Is my Asus P5WDG2 WS Professional dead?

[sflegend]

After painstakingly figuring out that it's best to do RAID on the Marvell SATA chipset and just boot my SATA cd-rom drive off the Intel SATA plug and trying to install Vista several times to no avail, it just suddenly decides to stop running... I have a X1800 Crossfire setup and tried plugging only one video card... powers up, but nothing on the screen. Tried plugging using an old school pci video card and still no video. Cleared the CMOS a couple of times and taken out the BIOS battery and still no video shows when I power up the computer. Is it just a dead motherboard? I just got it from NewEgg today and it's even a day old yet and it's probably dead.

Here's the setup

Q6600 Core 2 Quad
Asus P5WDG2-WS Pro
Corsair XMS 2 2GB (2x 1gb) 240-pin DD2 SDRAM 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel
X1800XT Crossfire
Seasonic S12 Power Supply

 

[GFORCE100]

Originally posted by: sflegend
After painstakingly figuring out that it's best to do RAID on the Marvell SATA chipset and just boot my SATA cd-rom drive off the Intel SATA plug and trying to install Vista several times to no avail, it just suddenly decides to stop running... I have a X1800 Crossfire setup and tried plugging only one video card... powers up, but nothing on the screen. Tried plugging using an old school pci video card and still no video. Cleared the CMOS a couple of times and taken out the BIOS battery and still no video shows when I power up the computer. Is it just a dead motherboard? I just got it from NewEgg today and it's even a day old yet and it's probably dead.

Here's the setup

Q6600 Core 2 Quad
Asus P5WDG2-WS Pro
Corsair XMS 2 2GB (2x 1gb) 240-pin DD2 SDRAM 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel
X1800XT Crossfire
Seasonic S12 Power Supply

Take out the memory and let any built up static in it die out (leave them for 30 minutes or so on your desk one some paper or what not).

This may or may not solve the problem but it's something that happened to me when clearing the CMOS once.

It's worth a try.