3nd A8N-E died in less than 1 month!

[Beiruty]

The new replacement of my A8N-E (from Asus RMA dep. I waited 3 weeks to get it back) did not last 24 hrs!. Last night the build was complete and I run it overnight. In the morning, I woke up hearing a chrip sound coming from my PC's Speaker. I shut off the PC and it just died!. The new motherboard is not even responding to the HW reset switch. I removed the motherboard, rechecked the connections. I can see the power LED on when the PSU is on, but if I recycle the HW Switch nothing happens.

I am now frustrated with this BS Quality from Asus.

What to do?

Thanks,

 

[krotchy]

a cheap power supply sounds like a likely culprit here as well.

 

[Madellga]

That might be the case, but I had Asus motherboards dying on me under 3 months, system not overclocked, using Enermax PSU and APC power backup.

After the second replacement (which I sold sealed at Ebay), I moved to another brand (Epox at that time) and never had such problems again.

I'm building my PC's since 1992 and Asus is the only motherboard brand whose boards failed under 2 years. PCs built for friends using Asus boards (A7V333, A7KT333, A8N) died within 2 years also, shortly after warranty expired. That's 3 cases besides mine.

I had during all this time boards from Epox, Abit, Gigabyte, MSI, DFI, ECS - none DOA or died on my hands.

My 3rd rig, not shown in the signature, I keep just for "sentimental" value (to run Glide Games in all their glory): a Pentium 3 1GHz (Coppermine), 512MB 133MHz SD-Ram, a Voodoo 5 AGP video card, a Diamond Monster MX300 sound card (Aureal Vortex), a Seagate 10Gb HD and an ABIT SE6 - this motherboard is almost 7 years old and runs until today perfectly.

Perhaps the OP is doing something wrong, but sure Asus quality is not today what it used to be.

 

[Beiruty]

I doubt the PSU is the problem. In fact, I replcaed my cheapo PSU that came with the PC case with a new Coolmax 400 watt. The PSU has less than few hrs of usage. I was running a AMD 64 4000 @ 2.8 Ghz a mere 19% OC. and MSI 1800 XT 512 Megs.

Any ideas, will ASUS fast ship me a replacement?

 

[mb103051]

Thats very wierd.i build computers for a living and asus is the brand i ususlly use for customers looking for a quality build.i have about 18 builds with the a8n-e board and use one myself and none have failed.some are o/clocked and some stock.you have bad luck i guess.id call asus ,explain the situation and see if they will cross ship a board to you.assuming your psu is not the problem its got to be a bad board.ive had many more epox failures and DOA's than asus boards.as a builder for many years asus has been hands down the most reliable boards ive used.i have used all brands over the years.asus,msi,abit, gigabyte and now biostar have all been quality boards.very few failures and only 1 doa out of close to 100 motherboards a year i purchase.dont get too down on asus as i am willing to bet your luck stinks and i can understand your displeasure.i personally use the asus a8n-e as my board of choise and its run 8 months o/clocked and beat on.its one of the best boards ive owned and i try alot of boards.ive had this board longer than any other board in a long time.hopefully asus will give you some special consideration and quickly ship you a new board.refurbs or exchange boards kinda scare me too but ive had very few to judge by.good luck and when you get your working a8n-e you'll love it.stable as a rock,o/clocks easily,compatable with alot of hardware,mature bios and near perfect layout......................................................

 

[Megatomic]

This is exactly what happened to my ASUS A8N-SLI Premium. I turned it off and all was normal and when I attempted to turn it back on I got nada. The green power LED was lit on the mobo, but it refused to power up.

I then bought an MSI mATX 6150/430 mobo and transferred all my gear from the ASUS and it fired right up. The ASUS was dead. This seems to be consistent behavior, I guess I need to add ASUS to my list that only had DFI on it, up til now.

 

[Beiruty]

Megatomic,

Did you RMA your dead mobo?

 

[Megatomic]

No, I didn't. It was second hand and the original owner was the registered owner. I just sold the thing and the entire kit to someone for $40 and got the MSI mobo. It wasn't worth the hassle to me.

 

[Beiruty]

The motherboard has been removed from the PC case back to its shipping box and will be shipped back to Asus tomorrow. I just hope that Asus would express ship me a new Motherboard.

