nForce 790i SLI/Ultra chipset mobos - Reviews/OC/Guides

[saaya]

hehehe, thanks bro

its not me who hooked you up with her so dont thank me hehehe
thank yourself or her

Let me get this straight.
You try to power on the board... it "fires up" for a sec ( or half a sec ) and automatically shutdowns.
If you press the power switch again, does it power up again or doesn't do anything ?
Because the second thing is saying "Short-circuit...somewhere" [ and short-circuit could also mean dead hardware ]

exactly, if it does that once, then it sounds like short circuit.
if it only tries to power up once and then nothing for seconds to minutes, then short circuit, OR bios is fubared! this happens on p5b deluxe boards sometimes. what you gotta do on asus p5b boards in this situation is:
turn off psu, turn on psu, move jumper from normal to reset position, keep the power button pushed. wait for a few minutes, then move the jumper back to normal position. as soon as you do that the board will fire up immediatly.
it will then boot or you can shut down the psu, turn it on again and then boot.

no idea if this works with your board, but give it a try...
with the striker 1 boards there were maaaany bios corruption issues as well...

I'll cancel my Maximus auction on Ebay and keep it for a few more days after I get my SIIE. You guys are freakin' me out w/ these horror stories!! Seriously, is there anybody happy with this board??

OBR loves his S2E
and webwilli loves his one too, but he said himself hes not really pushing it at all and not clocking high

start from 550 in 5GHz incrememnts (all booting from bios)

now now, i know the 790 ocs fsb pretty nicely, but dont you think your exxaggerating a lil here?

jody, nice n low trfc for 1050+ clocks... nice!