3 day old ASUS P5ND2-SLI-Deluxe is Dead

[H0witzer]

I had my system up and running for 3 days.

Saturday the power supply (Aspire 500W) suddenly died. After talking to a few people on the forum, and hearing how everyone pretty much says that Aspire PSU are horrible I went and bought a OCZ 520.

Got my system back up and running and was updating the BIOS since the one which came with the board is actually quite old. I reflased the BIOS according to directions and when I rebooted it died. No problem I thought, thank goodness I bought a board with a utility for recovering corrupted BIOS. Well.... it doesn't work. I have tried everything and after going to ASUS's own forums I am rather concerned. Firstly I am hearing alot of people complaining of blown power supplies. That on it's own is scary (since some were high quality ones as well).

Then secondly, everyone seems to be complaining the new BIOS isn't compatible with the board. HOW is that even possible??!!!

ASUS said they will reflash my BIOS, but that doesn't answer the question as to why I can not use the BIOS recovery utility. I think there is something wrong with this board and from ASUS's own webpage have seen alot of complaints.

So here is my question. Should I just RMA the board and have it replaced? Should I ask for my money back? It's 3 days old.

If I just get my money back or exchange it, what (INTEL based) motherbaord should I replace it with???? I wanted to run SLI which is why I bought it. And noooo I am not switching to AMD so don't go there. I might later but not at the moment. I already have too much invested in this NEW system to switch to AMD (Mainly 2 GIG of DDR2).

 

[Gedsdead]

My mobo had an rma 3 times. I was running a P D 830, which produced a 69 C temp at idle, and 80 - 85 C under load. That supa hot.

Also, they haven't had a bios update since summer (unless there's one recently) which means that since may, only 3 bios.

I've heard good things about MSI's nforce Intel board, and gigabytes as well. Check them out. But this one I'd pass.

 

[H0witzer]

I sent mine back for a refund. I ordered the ASUS P5WD2 as a replacement. From all the other message boards I read this is the most stable board for the intel chipset. It doesn't do SLI mind you, but I only have one video card at the moment so it isn't an issue.

I was interested in buying the P5N32-SLI that Gary had reviewed here but supply has completely dried up and no one seems to know when they will be shipping. Personally it almost seems suspicious.

The P5WD2 appears to be rock solid from what I am hearing, with some people even overclocking systems to over 5Ghz!