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Cheers for posting that, got it bookmarked.
Hey Doc how you doing I know you've struggled with your motherboard and cpu how's it all going now.
If you need a motherboard I might have one you can have free Doc. Might have a CPU too.
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Hi Kimball, I'm good thanks, yeah I think that motherboard I was trying to use wasn't really up to scratch for use as a platform for building a Hackintosh, I never did get the installation to work at all, I'm also starting to suspect that the motherboard was a bit flaky, or rather it's Bios, that probably explains why the previous owner had taken it down to the rubbish bins in the carpark.
What mother board are you currently using for your Daw Doc
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My main DAW PC, and the one I'm using to get online right now, uses a Gigabyte Z68XP UD3 Motherboard (seems to be working fine), the one I was using to build the Hackintosh was an ASRock Motherboard(the one I'm suspecting of being flaky).
That's a pretty good Motherboard you should be sorted for a DAW pc and games lol how much memory do you have Doc.
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I've got a single 8Gb DDR3 Ram stick installed in it at the moment, there are another three empty ram slots available on my DAW PC's Motherboard, each ram slot supports ram sticks up to 8Gb in size, so I could max-out the ram to a total of 32Gb, which I'm seriously thinking of doing this year once I can afford to buy three more 8Gb sticks, the one I have installed cost me about $130.00 from Leading Edge Computers.
The CPU is an intel i5 2500 3.3Ghz Quad Core, the power supply is an 850 Watt that Dedman sent to me in the post, that seems to be powering my DAW PC pretty well, I managed to somehow get the two headphone outs on my Focusrite Saffire Pro40 working again, not exactly sure how I did it though...lol.
Memory
4 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 32 GB of system memory
* Due to Windows 32-bit operating system limitation, when more than 4 GB of physical memory is installed, the actual memory size displayed will be less than 4 GB.
Dual channel memory architecture
Support for DDR3 2133/1866/1600/1333/1066 MHz memory modules
Support for non-ECC memory modules
Support for Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory modules
Check your memory prices here try and match up your memory make and spec
http://megamemory.com.au/
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Cheers, I might do that tomorrow when I get a chance, if they have the same type of memory sticks that I'm using in stock, but at a lower price, I might look at ordering another three sticks from them, I'm running Windows 10 Home 64 Bit (Threshold 2) on my DAW PC, so the amount of memory I have installed will be reported correctly by the OS, it actually says that there's 8Gb installed, but only 7.86Gb of it is useable, I'm guessing that the extra bit of ram is probably system reserved or something like that.
Let me know how your prices are for memory. I know when I used them for Samsung Apple memory they where cheaper.
Also check out MSY for memory too
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No worries, will do, I just had a win with my Dell Inspiron 15 Laptop, basically it wouldn't charge the battery even though the battery was a brand new one I had bought from Battery World (they had to order it in for me a couple of weeks ago), and the plugpack adaptor was plugged into it and was getting mains power, I tried a few things I found on the internet but nothing fixed the issue, then I had a hunch, and as it turned out the cause of the "Plugged-in, not charging" issue was pretty mundane, it was a broken wire connection in the plug that plugged into the power socket on the laptop, I soldered the wire back into place, put some heatshrink insulation over it, used the soldering iron to shrink the heatshrink, and then plugged the plugpack adaptor back into the laptop and mains, the result.....the battery now charges up when the adaptor is plugged in, the wire connection that broke off must have been the one that senses the charge-state of the battery, because it was broken, the adaptor had no way of sensing if the battery needed charging and was probably assuming that it was fully charged up when it actually wasn't.
Who would have thought that one broken solder-joint could cause that much trouble?
Glad you got the Dell working Doc good repair well done
Kimball
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Cheers mate, and as soon as I had fixed the issue, I noticed that the laptop seemed to be running a bit smoother, or it must have been just my imagination playing tricks on me, who knows?, anyway I'm happy that I fixed it.
Makes the laptop more usable for sure Doc did you check your memory prices Doc if so how did you get on.
Best wishes
Kimball
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Haven't done it yet, I'll see if I can get it done tomorrow some time.