Asus Sabertooth X58 CPU_LED On

[tornadog]

So I have been chugging along nicely on my sabertooth board bought in December '10. Only problem I had was my RAM slot B1 wont detect the stick. I had to use A1 and C1 to get all 4GB to work. Yesterday, I installed the latest bios 0802, and rebooted and played an hour of Dragon Age 2, watched a bunch of tv shows, and it was all fine till about an hour back. I had to reboot for some reason, I think a windows update, and after reboot no signal on the screen. It does not even go to bios. I look inside my case and find the cpu_led is on and the DRAM_led too. Is my cpu suddenly dead.

I was running it overclocked at 4GHZ and my idle temp was 40 degrees. Never had a crash cause of the overclock in games or benchmarks. Should I RMA the board just in case, or is it strictly a cpu problem?

 

[BoomerD]

Try resetting your CMOS...remove the battery and move the jumper. (While the PSU is unplugged from the wall)

You'll have to go through the hassles of overclocking again, but IF it gets you running again, it should be worth it.

 

[tornadog]

I hope its something simple as that. If its the cpu or the mobo I will be royally screwed....

 

[tornadog]

awesome!!! Boomer, it worked just like you said, removed battery and reseated heatsink, and it works fine now.

 

[tornadog]

Looks like I spoke too soon. My system rebooted overnight and now it would show the windows 7 loading animation and then reboot. I cant go any further. I tried system restore and memory diagnostics no errors.

 

[UKpsych]

I've had this issue when i first built mine, it seemed to be an issue with the cpu seating, although that doesn't sound like it based on the bios update. I would try reseating it if you haven't already. Also, the ram issue may be because you aren't using tri channel memory.

 

[tornadog]

I can understand such problems happening at the beginning of a build but for it to show up in a running system is just odd, unless some component is dying a slow death?

I tried triple channel memory because thats the advice I got from Asus support and it didnt help, B1 still wont detect the stick, only A1 and C1

 

[UKpsych]

I can understand such problems happening at the beginning of a build but for it to show up in a running system is just odd, unless some component is dying a slow death?

Yeah... that is odd. I will say this, it also did it when I replaced the cooler, atleast on 2 different occasions, I had to press down on the top of the cpu or reseat it. Excellent mobo but I'm not so sure about the socket pins.

I tried triple channel memory because thats the advice I got from Asus support and it didnt help, B1 still wont detect the stick, only A1 and C1

Perhaps you could RMA at this point?

 

[tornadog]

yea already opened an RMA request with them hope they cross-ship the new board, I dont wantt to stay without one for long.

 

[dawp]

make sure your ram is seated all the way. I have this board and at first it was just detecting 2g out of 6g total and acting all kinds of funky. once I firmly seated the ram all was cool.

I'm not a fan if the ram sockets on this board with only one side having the moving retainer and the other only a notched one that does not hold the ram in place.

you really have to push it firmly to get it to seat correctly.