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Need help here as to whether my ASUS Commando mobo has gone and died on me. I've heard it can sometimes be a problematic mobo. Here are the system specs of the afflicted PC, it's 2 and a half years old and never been overclocked:
ASUS Commando mobo (recent BIOS, 160 I think)
Intel C2D X6800 @ stock speed (with Artic Freezer cooler)
2x Corsair Dominator DDR2 PC-8500
Geforce 8800GTX
2x 320GB Hitachi Deskstars
2x Plextor DVD drives
Floppy drive
I been having problems in the recent past with it such as the odd random crashes under load, BSOD with random music CDs, 2 dead Plextor drives (power calibration failure) and 1 set of Corsair RAM dying. Anyhoo, yesterday it went very pear shaped whilst working on it (graphic design).
The PC locked up and the screen went black with diagonal blue dots all across it. Crtl+Alt+Del did at one point bring back the desktop but a horrible broken image with horizontal TV-like static. Rebooted, it powered up, but no POST or beeps. Cleared the CMOS, it powered up, beeped, but no POST. LCD display at the back showed a CMOS Error. In both cases the screen was totally blank, screen is OK as it's on another PC now.
Here's what I've tried so far apart from the normal clearing of the CMOS:
1) Clearing CMOS, removing battery for 15 mins and then putting it back in and locking the CMOS.
2) Different RAM stick configurations, including using lower voltage PC-5300 RAM.
3) Booted with just the CPU, VGA, and RAM. It failed to power up once doing this.
Most of the time it powered up, blank screen, beeped, no POST, triple beeped and gave out a CMOS Error. On a few occassions it beepd only once and came back with a DRAM Detection (error?) message.
What I haven't tried yet:
1) Test PSU in another PC.
2) Test graphics....can't do this because I don't have access to a PC with a PCI-E slot.
3) Test CPU....same problem with the graphics card no access to another LGA775 mobo otherwise I could eliminate the CPU and graphics card.
4) Boot with the motherboard only. Rebuild and then try to boot.
One of my acquaintance who's more knowledgeable than I reckons it's a dead mobo. Temps have all been fine whilst it was working so it's not been overheating, and CPU cooler is seated correctly. And on a side note I have noticed there is one capacitor with what looks like a rusty liquid like stain on it. What do you guys think?
ASUS Commando mobo (recent BIOS, 160 I think)
Intel C2D X6800 @ stock speed (with Artic Freezer cooler)
2x Corsair Dominator DDR2 PC-8500
Geforce 8800GTX
2x 320GB Hitachi Deskstars
2x Plextor DVD drives
Floppy drive
I been having problems in the recent past with it such as the odd random crashes under load, BSOD with random music CDs, 2 dead Plextor drives (power calibration failure) and 1 set of Corsair RAM dying. Anyhoo, yesterday it went very pear shaped whilst working on it (graphic design).
The PC locked up and the screen went black with diagonal blue dots all across it. Crtl+Alt+Del did at one point bring back the desktop but a horrible broken image with horizontal TV-like static. Rebooted, it powered up, but no POST or beeps. Cleared the CMOS, it powered up, beeped, but no POST. LCD display at the back showed a CMOS Error. In both cases the screen was totally blank, screen is OK as it's on another PC now.
Here's what I've tried so far apart from the normal clearing of the CMOS:
1) Clearing CMOS, removing battery for 15 mins and then putting it back in and locking the CMOS.
2) Different RAM stick configurations, including using lower voltage PC-5300 RAM.
3) Booted with just the CPU, VGA, and RAM. It failed to power up once doing this.
Most of the time it powered up, blank screen, beeped, no POST, triple beeped and gave out a CMOS Error. On a few occassions it beepd only once and came back with a DRAM Detection (error?) message.
What I haven't tried yet:
1) Test PSU in another PC.
2) Test graphics....can't do this because I don't have access to a PC with a PCI-E slot.
3) Test CPU....same problem with the graphics card no access to another LGA775 mobo otherwise I could eliminate the CPU and graphics card.
4) Boot with the motherboard only. Rebuild and then try to boot.
One of my acquaintance who's more knowledgeable than I reckons it's a dead mobo. Temps have all been fine whilst it was working so it's not been overheating, and CPU cooler is seated correctly. And on a side note I have noticed there is one capacitor with what looks like a rusty liquid like stain on it. What do you guys think?
