- Apr 13, 2010
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Ok so I can't say for certain but I'm pretty sure my motherboard is bad. This computer build I did back in 2011 and it has been fraught with problems. Chief among them being intermittently losing output from my graphics card. It has a row of lights on top of it that light when its work, but every now on start up they will turn on when I hit the power button but then immediately turn off and nothing will happen. When this happens I switch to my onboard graphics and use it like that till it decides to work again. I always assumed it was the graphics card but I have RMA'd it twice, first time they replaced the card, the second time(a month or so ago) they sent the same one back saying its fine. So my only conclusion is its the motherboard.
Right now using dxdiag I determined that the card isn't even detected right now, dispite it getting power(evident by all of its cooling fans running). I just tried switching the card to a different PCIe slot to see if it would work but it didn't(in its original slot the fans were not running though). I also removed my sound card on the off chance there was some sort of bandwidth conflict some how between the slots since I know that one of the slots shares bandwidth with the top PCIe slot(can't recall which).
The sound card was another issue I always dealt with, the computer recognized it as being there but simultaniously didn't. I could see it in dxdiag but could not install the drivers anymore on my last system restore. So I pulled the sound card completely. All the drivers are up to date for the motherboard including the newest bios and as well as for the graphics card. From here the only thing I can think to do is get a new motherboard. So would like some opinions on what to get. But if anyone has any imput on a way to fix my problem without me dropping coin on a new motherboard it would be greatly appreciated as if there is anyway to avoid spending money. My current set up is as follows.
Intel i5-2500k
Asus P8Z68V-Pro
Gigabyte GTX 570 Super Overclock GV-570SO-13I
2 x 4GB G.Skill Ripjaws X
Corsair AX750 PSU
If possible I'd like to avoid getting another Asus board. My experience with their customer service was not a good one and I witnessed and even worse one talking with my brother, his GPU was toast and they sent it back to him still broken 3 times and at one point visibley damaged by their handling. So between what I went through and what he did I'd like to try another manufacturer incase I ever need to contact CS.
Right now using dxdiag I determined that the card isn't even detected right now, dispite it getting power(evident by all of its cooling fans running). I just tried switching the card to a different PCIe slot to see if it would work but it didn't(in its original slot the fans were not running though). I also removed my sound card on the off chance there was some sort of bandwidth conflict some how between the slots since I know that one of the slots shares bandwidth with the top PCIe slot(can't recall which).
The sound card was another issue I always dealt with, the computer recognized it as being there but simultaniously didn't. I could see it in dxdiag but could not install the drivers anymore on my last system restore. So I pulled the sound card completely. All the drivers are up to date for the motherboard including the newest bios and as well as for the graphics card. From here the only thing I can think to do is get a new motherboard. So would like some opinions on what to get. But if anyone has any imput on a way to fix my problem without me dropping coin on a new motherboard it would be greatly appreciated as if there is anyway to avoid spending money. My current set up is as follows.
Intel i5-2500k
Asus P8Z68V-Pro
Gigabyte GTX 570 Super Overclock GV-570SO-13I
2 x 4GB G.Skill Ripjaws X
Corsair AX750 PSU
If possible I'd like to avoid getting another Asus board. My experience with their customer service was not a good one and I witnessed and even worse one talking with my brother, his GPU was toast and they sent it back to him still broken 3 times and at one point visibley damaged by their handling. So between what I went through and what he did I'd like to try another manufacturer incase I ever need to contact CS.
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