Truthfully this is probably the most correct answer--while a fine system in its day, the P9X79 platform is easily eclipsed even with the most budget-friendly builds today.
That being said, I just went and found my old P9X79 WS board. It's been a few years since it's been in service, but you are welcome to it if you want to try a replacement board. -----Original Message----- From: Hardware <hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com> On Behalf Of lopaka polena Sent: Monday, December 4, 2023 1:26 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] P9X79_WS with i7-4930K has failed me I was wondering if anyone was still using the list. Hey Thane :) My recommendation would be all new everything and check your components once you have a running system. New cpu/mobo at least. If you know anybody with spare parts you could try to figure out what is still working but it will take more time lopaka <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free.www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 3:15 AM Thane K. Sherrington < th...@computerconnectionltd.com> wrote: > You are showing your age. They are DIMMS now. :) > > I'd try a single DIMM in each socket. Does this motherboard have a > RAM config button (some do). If so, try that. > > Have you tried a different power supply? I've had power supplies > which will power up the motherboard but not allow it to boot. > > T > > On 03-Dec-2023 3:54 p.m., _ Winterlight wrote: > > After 10 years my E6896_P9X79_WS with i7-4930K has failed me. My > original setup was running fine but one day it wouldn’t boot and the > board reported a CPU error. I cleaned the dust off the board and did a > major cleaning of the CPU fan and heat sink and it seemed to run just > fine. I had a couple extra RAM SIMMS so I decided to install them. > What I had installed was 4 CRUCIAL DDR 3 4GB SIMM running at 1866. > What I added into bank two was two 8GB CRUCIAL DDR3 running at 1600. > It didn’t seem to recognize all the RAM so I went into the BIOS to try > different settings. I enabled Auto Memory frequency settings saved and > exited out. This is when my troubles began. > > > > The PC hung at post. I saw nothing on the screen just a black screen. > At first I thought something must of got corrupt so I tried auto > flashing the BIOS but it wasn’t working normally so I tried clearing > the bios with the on board pin, and finally I pulled everything off > the board, removed it from the case and let it sit in it’s box for a > month. Then I cleaned everything and put it back together but same problem. > > > > It occurred to me that maybe the CPU burned out when the fan slowed > > down > and then my memory bios adjustment finished it off. So I purchased a > used but tested CPU on Ebay and tried again. Same issue. I hate to > just throw this board away but I am out of ideas. Anybody have any > ideas to jump start the board? Thanks <w> > >
