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Ok, here goes a long series of problems I've had.
I moved my PC to another room for Christmas Day so we could use the table. The PC was last used the night before and was fine then. I'd been having problems with power before this. When left off I'd have to either pull the AC out until all power was drained from the board, or, reset the CMOS in order to get it to boot. However it was fine while it was working.
Anyway, I moved the PC to another room, then back again the next day (Boxing Day) and hooked everything up. I got the usual problem, only this time resetting the CMOS and pulling the AC wouldn't work. I disassmbled my PC and built it back onto the box using just the core components. No life. The fans would whir faster and slower and the HDD activity LED on the board would get brighter and dimmer.
PSU problem, I thought. So, I raided a PSU from another PC. I literally turned it off just to pull the PSU out. I hooked it up to my computer, now on a cardboard box and turned it on. I got no display, no beep codes, no POST. Argh, but at least I thought I'd found the problem. New PSU time?
So, I hooked up the working PSU back to the PC it came from... then that PC had no beep, no display and no POST. After a lot of messing around and reading the ASUS forums I managed to get it to POST by using RAM in either slots B1 and A1. I can put two sticks of RAM in those DIMM sockets and use the PC. Both sticks of RAM passed memtest86, but as a result they won't work in dual channel mode. Trying to use either of the two other DIMM sockets results in the PC not POSTing or giving a signal to the display.
So, what the hell to do?
My PC is an ASUS Striker II Formula with an OCZ PSU. Pretty sure the PSU has gone, has it taken the board with it?
The other PC is a ASUS P5Q and an Antec Earthwatts 500w PSU.
The Earthwatts PSU is working fine and when tried on the suspected S II F board, the fans run perfectly but I get nothing on the display and no error beeps (if no RAM is installed it should beep to tell me?)
The I'm at a loss. No idea why the P5Q has decided to not allow two DIMM sockets to work, either.
Is it possible the PSU buggered the STriker II and then the Striker II took out the other motherboard? I don't think it is, but I'm at a loss here.
Should I RMA both boards and the PSU? The Striker is with OCUK and in warranty, but I don't want to return it when it's working ok, waste money and OCUK time.
I moved my PC to another room for Christmas Day so we could use the table. The PC was last used the night before and was fine then. I'd been having problems with power before this. When left off I'd have to either pull the AC out until all power was drained from the board, or, reset the CMOS in order to get it to boot. However it was fine while it was working.
Anyway, I moved the PC to another room, then back again the next day (Boxing Day) and hooked everything up. I got the usual problem, only this time resetting the CMOS and pulling the AC wouldn't work. I disassmbled my PC and built it back onto the box using just the core components. No life. The fans would whir faster and slower and the HDD activity LED on the board would get brighter and dimmer.
PSU problem, I thought. So, I raided a PSU from another PC. I literally turned it off just to pull the PSU out. I hooked it up to my computer, now on a cardboard box and turned it on. I got no display, no beep codes, no POST. Argh, but at least I thought I'd found the problem. New PSU time?
So, I hooked up the working PSU back to the PC it came from... then that PC had no beep, no display and no POST. After a lot of messing around and reading the ASUS forums I managed to get it to POST by using RAM in either slots B1 and A1. I can put two sticks of RAM in those DIMM sockets and use the PC. Both sticks of RAM passed memtest86, but as a result they won't work in dual channel mode. Trying to use either of the two other DIMM sockets results in the PC not POSTing or giving a signal to the display.
So, what the hell to do?
My PC is an ASUS Striker II Formula with an OCZ PSU. Pretty sure the PSU has gone, has it taken the board with it?
The other PC is a ASUS P5Q and an Antec Earthwatts 500w PSU.
The Earthwatts PSU is working fine and when tried on the suspected S II F board, the fans run perfectly but I get nothing on the display and no error beeps (if no RAM is installed it should beep to tell me?)
The I'm at a loss. No idea why the P5Q has decided to not allow two DIMM sockets to work, either.
Is it possible the PSU buggered the STriker II and then the Striker II took out the other motherboard? I don't think it is, but I'm at a loss here.
Should I RMA both boards and the PSU? The Striker is with OCUK and in warranty, but I don't want to return it when it's working ok, waste money and OCUK time.
