Serious Hardware Problem

[cloustron101]

I RMA'ed my first 680i SLi motherboard I purchased some months ago, through newegg, due to apparent failure on the part of the board.

I received the new board today, reinstalled the basic pieces of hardware and pushed the power button, resulting in the same situation that the last board had.

Evga Tech Support wants me to RMA the RMA lol. Which is what I plan to do, but I was curious if anyone else had theorys or if it, as they say is simply 2 bunk boards?

I get 3 led's, an orange, green, and blue, and the error led doesn't give an error code. The bios will not load,nor will the dvd drive open, unless I disconnect it from the motherboard, in which case it opens without a problem, but the moment I connect it to the motherboard, it stops funtioning. The system does power on, but I can get no response from the board, other than those 3 led's.



Just in case, both times, I took out the cpu, swapped out ram sticks, and unplugged all non-essential hardware in an attempt to narrow down the problem, and both times it seems the motherboard is the culprit to blame. I also checked throughly for any chance of metal in the case cauing a short, there isn't anything.



Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated!



System Specs:



Antec P160w Case

BFG Tech 1000watt PSU

Evga 680i Sli Mainboard

Dual Core Duo @ 2.4Ghz

Patriot Xtreme Ram 2gb's@ 800Mhz (2x 1gb)

2x 320GB Seagate Barracuda HD's

Sony DVD Reader/Burner

Creative Sound Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Sound Card

Evga 6800GTS Video Card

[dudbomb]

Re: Serious Hardware Problem

maybe your PSU is dieing? ever thought about that lol, its nerely impossible to get two half-*** boards like what your saying, so maybe check all the Connectors ect, see if anything at all has been broke

[solofowaffles]

Re: Serious Hardware Problem

i would bet more money it being the board than a 1000 watt psu dieing.

[cloustron101]

Re: Serious Hardware Problem

Thats really the only thing I can figure, plus that particular PSU's apparently not the greatest...

Hmm, I'll have to scrounge up a PSU to test it on...

[BPCrusher01]

Re: Serious Hardware Problem

Look at your motherboard's POST code display. Anything there? See pg 165 of manual.http://www.evga.com/products/pdf/680i%20manual.pdf

[cloustron101]

Re: Serious Hardware Problem

Oh trust me, I would have loved it, if I had given me a code, the code Led is blank on power up, and it says that way, hence the reason I think the mobos fried, though it maybe a faulty PSU...we shall see...

[XavierOwn™]

Re: Serious Hardware Problem

It does seem like the Mobo, if the LEDS on the mainboard are lit surely there getting power...

Swiz threw the manual

Besta Lux

[=98=]

Re: Serious Hardware Problem

No chance of changing the PSU. I didn't even know BFG made PSU's :p

[signa]

Re: Serious Hardware Problem

I would definitely try swapping out PSU's to test it.

[TheButler208]

Re: Serious Hardware Problem

why can't a 1000 watt psu die? based on simple statistics theres no way that 2nd board is bad. I've beaten the sh$% out of a few motherboards without failure.

[=98=]

Re: Serious Hardware Problem

why can't a 1000 watt psu die? based on simple statistics theres no way that 2nd board is bad. I've beaten the sh$% out of a few motherboards without failure.

True. Im wondering whether there is a grounding issue, thus its shorting when being booted for the first time. Possibility?

[Sir. MatDef]

Re: Serious Hardware Problem

Everything out of your case, and try powering up the mobo (with the cpu, a stick of ram, graphics card, just the basics) on a block of wood (or something where there is no possibility of grounding) and seeing if it starts up that way.

[TheButler208]

Re: Serious Hardware Problem

sorry alex I respond pretty harshly sometimes. Thats what happens when I am posting on forums at work.


but n-eways, I'm sure the builder here knows to use raisers off the case. (I hope) I had a friend who led me to believe he knew about computers and rejected my help when he decided to build a P4 machine several years ago. Apparently his previous machine (which was one of those dual socket A machines, that you could put any 2 athlons paired together) he didn't build, someone else did it for him. I came over after he couldn't figure it out why the computer wasn't working. Luckily he didn't short anything where damage was caused, but he didn't put the mainboard raisers in the case causing the computer to not fire up. Doh.

[=98=]

Re: Serious Hardware Problem

sorry alex I respond pretty harshly sometimes. Thats what happens when I am posting on forums at work.

What i meant was that "was there any chance of changing the PSU?". I missed off to question mark, perhaps giving people the idea that i didn't think it was the PSU.