Sir Taxalot wrote:
JohnCoffey wrote:
...pics....
Is that fan at the back showing temps and text? I think that's quite neat (I was going to say cool but couldn't bear to hear the whining). Can you define the text / options yourself?
Yes. You disconnect the fan from the power and insert the programming cable into the middle (it's not visible in pics) and then you open up an app and input what you want. IIRC it has 5 or 6 lines.
Right now it is just saying expletives because I've not been back and done the final lines.
My X51 came last week and I got to it today. It was filthy so I done some initial testing. It was as described. "Black screen white text, no boot". It was booting to the Windows 8 recovery screen.
So I stripped it down.
Which took two hours. Cleaned everything bit by bit.
Put the plastics in the sink and scrubbed/dried then cleaned the rest of the inner components.
I then replaced what I thought was a dead 1tb WD red with an old 500gb I had lying around. It just made this odd buzzing sound. Oh noes, the HDD power rail is dead
Then the weirdest thing happened. Amazon were taking ages with my 120gb SSD I bought for it so I put the WD red back in and stuck in a boot stick for Win 10. Installed it, went on fine. Then the SSD came so I pulled it out (you can only run one HDD atm, I'm going to sort that but don't have my tools) and then installed Win 10 home on the SSD. Went a treat, it even had a 8 key that transferred to 10 so no money spent there.
Then once I was happy with the install I removed the SSD again and put the 1tb back in, this time running a full and lengthy surface scan.
So there was literally nothing wrong with the hardware at all. That never happens. All I need to do now as I said is solder in another SATA power cable and connect up the SSD. Very happy for a total cost of £106. Will make a cracking rig to watch streamed stuff from my NAS, and play older games (I still have yet to get into FO1 and the rest on the anthology edition). I did get in some practice on FO2 a few weeks ago and really started to like it, so I stopped before I ruined everything and will start on 1.
I also bought this in the sale. This is for my main rig at home and will replace the Titan XP for now.
As well as a water block for it.