Anyone with an ASUS A7N8X please help!

try running with the barest of setup you possibly can to see if it will boot such as this

mobo
1 stick of ram
hdd
video card
psu

make sure those components are known to be good running components, then if it still it doesnt boot, you know the mobo is due for an RMA.

Good Luck

Rob

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Hi again,
Ok look at the what light? I have no idea what your talking about...Anyway more probs, ok there's 4 pcs in my house all of which I built. Now only 1 works. 3 worked fine last week and the new one I built this week never worked. I would be thinking power surge or spike but they weren't all plugged in at one time. Plus I have surge protectors. Anyway they all do the same, when I turn them on all the fans (including ones in pci cards and cpu's) come on and then nothing comes on the monitor, and I know the monitor works. However one with a biostar mobo bleeps twice when i turn it on, anyone know what that means? Well any idea please drop a line. Thanks

MIke

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Aint got young kids running amok at home? lol

A7N8X - Theres a green LED located between a couple of PCI slots that illuminates as soon as theres power in the PSU - regardless of if the machines running or not. My guess is that you're probably getting power to the board if your front power button is working so it's probably on.

In this case I'd get your mains Power looked at as it may not be giving enough juice. This this could explain why none of your pC's will power up. If you're LED is illuminated I'd try the following before condemning the board:-

Regarding my first comment - check to make sure nothing silly has happened like the brightness of all your monitors has been turned down - dumb as it seems it has been known to happen!!!

Maybe the boards locked up from a wrong frequency initialisation from which it can't recover so give it a full reset - unplug the mains lead for a minute, revove the battery for a few minutes more then toggle the clear CMOS jumper.

Grab a multimeter and test VDC of your motherboards ATX Connector by probing the backs of the plug pins when the boards powered on and off.

If possible try a PSU from another High end system that will be sure to supply the juice needed - It's often that a good quality PSU is sacrificed for a better component. A quick judge of a decent PSU is the weight of it literally, they're heavy.

Clean the connectors or your RAM and Cards using a soft pencil erasor, failing which test them in another rig.



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Try it with only the CPU, video card, and RAM connected. Your CD drive not opening usually indicates a problem with the cable.

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I did try it with only mobo, processor, 1 stick of RAM, and a vid card.

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Ok, now I've gotten it to start up a bit, however everything seems fine and then the WinXP loading screen comes up and it immediately reboots, it does this in a continuous circle then on. I have tried different freqencies and different voltages for the RAM with no success.

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