This has proven to be the most problematic rollout of a new chipset i have ever experienced - going waaayyy back.
I understand the bios is completely new, being UEFI compliant, hybrid MBR GPT, but still that doesnt explain what seems to be QC probs with the boards themselves.
When my own deluxe came, I built my system and everything seemed to work fine, then I had to tear down the system completely and replace it with the B3 version. Once again everything worked fine for about 2 months, then one morning I turn on the PC and no video. None of the 3 PCIe slots would give any output. Then just by sheer chance I noticed the VGA light under my Heatsink was showing red, and no amount of cmos resetting or bios defaults would make things happen. I would have loved to have a spare bios chip on hand for a final test. Anyway ran to Frys and bought a basic mobo and once agin redid my whole system and using exact same components - everything worked fine. Took a one hour long distance phone call to ASUS (20 min to get thru and 40 min explaining and waiting for RMA case number and email ship label setup on their end). As of tomorrow, they have had the mobo for 2 weeks. I know after another week i will have to do the long distance call thingy again. I secretly marked the board to see if I get the same one back. I also realize now i made a terrible mistake - should have asked for crosship to get a new mobo before they got mine. Live and learn. FWIW I am now an ASRock follower. Once the board failed in the catastrophic manner it did, whether they give me a new one or a "repaired" one, its irrelevant - cant trust that mobo anymore.
As far as the RAM, gotta be careful not to run single sided pair and double sided pair, thats where the trouble enters. Some ram has 256mb drams and some have 512mb drams.
I understand the bios is completely new, being UEFI compliant, hybrid MBR GPT, but still that doesnt explain what seems to be QC probs with the boards themselves.
When my own deluxe came, I built my system and everything seemed to work fine, then I had to tear down the system completely and replace it with the B3 version. Once again everything worked fine for about 2 months, then one morning I turn on the PC and no video. None of the 3 PCIe slots would give any output. Then just by sheer chance I noticed the VGA light under my Heatsink was showing red, and no amount of cmos resetting or bios defaults would make things happen. I would have loved to have a spare bios chip on hand for a final test. Anyway ran to Frys and bought a basic mobo and once agin redid my whole system and using exact same components - everything worked fine. Took a one hour long distance phone call to ASUS (20 min to get thru and 40 min explaining and waiting for RMA case number and email ship label setup on their end). As of tomorrow, they have had the mobo for 2 weeks. I know after another week i will have to do the long distance call thingy again. I secretly marked the board to see if I get the same one back. I also realize now i made a terrible mistake - should have asked for crosship to get a new mobo before they got mine. Live and learn. FWIW I am now an ASRock follower. Once the board failed in the catastrophic manner it did, whether they give me a new one or a "repaired" one, its irrelevant - cant trust that mobo anymore.
As far as the RAM, gotta be careful not to run single sided pair and double sided pair, thats where the trouble enters. Some ram has 256mb drams and some have 512mb drams.
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