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Ayuh. I have 2 settings in BIOS: Q Fan and K8 cool n quiet. I've tried disabling both, enabling both, and then having one on and the other off. The best I can do is make it so booting doesn't report the error. But when I get to my desktop and PC Probe, the same error is still there.
I just got done talking to tech support again. He had me plug the chassis fan in chas2 power plug into the cpu power plug, and the cpu power plug into the chas2 plug. No difference, same error. SO then he told me to try running the motherboard with it uninstalled from the case, thinking that maybe I had a grounding issue with one of the motherboard stand-off screws. However even outside of the case I got the same error.
He told me if I did get the same error to contact RMA and have my replacement board replaced. I suppose it's possible that I had 2 boards, both with bad power connectors. I just never heard of that happening. In fact, i've owned 3 other Asus boards before this one and all of them performed perfectly out-of-the-box. To top it all off, when I removed the original motherboard I broke the plastic "lock" for the pcie slot. I sent em an email asking if they'd still take it, but I got a feeling I just bought another motherboard... :(
Right now i'm just waiting for them to reply to my email about the second board. On the one hand it's no big deal really. I can disable the error in BIOS and unchek it in PC Probe. On the other hand, it's kinda nice to know that if a fan does go bad, i'd have a little alarm go off and maybe buy a few extra seconds to shut down (if needed) and avoid damaging the board or possible even other components.
Oh well, I guess i've been living a charmed life when it comes to Asus boards, but the charm has worn off and now i'm gettin my fair share of probs... :(
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