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Steel Angel
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After months of wrangling with ASUS's RMA department, I finally got a replacement motherboard for one that died back in January last week (normally it wouldn't have taken quite so long, but they sent the original replacement to Missouri instead of Maryland and marked it off as complete in their system).
I finished putting the mobo back in, putting in the RAM, graphics card and sound card I kept in anti-static bags, connecting the power, etc. last night and tried powering it on again today.
The title should tell you the results. I know it shouldn't be the VGA cable since that's working with my monitor from my backup system right now as I type this, all my fans come on along some motherboard LEDs so the power supply seems to be working so it seems that just about everything is at least working to some degree.
My video card is a EVGA GeForce 7800GTX 256MB 256-bit PCI Express x16 and my mobo is an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 939 NVIDIA nForce4 AMD motherboard. I've hooked up both plugs from the power supply to the mobo and the video card also has that special plug inserted.
Unfortunately, I can't just stick in another graphics card and test the thing right now since that is the only PCI Express graphics card I have and that motherboard has no AGP slot. Might be able to tomorrow if I don't figure something out today, but I'd like to see if there's anything else I may have forgotten or can try beforehand. I somehow doubt it's the video card since that's been sitting in an anti-static bag in storage for months now.
So, any suggestions?
I finished putting the mobo back in, putting in the RAM, graphics card and sound card I kept in anti-static bags, connecting the power, etc. last night and tried powering it on again today.
The title should tell you the results. I know it shouldn't be the VGA cable since that's working with my monitor from my backup system right now as I type this, all my fans come on along some motherboard LEDs so the power supply seems to be working so it seems that just about everything is at least working to some degree.
My video card is a EVGA GeForce 7800GTX 256MB 256-bit PCI Express x16 and my mobo is an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 939 NVIDIA nForce4 AMD motherboard. I've hooked up both plugs from the power supply to the mobo and the video card also has that special plug inserted.
Unfortunately, I can't just stick in another graphics card and test the thing right now since that is the only PCI Express graphics card I have and that motherboard has no AGP slot. Might be able to tomorrow if I don't figure something out today, but I'd like to see if there's anything else I may have forgotten or can try beforehand. I somehow doubt it's the video card since that's been sitting in an anti-static bag in storage for months now.
So, any suggestions?
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Good question. I don't have the front speaker hooked up at the moment. The labels on the corresponding wires for the case's speaker don't fully match the mobo labels for the pins.
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It would appear that ASUS has gone without the onboard speaker and instead built POST warnings and the like into their onboard audio, which I normally do not hook up. Once I did, I got error messages that I was able to diagnose. I now need to repair my Windows installation (I suspect that the error that caused the board to require RMA messed with the hard disk controller), but this part is pretty much solved.
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