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SCAVENGER1 wrote:yeah i know thats why it is now sitting in a bunch of pc and now i was just trying to send a email back to Tagan and there email server wont take it at all !! WTF!

go figure uh im glad i will stick with OCZ since they have not fk me over yet on my psu. which in fact is still holding 12v+ on its 2 - 12v rails yet. accordingly to everest so far and it is about 2 yrs old now so yeah it has beaten the Tagan psu with flying colors so far since it died twice with in a 1 1/2yr!!

Go to JohnyGuru for sure before you buy. Great Reviwer of PSU's.

I found one for mine, here:: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/505

Hardware Secrets wrote:Corsair TX750W Power Supply Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: February 12, 2008
Page: 10 of 10
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Conclusions
Hardware Secrets Silver Award

This is a great 750 W power supply for users willing to install up to four high-end video cards on their systems. What is really great about this power supply is the fact that all its video card power connectors can be transformed into 8-pin ones, so you won’t need to upgrade your power supply in the future if the 8-pin connector becomes standard. Or you can use this power supply to connect two Radeon HD 2900 XT in parallel, as each one of them requires two power cables, one with six pins and another with eight pins. It also has eight SATA power connectors and eight peripheral power connectors, more than enough for even the übergeek with two or more DVD burners and a big RAID array and extra hard drives – even though we think we could see a better distribution of the connectors, i.e. three cables with three connectors each instead of two cables with four connectors each.

This unit also has all the basic stuff everyone is looking for nowadays: high efficiency, active PFC, excellent cooling solution, enough power to feed high-end video cards, five-year warranty and the best of all: it can really deliver its rated 750 W at 50º C. Not only that. During our tests we could pull up to 900 W at 45º C. So you will be basically buying a 900 W power supply paying the price of a 750 W one. What is sweeter than that?

The only thing we didn’t like about it is its electrical noise level. Even though noise level was within ATX specs we expected that this unit would produce a lower noise level. This “problem” should not worry Average Joe, but if you are an extreme enthusiast looking for a flawless power supply you should look for another 750 W model with lower electric noise level.

Don’t get us wrong, this power supply is a terrific product and we do recommend it, all we want to say is that it isn’t flawless. And that is why we are giving it our “Silver Award” instead of “Golden”.

The are a great PSU and a Great price!!

Blue

My Corsair is Killer!!

The 800's are Great too..

yeah but its not this psu it was the Tagan that is now laying in pieces ATM. and yes i got 2 pics of the tagan. since i took it apart cause i need a long jumper so i could use it to connect it to the 12v 4 pin moldex port on the mobo.

since i had no moldex close by or even long enough to reach and i knew that the tagan had 1 just for this reason and so i took it apart. well when i took the top cover off i 1st notice that the 1 of the fans was not plug in. yeah remember me saying that it had a fan not working?

and then 2nd there is 4 screws that normally would hold down the pcb that has all the psu stuff on it well there WASNT ANY SCREWS so then i then after i cut all of the cables off i then notice that 1 of the big capacitors was smashed in.

then the 4th thing i notice when i turn the pcb upside down there is some crappy soldering/patch work. well here is 2 pictures to look at




and and just in case anyone gets confused when the very 1st 285 i had went up in smoke i was running the tagan psu !!!

and i installed the OCZ psu cause it was my back up psu because a wk later the tagan died on me. in which then tagan took 3 months of saying they were fixing it but really they were not doing a dam thing but taking parts off of it to fix other.

so NEVER EVER BUY A TAGAN POWER SUPPLY BECAUSE THEY SUCK AND WHEN YOUR POWER SUPPLY DIES FOR THE SECOND TIME IN LESS THEN 2 YEARS THEY WILL NOT DO A DAM THING TO FIX IT. AND YES IT HAS A 3 YEAR WARRANTY!!

THERE WARRANTY MEANS JACK!!

sorry but had to let it out not to happy at tagan!!

Greybear wrote:Install the 178.24 driver and see what it does.

But it definitely sounds like the card or the PSU(going bad) is bad. But try it in the friends comp...make sure his PSU can handle it....

well the oldest driver i got is a 178.26 but i dont know if it would work or not though. since they didnt have the gtx200 series out back then. but in 9hr i will find out if it is the 285 or my system so i guess i better get to bed. since i have to get up in a few hrs.

and the leak 191.00 driver sucks real bad for me even though everyone else loves it. went back to the 190.15 driver for right now till i can decide what to do next or evga tech does.

I had to roll back to the 185.85 drivers, the 190.xx's were just crap on a stick for me.

