It ended up being the graphics card. Lack of beep was me forgetting to add a mb speaker. Once I did it made the poswt beep for everything OK. I swapped out the gpu with a temp and it worked. Bought a 5870 yesterday (no 5970s in stock ). All good now.
One last question. Last night night I ran memtest for about 12hrs. During the 5th and 8th time around I obtained 2 errors (one each) in test 7. I am using timing listed on the ram as well as stock voltages.
Is this enough to think RMA?
(sorry for post leading into a question for another part of the forum.)
no need for apologies, asking questions is how we learn and you do right mate!
12 hours is 12 hours, imagine if you weredoing something important that REALLY pushes the ram, all memtest does is essentially check for errors. try running prime95 on mixed tfts's with the lots of ram tested and see what happens.
If it takes roughly the same time or less to kick off then you certainly havea an issue. However i cannot say for sure whatthe RMA process for this is!
Push the ram using prime95 and come back with results buddy please. You have me fascinated now!
I am happy to see your other problem is sorted. Please feel free to ask as many questions as you need!
gilgamesh