smee
05-08-2008, 08:46 AM
Ok guys.... I've been having some problems the last couple of days with the comp I've been working on for the last month or so, spec's in sig.
First off, on tuesday night, I was just putting together my watercooling loop, everything was going fine, got all the tubing on, rad and pump in place with the res to boot.... got the block mounted, hooked up all the wires, sat down for a second to admire my work of art... pressed the power button and POOFF!!! SHMMMMMMMMM!!!! SSZZZSSZSSZSSSS!!!!! "HOLY SNAP!!!!!" *turns off the power supply*..........
Turns out, the power connector in my disc drive decided it was to cold a night to run, so it warmed itself up a little bitsy..... Just a LITTLE:
(sorry for bad pics, took them to quick...)
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh106/parkman14/CIMG6076.jpg?t=1210260540
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh106/parkman14/CIMG6079.jpg?t=1210260478
So, you kinda get the idea, my disc drive is currently out of service sitting in the garage.....
As for the power connector, I took it off of the wires, and it's just sitting unused ATM.
I then turned the computer back on, and the PSU still worked, booted into windows, and all was well.
Since then I have used my computer without a disc drive, I'm not sure what I should do really.... RMA the disc drive, or the PSU??? Or both?? I dunno...
I really would hate to RMA the PSU right now though, as I've just got a new waterblock and I've been looking forward to testing it out over this weekend... but now, that dream seems lost as the rest of the story unfolds:
Last night, I was getting some things done, preparing to do some testing like I said above, so I restarted, got into the BIOS and set the vcore to 1.4v (just to generate more heat for testing), I just kept the CPU at stock speeds though (2.66Ghz). I knew this was OK to do, and that it wouldn't hard the CPU, I know not to go above 1.47v though. :D:
So I check a couple of other things in the BIOS, like my memory timings, etc.... and then exit Saving the changes.
So it reboots like normal, and then I get this message that says something like "Warrning! New CPU Detected, CPU Initializing Now. DO NOT TURN OFF POWER".
I have gotten this message before, like when I clear the CMOS or something, and it usually only takes a few seconds before that message disappears off the screen and the computer goes into a normal boot.
So I let it sit, but the screen stays the same "Hmmmmm..." I thought.... so I continue to let it sit. And sit. And sit. Until after about 10 minutes, I had to go do something with the family, so I just shut it off by holding the power button down, and walked away.
I came back about an hour and a half later, turned it back on, and got that little message again, but this time the message went away and the screen went blackety black.
I let it sit like that for about 20 minutes, I could not figure out what was wrong, I tried just one memory stick, Nope, I unplugged the hard drive (if I had an non-burnt disc drive, I would have unplugged this too), Nope.
"Ugh, whats wrong here!?" I thought, I checked the back LCD poster on the board, and it said "CPU INIT" which I then googled on my other machine, only to find out that it meant CPU Initialization, "D'oh!" I thought.....
By this time, it was about 11pm, I was tired of messing with the thing, so I went to sleep... "Man, whats up with this thing? Darnit, I won't be able to do anything if I have to RMA something..... ugh....." that was them followed by some ZZzzzzz's.
So, I wake up this morning at early clock 6am in anticipation to find out what was wrong.
So I quickly hop on my secondary comp (mac mini) and do some more googling of the "CPU INIT" error on the striker board, I came across many people on other forums with the same problem as me, I read many many posts and a lot of the problems turned out to be there PSU or board thats dead or is causing problems, "Man!! I don't want to do this, Humf."
I then came across this site, with a short guide on how to fix the problem:
ASUS Striker Extreme - CPU INIT Error | FreeDome (http://kostakiss.com/blog/2007/07/08/asus-striker-extreme-cpu-init-error/)
I read through it several times, I followed all the steps, taking all the power cords out, then it said to get some 667Mhz memory that ran at 1.8v, turns out I've got some in my sisters comp, so I go grab that (shes still asleep :hehe:), I put in the one stick...
Then I had to clear the CMOS, oh... did I mention that I had done this a gazzillion times already??? Nope, I guess not, well I followed There guide "Extreme Procedure to Reset CMOS" (http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20070331185701036&board_id=1&model=Striker+Extreme&page=1&SLanguage=en-us).
After that was done, I did the rest of the steps, turned it on, and Still... blankety black screen.
Next, I pulled the processor from my sisters computer (which also happens to be socket 775), a good ol' Pentium 4 3.2Ghz, I took out my proc and swapped in hers, put the waterblock back on, and then powered it on.
Still, black screen.
So, thats were it sits, shut down, and not in use, and with a burnt disc drive to boot! :up:
Right now, I'm really frustrated with this, all I have had with this board is PROBLEMS, problem after problem after problem, and as some of you know, I sent the board to RAID to do a memory review with the board.... he spent almost an entire week trying to get Vista installed and working, BSOD, BSOD,BSOD, B S O D. He explained it as BSOD Heaven, BSOD Merry-Go-Round, everything evolved around the BSOD's.
He now too, hates the darned board. He even thought of sacrificing it to the review god's.... but I asked him not to, as that was my only board, and I need it back.... :shakes:
Any help at all would be GREATLY appreciated, cuz atm... I don't know what to do...
I can't RMA the board either, as I got it through a buddy who works at a big company, and ASUS sent the board to the big company to test on one of the top machines, turns out, the big company didn't need the board, because they already had a board to test. So the board was up for grabs at the big company (for employee's), so my buddy picked it up, and gave it to me....
If I RMA it, ASUS will remember the S/N and the info will go back to the big company and the big company could get in trouble.
The big company is aloud to give out things like this, but only if the items will be contained. I.E. not sold, used for yourself, etc...
