Haha ive have the same issues, same motherboard. It lasted a week and that was the end of that, incredible amount of issues. Strange, theyre generally some of the better quality boards out there from past experience.
> :I've had similar problems with the Asus A8N-SLI Delux and Premium > :motherboards. After about 6 months, they would not longer start without > :reseting the CMOS. Soon after I could only get them to start after > :temporarily grounding the green power-on wire connected to the ATX power > : connector till the fans spin, and then hitting the case's power switch. > : > :I also used a power supply of another A8N-SLI Delux to test these > :motherboards. After transferring the power supply back to the original > :motherboard, that board immediately developed the same issues. > : > :Replacing all the power supplies with brand new ATX version 2.2 power > :supplies seems to have fixed it so far, though I have had one of them > :spontaneously turn off a few times as if the motherboard had overloaded > :the power supply. > : > :This seems to be a common problem with the A8N boards. > : > :- Jason > > Wow, I never realized those boards were so flakey. I always thought it > was something I did when I put the boxes together but Google is full of > reports. The machines have always run perfectly in all respects except > for when I had to power cycle them (well, and that one incident where > three hard drives got fried during a power failure). > > Hopefully the new ones I'm getting, which are a more recent model (the > one with the heat pipe technology) won't have the problem. > > I tried the green wire trick and managed to get one of them working > again, but the other MB looks fried... I think it may have been from when > the power supply dropped out of its corner while I was fiddling with it. I > must have broken something more seriously on the motherboard. Ah well. > with both MBs slated for replacement I guess it doesn't matter that I > destroyed one :-) > > -Matt -- Leigh MacDonald Airborne Image-Tech, Hardware and Software Specialist Verimap Plus Inc 5520 2nd St SW Calgary, Alberta Canada T2H 0G9 Office: +01 (403) 228-1235 Cell: +01 (403) 478-8730
