Abit NF-7 motherboard died

[barrese]

I've had a NF-7 rev 2.0 for about 7 months, the other day it stopped working. I had the computer on overnight. When I woke up it was working fine. I went to click on a drive that had powered down and the computer froze. When I hit reset it froze at the drive detection part of POST. I was on my way out so I just unplugged it and figured I deal with it later. When I went back to turn it on it wouldn't start. The board is getting power because the red LED is on, but nothing starts (fans, drives, etc).

I tried resetting the CMOS and nothing. I tried a second and third PSU and nothing. I tried hooking it up to a different case and nothing. I hooked up an old board to the same case and PSU and it works fine. I'm wondering if my board is toast and what could have happened.

Ever since I got it I've had problems with one of the PS2 ports not working right (it comes and goes so I stopped using it). Also the built in LAN port stopped working.

I'm wondering if I got a lemon board and now it's completely broke or if there's anything else I can try to salvage it?

NF-7 rev 2.0
WinXP pro SP1
Athlon XP 1700+ (was at 166x12)
512 MB PNY PC2100 RAM
Radeon 9000 AGP
Fortron Source 350W PSU
4 HDs, 1 DVD+R/RW
PCI cards: LAN, 56K, audio, IDE controller card

 

[Amber]

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Hi,
First of al ABIT is very good with RMA
I would try the mob with no IDE's hooked up and see if it is one of the drives
then try 1 drive at a time
if the MOB is no good do a RMA with Abit
I have one of the NF7's and it's a nice MOB

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[barrese]

I've tried it with nothing but the CPU and RAM and it still won't start (fans won't turn on, nothing). I guess it's just broke. I was hoping there was some quick fix so I didn't have to wait the month or so it'll take to fix it by RMA.

 

[pyrojunkie]

First check the system battery and see if it still has power (easy fix for many dead mobos I deal with). Then check the capacitors to see if any of them are blown. Blown capacitors will arch outwards and sometimes have a burnt color or possible leak.

Replacing a capacitor isn't very hard, but you would be better off sending it back to ABIT, as any soldering would void its warranty.

 

[Amber]

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ABIT's RMA operation uses a "Pool" system. In order to ensure a fast turn-around time, ABIT has developed a pool of products from which to draw on. The products that are shipped back to the customers will be replacements of the same models as returned, not the same products that were sent back to us. This helps maintain a constant supply of products available for a continuous and reliable system of returns

Abit RMA


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