Gave up on dead motherboard.. still curious.

[Timmac4]

Ok I bought an Asus A7V266E from a local computer show and used it for about a year. Everything worked great. When I brought it home everything was in what seemed to be sealed original packaging. I went throught the users manual and fired it up. Even ran it fairly oc'd for some time. After about 9 months I started to blue screen. I figured summer was here and the heat was causing it. Turned down the oc and one day in the middle of a game it shutdown never to live again. After this I spent a couple of days on replacing the ram and testing power supply etc. (error beeps said it was bad ram) Finally I found that the ram voltage was set to the max for the board, which I never changed and the manual said was supposed to come as default. When I got my new board the old ram doesn't work and new ram will not work in the old board. My little brother took it off my hands hoping to get an RMA from Asus, Any other ideas?

[Disk11]

Did you flash the BIOS? That should lower the RAM voltage to default.

[BipolarBill]

Try clearing CMOS on the board. Remove the battery while unplugged. It may be storing scrambled data thanks to the battery.

[Timmac4]

Have removed the battery and cleared CMOS a dozen times, tried it outside of the case, new power supply, new ram, new CPU, new video card, everything except for flashing the Bios. However since it will not even post I suppose that I couldn't flash it could I? As soon as I turn the power on I get the ram error beep code, and the fans spin and that's it (oh and the cd drives spin up, but not the hard drive) Oh yeah the Ram voltage was a jumper on the motherboard I did put it back to normal.

[BipolarBill]

Either the CPU or the motherboard went bye-bye. :(

[Timmac4]

Yeah that's what I figured. The mobo and ram went bad for sure then. I have already had the ram RMA'd I just hope that Asus will take care of the board under warranty, it has a three year and it is just over one year. Oh well next time even though the manual says that a jumper should be in the correct position I will always double check before firing up the system.

[smily_03]

could also be failing voltage regulators on the board; i've seen recent articles about boards with crappy capacitors that leak or dry out. if voltage regulation isn't tight, it can quickly fry components and cause all sorts of problems