c.freak
08-15-2007, 05:53 AM
Hey !
I've been having some trouble lately with motherboards. At first i got an DFI nf4 sli dr expert with was fried or something along with condensation after an attemt of Peltier-cooling. So i bought myself an ASUS A8n32 sli deluxe motherboard which i had to do some RMA's on at first before i got it all working with my heavy watercooling-system. The PC was on during the night and untill i woke up and after a couple of minutes everything was shut off. My first thinking was the very light overclock ( 2.7ghz) on my opteron 165, i left it there berfore i whent to sleep just to check that everything was doing fine. So i try to start it up again which it does but i can't get into bios for some reason, it's password locked which ofcourse was really really weird. So hmmm how do i do now.. ofcourse i'm start doing a proper cmos-reset which results with a blank screen, so i lean down and what do i see, an 80mm fan on the graphiccard. The fan was glued to the side in the case but fell down onto my graphiccard, and to seperate the cable from not bending i used this screw to hold it in place. So after the first cmos-reset something must have happend cause after i removed the fan the system starts up but with 2 fully activated LED's on the graphiccard. The led's are supposed to lit up one by one and then go off, and if i now put the card (PCI-E) in it's working properly according to me.
So that's the boring story so far.
Right now the motherboard goes warm and the LAN lit's up so there's power but if looking on the keyb there's no proper numlock light-up which i know every system would do.
My question right now is. Do you think it might be the bios-chip which is damaged or is the motherboard all fried out ? Cause what i've heard and also know there's are some companys which got bios-chip for sale, one of these is Abit i guess.
Is a bios-chip change more like 50/50, either it work or either it won't ?
And do you think there's a chance of saving my DFI board or is it completely fried out? I'm just checking cause i think it'll would be cool to wake it up if it's possible.
I'd be happy if someone could help me out on this. Cause i'm pretty mad after spending 600$ in an extreme watercooling-upgrade in june and haven't been able to use it properly yet.
Im not usually not known to this type of stuff so right now i just wonder if the best thing is to buy a new board?
I've been having some trouble lately with motherboards. At first i got an DFI nf4 sli dr expert with was fried or something along with condensation after an attemt of Peltier-cooling. So i bought myself an ASUS A8n32 sli deluxe motherboard which i had to do some RMA's on at first before i got it all working with my heavy watercooling-system. The PC was on during the night and untill i woke up and after a couple of minutes everything was shut off. My first thinking was the very light overclock ( 2.7ghz) on my opteron 165, i left it there berfore i whent to sleep just to check that everything was doing fine. So i try to start it up again which it does but i can't get into bios for some reason, it's password locked which ofcourse was really really weird. So hmmm how do i do now.. ofcourse i'm start doing a proper cmos-reset which results with a blank screen, so i lean down and what do i see, an 80mm fan on the graphiccard. The fan was glued to the side in the case but fell down onto my graphiccard, and to seperate the cable from not bending i used this screw to hold it in place. So after the first cmos-reset something must have happend cause after i removed the fan the system starts up but with 2 fully activated LED's on the graphiccard. The led's are supposed to lit up one by one and then go off, and if i now put the card (PCI-E) in it's working properly according to me.
So that's the boring story so far.
Right now the motherboard goes warm and the LAN lit's up so there's power but if looking on the keyb there's no proper numlock light-up which i know every system would do.
My question right now is. Do you think it might be the bios-chip which is damaged or is the motherboard all fried out ? Cause what i've heard and also know there's are some companys which got bios-chip for sale, one of these is Abit i guess.
Is a bios-chip change more like 50/50, either it work or either it won't ?
And do you think there's a chance of saving my DFI board or is it completely fried out? I'm just checking cause i think it'll would be cool to wake it up if it's possible.
I'd be happy if someone could help me out on this. Cause i'm pretty mad after spending 600$ in an extreme watercooling-upgrade in june and haven't been able to use it properly yet.
Im not usually not known to this type of stuff so right now i just wonder if the best thing is to buy a new board?