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P5N32-E SLI PLUS system problem/question

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stnick80

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Last night I got my new core duo system from newegg in. I got it all loaded up with windows and office. I loaded all the updates. Then I ran a Super PI to see what it could do. 30 Seconds 1m Test .. not too great but whatever. I then decided I was going to O/C the system and see what I could get out of it. I slightly modified the O/C settings in the BIOS and now the system will not POST.

Before I go any further here are the specs

P5N32-SLI Plus
Intel Core-Duo E6300
EVGA Nvidia 8800 GTS 640 meg
2 x 1GB Corsair PC2-5400 DDR2-675
Wester Digital Raptor 150g
OCZ Gamestream 700w

Okay, back to it. I am getting no POST beep codes. This system powers up normally. All fans come on, all drives, green light on motherboard.

I pulled the power cord, switched the CMOS jumper, plugged it back in, powered it up and NADA.

I pulled the power cord, CMOS battery, and left the CMOS jumper in the reset position. I put the battery back in and powered it up and still nothing.

I tried pulling 1 memory stick out and booting with only 1 stick. No go. I tried booting with no memory. No beeps.

I unplugged everything except the video card, cpu, motherboard and the ram to eliminate anything else. I still dont get any post beep codes when I remove the memory.

Last night, I pulled the CMOS battery out and have left it out for over 12 hours. I am going to try and put it back in when I get home and see if that works.

Through all this the motherboard always had a green light. 24 pin power connector connected and 2x 4 pins connected.

I bought the wrong memory with this system and I can't help but wonder if that is part of my problem. I meant to buy PC2-6400 DDR2-800 and accidently purchased the wrong one on newegg. Either way, I know it worked with the PC2-5400 DDR2-675 long enough to fully load windows XP pro and MS office 2003 and all the updates.

CPU-Z showed that this memory was not using the timings and voltage it was supposed to be. I think it is supposed to 4-4-4-12 and 2.1v and I believe CPU-Z showed it as 5-5-5-18or something.

I'm running out of options. I'm thinking I may just go ahead and buy some PC2-6400 memory and test that. The fact that I get no POST beeps whatsoever with no memory though isnt a good sign...

If you guys have any ideas or questions, please let me know. Thank you.
 
Sounds like you actually know what you're doing and are following the right procedure. I'm guessing the motherboard did indeed die. Which is a shame, because if you get a working one, this motherboard is very, very good. Don't give up!

The only other thing I might try would be to run the motherboard outside of the case (or at least remove it and remount it) in case there's a shorting problem.

I think I recall reading that some people (two) have found that after they futz around near the RAM slots, they would have shorting problems, etc. But that just seemed flukely to me. I haven't noticed it myself.
 
I have that board. Its great. It should support that memory just fine.

Did you try one stick and moving it around to all the slots????

You might want to start over.....MB out of the case, reseat the CPU, 1 stick of memory and the GPU......then add stuff if you POST. If it wont POST barebones, then something happened.:mad:
 
stnick80,
I had this board with an E6600, Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 (2 X 1GB), evga 8800GTS,
OCZ 700w power supply and 3 ea 320GB SATA drives. Oc'd to 3.5ghz, but it was a huge hassle to get the voltages right to make it work. One morning I decided to start over, changed to defaults and it ran pretty good. When I checked the voltages with Everest Ultimate, I noticed the NB voltage was at 1.15v, went into the bios and changed it to 1.4v and restarted.
It ran for most of the day, but during a 400 page print job the printer just stopped. I restarted
and experienced what you're describing. DEAD!!!!
RMA'd the board to ASUS and they replaced it with a new one. In the meantime, I purchased a evga NF-68 (680i) A-1. I'll never look back. This new board is a superior board to the ASUS. Very easy overclock to 3.6 with stock voltages.
It actually cost me about the same and I sold the ASUS on ebay.
The only thing I didn't try, but it was suggested by someone on this forum, was to remove the board, hook up a power supply and turn it on. It's supposed to reset everything to default. I had already sent the board to ASUS land by then.


Good luck!
 
I had the same problem with this board as well and tried to fix it for 2 days. I ended up fixing the problem by switching the ram in every slot and reboot each time. After about 50 moral-killing reboots, it actually posted. Got into bios and changed the voltages and timings manually and the problem hasnt come back again. If I remember correctly, It eventually posted with 1 stick of ram in the 4th ram slot.

Others on the Asus forums are having this same problem, and all of them fixed it the same way. Good luck!
 
I am RMAing it back to Newegg. I worked on it this afternoon. I tried everything I could think of and nothing.. I can't be bothered with this any longer.

Any suggestions on a replacement? Should I get the same board again?

I RMA'd the memory as well. I bought some Mushkin PC2-6400 in its replacement. I'll probably order a mobo tonight, so suggestions would be nice.

Thank you.
 
Well, again, if you get a good one, I can't imagine a much nicer 680i(-ish) board. I like it better than my two eVGA 680i ones.
 
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