msi 790 fx-gd70 thread

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

sweeeeeet

[DaMulta]

I'm about to smash this motherboard.....and buy another........unless someone wants to send me a sample. LOL


I swear it looks like battery corrosion on some of the points on the board. right by where the OC dial is, if you take you finger under the board you can turn it on and off by touching the pins. I think this is where my problem lies. It's also wanting to stat in green mode. now I have taken rubbing achole to this board HARD CORE/yet for some reason it's wanting to leave this thin layer of crap that I have never gotten before with cleaning with rubbing achole.



The board will not start. It goes code FF/D3/FF

ATM I'm taking a sowing needle to all these thin areas with no luck.....

[DaMulta]

That chip is the play house

The first two on the top turns on and off the oc dial
If you cross the 13th row on top it will power on the board lol

fun facts

[chew*]

Honeslty from the post code it sounds like you killed something in the ram section with condensation.

Curios what lights are lighting up as our board basically told us by the lights that we killed the IMC on the chip and something to do with ram on the board.....

[Entropicity]

The board will not start. It goes code FF/D3/FF

ATM I'm taking a sowing needle to all these thin areas with no luck.....

Check your ram slots. The black slots especially. D3 Refers to them.

[chew*]

Started putting the screws to this board......want to see how it holds up




Hmmm a little more, see if shes got anymore left in here....this is kind of a cruddy chip btw.

[DaMulta]

Well I got it to read code E5 for a bit....

I'm swapping ram out with different ram getting the same codes back to E3/FF I'm getting now.

Honeslty from the post code it sounds like you killed something in the ram section with condensation.

Curios what lights are lighting up as our board basically told us by the lights that we killed the IMC on the chip and something to do with ram on the board.....

all lights are on the board.

[DaMulta]

It made me mads



lol

[chew*]

Bake it an oven afterwards to dry it out, who knows might get lucky.

[DaMulta]

How hot do you think?

Is it 350F for 15 mins?

[DaMulta]

The reason that I don't think it's dead ram is that I had it working yesterday. BUT one slot. So I started cleaning up the board more, and low and behold all the slots stopped working.

[chew*]

How hot do you think?

Is it 350F for 15 mins?

Nah that will melt solder, 150F should be fine for drying it out. I usually hit all my boards with a haridryer after going cold then toss them in for 5-10 mins, especially if we had a humd day and had condensation issues....

[DaMulta]

Snipedog Big thank you bud......

As you can see i'm still oldschool.....some dogs just can't learn new tricks.....closed loop for life.



still playing, this chip seems very sensitive to voltage on this board now, I think I may have a bad mount.....should have lapped block and cpu.

Higher the number the more sensitive to voltage I have found it to be chew. From what I have seen at least.

[DaMulta]

Nah that will melt solder, 150F should be fine for drying it out. I usually hit all my boards with a haridryer after going cold then toss them in for 5-10 mins, especially if we had a humd day and had condensation issues....

yea I was really thinking about the melting the solder part

Well it's about done, I think I'm going to wash it one more time on the top rack.

(normaly I would say let it set out and about for a week, but I don't want to wait.......)

[FlawleZ]

It made me mads


lol

I LMAO when I saw that.

And to add to the general information on this board, I tried enabling ACC tonight on mine and it didn't enable the 4th core. ;( It just booted like normal with 3 cores. But so far I'm 100% stable 225 on the bus and 3.2Ghz with my 720 BE at stock voltage.

[DaMulta]

[TiTON]

DaMulta -

Do you use the dish washer and oven to clean the board for RMA, right?

I typically use the sink to wash off any LN2 left over before I RMA the board.

- Ton

[DistortioniZm]

Dude, I totally hope you get that board working again. That wouLD be the shiznet!

[mav2000]

Never seen that before......LMAO

[DaMulta]

DaMulta -

Do you use the dish washer and oven to clean the board for RMA, right?

I typically use the sink to wash off any LN2 left over before I RMA the board.

- Ton

I broke the cover for the cpu lock down.(The damn silly putty DON"T USE THAT CRAP) ATM it gives me the FF code IF the 8pin or 4pin is not installed. It will also let me hold down the power button to shut it down.

Now if the 8pin or 4 pin is installed I get NO code read outs, and I can't hold down the power button to turn it off. ATM I have fans running over the VRM in that area(I think it's still damp there.) With luck it will power on.


One of my friends that is a RMA guy washes video cards in the dishwasher all the time and brings them back to life.

I had it working with 3 slots and I had a little silly putty left under one slot that was stopping it from working. When I pushed it up in there a little more trying to get it out all the slots stopped working. I only use the dishwasher to clean boards in a have to situation.



Right now I'm going to try and sell a 9800GTX with a Danger Den Full coverage block 3/8 with a black ice EX 120 rad and pump for maybe 150-160 shipped....then get me a asus board and try it out.

[FlawleZ]

Okay, really dumb question, but I'm having trouble changing the voltages in the BIOS from Auto. Is there an option to enable voltage control?

[SKoob]

Can I just confirm that the stock NB voltage is meant to be 1.2? As this board is giving it 1.1 @ auto with the current bios.

[chew*]

I believe default depends on the actual mobo.....iv'e see differences across the board.......Take care when using NB vid however. I have found it to overvolt by .3 volts on my board, confirmed Fluke DMM and readpoint reccomended by MSI.


Have you tried + and - keys for voltage?

I have yet to have an issue using eraser "silly putty" on a motherboad.....namely if you not using ram slots you tape over them and then go right over them with eraser.....
I'd be happy to take a pic of one of the boards I killed that was completely covered with eraser........looks like brandy new ( without the dishwasher ), however its not getting RMA'd because it did not fail under normal conditions.

[FlawleZ]

Have you tried + and - keys for voltage?

I've tried ALL keys lol. It can't be this hard. All of the voltage options are showing "Auto" in and are grayed out. It's as if they're in a "Read Only" mode.

[shadow_419]

these keys