Replacement motherboard advice please

Syphon

Syphon

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Hi,

I built a PC for a friend a while ago with the following spec:

Asus P5B Deluxe i965 s775 WiFi
Intel E6600 Core2Duo 2.40GHz
Csair DDR2 TWINX 2GB PC6400DHX

The motherboard has given up the ghost and he wants a replacement but is keeping the rest of the kit. Any suggestions? He needs to keep the wifi functionality and lots of usb ports would be a bonus.

Budget doesn't matter.

Many thanks. :)
 
Cheers. So the current memory and cpu will run fine on that board (just final check before I hit buy? :) It's got a good amount of usb ports too so that will please him.

Good call on the wifi. :)

Ta,

malcolm said:
The P5Q range get my vote, I have a P5Q Pro and find it very stable and tweakable.

You will need a new wi-fi adaptor though, I think the wi-fi adaptor for the P5B was unique to that board. But a PCI adaptor such as this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-041-EX&groupid=46&catid=1451&subcat=

won't add too much to your budget.
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I've just fixed a machine built around an Asus P5B Deluxe Wifi/AP and it had a similar problem to what you are describing. I removed one of the sticks of memory and it started working again, put the second stick back in and it failed to boot again, removed the same stick again and it booted fine, replaced the stick and now instead of no POST'ing it worked fine :confused:

Then went on to do a long overnight memtest with both sticks in and no errors reported? . . . once the machine was powered off after the long memtest it again failed to POST properly?

Eventually swapped out the sticks for some used Corsair DDR2-1066 and that solved all the problems, powered on and off a few dozen times and been folding without error for weeks . . .

Sent the faulty sticks back to Crucial who replaced them with a brand new set and sold then today at auction . . .

I have never experienced a faulty ASUS motherboard, I'm sure its possible but it's never happened to me! . . . . If I hadn't of swapped out the memory for another set and tested again I would have thought the mobo was at fault.

The odds of either the processor or motherboard being at fault are very slim indeed. There is a good chance the PSU could be at fault when used with the specific system but the greatest likely hood is that the memory is causing a problem . . .

If possible try the system with one stick of ram (try with each seperate stick) if no joy then try with another set of ram, test the PSU with a PSU tester (£14). if both the memory tests outlined above fail to get the system POST'ing and if the PSU checks out you may be in a better position to make a purchasing decision! :cool:
 
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