Recent content by jasontb

I just sent it in today for RMA. There is no visibly damage to the board, so I assume they will cover. I'm just guessing something cracked.

Manufacturing defect? Heavy heatsink?

nothing. The motherboard is cracked or something. So it would randomly reboot. The problem must be in the region of the CPU because when I was troubleshooting I realized that even a gently brush of the heatsink would trigger a reboot.

because I was troubleshooting my random reboots...

thanks guys. looks like it was the a bad motherboard. I realized that it would reboot whenever I touched the heatsink.

So the other day my PC started to reboot randomly. Right in the middle of wherever it is the screen goes black and then a few seconds later I am back at the BIOS. It is not hard drive related because it also happens when all hd's are removed and booting off a ubuntu cd. I have removed all...