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I am officially cursed.

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Bop

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The past two weeks have been hell on me, and it couldn't come at a worse time, soon before DooM 3's release.

It started when my ASUS A7N8X only ran Prime95 for 6 minutes. I instantly though, hey my RAM was defective before, maybe after the RMA I got another faulty pair. I ran memtest for 3 hours without a single error so I know that my RAM wasn't causing Prime to stop after a short time. The next day my CMOS fails and I am unable to save anything in the BIOS, even after replacing the battery.

I decided to buy an ABIT AN7 but that ran Prime 95 for ZERO minutes and games crashed like crazy. I RMAed that and bought a NF7-S v2.0 but when I received that and got the same Prime 95 and game errors I bought a 430w power supply from Antec in case that was the problem. That didn't work, Prime still ran for less than a minute so I told myself, the RAM is fine, I've been through 3 differnet motheboards and tried a different quality PSU and I have the same problem, it HAS to be the CPU.

Just today I got another desktop 2500+ in the mail and put it in my system. I crossed my fingers as I hit start on the torture test and less than one minute later I got ANOTHER FAILURE!!! I was thinking ok, this HAS to be my memory now so I go into the BIOS to see if my PC would boot at 205FSB, I got continous long beeps which means DRAM isn't installed properly after the CMOS saved. I took out my RAM and swapped it with my tried and true 256MB HyperX BH-5 modules which have NEVER let me down and they wouldn't even boot so I know that something is funky with the motherboard.

I go to the ABIT website and download the latest BIOS and flash my PC, and here is where I get f***** hard in the a**. After I discovered that my PC would no longer boot I went on my P4 rig and went to the ABIT website and I froze as I saw the lines *For v1.0-1.2 ONLY*. Ok now my BIOS is hosed, gotta send it to get fixed.

Anyone know what the hell could be wrong with my PC if Prime 95 lasts less than a minute after swapping RAM, PSUs, CPUs and motherboards?

If it continues after I replace the motherboard again and update it CORRECTLY should I do something like sledge my entire computer or does anyone have a suggestion?

I already tried things like increasing voltage and such, and my CPU temps are 38C idle and 43-45C load. My case temp is around 22C. Does God just hate me or something?
 
Here is something that is guaranteed to make you chuckle. I was browsing through the ABIT forums and they said you can take any Phoenix/Award BIOS chip off one motherboard and put it on another and you would be able to flash it again with a diskett. I saw the Phoenix chip, and ok, get ready for this, I ended up prying the ENTIRE Phoenix chip socket off the motheboard as I didn't know what to do. I later found out that the thing has a socket and it comes out of that. GREAT!!! Now I can't RMA the thing and I am forced to spend another $100 and order a new one as my warranty is void.
 
some people just aren't meant to open up the case of their computer, honest. At least you don't have to really bad version of the hardware touch of death, where things break just by you using them.
 
Bop said:
Here is something that is guaranteed to make you chuckle. I was browsing through the ABIT forums and they said you can take any Phoenix/Award BIOS chip off one motherboard and put it on another and you would be able to flash it again with a diskett. I saw the Phoenix chip, and ok, get ready for this, I ended up prying the ENTIRE Phoenix chip socket off the motheboard as I didn't know what to do. I later found out that the thing has a socket and it comes out of that. GREAT!!! Now I can't RMA the thing and I am forced to spend another $100 and order a new one as my warranty is void.
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omg. Dude. WTF...

Hell, RMA it anyway and see what happens. Worst thing is they make you pay a bit for it.

I feel for you.. :(
 
Hopefully they will accept it, but in the past 7 years of computer building that was the STUPIDEST thing I have ever done. Well we all have our bad days...

Now what if I get the motherboard back and I still have errors in Prime? If I swap the RAM and the CPU and still get problems I will be at a dead end.
 
Bop said:
should I do something like sledge my entire computer or does anyone have a suggestion?
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thats what i would be leaning for if my comp did something this evil
 
I was thinking about returning my 2500+ that I just got and then buy a 2600+ mobile as I heard they have a much better overclock track record than the desktop bartons.

Would that be a good idea or should I just keep my 2500+? I have 6 days to decide.
 
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