Won't post: AN832 SLI Delux ASUS - Any Help?

[ChinaCat]

I must of built this computer about 3 years and for the past 18-months have been using it as a secondary system. After my hard-drive became corrupted a year ago, I put in a brand new WD Raptor I now use as the primary with Windows XP. PC was working perfectly since, but it has stopped posting since a week ago.

I thought it was the video card so replaced it, but even now I see no nothing on the screen. I thought perhaps it was the video bus, but after reading the user manual realized there were 2, and placed the video card in the other one; still now video.

While listening very carefully after turning the PC on, I see the LED's on the RAM light up, then I hear and see nothing more. It doesn't sound like the computer is posting, which would explain why I'm not seeing any thing on the monitor.

Other than trashing this board and getting a new one, is there any thing I can do?

Thank you very kindly in advance.

Cheers -CC

 

[FSH42NA]

I'm beginning to wonder if these ASUS boards have a defect in them. I had the exact same board in my primary pc. One day, without warning, it failed to boot. No video at all. Fans were running and power indicator on the board was lit, but no boot. I shut down and reset the video card, checked all connections and restarted. Same thing, nothing. I reset my bios and rebooted again, this time nothing, not even fans. Board died out of the blue. I checked the caps to look for leakage, checked traces, checked for shorts, corrosion >> nothing. The only thing I can figure out was a power surge, though I have it hooked up to a surge protector. The board sits in my "waiting for the next electronic waste recycling event" pile now. I would offer to send you my bios chip (plus an extra one I had), but I already agreed to sending it to another individual who, believe it or not, had the same thing happen to his exact same mobo. Makes me wonder if this model board had some serious issues.

Sorry for your troubles. Least you have a good excuse to upgrade now LOL

 

[Makaveli]

I just upgraded from that board to an i7 and selling it to my friend had no issues like that the last few years I had it. Only thing that pisses me off is it will only see 3GB of ram when you have 4GB installed. And it didn't matter if you were using a 64bit OS.

 

[Blazer7]

Talking about the A8N32 SLI Deluxe and weird issues I think I have a good one.


A friend has the same board in his rig. It is a 3 year old rig and so far everything worked like a charm. About a month ago he started having some really weird issues. If he enters the BIOS and stays there for let's say 5 minutes the screen starts flickering and the system freezes soon after. The same goes if he boots into DOS. After a freeze he may have to wait from anywhere between 5 to 10 minutes before he attempts to power up his rig again. If he tries to power up without waiting he would get an automatic freeze. Black screen, no post beeps no nothing.


Now here's where it gets really weird. He has no problem booting into windows and once the OS loads he is trouble free.


Last week he brought his rig over so I could have a look. We cleared CMOS and flashed to the latest BIOS using the ASUS update utility but that didn't solved the problem. Tuning the BIOS was a PITA as we had to be quick and save any changes we made before the system would hung. Still we could save any changes and the rig would boot in windows.


From within windows I run memtest for 2 hours without getting any errors. Super Pi 28M was next, again without any problems. 15 loops of 3DMark06 and still no problem. Changed mems and VGA but no dice. Moved VGA to the secondary PCI-E still no dice.


All and all it seems that nomatter what, the rig freezes if it stays in text mode for more than a few minutes. Never seen that one before.

 

[tcsenter]

I just upgraded from that board to an i7 and selling it to my friend had no issues like that the last few years I had it. Only thing that pisses me off is it will only see 3GB of ram when you have 4GB installed. And it didn't matter if you were using a 64bit OS.

The entire A8N and A8N32 series had buggy memory remapping, except for one particular model which seemed to work OK (don't remember which one), not to mention the problems with SP3 for XP. Some people were able to use 4GB with memory remapping by disabling one of the onboard GbE LAN controllers.

 

[mlc]

let's not jump the gun in assuming the board is bad just yet......

Are you hearing any beeps?

1) Could be a bad Power Supply.. so try swapping in the power supply from your other PC and see if that gets you past the problem

2) disconnect all of the peripherals from the PC, (i.e. hard drives, DVD player, USB connections to the board, etc..) and just leave the memory and Video Card to see if it will post...

3) the bios battery could be dead.. so try swapping in a new one..

good luck

Mike

 

[FSH42NA]

let's not jump the gun in assuming the board is bad just yet......

Are you hearing any beeps?

1) Could be a bad Power Supply.. so try swapping in the power supply from your other PC and see if that gets you past the problem

2) disconnect all of the peripherals from the PC, (i.e. hard drives, DVD player, USB connections to the board, etc..) and just leave the memory and Video Card to see if it will post...

3) the bios battery could be dead.. so try swapping in a new one..

good luck

Mike

1) new power supply >> same result
2) just mobo,cpu, video and memory >>> nada
3) new bios battery >>> nada
4) used all the above minus the mobo with another skt 939 mobo I had >>> boots, runs fine

In my case, sounds like mobo

 

[mlc]

yeah.. sounds dead...

the one other thing I would try is removing the board from the case, as it could be shorting out.. and just connect the video card and RAM.. and psu .. and see if it posts...

other than that.. I would contact ASUS .. and see if you can RMA the board.. Not sure of their warranty period.. I replace an older A8N-SLI board a couple of yrs back.. that was 3 yrs old.. i believe... so they may accommodate you...

Mike