I bought this motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131872 on cybermonday/2011. It has always worked perfectly until this past 2 months. I had a problem when suddenly the display would disappear and from thinking it could be the RAM I took it out of the case and started doing testings. What I found was that my graphics card was not making contact with the slot, it only worked on a specific position. I tried with an old GTX 210 I had laying around and it never worked(though it worked perfectly on my brothers PC a few months ago). Also my brothers HD6850 seemed to work because it's lighter and the weight didn't push it down like my GTX 660.
So to solve the problem I put a little box between the GPU and the PSU and it was able to hald it in place and I was able to use it. But this week the problems started again and now no matter the position in which I try to put the GPU it doesn't work. The fan never turns. Same with the GTX 210.
Now I feel I've got only two options:
a) RMA
b)buy new one
I tried calling ASUS and hour ago and no real person talked to me ever. I don't know if that's a valid excuse for a RMA, and in the back where the heatsink backplate goes it has 3 little scratches from tightening the plate too much.
I have Amazon PRIME so I can buy this one with free shipping, but it has to be soon because last week it was ~$15 more
GIGABYTE GA-970A-D3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
http://www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-GA-970A-D3-AM3-SATA-Motherboard/dp/B0056G10WK/ref=sr_1_16?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1368298883&sr=1-16&keywords=am3%2B+motherboard
or a cheaper one because I don't make use of USB3.0, OC, more than two RAM slots, and as of now I don't have/need SLi. Also I just need one more PCI slot for the wireless adapter. So I don't a high end mobo.
So to solve the problem I put a little box between the GPU and the PSU and it was able to hald it in place and I was able to use it. But this week the problems started again and now no matter the position in which I try to put the GPU it doesn't work. The fan never turns. Same with the GTX 210.
Now I feel I've got only two options:
a) RMA
b)buy new one
I tried calling ASUS and hour ago and no real person talked to me ever. I don't know if that's a valid excuse for a RMA, and in the back where the heatsink backplate goes it has 3 little scratches from tightening the plate too much.
I have Amazon PRIME so I can buy this one with free shipping, but it has to be soon because last week it was ~$15 more
GIGABYTE GA-970A-D3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
http://www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-GA-970A-D3-AM3-SATA-Motherboard/dp/B0056G10WK/ref=sr_1_16?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1368298883&sr=1-16&keywords=am3%2B+motherboard
or a cheaper one because I don't make use of USB3.0, OC, more than two RAM slots, and as of now I don't have/need SLi. Also I just need one more PCI slot for the wireless adapter. So I don't a high end mobo.