold it until the un-suspecting idiot savant comes along.

When I went to pick-up the CPU I'd just cleaned and had layed ever so carefully on top of my aluminum Kandalf case I heard and felt the "snap" for the next four days I tried everything and at one point the system "seemed" to post although in my rage I may have been halucnating. I thought maybe I'd only partially damaged it, but it simply won't run. bt once installed and depressibng the power button just leaves e there staring at a dead system, No power nothing. I don't have another P4 to see if it's possible I may have damaged something else like the motherboard. It's a year old OEM so I'm now without a Intel test ptaform. I was in a deep funk for the past six days but decided feeling sorry for myself wasn't getting any work done.

OK problem two. I switched back to my DFI LANPARTY 3500a few days ago to finish some memory testing, answer emails, and let people know I was alive. I'm finishing a Mushkin round-up. Does anyone have experience with the DFI Lanparty nF4 UT 4V jumper? The memory I'm running needs >3.3V for LL operation above 250FSB and when I set Start-up voltage and VID voltage at the same level it will work, but I have to use the Special VID to raise Vcore. It seems if those voltages aren't equal; i.e. I had Start-up at 1.375v and VID at 1.40 the voltage jumped to 1.67V even though Special VID was only at 104%? If Start-up is at 1.40V and VID at .800 the system shuts down? Do they always have to be equal?

What can I do with a fired P4 550 OEM? Key-chain?

if the system wont even boot, it doesnt sound liek a processor problem...

do fans spin up? Do lights turn on, does it beep all prettily? If so...you should be able to get into bios and discover whether or not your pretty proccessor is dead or not. If nothing comes up, sounds more like a motherboard/psu problem...

yep, your system will at least fire up if its a dead CPU, it sounds as if it is exactly what DA said, check your board and your PSU.

i bet you turned your power supply off by accident... i've done that once and freaked out. then, i reached back, flipped the switch on the ps and... presto! i'm an idiot!

Just tried the chip in a friends system, it's dead. And so am I.

Hey Audiophile couldn't help notice your username, I was once deep into the hobby (as you know it's almost impossible to simply dabble) My last system was built around a sweet pair of of Futterman Labs built prototype 250W (each) monoblocs (post transformerless built by the head engineer who worked with Julius, forgot his name) they could easily drive a apir of Apogee Stages and then Mangaplanars! And you know how ineffecient the Stages were hehe. I mated it with a MFA Magus tube pre-amp, then tried an Audible Illusions Modulus, and finslly found a decent Melos tube pre-amp I loved, the source was the classic Sony [/url=http://www.stereophile.com/digitalsourcereviews/346/]Sony 777ES[/url] I only paid $600 used for that player which was only like $1400 back then (1990/92) now it's $3500! That system could produce a soundstage like Joni Mitchel singing Blue (Blue being an "Audiophile" level recording) was standing there inhaling between each note. The room would dissapear and you could see the wall of the recording studio and just see those sound-proofing panels.

I also gave solid state a shot, had a Krell KSA-250 used of couse, that baby would get HOT, it was back in 1993 since I last was into high end. My first tube amp was a sweet little Cary with GE 6550's Stereo SLA-70 I had it modded by Dennis Hadd with a triode switch, and special transformers. It drove a pair of Proac's. My first Solid State was a Aragon 4004. Boy I miss the stuff, I've been thinking of getting back into it, switching to Audiopile reviewing. I've wrote Sophia to get their Baby Sophia Integrated tube.

I slowly went insane after a couple of years in High-end audio after researching and testing a $600 (half-meter) pair of silver wired interconnects and compared them to Belkin cable a friend I found for about $20 a meter which sounded about as as good, with slithly flabby bottom end. And that's when I sold everything quit, and started mountain biking. You need $30,000 to get a mid-level high-end system nowadays and the best tubes are all gone. All the General Electric 10W mono theatre amps are now in Japanese homes along with the earliest Klpsch-Horns which are literally mounted into their walls with 15" JBL woofers hehe. Email me if you evr want to chat about audio. [email protected]

Remember when AOpen came out with their on-board tubestage sound for their motherboards? It had nice Rel caps, Vishay resistors, and even Cardas wiring. I've been wanto desing a tube straged video-card for some time now.

hehe that's awesome, dude... but i'm more into the music aspect of audio more so than the output aspect. i'm big into indie/underground music... i'm pretty critical of music and it's because i love it so much. that's why i cant stand listening to the stuff on the radio ;)