ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[Budious]

Update: (2-2-2008) I got it working again, temperamental piece of crap board that this is.

I have had my board for just about 3 months now and it has just died on me.

I upgraded to BIOS 0505 the day I assembled the system and overclocked my B3 Q6600 to a conservative 2.88GHz for a 20% overclock with the stock Intel cooler (MX-2 paste) until such time as I installed a better cooler. I was using a 4x 1GB DDR2-1066 Corsair Dominator memory kit with memory ratio to run 1066mhz. I used these setting 24/7 with occasional reboots for Windows updates or configuration changes in OS, never had any need to adjust or update the BIOS since build date.

Well this evening, during a heavy rainstorm, the power went out for a few seconds and the PC lost power. Now the board is unresponsive, I can power on the case, all the LEDs light to green status, I see a flash of orange on the HDD LED activity light but the USB ports dont appear to power up (usually the backlight of my G15 keyboard would come on) and no video output is displayed to my monitors. I have attempted use the CLR_BIOS switch on the back panel (enabled on board) to no avail. I'm convinced the board is dead and will have to contact ASUS.

Asus Maximus Formula SE (0505)
Q6600 B3 @ 2.88GHz
4x 1GB Corsair Dominator DDR2-1066
Foxconn 7900GS
Supermefx II (AMF Sound Card)
2x Seagate 500GB SATA
1x SATA DVD-RW
PC Power & Cooling 610W Silencer