A friend of mine purchased a Asus P6T Deluxe and a Core i7 920 along with some Patriots Tri-Channel DDR3-1600 (3x2GB) memory. The Patriot DDR3-1600 is on the 'approved' list for Asus. Microcenter offerred 'free' POST test prior to bringing it home. Normally, I would have passed, but it was free and the thought of driving back to Microcenter due to a defect wasn't sometihng I had wanted to do. The board past the POST test and they boxed it up and we went home. My friend finished building and had mentioned a very strange issue.
When he uses a really old LCD Monitor, a Westinghouse 19" 5:4 the system boots up fine. He gets a BIOS display and it will POST. However, when he plugs in a Samsung 216BW 22" 16:10 LCD it will not POST or even bring up the BIOS screen. He said he was able to repeat this multiple times. He also two other monitors that he had. It failed on a Westinghouse 20" 16:10 and then passed on a generic 15" 4:3.
One other tidbit of information he gave me just now was that the Samsung 216BW will flash its blue power light when booting up, but again, no display.
I honestly have a hard time believing the situation... These are all good known monitors and test fine on other systems. It seems like a really strange issue. I haven't taken a look at the system yet, but I do play at this point on moving some DIMMs around, removing all but one, trying another graphics card besides his 260GTX. I also may try and upgrade him to the Latest BIOS. However, I have looked a little bit on the newegg reviews and there are about 25 out of 150 reviews that give this thing "1 star" due to POST and DOA Problems.
Anyway, any assistance would be appreciated... I need some more ideas before I go over there and help him out.
When he uses a really old LCD Monitor, a Westinghouse 19" 5:4 the system boots up fine. He gets a BIOS display and it will POST. However, when he plugs in a Samsung 216BW 22" 16:10 LCD it will not POST or even bring up the BIOS screen. He said he was able to repeat this multiple times. He also two other monitors that he had. It failed on a Westinghouse 20" 16:10 and then passed on a generic 15" 4:3.
One other tidbit of information he gave me just now was that the Samsung 216BW will flash its blue power light when booting up, but again, no display.
I honestly have a hard time believing the situation... These are all good known monitors and test fine on other systems. It seems like a really strange issue. I haven't taken a look at the system yet, but I do play at this point on moving some DIMMs around, removing all but one, trying another graphics card besides his 260GTX. I also may try and upgrade him to the Latest BIOS. However, I have looked a little bit on the newegg reviews and there are about 25 out of 150 reviews that give this thing "1 star" due to POST and DOA Problems.
Anyway, any assistance would be appreciated... I need some more ideas before I go over there and help him out.
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