 

[Beiruty]

I did an Xpress RMA, it cost money big time but It is refundable as per Asus Instructions.

 

[Beiruty]

Oops... Asus charged my card $125 for a $65 defective motherboard! I just hope I can get credit as fast as they charged me. Asus already recieved the defective motherboard today.

 

[Beiruty]

The second replacement mobo boot up fine and the AMD 64 4000+ is running just fine at 2.8 Ghz.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
This is exactly what happened to my ASUS A8N-SLI Premium. I turned it off and all was normal and when I attempted to turn it back on I got nada. The green power LED was lit on the mobo, but it refused to power up.

I've got two A8N-SLI Premiums that do the same damn thing. End up having to paperclip the green and black wires together to turn the system on. Real PITA.

- JaAG

 

[Beiruty]

Now, just waiting for my $125 refund.

 

[Beiruty]

I am really mad now!....
The Third AEN-E died in less than 1 month!! What is going on. I just tried to put PC into Hibernation and got A BSOD. I tried to restart my PC and just died!!
It refuses to start, the same way the other 2 motherboard died. I noticed a transistor between 2 cap on the left edge of the motherboard (just next the PCI slots) that is got extreemly hot when the motherboard is powered.

What is going on. This the 3rd A8N-E does fails in less than 1 month.

Any thought?

 

[lenjack]

If you are the only one who consistently has this problem, then I would say it is not the fault of Asus.

 

[Beiruty]

Asus Tech was cool enough to X-RMA another motherboard. He emailed me a return shipping tag and the motherboard is now on its way to ASUS.

If it is not ASUS fault what could it be?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: Beiruty
Asus Tech was cool enough to X-RMA another motherboard. He emailed me a return shipping tag and the motherboard is now on its way to ASUS.

If it is not ASUS fault what could it be?

A start would be to post your specs. Was any attempt made to determine if the 3rd MB was indeed the culprit? Have you checked the rails on your PSU? Have you checked your case for possible shorts?

I've always been happy with Asus aside from their customer service but, it sounds like you've at least had good luck with that. Let us know how long it takes them to get around to refunding the charges but, don't hold your breathe

 

[customcoms]

A 400 watt psu from coolmax can barely be considered an upgrade over the default case PSU. I no longer suggest running even a semi-decent computer on less than 450 watts, and thats high quality 450 watters (like on this list: http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10854). I would start with a new psu, and then move to an epox or dfi baord if you are no longer satisfied with asus. We need specs!!!

 

[Beiruty]

Specs:
PSU: Coolmax 400W CXI-400B
Motherboard: Asus A8N-E V 2.0
CPU: AMD 64 4000+ @ 2.75 with stock voltage 1.41v
Memory: Corssair 2GB kitCMX1024-4000PT (XMS 4000) @ 240 Mhz with 2-4-4-7 (stock is 3-4-4-8) with 2.6V
Video: MSI 1800XT, 512 Megs at 700Mhz core/750Mhz memory.
Sony DVD-8X Burner with 1.4Mbyte Floppy.
HD: 2x 120 GB PATA Maxtor HD with 8MB cache in Raid 0.
Chase: Xion-II

USB Keyboard, optical mouse and 24" Dell 2407 LCD.

I removed the motherboard from the PC case and still it is not rebooting. The motherboad was screwed to the case without isolating rings. Is it a problem?

Thanks,

 

[fliguy84]

I got a friend using that Coolmax and it died on him twice. (1st was RMA'ed, 2nd died after 1 year). With that spec of yours, I doubt it can handle all the loads.

See this: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=108088
In that list, Coolmax is a Tier 5 PSU maker, which is not recommended!

 

[Beiruty]

Thanks, will look into a new PSU.

 

[coolpurplefan]

I would flash BIOS to a more recent one with a floppy drive.

If you have one of those cheap chipset fans on the Northbridge chipset, I would look into replacing it with a Zalman NB47J and put on a 40mm Coolermaster fan taken from a Coolermaster northbridge chipset cooler.

 

[Captante]

I'd say that your PSU is the culprit in this case & you should replace it before rebuilding the system again.