I bought a "custom" system built by Tiger Direct from all in stock parts. ASUS Maximus VII MOBO,
32 Gig RAM,
250 Gig SSD (where the OS resides),
1 terabyte HD for data, 2 "bridged" liquid cooled, graphics cards,
850 W Power Supply,,
A very nice, very fast system. Although the system is under warranty Tiger Direct wants me to determine what piece of hardware is bad and work with the vendor although all parts were purchased from them and they assembled and warranted it. The local TG store, like all but 2 others in the US are closed.
My maybe different view - While I read the Forums below I see that my system's A2 problem which changes to a 64 when the SSD and HD are disconnected, seems to potentially be caused by either:
a bad MOBO
a bad hard drive
bad cables
bad power supply.
BUT it appears all Forums or nearly all forums have one thing in common, the ASUS Maximus VII MOBO. My question, I'm a novice at hardware but my IT and Analysis goes back to "Punch Cards" - is it normal to have a common factor such as the ASUS Maximus VII MOBO with all of these A2 errors?
I understand I qualified my query to finding ASUS Maximus VII MOBO and “A2” but there seems to be a lot of instances of this error. I also understand that ASUS produces high end IT products and are in demand, but the common thread of this error code and this common MOBO sticks out.
I do not have power supplies, SATA cables, spare hard drives, etc. to swap in and out to logically eliminate the cause of the A2 and 64 one piece of hardware at a time so my MOBO is on the way back to ASUS.
ASUS says they normally immediately send a replacement but they do not have any. Is the fact that ASUS is currently out of replacement ASUS Maximus VII MOBO also a telling statistic?
32 Gig RAM,
250 Gig SSD (where the OS resides),
1 terabyte HD for data, 2 "bridged" liquid cooled, graphics cards,
850 W Power Supply,,
A very nice, very fast system. Although the system is under warranty Tiger Direct wants me to determine what piece of hardware is bad and work with the vendor although all parts were purchased from them and they assembled and warranted it. The local TG store, like all but 2 others in the US are closed.
My maybe different view - While I read the Forums below I see that my system's A2 problem which changes to a 64 when the SSD and HD are disconnected, seems to potentially be caused by either:
a bad MOBO
a bad hard drive
bad cables
bad power supply.
BUT it appears all Forums or nearly all forums have one thing in common, the ASUS Maximus VII MOBO. My question, I'm a novice at hardware but my IT and Analysis goes back to "Punch Cards" - is it normal to have a common factor such as the ASUS Maximus VII MOBO with all of these A2 errors?
I understand I qualified my query to finding ASUS Maximus VII MOBO and “A2” but there seems to be a lot of instances of this error. I also understand that ASUS produces high end IT products and are in demand, but the common thread of this error code and this common MOBO sticks out.
I do not have power supplies, SATA cables, spare hard drives, etc. to swap in and out to logically eliminate the cause of the A2 and 64 one piece of hardware at a time so my MOBO is on the way back to ASUS.
ASUS says they normally immediately send a replacement but they do not have any. Is the fact that ASUS is currently out of replacement ASUS Maximus VII MOBO also a telling statistic?
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