Crunchers Helping Crunchers

[brandonwh64]

Ok guys, got a new cruncher in the works but the motherboard I got is dead. Its a OEM P55 socket 1156 with the beep of death (or so it was called on a google search). Looking to see if anybody in the crunching community has a spare p55 board laying around. Doesn't need to be anything special (hell another OEM would do) but something to run this I3 in to get some more PPD for the team.

 

[[Ion]]

Ok guys, got a new cruncher in the works but the motherboard I got is dead. Its a OEM P55 socket 1156 with the beep of death (or so it was called on a google search). Looking to see if anybody in the crunching community has a spare p55 board laying around. Doesn't need to be anything special (hell another OEM would do) but something to run this I3 in to get some more PPD for the team.

Well, I have a spare LGA1156 CPU (an i7-860) but my only LGA1156 board is already in use running another i7-860. If you manage to find a board you're welcome to the CPU at a good price.

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Sorry Brandon, but it's gonna be difficult to find P55 boards nowadays. They are uber expensive on ebay as well....

 

[brandonwh64]

Thank guys! I will keep my eye out on CL and ebay as well. Yea I had a TOUGH time finding X58 boards when I got my I7

 

[Arjai]

Ok guys, got a new cruncher in the works but the motherboard I got is dead. Its a OEM P55 socket 1156 with the beep of death (or so it was called on a google search). Looking to see if anybody in the crunching community has a spare p55 board laying around. Doesn't need to be anything special (hell another OEM would do) but something to run this I3 in to get some more PPD for the team.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002UJZ6IK/?tag=tec06d-20

http://www.ebay.com/itm/USED-MINT-A...355303797?pt=Motherboards&hash=item4d2650af75

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-DP55K...574061419?pt=Motherboards&hash=item2a46a84d6b

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DELL-Studio...502810335?pt=Motherboards&hash=item19f615dcdf

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Biostar-T5-...377269268?pt=Motherboards&hash=item35df28f214

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gigabyte-Te...567649281?pt=Motherboards&hash=item4adeecee01

 

[stinger608]

Okay guys, I have an MSI Z87-G45 Gaming motherboard coming. It is brand new.........Couldn't pass up the price.
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/Z87-G45-GAMING.html#hero-overview

Now the issues is; I only have a Pentium G3258 chip however I don't think the motherboard will support the chip without a bios flash.

Here is my question; does anyone have a standard socket 1150 chip they can shoot me to allow me to flash to the latest bios? That or I can ship the motherboard to someone and have him or her flash it for me?

 

[Norton]

Okay guys, I have an MSI Z87-G45 Gaming motherboard coming. It is brand new.........Couldn't pass up the price.
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/Z87-G45-GAMING.html#hero-overview

Now the issues is; I only have a Pentium G3258 chip however I don't think the motherboard will support the chip without a bios flash.

Here is my question; does anyone have a standard socket 1150 chip they can shoot me to allow me to flash to the latest bios? That or I can ship the motherboard to someone and have him or her flash it for me?

Check into the board features, you may be able to update the BIOS with a flash drive w/o a cpu or with an unsupported cpu. Asus has that feature on their ROG boards since the Rampage III series iirc.

 

[stinger608]

Yea, I haven't seen anything on that doing a little research. It may though.

 

[OneMoar]

Yea, I haven't seen anything on that doing a little research. It may though.

rog boards are pretty much the only boards that support that functionality
you will need another PROC to post the system and update
such as
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116974
you can always RMA the chip after you are done with it

 

[Nordic]

Or get the celeron, and keep it as a back up cpu. You might even be able to find one really cheap used. I have an ivy bridge version of that celeron which was the lowest rung, a g1620 and it gets ~1700-2000 ppd. Not bad for 14 watts before I undervolted. I am sure this one would do even better.

 

[stinger608]

rog boards are pretty much the only boards that support that functionality
you will need another PROC to post the system and update
such as
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116974
you can always RMA the chip after you are done with it

Don't really want to pay an additional $50 just to flash the bios.
That is why I was hoping that one of the WCG team members had a processor to flash it.

 

[Nordic]

Don't really want to pay an additional $50 just to flash the bios.
That is why I was hoping that one of the WCG team members had a processor to flash it.

