hi everyone, hope somebody can help me with this!
well i set up this system around this time last year, and its been running fine until one fateful night that i can hardly remember.. i was pretty wasted and had a few friends round.. all rowdy, fighting etc (probably knocked my rig) and as far as i can remember it shut down fine at the end of the night. i came to start it up the next day to be tormented by the asus bint "system failed memory test" i get no signal to the monitor, no where near POST, and if it means anything the keyboard lights dont light up at any time during power up but all the fans are fine and the dvd drive will open close and the hd also powers up and makes a few noises like its trying to be accessed. well i checked all my connections, blocks for contact, changed the memory between slots, tryed one stick.. tryed my gfx card in the secondary pci-x slot, rotated the sodimm sli thingy, tryed powering the molex sli plug on the board (cant remember what is called) cleared the cmos many times (5 seconds- 1 hour with the battery out) etc etc. so i took all my components (minus cpu) to a friends and tested them in his rig, all fine. so basically i think the board is dead or my bios chip is corrupt or maybe my cpu has died. obviously my warrenty is void because of the watercooling setup so no chance of rma with this board, and i want to know if any of you lot know what the problem is before i have to go through the process of removing the cpu as its alot of hassle for my only friend with a pcix rig (he thinks im going to break his too basically, maybe i will :monkey: ) so anybody have any ideas before i go and blow another weeks wages on a replacement something, (stuff dying is always an excuse to upgrade though
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well i set up this system around this time last year, and its been running fine until one fateful night that i can hardly remember.. i was pretty wasted and had a few friends round.. all rowdy, fighting etc (probably knocked my rig) and as far as i can remember it shut down fine at the end of the night. i came to start it up the next day to be tormented by the asus bint "system failed memory test" i get no signal to the monitor, no where near POST, and if it means anything the keyboard lights dont light up at any time during power up but all the fans are fine and the dvd drive will open close and the hd also powers up and makes a few noises like its trying to be accessed. well i checked all my connections, blocks for contact, changed the memory between slots, tryed one stick.. tryed my gfx card in the secondary pci-x slot, rotated the sodimm sli thingy, tryed powering the molex sli plug on the board (cant remember what is called) cleared the cmos many times (5 seconds- 1 hour with the battery out) etc etc. so i took all my components (minus cpu) to a friends and tested them in his rig, all fine. so basically i think the board is dead or my bios chip is corrupt or maybe my cpu has died. obviously my warrenty is void because of the watercooling setup so no chance of rma with this board, and i want to know if any of you lot know what the problem is before i have to go through the process of removing the cpu as its alot of hassle for my only friend with a pcix rig (he thinks im going to break his too basically, maybe i will :monkey: ) so anybody have any ideas before i go and blow another weeks wages on a replacement something, (stuff dying is always an excuse to upgrade though
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