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

[Jaco]

Asus is history for me period (and I'm not the only one, I guess).

[colombodk]

So, now mine died, running 2x C0 Harper Quads.

Upgraded from 4x 2GB to additional 2x 4GB, total 12 GB a couple of weeks ago, perhaps that took it over the edge?!

Was working fine until Saturday. Powered up, RAM count, and suddenly the ugly smell of burnt electronics... Looks like the digital VRM went up in smoke!

Took a photo of the burnt area: http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/130/dsc01187j.jpg

RMA'ed to Ingram Micro AB in Sweden; hoping for a quick swap.

[ZIO]

So, now mine died, running 2x C0 Harper Quads.

Upgraded from 4x 2GB to additional 2x 4GB, total 12 GB a couple of weeks ago, perhaps that took it over the edge?!

Was working fine until Saturday. Powered up, RAM count, and suddenly the ugly smell of burnt electronics... Looks like the digital VRM went up in smoke!

Took a photo of the burnt area: http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/130/dsc01187j.jpg

RMA'ed to Ingram Micro AB in Sweden; hoping for a quick swap.

That looks like a VRM cooler allignment issue, mine had the same issue when I got it back from RMA, I had to reallign it, because they had bent the heat pipe and caused a missallignment of the VRM cooler. It detaches from the VRM chips easily if the heat pipe is bent even a tiny bit.