Here is Asus' idea of warranty

[Movieman]

Just as an update, although the board I got in the end tested allright (memory and CPU would run at specified speed) I have only now tried to put this thing into a permanently running machine and failed.

There is some kind of noise coming from the battery area. It is there even when the board is powered off and just has the battery. Removing the battery silences it. It is kind of a "static chatter", like little discharges about 10 times a second. It's bad enough that I can't use it for the fileserver I planned it for, much louder than even the Zalman 7700Cu I put on there.

Any idea what this could be?

Maybe the battery is loose in that socket, a wedge of something to make it "tighter"
If your just going to use it for a fileserver I have a SM X5DAE w/2-2400/512/533's and 2-1 gig PC2100 ECC REG that should take care of your needs..
It's yours if you want it..

[alpha0ne]

Sounds like another RMA to me


Can you possibly confine the noise to a single component and post back here please with a picture ???

[Serpentarius]

looks like u get the sh|t in and got the dirt back .. that sux

[Talonman]

Makes my stomach turn....

Asus is doing you a major dirty!!

You may need to kick into Balisticks mode, ask for a Service manager?

Your initial post was on 6/14 too. OMFG no way!!!

That is a half a year ago.

[uOpt]

Maybe the battery is loose in that socket, a wedge of something to make it "tighter"
If your just going to use it for a fileserver I have a SM X5DAE w/2-2400/512/533's and 2-1 gig PC2100 ECC REG that should take care of your needs..
It's yours if you want it..

No, I re-seated the battery many times.

If I don't overclock this thing I could run it without battery since my OS startup sets the time via NTP every time anyway. But come on, how hard can it be? I'm so stupid, I noticed this when I received the board but didn't think this would be an issue once this thing goes "live".

The problem with getting a new board is that I have tons of unreg DDR that want to be used, and more dual-core 939 Opterons than I need (hey some clocked well ). But I might consider your combo anyway.

[Movieman]

No, I re-seated the battery many times.

If I don't overclock this thing I could run it without battery since my OS startup sets the time via NTP every time anyway. But come on, how hard can it be? I'm so stupid, I noticed this when I received the board but didn't think this would be an issue once this thing goes "live".

The problem with getting a new board is that I have tons of unreg DDR that want to be used, and more dual-core 939 Opterons than I need (hey some clocked well ). But I might consider your combo anyway.

It's yours if you want it..Not a lot of value in todays market but still reasonably usable for a file server.
X5DAE board, 2-2400/512/533 LV D1's, pair of WT HS's and 2-1 gig PC2100 ECC REG..I beleive they are crucial..
I only took it down as I was moving into more electrically efficient systems.
No issues with that board ever. I bought it new from Newegg for $366.00 in 2005 I think, maybe the end of 2004