 If for no reason other than to amuse myself, I've taken a rampage 3 extreme put on a 980X and an old school 8800 GTX that actually has an ultra cool on it, but I assure you it's a GTX So this is the rampage 3 extreme that I unboxed and one thing I did want to talk about briefly Was these four buttons here? This is pretty much the coolest feature ever and if they had a unit of time large enough Then I could probably tell you how much time this would have saved me over the years if I'd had this on my motherboards Because typically whenever I'm setting up a system for myself, I'm water cooling the video card So when you're troubleshooting something it would be a lifesaver to have these Basically what they do is they turn on or off each of the four PCI Express 16x slots individually allowing you to easily troubleshoot without removing graphics cards, which is Very very difficult to do when you've got water blocks on them Well anyway, so for my amusement I have a rampage 3 extreme set up with 24 gigs of OCZ RAM and the stock Shipping BIOS and 980X and I just wanted to see if it would post So I press start and let's find out you can discover with me how compatible this is with 24 gigs of OCZ DDR3 1333 C9 1.65 volt memory Let's see if it can handle the heat CPU fan is spinning up. Do we have any? diagnostic Diagnostic diagnostic Diagnostic LEDs on this Wow. I want my camera focus This is kind of weird it's like Going all blur-tastic here. Oh there it goes Okay, it did not work so it looks like You'd need to do a little bit more work on optimizing it in order to get it to post with 24 gigs of RAM So what's quite possible is that I'm just going to turn it off here now I think this is the memo K button although I'm not sure it's positioned in the same spot as the memo K button on so many other boards Pressing it seems to have turned on the board So we'll see what happens here and then maybe I'll just keep the camera rolling and see if I can get this to work here for for my viewers So far no dice. Oh, oh, oh there goes. I think so I saw the number lock turn on come on Well, we got no display output. I'm 99.9 percent sure that that video card works So why don't I just quickly make sure that my DVI cables plugged in correctly which it is Okay, so that isn't the problem Why don't we try something else really quick here? Let's make sure that my 8-pin connector is plugged into the correct one of those two yeah. Yeah, I got it in the right one Maybe we'll try a quick BIOS reset although I've I've yet to run into a situation where you actually have to clear CMOS on a brand new board usually they come with a Very cleared CMOS, so I've gone ahead held down the clear CMOS button Let's see what happens this time what I'm going to do next is I'm going to remove one of the kits of memory Because a lot of the time that can be what's causing the problem is that you need to go into the BIOS Set the memory to the correct settings, and then you'll get a post situation now What made me think it was going to post last time was all three LEDs were on and then only one switched on Which typically means that we're about to see a display You know see there's losing focus again. That's so bizarre We'll look at something else and look back I've never seen my camera do this before It's very strange Yeah, well there see it's back now. Okay, so that didn't work This let's call this an alinus tech tips episode on troubleshooting so with 99.9% of socket 1366 motherboards That's x58 boards. You're going to want to take out the modules that are closest to the CPU sockets So the the triple channel set that starts here because most of these boards are set up so that the primary channels are further away Because when you're using big air coolers they will often overhang that first dim slot So that's why the motherboard manufacturers typically do that for you So let's see if we get it to post here Hopefully we don't have a more serious problem, and we are actually able to get a display I sure wish it would stop doing that Huh So that didn't work either There you go. We might we might have a more serious problem here So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to put my camera down for a second, and I'm going to run and grab another video card because You never do know And make sure that this adjustable rail power supply is Going correctly Okay, why don't we try an 8800 gts 640 Super super clocked if it matters, but it's not going to work Super super clocked if it matters, but it doesn't okay 8800 gtx goes there gts640 goes here this one I know works because I pulled it out of my little brother's computer on the weekend And it's been running rock solid in there for months and months and months, so I'm going to go ahead and throw that in there And then let's see if we can get it to give me a display output I Wonder if I've got a doa board actually I guess I could have doa ram too It's hard to say I know the cPU works because I've been using it in the quad SLI rig But I don't know the motherboard is a bit of an unknown the ram's a bit of an unknown And I've actually had a little bit of difficulty with this power supply posting with some boards It's a very very good unit, but it seems to have a little bit of trouble posting with certain boards from time to time Yeah, that didn't that didn't do it either Okay, so it wasn't the video card, so that's typically one of the next steps that I go through so what we'll do is we'll pull out some more ram So I'm just going to keep those keep each Triple channel kit sort of with its Correct dims let's find out which one is actually slot number one ABC so I think A is actually at so A's over here, so we're going to just go ahead and run it with just that one stick And see if we can get it to go for us. I actually have some other DDR3 on hand here. I'm just going to go back out into my computer room got some g-skill here, so go ahead and Pull that off that board see if we can make it work with that You know I feel bad for anyone who has a Troubleshooting like this without a bunch of tester parts on hand because it really does make life a lot Easier It might just be that it doesn't like Four gig dims right off the bat here, so let's pull that one out put that with its brother and sister Let's throw a two gig stick in here Okay And let's see what happens with that Start hopefully it'll start this time this whole experiment could be just one big failure But you never know until you try right? Okay Come on each time the charm Okay, all right We have new solid light on the monitor well This was fun. Maybe I'll do a monitor Well this was fun. Maybe I'll do an updated video when I figure out What went wrong we have a cat visiting us? Hello, well there you are He's exploring my my room full of random junk including obviously wildlife here Okay, well Yeah hopefully this is as simple as a as a dead board or something or maybe it's something as stupid as I've gone and You know I wonder if you actually have to plug in these molecs these extra molecs connectors although I've never seen a board yet that requires them if you've only got one video card installed Well better luck to me next time I suppose hopefully I'll have a chance to do an update Thanks for checking out my video blog on the rampage three of stream, and how so far it did not work At all yet, but we're getting there