P5K-E wifi/ap won't boot, tried 2 mobo, 3 psu

[gangt1]

Part 1:
I just got my new p5k-e wifi/ap mobo. I set it up outside the case and connected the power button and pc speaker on the case, installed the cpu, video, ram, keyboard, mouse and speakers, and ofcourse psu. When I press the power button all the fans (cpu, psu and video card) spin for a second and stops, nothing else happens. Any idea, what am I missing? any help is greatly appreciated

I tried the following
1. two memory, video, keyboard and mouse
2. one memory, video, kb and mouse
3. no memory, video, kb and mouse
4. no memory, no video, kb and mouse
5. no memory, no video, no kb and mouse
6. removed cpu and re-installed

On all the above scenarios the result was same
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Part 2:
I tried 2 boards of the same model and 3 different power supplies, nothing worked. Everytime the motherboard green LED works, so I guess the power supply is okay. I wouldn't think all the 3 PSUs would be at fault.
Atleast before the fans were spinning for a second but now nothing happens

I appreciate your input

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Name the PSUs.

 

[gangt1]

coolmaster extreme 600w, antec (forgot the model, but its 350w on my old case), max dog or something, not sure, got it from circuitcity just for testing, its 550w

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Model of RAMs?

Have you disconnected power from PSU and removed the battery. Also put the CMOS jumper in the clear position. Wait 1/2 hour and re-assemble these parts. Retest with one stick of RAM.

You may have OCZ or other RAMs that will not post with 1.8V default BIOS setting. You may need to boot PC with 1.8V DDR2 667 or 800 RAM so you can manually change Vdimm in BIOS to 2.1.

 

[gangt1]

yes its OCZ DDR2 6400 800. I tried with nothing on the mobo except the processor. I did remove the battery and put the CMOS jumper in the clear position but I didn't wait for half hour; I'll try it today.
By the way, does it require ram to even spin the fan? I thought the cpu fan should spin anyway and I would hear beep messages on the speaker

 

[NoelS]

gangt1,

I think you need one stick of RAM and a video card to complete the circuits, but I see you already tried that combo. Do you have some RAM other than the OCZ? If so try one stick of that with vid card and see if it helps. I think the board doesn't want to see any RAM that is spec'd above 1.8 volts until you get into the BIOS.

Good luck, I'm about to do the same, building with a new P5K-E and was planning to use OCZ. Maybe I'll initially use Corsair...

Noel

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Originally posted by: gangt1
yes its OCZ DDR2 6400 800. I tried with nothing on the mobo except the processor. I did remove the battery and put the CMOS jumper in the clear position but I didn't wait for half hour; I'll try it today.
By the way, does it require ram to even spin the fan? I thought the cpu fan should spin anyway and I would hear beep messages on the speaker

Ahhh...OCZ. The OCZ rep said that RAM should post with 1.8V default. If not, then it's is defective. Hehehehhh. I think your PSU is okay. Try different slot with one stick of RAM. Ask friends to see if you can borrow 1.8V DDR2 667 or 800 from Crucial or Kingston.

 

[Rayvin52]

I've been a huge Asus moboard fan for years--owned many of them from 486 days on, but I had my first bad experience with one when I picked up a P5K Deluxe Wifi board a month ago. I was moving up from an A8V running an Opteron 165 (which was a great combo, don't get me wrong) and eager to see what my new Q6600 would do to my video rendering speeds. I tried everything to get that board to run stably, from switching my vid card, my ram (even though it was on the supported memory list), you name it. Spent a lot of time on their forums and found I was definitely not alone with Asus P35 board owners. Finally there was nothing left to blame but the board itself. So I called tech supp and they were going to hook me up by swapping it for a P5E board, but rma dept said it wasn't even available yet, so I would have to just send in my board for repair. I finally picked up a GA-X38-DQ6 board 2 days ago and I couldn't be happier. It's fast, stable, gets along with all of my other hardware. Still haven't gotten my original P5K Deluxe taken care of by Asus yet...
So, before you possibly waste a month of your time trying to get that board to fly right, you might consider another company for the P35 board.
Still like Asus, just think that maybe their P35 boards are not their best stuff...

 

[NoelS]

gangt1,

Just to give you some confidence in your mobo, I just this afternoon finished building my new ASUS P5K-E rig using 2GB OCZ DDR2 1066 and it booted and ran without a hiccup... I used my 74GB Raptor from one of my past builds (see sig) and didn't have to even re-install XP, but I'm currently running my HDDs as IDE instead of SATA. I'll have to do a repair install of XP to load the ICH9R drivers for using my SATA drives as SATA... Also installed 2 Samsung SATA DVD-RWs and so far no problems. I was able to read and install drivers from my mobo CD without any trouble.

Noel

 

[gangt1]

Thanks for all the posts; I finally decided that I'm not good at that and returned everything back to frys, 2 x P5K-E mobo, 1 x Maximus formula special edition mobo, 3 PSUs, 2gig memory, sata hdd, eGeforce 8500 graphics card. The processor I bought it 6 months ago from zipzoomfly that I can't return, so its going to sit there collecting dust. I'm going to buy some HP or Dell crap.
I'm so relieved now

 

[buddhatb]

Originally posted by: gangt1The processor I bought it 6 months ago from zipzoomfly that I can't return, so its going to sit there collecting dust.

Try selling the processor on the forums or on eBay. Any money you recoup, you can use it towards your new computer.

 

[x26]

Originally posted by: gangt1
Thanks for all the posts; I finally decided that I'm not good at that and returned everything back to frys, 2 x P5K-E mobo, 1 x Maximus formula special edition mobo, 3 PSUs, 2gig memory, sata hdd, eGeforce 8500 graphics card. The processor I bought it 6 months ago from zipzoomfly that I can't return, so its going to sit there collecting dust. I'm going to buy some HP or Dell crap.
I'm so relieved now

I know how you feel...

I just spent $1,800 on:

Asus p5k premium
Crucial Ballistix
And it totally sux...Quality control is Worthless these days...

 

[clickynext]

Tried resetting the cmos? Unplug power, take out battery, set reset jumper for 10 seconds, put everything back in reverse direction.

My P5K-E does the thing where it spins for a second and stops if I overclock the RAM to a bad speed, and I have to reset cmos for it to boot again.