Im in need of help again. I’ve been trying to replace my old Motherboard with an Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe. I’m using OCZ SLI DDR2 PC6400 two stick of 1 GIG each.
Now here is the issue, i swapped the MB. It booted fine, but just when it’s booting, and goes past the initial MB logo bootscreen, almost immediately dies off. Completely cuts out. A few times it lasted about 10 secs, other times it died almost right away.
Now…At first i thought it was the Ram so i took one stick out, leaving just a 1 gig in there, booted it again, and sure enough…same thing.
Then i took the other one out as well and put in a totally different stick of Ram. Same thing happened.
While doing some self-help search, I ended up at Corsair Forum and some guys were talking about their system dying off the same way too (Same Motherboard as well). One of the guys said he changed the PowerSupply and his system booted all the way, he’s on his 5th hour running it now, and no issues so far.
Question i have is…Could it be the power supply. Do the symptoms sound like it?
I have a generic 500W right now that came with the case. I mean it works fine with my old MB. Never had any problems…
Any suggestions would be great fellaz!
Help a brotha out plz…
Note: (I’ve called Asus and they’re saying it sounds like a Heat issue or a grounding issue. I know it can’t be the grounding because i tested the MB out of the case too, but to no avail. Heat…to help i have an extra fan on the case to keep things cool in there.)
500W is enough for a system even running SLi/dual graphic cards + few hard drives and DVD writers
did get ur RAMs new or using the old ones
could be a ram miss match or bad ram slots
processor sounds fine because if it had any problems it would have not booted at all
cant think of any other problem other than some thing is wrong with the mother borad, try replacing(i mean ask the shop keeper to get u other copy of same board)
well the ram is brand new and working because i'm using it on this pc right now.
It is however not one of the compatible ones that Asus has listed on their site...ppl say it can be made to become compatible once the system boots because the new bios version allows that. It's getting setup, that's the issue. Worse comes the worse i'll have to get yet more DDR of the compatible kind.
it's gonna suck though....if even that's not the issue :(
^Do you seriously think it's the powersupply? I'm not doubting what you're saying but i'm also being told from other folks it could be a compatibility issue with the memory. Because the memory i bought is not off the compatibility list from Asus.
What do you think? I really do appreciate all you people's input...please help me out here...
When you have a hardware issue the only way is to use the process of elimination. unplug everything and test one thing at a time. This would include the powersupply also.