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First, my rant.
I ordered a new system from newegg consisting of an A8N-SLI Deluxe, MSI 7800 GTX Lite, 3800+ X2, 2gb Corsair XMS.
And it won't post. I call Asus tech to find out it's not even getting to the CPU diagnostics part of POST, and it won't read out the "no cpu installed" message.
So I RMA the motherboard and CPU (just in case) to newegg for replacements.
I find out a week later they're OOS on the mobo so they refund me, great. I order the CPU and mobo from ZZF and get it Monday. This time I get the no cpu message! Great, so I plug the chip in. But it still won't post, in fact it won't get past the CPU check. So I call Asus again and find out that I have an old BIOS revision and they're gonna send me a new chip that will support the X2. I get the chip today, install it, and guess what, still won't fucking work. Even though there's no rev sticker on the BIOS chip they're insisting they flashed the latest version, and either my motherboard or cpu is dead.
Fucking great.
I was tempted to just send everything back and eat the $225 restocking fee on $1500 worth of gear, just to be fucking rid of all this. But now I'm thinking I'll give it another shot, with a non fucking goddamn Asus board that I can be sure that will support the X2.
The plan now is to return the cpu and board to ZZF for a refund (sans 15%), and order a different combo off of newegg tonight, so hopefully I can get this working once and for all.
So, anyone have any recommendations? I'm usually a pretty big Abit !!!!!!, but I've been swayed to stay away from their nForce4 offering based on a few reviews I've read.
ps: The common threads in both systems failing have been the power supply (Antec 450w off of the Sonata II), the ram, 2gb Corsair XMS, and the video card, MSI 7800 GTX, is there any chance that somehow one of these is defective and is somehow fubaring the motherboard/cpu which in turn caused it to fail the cpu check tests. I know it sounds ridiculous but I think the chances of 2 dead motherboards/cpus or the combination of the two is extremely remote.
pps:
What would you guys do in my situation?
I mean I have a couple of options.
Keep playing replacement tag until I get a combo that works (I'd rather not). I don't have that much time left on the original order (nearing 3 weeks, 30 day limit)
Just fucking forget the entire thing and return everything and maybe build a new system down the road. The problem with this is I just got a Dell 2405FPW to compliment the new system which I would probably end up returning, which I really don't want to do.
Or...
Order a new combo from newegg tonight and have it overnighted so I can potentially have it up and running by this weekend, only losing out on the 15% restocking fee on ~500 from ZZF.
Or something else?
I ordered a new system from newegg consisting of an A8N-SLI Deluxe, MSI 7800 GTX Lite, 3800+ X2, 2gb Corsair XMS.
And it won't post. I call Asus tech to find out it's not even getting to the CPU diagnostics part of POST, and it won't read out the "no cpu installed" message.
So I RMA the motherboard and CPU (just in case) to newegg for replacements.
I find out a week later they're OOS on the mobo so they refund me, great. I order the CPU and mobo from ZZF and get it Monday. This time I get the no cpu message! Great, so I plug the chip in. But it still won't post, in fact it won't get past the CPU check. So I call Asus again and find out that I have an old BIOS revision and they're gonna send me a new chip that will support the X2. I get the chip today, install it, and guess what, still won't fucking work. Even though there's no rev sticker on the BIOS chip they're insisting they flashed the latest version, and either my motherboard or cpu is dead.
Fucking great.
I was tempted to just send everything back and eat the $225 restocking fee on $1500 worth of gear, just to be fucking rid of all this. But now I'm thinking I'll give it another shot, with a non fucking goddamn Asus board that I can be sure that will support the X2.
The plan now is to return the cpu and board to ZZF for a refund (sans 15%), and order a different combo off of newegg tonight, so hopefully I can get this working once and for all.
So, anyone have any recommendations? I'm usually a pretty big Abit !!!!!!, but I've been swayed to stay away from their nForce4 offering based on a few reviews I've read.
ps: The common threads in both systems failing have been the power supply (Antec 450w off of the Sonata II), the ram, 2gb Corsair XMS, and the video card, MSI 7800 GTX, is there any chance that somehow one of these is defective and is somehow fubaring the motherboard/cpu which in turn caused it to fail the cpu check tests. I know it sounds ridiculous but I think the chances of 2 dead motherboards/cpus or the combination of the two is extremely remote.
pps:
What would you guys do in my situation?
I mean I have a couple of options.
Keep playing replacement tag until I get a combo that works (I'd rather not). I don't have that much time left on the original order (nearing 3 weeks, 30 day limit)
Just fucking forget the entire thing and return everything and maybe build a new system down the road. The problem with this is I just got a Dell 2405FPW to compliment the new system which I would probably end up returning, which I really don't want to do.
Or...
Order a new combo from newegg tonight and have it overnighted so I can potentially have it up and running by this weekend, only losing out on the 15% restocking fee on ~500 from ZZF.
Or something else?