My Dual Harper - Asus Z7S WS living review *56K warning*

[angelshonnny]

Ok, here goes. Before i left the house yesterday, I moved the jumper to clear CMOS and left it there, and removed the battery. When i got home I powered on the system, but forgot about the jumper. So i pulled the PSU plug, moved the jumper and pluged the PSu again. Tried the power button on the GP card,nothing, then I saw that I only put the jumper on one of the pins( thats what you get from being too lazy to put the case on a table so you can see whats going on inside) so I moved the jumper without pulling the PSU plug, and the system powered on POST said that system recovered from failed overclock. Then I Loaded defaults, disabled C1E and Speedstep and enabled Snoopfilter. Then i tried to go into Hardware monitor to disable Smartfan, but as soon as I pressed Enter at HM it froze, then after about a minute HM opened and it showed CPU 0's Vcore lighted up in red 0,44something, then I tried to scroll down to CPU1, the it froze again and never recovered, even after 10min. I had to pull the PSU plug. Plugged the PSU again an tried the power and button on the GP card and the case power button, again noting Ok, so I followed the same procedure as above and got it running again. Bios recognises both cpus and all the ram. I left the BIOS as it was, just F10 and enter. Windows loaded but it was running incredibly slow. Took almost 5min for Prime95 to open, so I thought that BIOS must have reset SF, C1E and EIST because it froze Restarted Vista and the same Fg thing. Got it to power on. F1 to enter setup, re-flashed the BIOS, ''flash succesfull will restart in 5sec' Then it froze there again

jcool Dayum... what the hell is wrong with these things :/
I don't think I'll ever reboot mine, 5 weeks 3 days and counting...

What exactly did you guys do just before it died? Reboot? I think it's better to shut it off completely and then power back on.

My wife was using Office and the net, so thats not the problem. She just said that it shut down twice during the day, so I don't really know what it could have been, I mean it was running problem free for 3 days with great performance for rendering. But after the shutdowns she had, CPU-Z only showed 6 cores Thats when i rebooted and lowered fsb to 400 x 7,5 with no power on after that. I'm so damn frustrated, think I'll maybe get the SM if I can get this piece of running and sold. Any suggestions? What about starting all over again, I mean removing everything again