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- Feb 1, 2008
- Location
- Davao City Philippines
A little back story first, I recently replaced my GAP35-S3L with a brand new Asus P45based P5Q because my old motherboard would not show video during and after POST, it has been a MAJOR irritation since I first got the board last december, but this behavior was erratic and it comes and it goes so i put up with it until finally it would no longer POST with video.
So now I have my new P5Q, I've been using it for 2 weeks now and everything is going fine and dandy, it overclocks like a dream and gets me to 3.6GHz on my E7200 with less volts than my old P35. So earlier today, I was tweaking my ram timings and after saving my settings and rebooting, the USB storage device detection was taking longer than the 5 seconds i'm used to, so i unplugged my WDC 1terrabyte USB drive while it was being detected, then BAM, my whole system shuts down and restarts, but now there is NO video, all the fans still run, I can hear the click of the HD just before it loads WinXP, but NO video!
Now, I've tried Clearing CMOS with battery out and jumper pin on CRTC(clear real time clock), replaced my Videocard with a lower-end 8600GT, tested my 8800GT on another system and its fine, replaced my ram with 1.8v stock rated Corsairs, tested my RAM on my other PC and its finem removed PSU and tried another one from a running PC, removed all extraneous accessories , I've also removed the actual mobo from the case and reinstalled everything one by one but ALAS still no video at all.
My question is, did my removal of the WDC USB drive during boot could have caused this catastrophic failure? Any thoughts?
P.S. My battery is quite warm to the touch after a few minutes/ just noticed this because i had to remoove it a couple of timees while troubleshooting. Is this normal?
So now I have my new P5Q, I've been using it for 2 weeks now and everything is going fine and dandy, it overclocks like a dream and gets me to 3.6GHz on my E7200 with less volts than my old P35. So earlier today, I was tweaking my ram timings and after saving my settings and rebooting, the USB storage device detection was taking longer than the 5 seconds i'm used to, so i unplugged my WDC 1terrabyte USB drive while it was being detected, then BAM, my whole system shuts down and restarts, but now there is NO video, all the fans still run, I can hear the click of the HD just before it loads WinXP, but NO video!
Now, I've tried Clearing CMOS with battery out and jumper pin on CRTC(clear real time clock), replaced my Videocard with a lower-end 8600GT, tested my 8800GT on another system and its fine, replaced my ram with 1.8v stock rated Corsairs, tested my RAM on my other PC and its finem removed PSU and tried another one from a running PC, removed all extraneous accessories , I've also removed the actual mobo from the case and reinstalled everything one by one but ALAS still no video at all.
My question is, did my removal of the WDC USB drive during boot could have caused this catastrophic failure? Any thoughts?
P.S. My battery is quite warm to the touch after a few minutes/ just noticed this because i had to remoove it a couple of timees while troubleshooting. Is this normal?