On the topic of failing motherboards, never buy anything made by Soyo. I ha=
d 3 of them die in two different builds. One was DOA and replaced under war=
ranty; the other two died after approximately a year each of service.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Jim Kristan=
<span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmkris@gmail.com">jmkris@gmail.com=
</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border=
-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-lef=
t: 1ex;">
I've had failures with Abit (just announced they are out of the<br>
motherboard business) and PC chips mobos but never had a problem with<br>
Asus, guess you're just lucky Noah. Did you notice any bulging<br>
capacitor cans?<br>
Jim K<br>
<br>
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Allen Kiddoo <<a href="mailto:adk@527=
61.com">adk@52761.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> R. I. P.<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Noah Norris <<a href="mailto:pre=
ludelinux@gmail.com">preludelinux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> well its not even a year old and my asus p5n-d board has failed<br=
>
>><br>
>> i noticed the power flicker on and then off , system failed to pow=
er on<br>
>> after this point. i begun looking at what<br>
>> might be the problem at first i thought it was a power supply test=
ed with a<br>
>> know working unit with all hardware<br>
>> removed from board and different video cards and nothing all that =
happens is<br>
>> you get the first spin up when powers<br>
>> applied the board green light stays on then nothing. ( same with o=
riginal ps<br>
>> too ) (power button was tested )<br>
>><br>
>> i have RMA'ed the asus board and waiting for response maybe so=
me other<br>
>> issues i had with this board could be due<br>
>> to it being defective. ( i did find that it got pretty hot for not=
having a<br>
>> fan , i had added one to the mb chipset to help with<br>
>> its abnormal heat , side note my case has enough fans in it =
7-80MM fans<br>
>> .... /sigh )<br>
>><br>
>> well all parts i have are all under warranty , its sad that the bo=
ard died<br>
>> before a year was up and i have read high reviews<br>
>> about Asus 's Motherboards<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
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