ARGH! Asus A7N8X-DX Troubs

[FreakyOCR]

Okay, intial problem was the ram. Fixed it by putting a 512mb of samsung in it.

Running fine for a couple weeks. Come home tonight, wiggle the mouse, screen stays blank. Ok I say, must have frozen. Shut it off and turn it back on. The HDD light goes on for 10 secs, no beeps, then goes off... nothing. No monitor... nothing!

There's no way it's the ram AGAIN, is it?? It's Samsung PC2700 512MB approved by Asus for the board. Is it another dead mobo? Or what is it? It's not even posting!!! No talking lady either! Pissing me off! I hated Asus before, but the good reviews swayed me. I bought it for my dad's rig and no troubles. But for me? Troubles galore, of course.

Any ideas?

TIA

[peterwilkes]

Eurgh!, This does not sound too good.

Have you tried resetting the CMOS using the jumper?

What processor are you using and is it overclocked?

I have the same board with a Barton XP2500+ overclocked to a XP3000+ and works fine.

[Strawbs]

I recently solved an issue that had all the apparent symtoms of bad RAM, it turned out to be a bad Processor (XP2600+) which had worked fine for 3 months (not overclocked), the recent heatwave in England had caused it to slightly overheat and it gradually got worse until it corrupted my HDD, I replaced the CPU with a 2500+, formated the drive and haven't had any blue screens since.

If you have another processsor to test in the board, it may save you some pennies, not me tho', I had to go the long way around and buy a new power supply and another stick of RAM before I solved the issue.

[FreakyOCR]

XP 2500+ Barton. I don't have any more PC 2700 to test it with so I can't really tell... All I have is PC2100 so it won't run the proc at 333FSB and so it'll likely not boot either.

Could it be the processor? I'll try my XP1800+ (But this mobo doesn't exactly make it easy to swap procs once it's in the pc.)

Sigh. Why always problems!

[FreakyOCR]

No not overclocked. No haven't tried the CMOS jumper yet this time...

[bigpappageorgio]

I am having similar problems with DFI lan party and 2500+ Barton. I rab memtest on my 2700, no errors, but with the barton in, i have the same as you, move the mouse, nothing, reboot, no video, reboot again, ahh it works, for 20 minutes, then freezes. With my 1800+ system works flawlessly, I am thinkung there must be a bad batch of processors. There is another guy here with the same problem as me, also with a barton 2500+.

[FreakyOCR]

Argh! So It started not posting and such with the new Samsung.

So I bought a Corsair TwinX 2x512 Kit with hopes of ridding myself of this problem forever.

But nooooooo.

It froze in windows while the monitor was asleep again. Rebooted and my keyboard doesn't work. Pulled it from USB and put it into ps/2. Went into bios.. froze in bios.

Rebooted. "Memory Test Failed"

Rebooted. "POST failed due to CPU overlocking"

So which is it? CPU or Mobo? Shall I have a poll?

[peterwilkes]

Hmm, this does not sound good.

I assume that the processor is not overcloked and then temp of the processor is OK.

If there Ok it looks like there is a problem with the processor or the mobo.

Are you using certified ram for the board?

[Xtreeme]

I think your mainboard is bad. Had a older epox here 8kha+ that kept frying mem within couple boots of each swap! Was the mem controler I think. But regardless it was a ram eater. Think you better RMA the baord AND replace the mem with new at the SAME time. Putting now bad mem in a new board may make this happen all over again by damaging the mainboard. For that matter maybe the first bad mem hurt it? Maybe that was my case too? Dunno-dont matter I guess either way.