ASUS P5B-Deluxe; Problems & Fixes

[T07N]

Hey Guys

I am having boot issues with my new P5B Deluxe board bought at Fry's. This board seems to have an older BIOS, and it won't boot up. It does the double boot if its a cold boot (after disconnecting power), and after that all fans are on, led on board is RED, no startup beep, no post screen etc.

I have tried different RAM in different slots, 1 and 2 sticks (Corsair 6400 2GB Kit, and some DDR2 3200 400MHZ borrowed from work <-- does this RAM work on P5B?), different video card, and I have also unplugged all other peripherals other than Video card and RAM, and the same issue happens with no beep sound and no post screen.

I also did the CMOS jumper reset, with no success, I think I am going to try a stick of PC4200 or PC5400 of DDR2 and if that doesn't help, RMA the board .

Please let me know if you have experienced the same issue, and the different things you tried.

Thanks a lot in advance!

SPEC of my new system:
P5B Deluxe
E4300
Geforce 7900GS
2GB Corsair 6400C4 RAM
OCZ PowerStream 520 (this PSU has a 4+4 = 8 pin power adapter for the extra power connector on the P5B Deluxe).

Could be the motherboard itself. Did you buy it used? Try to exchange it.

[ri3eboi]

This board should be new, the box did not have any of the return stickers on it, and I carefully inspected the board's mounting holes, and there was no sign of prior use or mounting.

The BIOS is definitely old, I am not exactly which version of BIOS it has, I haven't tried using another CPU, I will see what I can do about that, I will try a E6300 and some DDR2 5400 Ram before I call it quits and RMA or return and get another board .