Quote Originally Posted by bingo13 View Post
I have the board working fine in the Corsair case with both the PC Power & Cooling unit and the HX1000. Based on your description and that of your post at the ASUS forum talking about smoke or sparks I would venture to say that board is shorting out against something in the case. PM me your RMA case number and I will have someone contact you shortly about it.
I sent the board to Johnathan in Fremont CA. The RMA # is USA1082294
As far as the board shorting out against something in the case, I have thought of that possibility but I don't think that is what is causing the problems. I have installed one of my old EVGA nForce 4 motherboards in the case and it POST OK so why won't the RIIIE do the same thing? I wish I had known about the PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 1KW-SR PSU working with the board as you say, that could have saved me $250