Quote Originally Posted by bmilos View Post
I thought I would post here too. My build, or something in it, died. I switched from 4.1 to 4.3 to try some stability testing. After restarting, changing the BIOS, and rebooting, my system hung in the R2E ROG enter screen. So, I powered off, powered back on, and nothing. No ROG enter screen, no fans going, nothing. The only thing that happens when I power on is the lights light up.

No extreme voltages, no hardware changes.

What could be the cause? Would the mobo lights come on if it where that? Could my CPU be toast? Power supply?

Im anxiety ridden... And Asus's customer support answered and said they'd have to give me a call back within 24 hours due to heavy call volume. Un-freaking-real...
I've had the same thing happen as you and boy did it make me jolt. I was like WTF just happened...I thought I burnt a $1500 system just like that. Battery pull followed by two taps to the CMOS reset button without it and without the power cord, followed by two more to the power button just to make sure everything is drained out of the system cleared the problem up in a jiffy. But man, it did scare me.

And in all honesty, I feel a bit cheated too on the i7 940. I mean come on, every single i7 920 out there is performing as good if not better than both the i7 940 and the i7 965 XE. That is pretty damn retarded. $350 CAD more got me literally 266MHz more at stock. That's pretty sad. And yeah, I'd as easily point my finger at Intel. There needs to be a bigger difference between these chips. When you get a i7 940 it should feel like you got an i7 940, and when you get the XE, well, that should be in a league of its own. For now, it's worse than some low end i7s.

ATM, I feel like I donated $350 to Intel.