My board just bit the bullet. I also was running LinX stress test, board all of a sudden went into sleep mode and would not power on. I unplugged everything, even tried another power supply............finally it powered up WITHOUT the 4-pin power hooked up, but it would not POST.
Plug the 4-pin back in and it goes back to not booting back up. I'm starting to think that Fry's free motherboard deals are free for a reason. I expected ECS boards to be throwaway..........not MSI.
I also got the H55 MSI combo deal with the base model i3 (called a Pentium though), and that board's standoff holes are off by a mile.
I'm going to do an autopsy and see what's killed her. Kind of regretting selling my i7 rig right now.




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