- Joined
- Sep 16, 2002
- Location
- Montreal, Canada
About 2 weeks ago, my system died. I figured it was the motherboard, even though it was showing a POST code of "00" on the debug LED and the red CPU LED was staying lit. After basic troubleshooting, I contacted ASUS for an RMA. They were, and have been, useless of course. The customer service stories you've read are true, folks. They haven't followed up with me a single time, and after being fed more BS when I called in today about them not having any stock to replace my board for the 3rd time (WTF kind of operation are they running?) I decided to go out and buy another motherboard to use in the mean time.
Fast forward a bit and I'm in my local PC hardware store. I pick up another RVE since that's the only high end board they have in, and explain that it's basically a rental. I'll be bringing it back in once my RMA gets solved, and I'll gladly pay the 10% restocking fee. Get home, swap the board in... Greeted with "00" and a red CPU LED.
What led me to believe it was the motherboard, was that fact that I'd been having some strange issues. When rebooting, 50% of the time the board would refuse to post, and display "00" on the debug LED. I never noticed, but I assume the CPU LED was lit too. Powering off and back on with the power button wouldn't solve the problem, only cutting the power with the PSU switch and turning it back on would do the trick.. Until it didn't anymore, 2 weeks ago.
I've had all sorts of hardware die on my before, but never a CPU. I've abused my fair share, but they've never even blinked.
Some of you may have read my posts about having had a terrible luck of the draw with this CPU, with it refusing to do anything more than 4.2GHz. That's what it has been set to for the past 3 months, at 1.3v. Hardly something I'd consider to be extreme or CPU threatening?
I'm open to any suggestions, but I'm pretty certain I've tried everything except running the system out of case to rule out a grounding issue, but I'm sure there isn't one. Guess I'll give that a shot now.
Fast forward a bit and I'm in my local PC hardware store. I pick up another RVE since that's the only high end board they have in, and explain that it's basically a rental. I'll be bringing it back in once my RMA gets solved, and I'll gladly pay the 10% restocking fee. Get home, swap the board in... Greeted with "00" and a red CPU LED.
What led me to believe it was the motherboard, was that fact that I'd been having some strange issues. When rebooting, 50% of the time the board would refuse to post, and display "00" on the debug LED. I never noticed, but I assume the CPU LED was lit too. Powering off and back on with the power button wouldn't solve the problem, only cutting the power with the PSU switch and turning it back on would do the trick.. Until it didn't anymore, 2 weeks ago.
I've had all sorts of hardware die on my before, but never a CPU. I've abused my fair share, but they've never even blinked.
Some of you may have read my posts about having had a terrible luck of the draw with this CPU, with it refusing to do anything more than 4.2GHz. That's what it has been set to for the past 3 months, at 1.3v. Hardly something I'd consider to be extreme or CPU threatening?
I'm open to any suggestions, but I'm pretty certain I've tried everything except running the system out of case to rule out a grounding issue, but I'm sure there isn't one. Guess I'll give that a shot now.