So again, I cannot RMA the board.
Please help me!
-Parker :help::help:
First off, on tuesday night, I was just putting together my watercooling loop, everything was going fine, got all the tubing on, rad and pump in place with the res to boot.... got the block mounted, hooked up all the wires, sat down for a second to admire my work of art... pressed the power button and POOFF!!! SHMMMMMMMMM!!!! SSZZZSSZSSZSSSS!!!!! "HOLY SNAP!!!!!" *turns off the power supply*..........
Turns out, the power connector in my disc drive decided it was to cold a night to run, so it warmed itself up a little bitsy..... Just a LITTLE:
(sorry for bad pics, took them to quick...)
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh106/parkman14/CIMG6076.jpg?t=1210260540
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh106/parkman14/CIMG6079.jpg?t=1210260478
So, you kinda get the idea, my disc drive is currently out of service sitting in the garage.....
As for the power connector, I took it off of the wires, and it's just sitting unused ATM.
I then turned the computer back on, and the PSU still worked, booted into windows, and all was well.
Since then I have used my computer without a disc drive, I'm not sure what I should do really.... RMA the disc drive, or the PSU??? Or both?? I dunno...
I really would hate to RMA the PSU right now though, as I've just got a new waterblock and I've been looking forward to testing it out over this weekend... but now, that dream seems lost as the rest of the story unfolds:
Last night, I was getting some things done, preparing to do some testing like I said above, so I restarted, got into the BIOS and set the vcore to 1.4v (just to generate more heat for testing), I just kept the CPU at stock speeds though (2.66Ghz). I knew this was OK to do, and that it wouldn't hard the CPU, I know not to go above 1.47v though. :D:
So I check a couple of other things in the BIOS, like my memory timings, etc.... and then exit Saving the changes.
So it reboots like normal, and then I get this message that says something like "Warrning! New CPU Detected, CPU Initializing Now. DO NOT TURN OFF POWER".
I have gotten this message before, like when I clear the CMOS or something, and it usually only takes a few seconds before that message disappears off the screen and the computer goes into a normal boot.
So I let it sit, but the screen stays the same "Hmmmmm..." I thought.... so I continue to let it sit. And sit. And sit. Until after about 10 minutes, I had to go do something with the family, so I just shut it off by holding the power button down, and walked away.
I came back about an hour and a half later, turned it back on, and got that little message again, but this time the message went away and the screen went blackety black.
I let it sit like that for about 20 minutes, I could not figure out what was wrong, I tried just one memory stick, Nope, I unplugged the hard drive (if I had an non-burnt disc drive, I would have unplugged this too), Nope.
"Ugh, whats wrong here!?" I thought, I checked the back LCD poster on the board, and it said "CPU INIT" which I then googled on my other machine, only to find out that it meant CPU Initialization, "D'oh!" I thought.....
By this time, it was about 11pm, I was tired of messing with the thing, so I went to sleep... "Man, whats up with this thing? Darnit, I won't be able to do anything if I have to RMA something..... ugh....." that was them followed by some ZZzzzzz's.
So, I wake up this morning at early clock 6am in anticipation to find out what was wrong.
So I quickly hop on my secondary comp (mac mini) and do some more googling of the "CPU INIT" error on the striker board, I came across many people on other forums with the same problem as me, I read many many posts and a lot of the problems turned out to be there PSU or board thats dead or is causing problems, "Man!! I don't want to do this, Humf."
I then came across this site, with a short guide on how to fix the problem:
ASUS Striker Extreme - CPU INIT Error | FreeDome (http://kostakiss.com/blog/2007/07/08/asus-striker-extreme-cpu-init-error/)
I read through it several times, I followed all the steps, taking all the power cords out, then it said to get some 667Mhz memory that ran at 1.8v, turns out I've got some in my sisters comp, so I go grab that (shes still asleep :hehe:), I put in the one stick...
Then I had to clear the CMOS, oh... did I mention that I had done this a gazzillion times already??? Nope, I guess not, well I followed There guide "Extreme Procedure to Reset CMOS" (http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20070331185701036&board_id=1&model=Striker+Extreme&page=1&SLanguage=en-us).
After that was done, I did the rest of the steps, turned it on, and Still... blankety black screen.
Next, I pulled the processor from my sisters computer (which also happens to be socket 775), a good ol' Pentium 4 3.2Ghz, I took out my proc and swapped in hers, put the waterblock back on, and then powered it on.
Still, black screen.
So, thats were it sits, shut down, and not in use, and with a burnt disc drive to boot! :up:
Right now, I'm really frustrated with this, all I have had with this board is PROBLEMS, problem after problem after problem, and as some of you know, I sent the board to RAID to do a memory review with the board.... he spent almost an entire week trying to get Vista installed and working, BSOD, BSOD,BSOD, B S O D. He explained it as BSOD Heaven, BSOD Merry-Go-Round, everything evolved around the BSOD's.
He now too, hates the darned board. He even thought of sacrificing it to the review god's.... but I asked him not to, as that was my only board, and I need it back.... :shakes:
Any help at all would be GREATLY appreciated, cuz atm... I don't know what to do...
I can't RMA the board either, as I got it through a buddy who works at a big company, and ASUS sent the board to the big company to test on one of the top machines, turns out, the big company didn't need the board, because they already had a board to test. So the board was up for grabs at the big company (for employee's), so my buddy picked it up, and gave it to me....
If I RMA it, ASUS will remember the S/N and the info will go back to the big company and the big company could get in trouble.
The big company is aloud to give out things like this, but only if the items will be contained. I.E. not sold, used for yourself, etc...
So again, I cannot RMA the board.
Please help me!
-Parker :help::help: