Blowed up mobo

[allen337]

I was just bragging on gigabyte for being a good motherboard, then I went and put my daughters puter on water so I unplugged mine and put her a p35 motherboard in hers and formated it from my desk. Got done and went to start mine back up and BAM no post, I didnt do anything but unhook the keyboard,display,mouse and lan to hook hers up. I tried replacing everything but the mobo to fix it with no luck. RMA time, playing with my spare mobo now AW9D-MAX:)

[ShadowFold]

Yup mine did the same thing. Was it the DS3L?

[Mussels]

rust in pieces, old friend.

Kinda odd that it 'just died' - tried taking ram sticks out and clearing CMOS?

[ShadowFold]

rust in pieces, old friend.

Kinda odd that it 'just died' - tried taking ram sticks out and clearing CMOS?

Mine did the same thing. I did all of that and it still would not work. I put all my other pieces into another board everything worked.

[jbunch07]

i agree i find it strange that it died just out of now where like that...sry to hear bout that though...but i would if you haven't already tried it i would try clearing cmos like mussels said.

[Mussels]

*note to self: asus may be lying bastards, but at least boards dont die for no reason

[Solaris17]

lolo "blowed up mobo"

sry

[a111087]

*note to self: asus may be lying bastards, but at least boards dont die for no reason

haha, I think my next mobo will not be from ether of those :laugh:

[Duxx]

lolo "blowed up mobo"

sry

Dont worry i did the same thing :)

*note to self: asus may be lying bastards, but at least boards dont die for no reason

My ASUS is running like a champ! :D. As long as their products don't suck ill be happy.

[w2richwood]

+1 for asus been with them for years
Rich

[philbrown23]

well asus may have "non japaneese CHEAP capacitors" but their boards are much higher quality than gigabyte. Also I had an x38 DS4 that did the exact same thing this seems to be a problem with gigabyte boards all around, just google "gigabyte board just died" and it will show millions of pages.

[jbunch07]

hmmm hope it doesn't happen to mine!

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

My GA-K8NSC-939 board did that. That was a very good motherboard. (other than the part on where it just died on me for no reason)

[Mussels]

i just realised (because it BSOD'd) that my netbox is a gigabyte mobo. yeah its old (skt 478) but running at stock clocks for 2-3 years and it now has the following problems:

Cannot run dual channel.
3 dead PCI slots
Onboard LAN is fried
Onboard audio crackles/hums (moving the USB mouse changes the pitch. its odd)

[Dr. Spankenstein]

Seems from what I've read, the Gigabyte boards (even though they have the dual BIOS thang) are easy to fark the recovery BIOS, in which case is the equivalent of a dead mobo.

[jbunch07]

wow that is weird ive never heard of anything like that.

[intel igent]

that sux allen hope it was just the board and nothing else

[Pandaz3]

*note to self: asus may be lying bastards, but at least boards dont die for no reason

I don't hold to that opinion. My ASUS A8N-E up and quit and I have Rma'd from MSI and Abit with no problems. Not so ASUS, and then they were out of A8N-E's so they stuck me in the shorts with a A8N SLI SE. It might be SLI, but I'll not use SLI and it's a stripper (Value) board.

A little closer to subject

If you have any spare parts I would try to assemble the board on the Mobo box and before you hook up a PSU, take the battery out, put the CMOS jumper in clear for at least two minutes. put the battery back in then put the Jumper back to default. plug in the PSU and try it. Sometimes with Socket A machines the BIOS would Latch on to the settings and a simple reset would not do. Needed a 'Hard' Reset

[imperialreign]

only board I ever had that died like that was an ABIT years back


actually, come to think of it, that's the only mobo I've ever had die on me

even my Intel D101GGC suffered through my abuses and lived . . .

[tkpenalty]

i just realised (because it BSOD'd) that my netbox is a gigabyte mobo. yeah its old (skt 478) but running at stock clocks for 2-3 years and it now has the following problems:

Cannot run dual channel.
3 dead PCI slots
Onboard LAN is fried
Onboard audio crackles/hums (moving the USB mouse changes the pitch. its odd)

That means.... it shouldn't pass the EMI testing...

[bonku]

ive got 2 965 ds3
3 p35 ds3

ive overclock them pretty hard (500+fsb, 1.6-1.8 vcore)

didnt cooled the mosfet too

non of them have died yet :)

maybe the ds3 series are good mobo's

[Mussels]

That means.... it shouldn't pass the EMI testing...

what do you mean?

I should try enabling the bios settings related to EMI actually, forget the name all of a sudden. maybe they'll help.

[allen337]

I replaced everything, cleared cmos and even tried it outside box, deff dead. On a side note I would rather have a dead gigabyte than a flakey ass asus any day of the week. At least the bastard died and gigabyte will gladly send me another un like asus where it halfass works for a couple of years waiting on asus to release a bios that works with it, then the junk SOB dies right out of warranty. Only happened a dozen or so times so far with asus, but, im glad you guys like asus,I repair computers and it gets me more business than you know, keep up the good work!!! ALLEN