Dead motherboard?

[UsandThem]

Sent the 2nd motherboard with bent pins back this morning. I decided to abandon this model and go with the strix, the next model up. Was $110 more but after much back and forth I got $90 of that covered, so I came out of pocket $20 for it.

Most of my decisions were based on time because everyday I don't have my computer up and running is a day I can't work. The new cpu from Intel is expected to arrive today and the new motherboard had same day shipping so I had to jump on it fast. With the holiday weekend, if I tried anythint else, I'll be looking at Wednesday at the earliest and I cannot be off my computer for another 6 days.


I hope to God I don't have to reinstall everything because the motherboards are identical in spec and layout. Same USB drivers etc, same chipset obviously .. Same pcie configuration, same amount of USB ports, and u.2 and m.2 spec.

The only difference is the audio chipset used, but I don't think that would be an issue...



Thoughts?

If you are using Windows 10, you'll be fine. It's pretty good at fixing itself even when you add in a motherboard with completely different chipsets. As far as the audio driver, just uninstall your old one and download the newest audio driver from Asus's website. The only thing is Windows might pop up a "need to activate" message because of the motherboard change, so you might have to call in and get the new code if it isn't able to activate over the internet.

 

[2blzd]

Thanks for the info, I am indeed using windows 10. I read in my research I may have to reactivate as well. I pulled the win install key using SiSoftware Sandra before all this went down so hopefully that will help enough to reactivate

 

[2blzd]

Lol I can't win. Went to install all the new stuff and I realized I left my cooler mount headers still screwed in the socket. Cannot install my brand new noctua cooler now.. Lol I give up.

I over computers

 

[bigboxes]

Lol I can't win. Went to install all the new stuff and I realized I left my cooler mount headers still screwed in the socket. Cannot install my brand new noctua cooler now.. Lol I give up.

I over computers

I wouldn't have told anyone.

 

[UsandThem]

Lol I can't win. Went to install all the new stuff and I realized I left my cooler mount headers still screwed in the socket. Cannot install my brand new noctua cooler now.. Lol I give up.

I wouldn't have told anyone.

Man, you must have some bad karma or something going on.

Just run your CPU without a heatsink until you get another mounting bracket. It is perfectly safe* to do so according to this 'computer tech'.

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/skylake-upgrad-having-stability-problems.2478409/

*Not safe. Do not try.

 

[2blzd]

Definitely bad karma. In addition to all this Amazon has lost 2 other packages for this build.

I've been on the phone with various customer support over the week for about 10 hours total now. I never wanna call any support ever again, lol. My brain is mush from all the elevator music

 

[UsandThem]

Definitely bad karma. In addition to all this Amazon has lost 2 other packages for this build.

I've been on the phone with various customer support over the week for about 10 hours total now. I never wanna call any support ever again, lol. My brain is mush from all the elevator music

All your hardware issues and lost packages? I guess someone better be offering some rum and a cigar to Jobu.

 

[2blzd]

I overnighted a noctua s2011 install kit that has the bolts I needed. $7 and made Amazon pay for next day air.

It's out for delivery and en route. Hopefully I will be up and running by the end of the day

 

[VirtualLarry]

Hope that works for ya man, you've evidently been through a lot on this build.

Of course, I just had a "Display driver has stopped responding"...on a tablet. One that never got any updates. (Win 8.1)

I'm not sure what's going on with it.

 

[2blzd]

Now I'm getting q code error 53 with the new board and installed.


Tried one stick of ram. Dram light and strait to 53.


Its a new board and cpu , would I have to reset the cmos on a brand new board? The ram ran at its xmp settings before it died... Do I have to reset something?

Did my motherboard kill my ram too?

Seriously I'm about to call it quits..

I can't win

 

[2blzd]

I'm getting error code 53 even without any ram installed.

There is a specific code for no ram installed, 55. If I'm getting 53 with now ram installed, do I have another bad motherboard and cpu?


I want to curl up in a ball and die

 

[UsandThem]

I'm getting error code 53 even without any ram installed.

There is a specific code for no ram installed, 55. If I'm getting 53 with now ram installed, do I have another bad motherboard and cpu?

I'm not sure if I already asked this earlier, but what is your RAM model number?

 

[2blzd]

IT'S ALIVE!!!!

typing this from my machine as we speak...

I really have no idea what I did to fix it. I just stepped away, ate some dinner, showered, tried to relax a bit, took a deep breath and went back to it. I unplugged everything like USB, SATA, front panel audio etc...And the only thing I did different was I plugged the back exhaust fan from pump to h_amp_fan. I read somewhere if I plugged the exhaust fan into the cpu_pump header next to the cpu_fan header that it would work fine and actually run off the same controller/speed at the CPU fan, which would be beneficial. I don't see how plugging a fan in the wrong header could give a RAM error code.

I reseated the ram and tested one by one and all passed fine. Booted up into windows fine. Rebooted and switched on XMP fine. Running currently at 34-37C across all cores. Just have firefox and few tabs open, AIDA64 extreme for monitoring and playing music off youtube. Already ran disk-tests in crystal mark, all are running at full speed including the 950 Pro m.2 - which is a relief.

The only thing I could think of is that I didn't fulled push the ram all the way down, even though I got a click. I read on a few random forum posts some of the new Asus x99 boards have really type/crisp dimms slots when new and you really have to push down to get it.

Anyway...its back up.

What tests should I run, besides memtest, to check to make sure everything is really ok? Are there any PSU tests I can run?


Thanks everyone for caring, once again, sorry for the dramatics, been w/o my computer a week now and am incredibly behind deadlines.

 

[UsandThem]

IT'S ALIVE!!!!

Anyway...its back up.

What tests should I run, besides memtest, to check to make sure everything is really ok? Are there any PSU tests I can run?

As long as it's not crashing, you really don't need to run anything. With your luck, you would probably end up getting a virus while downloading a program, and it would kill your hard drive or something.

Seriously though, I usually will run Intel Extreme Tuning Utility for about an hour or so, and the Valley Benchmark for around another hour to stress the GPU/CPU a little bit, and it puts a decent power load on your PSU. If the computer doesn't have any crashes or odd behavior, I call it a day and get working on other stuff.

 

[2blzd]

As long as it's not crashing, you really don't need to run anything. With your luck, you would probably end up getting a virus while downloading a program, and it would kill your hard drive or something.

Seriously though, I usually will run Intel Extreme Tuning Utility for about an hour or so, and the Valley Benchmark for around another hour to stress the GPU/CPU a little bit, and it puts a decent power load on your PSU. If the computer doesn't have any crashes or odd behavior, I call it a day and get working on other stuff.

While that is great advice, my last machine was 100% perfect and working with no crashes or odd behaviour for a week before it died. I'm just trying to be preventative or something...I don't know if I can be.. Ah!

 

[UsandThem]

While that is great advice, my last machine was 100% perfect and working with no crashes or odd behaviour for a week before it died. I'm just trying to be preventative or something...I don't know if I can be.. Ah!

Your last one died after using it over a week, so I don't know what you could have done differently to prevent that. Benchmarks and utilities don't extend the life of things. Sometimes components just die. It can be after hours, days, months, or years of use. I once had a motherboard die after 3 weeks of use, and there was nothing I could have done to prevent that.

I think you are over-thinking it since you just went through it. Sometimes it's beneficial to take a step back, take a deep breath, and not overreact. Anyways good luck.

 

[bigboxes]

Yay OP! Now on to the next headache...

 

[2blzd]

Thanks for all the replies and support guys.

While it was nice being afk from a computer all week, I'm so relieved to have this up and running.