Originally posted by: jedisponge
Hey guys it's me again...
I just got my RMAed motherboard. It's turning out I'm having the same problem of not posting after I turn the computer on. I'm way past the line right now, and I'm about to sell all the (working) parts off on ebay or something.
Anyway, can it be possible that the CPU is causing it not to post? If so, I might try one last ditch effort in getting a Pent D 805 just to see if I can scavenge everything.
Thanks for any help.
Originally posted by: jedisponge
I did. Now instead of my Rosewill I'm on those new fangled Antec HE 550w psu's.
The only things I haven't replaced are the CPU, RAM dimms and GPU. I somewhat doubt it's the ram as I used one at a time to see if I had a bad stick, and the same result would happen. Now it could be the RAM if I have to bad sticks which I somewhat doubt (though it is still possible, so I'm keeping my mind open). From what I knew, a GPU can't keep the mobo from posting... right? This ordeal has thrown everything I knew for a loop. So my conclusion now is that it could be the CPU, but still... the only way I can see it being damaged is if I screwed my Zalman C9500 heatsink in too tight or something, and damaged the transitors. Otherwise I did everything as slowly and delibirately as I could, and if I damaged it it isn't in anyway I can remember.
So, can it be the CPU that's keeping the computer from booting?
Of course, it could be yet another bad motherboard, which... just totally blows.
Originally posted by: Butterbean
Not sure if this question fits here but..
I want to remove the Intel stock fan from the E6600 I have on my PW5. I want to install a Scythe Ninja heat sink/fan. My problem is the Scythe fan connector is 3 pin and the PW5 is 4 pin. Can I just attach fan to one of the 3 pin adapters? I read the 4 pin is for software control so I assume I would lose that for now.
The reason for fan change is that when I first booted up in new system with Media Center I saw mobo was at 125F and CPU was around 100F (fanless vid card was 200F - idle!).
An interesting thing was that I flashed the bios (to 1407) right after taking temp reading and after the flash temps were lower. Mobo was around 88F and vid card was 175F. I did see the 1407 bios addressed certain video conflicts though I didnt have the specific conflict mentioned on Asus site.
For what its worth, I was using a Sapphire card and quite a few other posts I saw concerning high mobo temps also listed Sapphire cards.
Thanks
Thanks for the suggestion and I will try. The case really could be it, as I tried it once on a previous p5w dh. Inside it wasn't really working, then I took it out and redid everything and it powered on.Originally posted by: dando
Jedisponge:
Here's one more idea to try and get your rig going:
Try and power up your mobo outside of the case with just the minimal attachments (RAM, video, hard drive--actually, you don't even need the hard drive probably). It's possible that the case is shorting you out somehow.
Put the mobo on a piece of cardboard or something that won't damage your board and try and power it up.
If that doesn't work, try a different power supply (non-Antec) before you give up. Buy it and return it after you do your testing.
Good luck.
Originally posted by: mikepaul
1305:::::SPD/5-6-6-18::::: 7227/53.9
1407:::::SPD/5-6-6-18::::: 8592/53.7
Dunno. I've had even better numbers on other runs with 1305/manual, so anything can happen. If I get a chance sometime, I'll be more rigerous about the testing...Originally posted by: phile
Originally posted by: mikepaul
1305:::::SPD/5-6-6-18::::: 7227/53.9
1407:::::SPD/5-6-6-18::::: 8592/53.7
Very fishy results. IMO, that's too large a discrepancy to be explained by BIOS version. Could something else have accessed the memory during that first bench?
Thanks for the link, it looks very, very helpful. Though I tried a few (which didn't work shucks), I haven't dug very deep yet. I'll be combing through this very, very finely. So thank you very much.you could try reseeting the PSU ... unplug the power cable and hold down the Power button. Also try resetting the CMOS if you haven't.
I went through all this about 100 times at the weekend and ended up just replacing the MB and everything worked fine ... a link that I found helpful ...
http://support.asus.com/troubleshooting/troubleshooting.aspx?SLanguage=en-us