On 8/10/2011 1:19 PM, KS wrote: > The PSU was not disconnected but turned off from the switch on the PSU. > I make sure that when I buy one, it does have a switch on itself rather > than common practice of many manufacturers to take that off to save > $0.01.
Wish you'd made this statement, or similar, up front. You're a hardware freak like me. Well, maybe not quite like me. :) I _never_ buy an ATX PSU without a manual switch either. This one thing demonstrates to me that you know hardware. Most people never give this a though. Sorry if it seemed I was "talking down" to you with some of my suggestions. It's a public list, so I always assume lowest common denominator, starting with the basics. > Today's results: > 1. Old RAM is working that I could use that in another machine and it > booted up fine. > 2. Switched CPU and it works as before without any issues. Good old AMD > Phenom II X4 970BE > 3. Memtest is running on old RAM just to be sure. > > Tentative conclusion: > My ASUS motherboard is fried and I need to RMA it :( that means another > couple of weeks of wait time. > > Will test motherboard after memtest. > Tahnks again. Bench test it outside the chassis with another PSU. If it still won't POST I'd say the board may have taken a dive. This is weird. I've never seen/heard of a bad DIMM frying a mobo before... -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e42e6d0.5060...@hardwarefreak.com
