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Ok i bought a new Asus P5N-E SlI and a 2GB set of Crucial Ballistic Tracer 800mhz ram and had to wait 2 months before i could get my E8400, now when i put the proc into the board in... BAM!!! no post... tried on the box to see if it was a short, different ram slots, different gfx cards but still nothing... now im fed up with it and im wondering what would be a good board to get around the $150 area that had OC ability

my current setup

Proc: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

Memory: Cruical Ballistic Tracer 1GB x 2

PSU: Rhino 450W

GFX Card: PNY 8400GS

Harddrive: SeaGate 200GB
Maxtor 320GB

Ok if i get one with 2 pcie ports ill be going sli... too many problems with ati

Message edited by sorwrith on 08-06-2008 at 07:53:01 PM

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Try the Gigabyte P35-ds3l board: great value for a single GPU system.

Reply to Coldar

Asus P5Q Pro, $150.

Reply to aevm

How did you determine that the motherboard is defective?

If you're looking for another SLI motherboard, the Gigabyte P35-DS3L and the Asus p5Q pro won't meet your requirements.

Reply to GhislainG

no POST... but what does it do...

rhino 450w power supply is what i see as the week link here.

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Reply to chookman

I assumed you won't want SLI, what with that 450W PSU and that 8400GS.
SLI doesn't make absolutely any sense with 8400GS, not a bit, and SLI with gaming cards requires more than 450W.

OK, if you want a gaming machine and it has to be based on nVidia, you have two very good choices for relatively low cost:

1.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813128347 GA-EP43-DS3L, $95+9
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130338 9800GX2, $285
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] &Tpk=650TX, 650TX, $90
Total $479

2.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] vga%2b750i eVGA 750i, $190+10
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130318 eVGA 8800GT, $130*2 (get two)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] &Tpk=650TX, 650TX, $90
Total $550, a bit slower, but with more features on the MB

Reply to aevm

yeah... lol i know the powersupply at this point isnt up to sli at the moment... i plan on getting either 2 9800 gx2 or 2 8800s depending on how much money i have at the time.

i know all the hardware works cause it has been tested in another asus p5n-e sli board at a friends house and the power supply works with it... on my p5n-e sli i hooked 8400gs and a stick of ram (1gb 800mhz) and psu and green light showed up on board and will power up, fans turn on light on hled and power led are on but no post. i also tried an old pcie 6600 nvidia with the same results

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possibly RAM capatibility issue, have you reset BIOS...

Other thing im thinking is because you bought the motherboard way before the CPU, is the BIOS version high enough to support the e8400?

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Reply to chookman

Yeah the ram works in an identical asus p5n-e sli board my friend order at the same time as me... lol infact i ordered it at the same time asmine on the same order... but i tires a proc that was supposed to work with it checked the asus site for proc comptability... his worked... lol mine didnt

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Reply to sorwrith

Not entirely sure how your problem manifests. I mean does the computer power up but there is no beep at start up and no image on screen or is it completely dead, as in no power buttons lighting up and no fans starting up?

If it is the first of the two alternatives you might want to check so that none of the "studs" are situated in the wrong position (not sure of the English word for it) but the things that you mount on your case and that you then place the motherboard on so that you can attach the screws to. I helped a a fried the other day, his computer powered on fans running but no "bios-beep" and no image on screen. We detached the motherboard and found a "stud" in the wrong place and it short circuited the motherboard. We removed the "stud" and then it worked like a charm.

On the second option I would, like some other people have said, go with the "weak" power supply answer to your problem.

Hope you solve your problem.

Reply to Scarecrow_

ok checked the rizers under motherboard... there fine... psu will boot identical system.... same cpu, gfx, card memory... took out of case and tested on box, no shorts, tried all ram slots with one stick in, went through the process of resetting the bios. still nothing... when i turn it on the fas spin harddrive light lights up, memory lights light up green light on the board is on, no post, no beeps...

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sorwrith wrote :

try your cpu in another mobo/try your ram in another mobo?????:> )

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