That's really the answer. They sold a faulty product and are playing games with all of you on RMA's..
Time for you guys to let them know how pissed you are and plan to take legal action through the justice dept.
Maybe name Newegg also as they continued to sell these after knowing of the problem.
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My PSU finally blew somewhere around tonight (yeah I know I saw it coming.. should have done something about it), rig went down between 3 and 4 am and wouldn't fire back up. I replaced the PSU, and now it does start up, but gives the dreaded "FF" error code.
Fortunately I got a brand new one back from RMA last week, so I can replace it immediately. Still, it sucks. Mainly because I still don't know what's causing it to fail... Maybe the dead PSU blew something, who knows, but I doubt it.
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All right.. swapped mobo & PSU, and my server is alive again... talk about high maintenance cost lol
Seems like the storage system got hit pretty hard by the failing PSU tho, Win XP x64 refuses to boot and the Raid 5 array reports as degraded
Rebuilding now, approx 3,5 hours for that 1,8TB array - thank Intel for the 1,2Ghz Dualcore XOR
I think I'll just use this as an opportunity to change the OS, I've wanted Server 08 on this one for quite some time now.
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wow, that many boards?
that's just insane,
mine still in working shape,
just not pleased with it what so ever,
trying to sell it atm,
for as low as 800$ with cpu, ram, and heatsink.
maybe add a line in the intro, something like this :
Warning : Due to the many dead Z7S boards reported on XS, we can no longer recommend this motherboard. Move on or use at your own risk .
*Threadstarter cannot be held responsable for impending disaster
ASus returned my board in a locked state- buuut after researching this problem I see that ASUS boards have this common problem, ever since dual channel RAM.
I found a way to force the MB back to life- Pull ALL the RAM and boot- The MB THEN throws error beeps, turn off, place 1 stick back in, and reboot, I had to add the RAM one DIMM at a time.
Do you think the MB is losing it's ability to see the RAM? weird- oh well I'm back up, Oh- not the Power supply.
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Last edited by ZIO; 04-27-2009 at 12:18 PM.
Reason: FIxed problem
Mine died after a couple of days. I contacted Holland Asus (as that was the number provided by ANT online) and they promised to send me an RMA form immediately. A few days later after nothing happened, the same guy said he had actually forgotten about sending me the email, and this time he did send an RMA number. I filled it out including VISA card info just in case I decide to pull a fast one on them, but nothing. I have called back the Holland number and now it seems that they have an answering service that deals with non server motherboard issues. The email address where I got the RMA forms simply do not reply to my several emails. I am almost giving up on this. Anyone have any ideas how I can RMA this board and get one that works?
Interesting there ZIO, maybe pulling the ram resets something.
If we have another board die we'll have to get someone to try that.
Spiro, the way we are being treated is simply unacceptable. I think its time to go higher... i'm going to see if I can rustle some contacts up but feel free to try yourself as well.
I found a way to force the MB back to life- Pull ALL the RAM and boot- The MB THEN throws error beeps, turn off, place 1 stick back in, and reboot, I had to add the RAM one DIMM at a time.
Do you think the MB is losing it's ability to see the RAM? weird- oh well I'm back up, Oh- not the Power supply.
Mine's still running nicely, although I don't know for how much longer!
If it lasts me another 3 years I'll be happy and ready to buy something else...
Anyone looked at alternative setups that give the same number of fast-running physical (as opposed to logical) cores?
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My Workstation:
Asus Z7S Motherboard
2 x Intel L5420 Xeon 2.5Ghz - Overclocked to 2.9GHz, can go to 3.3GHz and remain stable if only the BIOS wouldn't reset on reboot due to manually set VCore!!!
2 x Kingston 800MHz 4GB FB-DIMMs
Microsoft Vista Ultimate x64
1 x Adaptec 2405 Hardware RAID Controller 128MB RAM, 800MHz Dual core processor
2 x OCZ Core 60GB SSDs in RAID 0 - 280MB/s Sequential Read with 0.2MS access times!!!
1 x WD Caviar Green 1TB
1 x Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GB DDR3, four DVI Outputs
1 x Benq G2400WD 24" Widescreen TFT
2 x Samsung Syncmaster 930BF 19" TFT
Watercooling System for CPUs and GPUs
1 x Antec TruePower Trio 650w Power Supply
Thermaltake Armor Case with Optional Side Fan
Total System PassMark PerformanceTest Score v6.1 - 5007.9 @ 3.08GHz
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!
RMA'd board returned DOA
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