I know the answer to this question, but I thought I'd ask just so I can say I exausted all possibilities.
I have an old Asus motherboard, an A8V-E Deluxe. It stopped posting completely at random a few weeks ago. I replaced it with another 939 board I borrowed, just to make sure it was the problem, and it was. Everything started up fine with the new board.
I looked around and couldn't find another A8V-E, or much of any 939 boards, for a decent price. So I ordered one off eBay that was listed as new. It worked! I let it run for about 6 hours before I started stress testing it with Prime95. It lasted about an hour of stress testing and crashed.
Now it posts, but locks up during startup. Rarely does it get past counting the memory. It hasn't gotten past detecting IDE drives, and if I unplug the IDE drives it will lock up when it should be looking for them.
I tried switching the BIOS chip from the old board to the new one, same behavior. I now have 2 non functioning A8V-E motherboards.
Is there any way to isolate the problem on either board and get one of them working?
When all this started I wanted to replace the board with the same one. I've since given up on that. So a second question. Does anyone know where to get a good, new, 939 motherboard?
I have an old Asus motherboard, an A8V-E Deluxe. It stopped posting completely at random a few weeks ago. I replaced it with another 939 board I borrowed, just to make sure it was the problem, and it was. Everything started up fine with the new board.
I looked around and couldn't find another A8V-E, or much of any 939 boards, for a decent price. So I ordered one off eBay that was listed as new. It worked! I let it run for about 6 hours before I started stress testing it with Prime95. It lasted about an hour of stress testing and crashed.
Now it posts, but locks up during startup. Rarely does it get past counting the memory. It hasn't gotten past detecting IDE drives, and if I unplug the IDE drives it will lock up when it should be looking for them.
I tried switching the BIOS chip from the old board to the new one, same behavior. I now have 2 non functioning A8V-E motherboards.
Is there any way to isolate the problem on either board and get one of them working?
When all this started I wanted to replace the board with the same one. I've since given up on that. So a second question. Does anyone know where to get a good, new, 939 motherboard?