I understand, but the g1820 gives you more options. You can get it used for $40 after shipping from amazon. I did not check ebay though.

 

[stinger608]

I understand, but the g1820 gives you more options. You can get it used for $40 after shipping from amazon. I did not check ebay though.

Yea, you do have a point. I suppose it would be close to that by the time I shipped the motherboard to someone and paid the shipping back.

Jeez, I don't think there is anyone local in this arm pit town that even has an 1150 chip.

 

[Nordic]

Yea, you do have a point. I suppose it would be close to that by the time I shipped the motherboard to someone and paid the shipping back.

Jeez, I don't think there is anyone local in this arm pit town that even has an 1150 chip.

I don't know if you are in a rural part of wyoming, but even though I am in a college town where I know people have these cpu's I can't get one of them to help me out like that. I actually tried once to get a board flashed, but the people I asked didn't even know what flashing was. I spooked them.

 

[twilyth]

This is off topic, but I wanted to ask here before posting in the main forum. Also I have some more testing to do to try to localize the problem.

I'm getting a green background on some images and icons in firefox. It doesn't seem to be consistent though. I uninstalled ff and reinstalled and the problem persisted. I completely deleted my profile as well as the mozilla directory it was in under the user->appdata->roaming folder. It's on my other main rig not the one I'm using now - and which I use most of the time.

I have to see if the problem shows up in Chrome or Explorer. If it does, then I know it's system related, but my guess is that it won't. If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate the assist. Thanks.

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

This is off topic, but I wanted to ask here before posting in the main forum. Also I have some more testing to do to try to localize the problem.

I'm getting a green background on some images and icons in firefox. It doesn't seem to be consistent though. I uninstalled ff and reinstalled and the problem persisted. I completely deleted my profile as well as the mozilla directory it was in under the user->appdata->roaming folder. It's on my other main rig not the one I'm using now - and which I use most of the time.

I have to see if the problem shows up in Chrome or Explorer. If it does, then I know it's system related, but my guess is that it won't. If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate the assist. Thanks.

I was going to say to try Chrome as I was first reading to see if it is there also. Something tells me the same as your thinking, it's not. Is there a reset to default in FF?

 

[twilyth]

I can try that but you would think that blowing away the profile should do that and more, right? IDK. It's really weird.

 

[Peter1986C]

Any add-ons? HW acc?

 

[twilyth]

Before I blew away the previous installation, I did a safe reboot which disables all addons and it had no effect. I can check hardware acceleration and see if that has an effect if that's turned on by default.

 

[m&m's]

Try to reset FF, you wont loose your bookmarks.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems

 

[twilyth]

Thanks, but as I said above, blowing away the profile and reinstalling firefox would have done basically the same thing and it didn't seem to fix the problem.

I wish I had a better idea of when it started since I'm beginning to suspect it must have been something I installed. But since I don't use that computer very often any more, it's really hard to judge. The weird thing is that as far as I've noticed so far, it's only an issue in firefox. I don't see the problem in any of the other programs I run but then that's the only one that really accesses the web.

 

[xvi]

Thanks, but as I said above, blowing away the profile and reinstalling firefox would have done basically the same thing and it didn't seem to fix the problem.

I wish I had a better idea of when it started since I'm beginning to suspect it must have been something I installed. But since I don't use that computer very often any more, it's really hard to judge. The weird thing is that as far as I've noticed so far, it's only an issue in firefox. I don't see the problem in any of the other programs I run but then that's the only one that really accesses the web.

Video drivers might be a long shot, but could be worth trying. Otherwise,

 

[stinger608]

Hmm, every time I go to the current "Milestones" thread page, Malwarebytes pops up saying "Malicious website blocked!!!" It is something called parentfurther[dot]com????

 

[[Ion]]

Hmm, every time I go to the current "Milestones" thread page, Malwarebytes pops up saying "Malicious website blocked!!!" It is something called parentfurther[dot]com????

No issues here, but I'm not running antivirus software of any sort, so don't really know.

 

[Peter1986C]

Hmm, every time I go to the current "Milestones" thread page, Malwarebytes pops up saying "Malicious website blocked!!!" It is something called parentfurther[dot]com????

Make sure you use an ad blocker and disable third party cookies in the web browser.