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Motherboard gives me a VGA error (looks like another case of the gremlins)

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April 25, 2014 10:38:12 AM

My home computer which I've had for 3 years now has been a good and steady work horse, I haven't had to update it much, it ran great, and had virtually no problems. One morning though it wouldn't come on, and after the first few seconds light up the VGA_DIAG light on the motherboard, the windows sounds would come on and the screen would still be black with the light on. I put a different graphics card in from my other machine, I took out all the hard drives and booted from a Windows 7 cd, I reset the CMOS, I have even put a different PSU in the machine, still nothing. finally i figured if its nothing else, it has to be the motherboard at this point, this is a P8P67 WS Revolution from ASUS, its no longer made, and was notorious for being a disaster, 3 years ago, until now i thought mine was fine. ASUS sent me another motherboard, not new but not the one that i had (they didn't just repair my old one). And now, it still gives you the same error, It must have not been the board I thought. So I repeated everything from the last time, nothing. I called ASUS support, everything they said I had already tried, so now I'm waiting on a phonecall back from them. But if anyone has any idea what else could be causing it, tell me please, share your wisdom wise and powerful one. I work in data management now and its kind of embarrassing that I cant figure this one out myself but if you could help it would be greatly appreciated. Here are the specs.

(PS, I think I've tried everything but one thing I still haven't swapped out is the CPU [I might try that today])

Mobo: P8P67 WS Revolution
Chipset: P67
CPU: Intel i7 2600K
GPU: EVGA GTX580
PSU: XFX Core Edition PRO850W
SSD: OCZ Agility 3 AGT3-25SAT3-60G
HDD: Seagate 1tb w/ SATA II connector, Seagate 2tb w/ SATA III connector

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April 25, 2014 11:12:34 AM

It is possible it is the CPU since it has the PCIe lanes. Then again people have gotten bad boards from RMA.
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