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I have this motherboard. I was happily using it today to look for a new soundcard, since the ALC850 onboard sounds horrible, and ::: poof ::: blue screen of death (stop 00000004 - I think, couldn't get more). It posted one more time, died in the middle of a boot and now the LED Fan lights just flicker when I turn the power supply off and back on, and press the power button. It won't turn on either, when I hit the little button on the motherboard to turn it on either.
I put new RAM in it yesterday, but before I even got started I ran Memtest to make sure all was well with it. It passed just fine. I then proceeded to bench it and test it for stability several times. I even played Titan Quest for three hours with it last night. While I was gaming, I noticed something weird, though, this might be a Titan Quest problem. Frame rates would come to a crawl (>5 FPS) until I went in to the options and "reset" the display (did this by turning vsync on and then back off).
I tried reseating the video card, and again, it posted for about 20 seconds (eVGA 6800 GT) then died, this time to not POST anymore. I popped a 6600 PCI-X in there, still no POST. Unplugged PATA, DVD-ROM drive and SATA cables from the motherboard (though thinking about it, I did leave power to the two sata drives plugged in but I pulled it for the PATA and DVD drives.)
THEN, I yanked out all of the new RAM, and put in a stick of OCZ RAM that was working fine in it (OCZ is two 512 mb chips, I got 2 1GB chips from NewEgg - tried each chip seperately). Still no go. I tried clearing the CMOS. Nothing. LED's on the fan come on, but it immediately shuts right back off.
My PS is this.
I don't think it's the PS, but I really don't know how to test it, and since the case fan LED's and the PS's LED come on, I figured it's okay.
I have a 4000+ San Diego. I really don't know where to go from here. Is it the motherboard? Did the new RAM (admittedly cheap, got two 1GB sticks of this ) kill it? I don't really think that's possible, but hell I'm willing to believe anything at this point.
Is it the video card? Help.
EDIT: Reading the Newegg reviews, maybe it is the power supply. Would the fan LED's still come on if this was the problem? Also, I've noticed that it seems a bit warmer inside the case than it should be, since I have an side panel intake fan and two exhaust fans. Would the PS cause any of these troubles?
Damn. I just wanted to build a halfway decent system that I could eventually put a Geforce 8800 GTS into when the price comes down . Now a big chunk of my storage is down (at least I floated the PATA's to external cases, since I had just formatted the PATA RAID array, anyway.) My two SATA's had a freaking movie on it that I was watching and of course didn't finish and figured "oh, I'll finish watching it when my new sound card comes in". Damn . My M-Audio Revolution 5.1 will be in tomorrow, and I have no system to put it in.
I put new RAM in it yesterday, but before I even got started I ran Memtest to make sure all was well with it. It passed just fine. I then proceeded to bench it and test it for stability several times. I even played Titan Quest for three hours with it last night. While I was gaming, I noticed something weird, though, this might be a Titan Quest problem. Frame rates would come to a crawl (>5 FPS) until I went in to the options and "reset" the display (did this by turning vsync on and then back off).
I tried reseating the video card, and again, it posted for about 20 seconds (eVGA 6800 GT) then died, this time to not POST anymore. I popped a 6600 PCI-X in there, still no POST. Unplugged PATA, DVD-ROM drive and SATA cables from the motherboard (though thinking about it, I did leave power to the two sata drives plugged in but I pulled it for the PATA and DVD drives.)
THEN, I yanked out all of the new RAM, and put in a stick of OCZ RAM that was working fine in it (OCZ is two 512 mb chips, I got 2 1GB chips from NewEgg - tried each chip seperately). Still no go. I tried clearing the CMOS. Nothing. LED's on the fan come on, but it immediately shuts right back off.
My PS is this.
I don't think it's the PS, but I really don't know how to test it, and since the case fan LED's and the PS's LED come on, I figured it's okay.
I have a 4000+ San Diego. I really don't know where to go from here. Is it the motherboard? Did the new RAM (admittedly cheap, got two 1GB sticks of this ) kill it? I don't really think that's possible, but hell I'm willing to believe anything at this point.
Is it the video card? Help.
EDIT: Reading the Newegg reviews, maybe it is the power supply. Would the fan LED's still come on if this was the problem? Also, I've noticed that it seems a bit warmer inside the case than it should be, since I have an side panel intake fan and two exhaust fans. Would the PS cause any of these troubles?
Damn. I just wanted to build a halfway decent system that I could eventually put a Geforce 8800 GTS into when the price comes down . Now a big chunk of my storage is down (at least I floated the PATA's to external cases, since I had just formatted the PATA RAID array, anyway.) My two SATA's had a freaking movie on it that I was watching and of course didn't finish and figured "oh, I'll finish watching it when my new sound card comes in". Damn . My M-Audio Revolution 5.1 will be in tomorrow, and I have no system to put it in.