Returned board from RMA

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dr4g0nf1y

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Got home a few hours ago to find that my motherboard returned today.

Those of you who read my previous topic on the subject would know it was a cpu init problem.

Basically they sent me an email on thursday saying that there was nothing wrong with the board at all.

Anyway set everything up on my table and still have the same problem.

The power is connected but the system is off. The poster states CPU Init. When I press the on button nothing posts, no sounds and after a second everything switches off. When I say everything I mean the fans switch off.

all of the onboard leds are lit up to green, orange and red except for the cpu which none of the leds are lit up.

Now this could be the cpu but I'm not sure if all the leds that state normal, high and crazy are lit up at start?

I don't want to get another cpu for this which will be my back up system now if the board is still knackered.

Any thoughts?
 
Oh man, I'm sorry to hear it. Rma can be hell.

I missed your previous thread, what socket is the motherboard? Cpus do fail. It is rare, but it happens. My last motherboard killed its cpu. I think you probably need to get a spare cpu to test, I picked up a 775 one for a tenner.

The other candidate is psu, I take it you've already ruled this out?
 
rampage formula 775 socket

The question is when you turn on your computer, do all your leds on the board light up or just light up to the state that you've overclocked to
 
I got lights on the board with or without a working cpu, but that was a P5Q. Does the computer behave exactly the same with the cpu removed as it does with it present?
How goes trial and error with memory? Any beeps?
 
I popped the same cpu back in....

Thing is I couldn't clear cmos before and the people I sent it back to said they cleared it but I placed the same cpu back in.

when it first happened I thought it was either the board or the cpu, but I don't want to place another cpu in there if they haven't fixed the board or the same thing could happen to that cpu.

If they're saying the board is fixed then fine... it would make sense that the cpu is the problem, but I''m worried about those leds on the CPU, SB, NB, RAM etc

Is this normal on for them all to come up?
 
Take a picture of the LEDs in question and post it on the manufacturers forums or email it to them stating your concern. Might aswell post it here too.

Can u give full system specs ?
 
BIGBC said:
Can u give full system specs ?
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That's not really important. It's simply a motherboard, cpu, a stick of ram, a gpu and a power supply at the moment.

If it matters....

ASUS Rampage Formula 775 socket ROG Edition
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16GHz
2GB OCZ DDR2 800MHz
Unbranded PSU 550watt
and an old Gigabyte Nvidea 6600 Dual GPU 256mb PCI-E

It's got nothing to do with the PSU as I've tried it with my OCZ 850watt which I'm using now, as too the 4850's.

This is what the leds are described as...

In the pursuit of extreme performance, overvoltage adjustment is critical but risky. Acting as the "red zone" of a tachometer, the Voltiminder LED displays the voltage status for CPU, NB, SB, and Memory in a intuitive color-coded fashion. The voltiminder LED allows quick voltage monitoring for overclockers
 
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