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Originally Posted by leonardsix
....I'm so freaking tired of these stupid machines I'm ready to throw them off of a cliff and go back to books, paper and pencil.
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I know this thread is a few months old but i can totally feel what the OP had faced. Mine just happened two weeks ago and i still don't have the solution.
It all started with a blank screen. My story goes like this.....
"Now i have tried everything mentioned in
this thread on my A7V266-E/AA, still no luck. So i went ahead and got another ASUS mobo that came with a Athlon 1.3Ghz processor. It is a A7V-Vm. Tested this new combo, worked great. Was able to post, allowed me to enter BIOS.....yada yada yada. Swapping begin......
First, i swapped the processors. The 1.7Ghz(from my A7V266-E/AA) worked on the A7V-VM board. Yay! However, the 1.3Ghz did not work on the A7V266-E/AA board, as expected. So the conclusion is, the ASUS A7V266-E/AA mobo is faulty. End of story? No way. This is when things got interesting. :)
As i was putting back the 1.3gHz athlon back to the A7V-VM, out of a sudden, the CPU fan on the A7V-Vm stopped working. I thought it was an easy fix by swapping the CPU fan as well. Nope, didn't work. So i tried plug the fan cable to the Chasis Fan socket on the board instead of the CPU Fan socket. Bam! It works! However, the BIOS will shut down in five seconds because it did not detect any fan from the CPU Fan socket. It has to use the right socket. Otherwise the mobo thought i forget to fan the processor even though i did. Now, every time i power on the PC, it shuts down automatically after 5 seconds.
Now i have two good Athlon processors, and two bad boards. Must be the biggest joke of my life! AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!"
My 3rd mobo is on its way. So the saga continues....... What's up with these ASUS mobos anyway.