The system is build for a friend, and I had just recieved the card for the Chaintech board, which has no on-board video. So, when I got a beep that shouldn't be there after I heard the BIOS load, I assumed the video card was defective, or imcompatable.

After the guys at the Docking Station took a look at the system, they said that it was probably refusing to boot because there was no heatsink on the CPU. Chaintech is smart like that so, I slapped myself in the forhead for being so stupid, and got a Barton2500 sink from Kayin.

When I started this project, it was only supposed to be an upgrade, but it turned into a sytem build. The only part I kept from the old rig was the processor. Because of this unexpected development, the project ran into me helping my family move to Birmingham, and thus the part for the system were sent to THREE separate shipping addresses. So, During all that, I'd forgotten that my heatsink hadn't arrived.

One might expect the story to end here, and do so happily, but for those paying attention to the name of this thread...ThermalTake. ThemalTake's active RAM cooling doesn't allow the RAM to sit properly unless there are at least two RAM slots in use, so the system would not boot.

I had to use Pliers just to get the tabs on the end to hold the lenght of the Kinston PC 21000 I was using, right from the get go. I Had on out of the box Active cooler form ThemalTake which I DID NOT use pliers on, and it also keeps the RAM from sitting properly.

I know that the Giant--VGA cooler) I bought is the good stuff, but ThermalTake goes in nothing else I build. (With the exeption of the Giant. It can stay.)

ThermalTake. Grrrr...

Guys, there's not much this one didn't do. The only one worse is the FBI story, but that's for another thread.

<--- <3's thermaltake. <3's Vantec More though.

Like the new avatar Kayin, except is it just me or does it look like Mr. Hanky left a skid mark on the face?