Good luck with your card, bro. There really could be a problem with the mainboard, due to that piece of shit Tagan. When a PSU goes out it usually takes a lot with it. When that Ultra X Connect I had went up in smoke, so did my beautiful AV8, the 6800GT, and a hard drive. How the CPU survived I don't know. Chris.

well i hope there isnt anything wrong with my ip35 since abit isnt around. cause im fk then it there is. but the tagan when it went out was wierd it sparked when i started my pc up and i have no clue as to why either and nether did tagan then again by there work i guess they wouldnt anyways.

well in while i will find out if it is my system or not for sure. but it is strange that my old 8800gtx runs way better then the 285 does!!

oh does anyone remember if the abit ip35 pro pci-e slots where 1.1 or 2.0 ? i can not find any info since over in evga forum someone mention it and i dont remember and i cant seem to find abit web site anymore.

thanks for the add info. and i did find more info on another foorum as well from a link that another poster posted.

but from what i understand from someone that i know that is using this same mobo with a gtx280 with no issue at all.

he told me he thinks it is my psu that is at the root of my problem. since it is a older psu with a multi 12v rail system which at that time they did not properly run all to well.

or distribute the amprage on the multi 12volt rails. and since this 285 is a power hungry beast. and the 8800gtx is not so much of 1 that is why it runs better on my system as to the 285 does not.

and that the pci-e 1.1 being the problem has nothing to do with it all. and right now i just tried another test with my XP raid disconnected and 1 optical with no power hook up to them.

and ran the same test spot as i did for the EVGA tech and the same thing happen. so i guess i will wait and see.. for what i did and hope it does not bit me in the ass cause i did something i hope i wont regret in doing and Blue knows what that is...
ush is the secret word of the day right now

well sunday was a day i wish never happen now cause that friend his pc end up dieing. after i put my 285 in it and when it boot up well let say it was fine till i found out he had 2 OS. on 2 dif hard drives and after i found out that i was not on the drive he normally play on and that he only uses it to save stuff on.

i waited till after i was able to do stuff cause had to wait to get mouse control ya know, the razur need windows to install some drivers for it so after it did i was able to move around and such. so after that i was able to install a gfx driver cause actually after that is when i found out i was in the wrong drive and OS.

so i then click reboot and then got into bios so far so good ok. havent gotten to the nightmare yet. well i change the boot priority to the other hard drive no biggie ya know. since the other drive was a sata drive and the other was a ide drive. so i then hit F10 and then enter.

ok everything after this is the nightmare. it rebooted and when it did it didnt have the what OS you want to pick from screen pop up this time, ok weird. then it gets to the desk top and i can tell we are in the other hard drive cause there is other icon and no pic on the desk top.

of i get a windows pop up for new device found and asking what i want to do. ok i cant do nothing at this time cause i have no mouse or key board control or even lights on key board.

and the hard drive light is solid bright to and so i figure we can wait till it is done loading up. 20 to 30 minutes go by and nothing has change! nothing so i figure well windows must have locked up so i then push the pwoer button in to power it down.

now this is where you scream!

it never reboots or gets a monitor ever since! only thing that does come on are the fans and only the fans nothing else works!! im like WTF!!?? i figure well clear CMOS maybe that will fix it since it seem to work before i change the boot priority . well i tried to clear it around 30 or so times and still nothing.

welli then try and pull all the ram out and see if i get any thing from the mobo and i did some beeps so k that uis some what good news. so i then try with 1 stick our of 4 installed , nope that didnt work. well i then unplug the sata drive,nope still no go.

then i try and unplug the ied drive and see if the sata would work and nope. so far i have no monitor and no lights on mouse and key board. so i figure well maybe i try a different usb ports, nope didnt matter what port i tried still nothing so i try with no mouse or key board plug in still nothing.

so i think ok my 285 is now dead and i figure stick his 295 back in and see if all is well. Nope sure didnt fix nothing not a dam thing !! im like WTF it was just working fine and now i change the boot priority and it goes to hell!!

so i tell him i will call asus in the morning and find out if and what they will do with his striker 2 formula. and i will stick his hard drives in my case to make sure they where not locked up and are still good or not.

which i was able to to do and was able to check them both out. so atleast his drives are good and so is the info cause he wants his codwaw profile yet.

well the good news is that asus will do a cross ship with it and i got the form email to them and the friend did the 2day ship for $15 so some time this wk hopefully there will be a mobo here and i can do the swap.

abd get his rig back up abnd running.

now here is something i didnt know about this mobo. he has had nothing but trouble with it and it was doing what mine is doing which is stuttering and other stuff and it was not stable for him at all. and he does not over clock either so running a system at stock clocks and not stable is not good.

bad thing is he got a open box mobo from newegg which i told him to never do cause there warranty is 30days only from newegg after that you deal with the company that made it. well guess i got to mess with the company for him.

1 thing i will say asus they sure have change over the last 3 yrs since the last time i had to deal with them. even via email hell cause on sunday night i sent out a email to them and they replied on monday, thats a 1st and when i called them no monday i got a human on the 1st call!!

and then after talking to the rma guy he said well here is your rma number and your mobo qualify for cross ship so that was cool. i told him that i was working on a friends pc and all.

he sent the email to me and i filled out the form and the friend fill his section out and i emailed it back to them and right now we will be waiting for the rma to show up.

since he said i did everything there was to do and since i even tested the psu with my psu tester i have which works great BTW!! i think anyone that works on pc or has 1 should get 1 they are great and if you have a water cooled system. they really work out great for that to.

so in the end i hope it comes out good if not better.

One good reson I never work on PC's on Sunday. Sunday is for naps, NASTYCAR, Chinese food, some more naps, Discover Channel, and some more naps. Oh and a few video games.

well i guess i can add sundays to the Do Not Work on pc after mid night rule then uh? man i was so pi$$ off when that happen and all cause all i wanted to do is to see if my 285 would do the same thing in his but also i didnt know he still had problems with his yet. cause i thought he had his fix from last wk.

guess not i guess i was the straw that broke the camel back i guess.