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Orion329 · 09-19-2007, 08:37 PM

Alright, so just so I don't get you too excited, the new ram didn't work...go figure.

Anyways, I popped it in, after resetting the bios, I lit the system up. Low and behold, now the system won't even post, I don't ever get a video signal to the monitor, the comforting "beep" that accompanies the boot doesn't sound, and the system spins its fans indefinitely.

I wanted to see if the board was even conscious, so I pulled all the ram: no result, I pulled the graphics card: no result, I unplugged every peripheral from the motherboard except power, and it still did nothing. So by this point, I'm thinking that the mobo's a piece of crap and that good ol' Asus should yank the "u" out of its name to better represent it's performance.

Anyways, I figured the only real other possible explanations could be some odd grounding issues or the cpu. I proceeded to set up the system outside of the case to check to make sure it wasn't my case (Coolermaster Praetorian). This yeilded no result the first time I switched it on, but the second time it let out a long consistent "beep." I assumed this to be the keyboard missing code, and then plugged that in, restarted. This time there was again nothing. I restarted without the keyboard, and this time it gave me a long-short-short message. Huh?

Anyways, I went through adding the ram and then the graphics card and somewhere in there I did see the bios loading screen, but just for a moment before freezing. I'm almost 100% sure that either the bios has some major issues or the board is bunk. In either case, the lack of consistency in at least freezing and/or booting has pretty much led me to believe I should look into a different board, even if this one is just a "lemon."

I'm going to go pop off the heatsink and double-check the processor, reapply the heatsink and try it one more time, but unless you've got any ideas solman, I'm probably going to rma return this board ASAP. Let me know if you believe this to be some other issue.

and btw, any ideas what board would be best suited for stable overclocking of a Q6600 if sli isn't a necessity?

09-19-2007, 08:37 PM	#14 (permalink)
Orion329 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 21 OS: Win XP Pro	Re: New Build Issues, Please Help P5N32-E Alright, so just so I don't get you too excited, the new ram didn't work...go figure. Anyways, I popped it in, after resetting the bios, I lit the system up. Low and behold, now the system won't even post, I don't ever get a video signal to the monitor, the comforting "beep" that accompanies the boot doesn't sound, and the system spins its fans indefinitely. I wanted to see if the board was even conscious, so I pulled all the ram: no result, I pulled the graphics card: no result, I unplugged every peripheral from the motherboard except power, and it still did nothing. So by this point, I'm thinking that the mobo's a piece of crap and that good ol' Asus should yank the "u" out of its name to better represent it's performance. Anyways, I figured the only real other possible explanations could be some odd grounding issues or the cpu. I proceeded to set up the system outside of the case to check to make sure it wasn't my case (Coolermaster Praetorian). This yeilded no result the first time I switched it on, but the second time it let out a long consistent "beep." I assumed this to be the keyboard missing code, and then plugged that in, restarted. This time there was again nothing. I restarted without the keyboard, and this time it gave me a long-short-short message. Huh? Anyways, I went through adding the ram and then the graphics card and somewhere in there I did see the bios loading screen, but just for a moment before freezing. I'm almost 100% sure that either the bios has some major issues or the board is bunk. In either case, the lack of consistency in at least freezing and/or booting has pretty much led me to believe I should look into a different board, even if this one is just a "lemon." I'm going to go pop off the heatsink and double-check the processor, reapply the heatsink and try it one more time, but unless you've got any ideas solman, I'm probably going to rma return this board ASAP. Let me know if you believe this to be some other issue. and btw, any ideas what board would be best suited for stable overclocking of a Q6600 if sli isn't a necessity?