Hello,
As of yesterday night, out of nowhere, the integrated NIC of my newly purchased Z68X-UD4-B3 suddenly died. I've had to change my motherboard to an old one in order to connect to the internet.
I have no clue how this happened or why it happened. It suddently was working and then the network disappeared from the Network Connections area. I tried completely taking all the power, and the battery to reset the BIOS aswell as resetting the BIOS settings to default with no luck. A few days ago I had upgraded the BIOS to F9, but had not had any problem after the upgrade and ran just fine for a few days. Cable and modem are fine as it works correctly with my old motherboard.
I've been also having a plethora of weird sounds coming from the TWO EVGA GeForce GTX 570 video cards, one that seems like a coil whine, which only happens when stress testing: (see: http://youtu.be/3APlKIqfXVg) but also another type of sound when playing games (see: http://youtu.be/gIk8dpaEzso). Apart from expericing a weird graphical glitch with one of the cards on the windows loading screen (have not recorded it yet), which seems pretty weird.
I also experienced at one point a crash when playing with SLI on the new mobo, it seemed like the cards went too hot. (I had the case closed) and never suffered the same crash after leaving the case open with better airflow... I guess the avg of heavy loading on SLI 570's is around ~87c and needs to be well ventilated. But the crash and Windows loading screen glitch kind of worry me that one of the cards is bad, apart from the mobo, which seems like it's the case at the moment unless I can find the issue.
My really bad concern about all this is that I live in Costa Rica and to get it RMA I have to send it all back, it won't cost me money, but it'll take quiet a while, plus it seems like I might have issues not only with one part, but TWO. It's just frustrating, I'd like to make sure it's not misconfiguration or local issues and if not... start an RMA process for everything that needs to be changed...
As of yesterday night, out of nowhere, the integrated NIC of my newly purchased Z68X-UD4-B3 suddenly died. I've had to change my motherboard to an old one in order to connect to the internet.
I have no clue how this happened or why it happened. It suddently was working and then the network disappeared from the Network Connections area. I tried completely taking all the power, and the battery to reset the BIOS aswell as resetting the BIOS settings to default with no luck. A few days ago I had upgraded the BIOS to F9, but had not had any problem after the upgrade and ran just fine for a few days. Cable and modem are fine as it works correctly with my old motherboard.
I've been also having a plethora of weird sounds coming from the TWO EVGA GeForce GTX 570 video cards, one that seems like a coil whine, which only happens when stress testing: (see: http://youtu.be/3APlKIqfXVg) but also another type of sound when playing games (see: http://youtu.be/gIk8dpaEzso). Apart from expericing a weird graphical glitch with one of the cards on the windows loading screen (have not recorded it yet), which seems pretty weird.
I also experienced at one point a crash when playing with SLI on the new mobo, it seemed like the cards went too hot. (I had the case closed) and never suffered the same crash after leaving the case open with better airflow... I guess the avg of heavy loading on SLI 570's is around ~87c and needs to be well ventilated. But the crash and Windows loading screen glitch kind of worry me that one of the cards is bad, apart from the mobo, which seems like it's the case at the moment unless I can find the issue.
My really bad concern about all this is that I live in Costa Rica and to get it RMA I have to send it all back, it won't cost me money, but it'll take quiet a while, plus it seems like I might have issues not only with one part, but TWO. It's just frustrating, I'd like to make sure it's not misconfiguration or local issues and if not... start an RMA process for everything that needs to be changed...