Astronomer Posted July 31, 2011 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Posted July 31, 2011 My 3-month-old ASUS P5N-D motherboard is pooched. It was having odd boot issues recently, as well as occasional random blue screens. Now when it boots I get this error: "CMOS checksum error - Defaults loaded". USB devices are unresponsive, and a PS2 keyboard is also unresponsive. I cannot hit the <del> or <F1> keys to continue or enter setup. I've removed the CMOS battery, checked it for power, and replaced it. This had no effect. I called ASUS and they say it looks like a chipset failure. If I can remove the chipset myself (unlikely as I believe they're soldered to the board) they'll send me a new one. If not, I have to send my board in and get a replacement sent to me, probably 2-4 weeks is my guess. Worse, I just installed less than 24 hours ago an EVGA GTX550Ti super-clocked video card (which I pushed its overclock even further). I can't catch a fucking break. My wife has generously offered me the use of her laptop in the meantime. It's got a 2.4Ghz Core2 Duo processor, 4Gb RAM, and an nVidia 9800 with 1Gb vRAM. Not super, but adequate I guess. Fuck. Fuckity fuck. Awards
CplMOFO Posted July 31, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 1 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Device: Windows Posted July 31, 2011 Astro, From what I get, you're still on the 775 platform. That Asus mobo is probably under warranty right? This is getting really hard to find a good 775 mobo ,nowaday... ASUS has an RMA center in Ontario, so hopefully they ship you another one really quickly. You might want to "slowly" start to look into the next platform...Intel Sandy bridge or AMD Bulldozer (coming up soon). Awards
Merlin007 Posted July 31, 2011 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 1130 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 8588 Content Per Day: 1.63 Reputation: 7563 Achievement Points: 76637 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 67 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Friday at 10:04 PM Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Android Posted July 31, 2011 Hey Astro, found this thread regarding your issue. Not sure if this will help but check this out. http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?board_id=1&model=P5N-E+SLI&id=20090110092645221&page=1&SLanguage=en-us Awards
Astronomer Posted July 31, 2011 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Author Posted July 31, 2011 Hey there Mofo - I'm on the same page as you, but a new rig is not in the cards for a while yet. Maybe sometime in 2012. In the meantime, I have to keep the ol' jalopy running, and it's still a decent gaming platform: core2 3Ghz, OC'd to 3.6Ghz, Corsair top-end memory (DDR2, but still), PC Power and Cooling Silencer 750 (before they were purchased and the quality dipped), new vid card... I hope that the fact that their RMA center is nearby will help. Awards
Astronomer Posted July 31, 2011 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Author Posted July 31, 2011 Thanks Merlin. Odd thing with this mobo is that there's no jumper to reset the CMOS - only the Real Time Clock. It has an automated backup and recovery for the BIOS in the event of a glitch, and it looks like that system (or the chip) has failed in that whatever defaults were loaded are corrupt. Awards
Astronomer Posted August 1, 2011 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Author Posted August 1, 2011 Ok, got the RMA, now to take all the components off of the mobo and get it ready for shipping. Pain in the ass, but nothing can be done about it. I got the gaming laptop all set up with maps and tweaked the settings. I was getting excellent frame-rates and decent scores this morning, so it looks like I'll be able to keep playing until the replacement comes in. Awards
CplMOFO Posted August 1, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 1 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Device: Windows Posted August 1, 2011 Nice! At least you got soem backup. Hopefully, ASUS turnaround will be fast enough for ya. Do they have the same mobo in stock, or they offered you a different model? Awards
Boomer Posted August 1, 2011 Member ID: 2083 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 3554 Content Per Day: 0.68 Reputation: 4992 Achievement Points: 23761 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/31/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 14, 2014 Birthday: 10/20/1962 Posted August 1, 2011 omg man that SUCKS dude! sorry to hear that!
Astronomer Posted August 1, 2011 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Author Posted August 1, 2011 Hey CplMOFO, they didn't say either way, and seeing as TigerDirect still sells it, I'm assuming that they have them in stock. They said to expect a 10 day turn-around. I have a compatible motherboard in another FrankenPC that I built. This has the old mobo that the ASUS replaced. It has a Pentium D 3.0Ghz in it right now. I was getting random odd errors with it so I retired it from gaming. I don't think it handled overclocks too well. It would be stable then all of a sudden I'd get a cascade of errors (probably voltage) and have to set the BIOS back to default.I plan to turn it into a server sometime this month. It runs Linux nice and stable. So, I could put it back into gaming service, but that would be a pain: remove components on it, install gaming parts, HD's, change the drivers, then do it all over again when the replacement comes in. The laptop performs very well at 60-90 FPS. Heck, I was top 3 or 4 in some WAW Modern Weapons matches today. Cheers, - Astronomer Awards
Astronomer Posted August 2, 2011 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Author Posted August 2, 2011 Boomer omg man that SUCKS dude! sorry to hear that! Thanks Boomer. It's annoying as hell, but at least I have an alternate machine to play on, and I could build one freom parts if needs be. at least I'll have a new mobo in a couple of weeks. Awards
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