You're a moron. I do know what I'm talking about. I've built several computers myself thank you. I have purchased from Dell before as well and their customer service is awful.
It's a steal at $460, I could part it out for more than that easy. Of course thats way more work than it's worth.
I know it should be. Other than the windows 7 disc being faulty, but it seemed to load on the dell. The mem freq is set to corsair 1600Mhz, voltage at 1.65V, timings are all set to the 9-9-9-24-2T, set to boot from disk, shouldn't really matter what SATA ports but I have SATA 0 DVD, SATA 1 HD.. Keep getting windows loading files..
alright, moved the one ram stick all the way to the opposite rail, pulled all the cards, except one. All is well. Got the load screen, installing windows. How's my time for a noob Scat?
Better. Surprised you didn't know to do an OS install with only 1 video card mounted.. Hopefully the problem was too many video cards and had nothing to do with moving your RAM to a different slot...
Well, La-Dee-Da... Whaddaya want, a medal? You missed on this one.... and Dell's customer service is not always "awful"... in fact is quite excellent on the Precision line.
Andy: How's it going so far? In your BIOS/CMOS setup utililty, there should be some area that listed all the hardware config info. Did you double check everything? e.g. RAM: do all of them show up? CPU - the right chip model, clock speed? SATA configuration should have your DVD drive and hard drive listed I hope you are not using IDE drives. That's an older interface (some motherboard supports it). Does your MoBo have any onboard video out? Install only 1 video card first. Get both monitors working. Before you add the second video card. (and the third, etc.)