bob16314 stated " It should start the POST code sequence with FF, cycle through various POST codes, and end on FF..Ending on FF is a good thing..We like to say it means 'Fully Functional'..But it's really hexidecimal for 255, the end..All is well..Carry on."
Awesome answer ! FF= Fully Functional - " I can't believe I've forgotten all the Binary coded stuff. Decimal, Hexidecimal and Octal. Base 2, 10 and 16. Wow!
Cobol, Basic. Fortran, C, then came C++, Ada ... IDK .. so much since the 1980's.
I just remember Dumb Terminals and those record album size floppy discs and paper punch tapes being read on reel to reel. Monochrome monitors. Dial Up Baud Modems.
Tube Testers for Triode, Pentode and your Power Tubes and Solid State Components/ Transistor theory was an incoming thing. Now we have Surface Mount components and microchips.
The world of ESD. Zap - hey ..it don't work anymore. Static --- it's everywhere unless you run an Ionizer.
** Any recommendation on which nVidia gpu I should use ?
Thinking of GIGABYTE GV-N670OC-2GD Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 Windforce OC 2048MB 2GB GDDR5 or Asus GTX660Ti DirectCU II TOP.
GTX 670 performs better than GTX 660Ti and about the same as a GTX 760. It has to be a non-UEFI Bios card using VGA-Legacy firmware since 790i FTW does not support UEFI.
The mother board has a rough time with MSI AMD Radeon R9 280x card (Oct 2013) VGA-Legacy// and it won't boot at all to Windows using MSI HD 6870 (Dec 2010) unless you uninstall AMD Driver.
This is why I want to get a high end nVidia gpu and believe the GTX 670 is the most extreme as should not bottleneck with QX9650 cpu @ 4.0GHz.
Thought about the 4GB (Vram) GTX 670 but its too wide and wouldn't be able to do SLI and if I did ... the heat problem because of no space between gpu's.
#Appears we have a new winner: GeForce GTX 680 EVGA SC Edition or FTW+ after watching a You Tube video being runned on a 680i mobo.
High expectations on the GTX 685 card but looks like it got canned after a possible limited production.
post edited by RICHJR - 2017/06/17 17:09:53