"ASUS P5Q Deluxe discussion".

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I shorted out my motherboard P5Q Deluxe (my dumb mistake) and I heard a spark and now it won't boot. The PSU will power on and and die after few seconds. Anyway, I noticed a burn smell from my 2xbios chips after I popped em out. I fear the Asus RMA process so I'm praying its just the bios chips so I ordered a 2x replacement ones. Anyone ever have to resurrect a board this way?

How did you short it out exactly? Where was the short on the board? I would say you have severely damaged if not killed the board. If I were you, I'd RMA it and not run any of my gear in it again in case it takes out your ram/cpu/graphics card.

I'm having several problems with the motherboard and I was wondering if you guys could help.

The motherboard had a Intel e8500 up and running and it burned out (from the smell and the computer turning off) so I decided to buy another processor.

Now when I bought the first e8500 it would not turn on but it seems after having it either unplugged for a day or some other reason it turned on. With the second processor it seems that the motherboard is behaving the same way.

The motherboard is receiving power since the power/reset buttons on the motherboard are lit. Also if I do a CMOS reset how long should I do it for and what steps do I take? Do I unplugged the power cable, move the jumper, and then hold down the power button? It doesn't work if I move the jumper with it powered on and then move it back after 15 seconds.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Have you verified the first CPU is no longer working on another board? It sounds like your board may be defective, or the VRM circuit (Mosfet etc) burned and is not providing power to the cpu or another critical part of the board. It's very unlikely the CPU itself burned. It could also be your power supply that burned. Test all components separately and figure out what is faulty.

Sigh.

Another problemesque P5Q Deluxe.

I'm running 4 x 1 GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer 8500 (double sided) and have two problems with this board. Bearing in mind the memory could run at 1200Mhz on my old MSI P35 NEO2 FIR 24/7.

First problem I can kind of live with, the memory won't run much above 800Mhz on this board. Disappointing, but OK, board will run all day @ 800.

Second problem is more irritating, and will probably go to RMA. The board will not cold boot with all four sticks in. Startup goes like this (I normally run the memory at 1.9V at 800Mhz btw).

Before power on (obviously), take out one stick. Power up, go into bios, set voltage to 2.2, power down. Replace stick, board goes into "overclock fail" message, hit F1, F2 etc. Go into bios, set voltage to 1.9V, save and restart, board boots normally onto windows.

How annoying is this. I've tried running the voltage at 2.2V, and it still won't boot from cold.

Anyone think Asus is going to sort this? I haven't been in contact with their support yet. Long time lurker here, thought I'd try a post, sound out what you guys think. RMA time? Don't really want to sell my memory, and have the same problem again.

Somewhat disappointed in this board, with it's 16 phase power, yeh that helps!

What vNB are you running? Try setting it to 1.32v, set Transaction booster to 'manual' then set 'common performance level' (PL) to 10 and retest it.