Problems!!! ugh........

[gvblake22]

That motherboard sounds like it is just a flaky P.O.S. and probably isn't worth the hassle. Do you have another power supply you could try with it? Have you tried reseating the video card too? And double check the monitor cables and connections while you're at it too

[Parker]

Originally Posted by Capper

Ok Parker........first thing we can try is to unplug the computer completely (no power at all). Pop the CMOS battery out and discharge any electricity in the board (hold down the button for a few minutes).

After 5-10 minutes, replace the battery and try rebooting with only the minimum attachments......one stick of memory, video card, keyboard, and mouse. It would be better if you had an optical drive and could put the driver disk in ther.....ASUS board have a feature that if the BIOS is corrupted, they will automatically boot from the disk drive and recover the BIOS....sometimes it works, sometimes not so much.

Well, I've cleared the CMOS just like you said, and I just went and got one of the sata ODD's from my dads computer to use temporarily, so I'll try out the driver disc.

If this doesn't work, I would try to RMA EVERYTHING.....PSU, CPU, RAM, optical drive, motherboard, graphics card......you have no idea what could have been damaged by the power supply and what looks like some sort of surge.

I can't RMA the CPU, it's an ES processor.
Dang..... this really sucks.

Keep me posted on this Parker, I'll help with whatever I can.

Will do! Thanks Rich.

Originally Posted by gvblake22

That motherboard sounds like it is just a flaky P.O.S. and probably isn't worth the hassle. Do you have another power supply you could try with it? Have you tried reseating the video card too? And double check the monitor cables and connections while you're at it too

Hmmm, what does P.O.S mean?
Never heard of that before....

And no, I don't have another PSU..... I spent all my money on the on this one.

I've tried two of the PCIe slots, reseated several times, and DVI the cable is plugged in correctly.

[Quakindude]

Not trying to be a jerk, but man I'll tell you what. That looks EXACTLY like what happened to my brothers computer when he installed a new optical drive and forced the SATA power plug on the wrong way. Just a thought.

[Capper]

It happens sometimes......a connector works its way loose, and because it isn't fully connected, it burns up what its connected to....i've seen it happen most often to optical drives and hard drives.

Parker, I'm not that worried about all the hardware, it was just a thought that if you could RMA it to be 100% safe, you should.....there is probably nothing wrong at all with anything except the board and optical drive (and that PSU connector).

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by Parker

Hmmm, what does P.O.S mean?

Piece of s... :P

[gvblake22]

Originally Posted by Parker

Hmmm, what does P.O.S mean?

Piece of $h!t

[Parker]

Originally Posted by Quakindude

Not trying to be a jerk, but man I'll tell you what. That looks EXACTLY like what happened to my brothers computer when he installed a new optical drive and forced the SATA power plug on the wrong way. Just a thought.

Really? Although i'm pretty certain that I didn't put it in wrong.... but who knows, it's burnt and semi melted and I can't tell....

Originally Posted by Capper

It happens sometimes......a connector works its way loose, and because it isn't fully connected, it burns up what its connected to....i've seen it happen most often to optical drives and hard drives.

Parker, I'm not that worried about all the hardware, it was just a thought that if you could RMA it to be 100% safe, you should.....there is probably nothing wrong at all with anything except the board and optical drive (and that PSU connector).

Yea, I know what you mean....
I wouldn't mind RMA'ing the PSU, but it's just that I can't RMA the board, and if it's dead then I don't have a board to use.

Originally Posted by polobunny

Piece of s... :P

Originally Posted by gvblake22

Piece of !t

HAHA! You guys are funny
I was thinking Point of Sale or something.... but yea, you guys are right...

[screwballl]

Originally Posted by Parker

I was thinking Point of Sale or something.... but yea, you guys are right...

in a business environment, POS does mean Point of Sale... but many times the POS programs are a POS (as in Piece of S|-|!t)

[Parker]

Originally Posted by screwballl

in a business environment, POS does mean Point of Sale... but many times the POS programs are a POS (as in Piece of S|-|!t)

haha, cool beans!!

[Capper]

Parker, give me your address and I'll put a new board in the mail to you. I have a Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R sitting here unused......very nice board. I'll put it and a PSU in the mail today if you PM me your addy.