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My system locks on boot about half the time (locked 9 of 20 times tested at different shutoff intervals).

This happens immediately after I hit the Power switch so it never even makes it to the BIOS screen when this happens.

Any ideas what might be causing this?

My System:

AMD Phenom II x4 BE965 3.4Ghz
Scythe Zipang 2 Heatsink 1000 RPM
ASUS M4A79T Deluxe MoBo
2x PICe x16 ATI Radeon HD4770 Cards in xFire
OCZ 120Gb SATA II SDD
Samsung 500Gb SATA II 7200 RPM Data Drive
Samsung Spinpoint CD-ROM Drive
Zalman 660W PSU
Antec P183 Case

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Your mobo have the correct BIOS for support the 965 BE?

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Reply to saint19

Yes. I installed the drivers from the CD that came with the Mobo and I even downloaded and installed the latest BIOS update from ASUS which just came out and resolved one issue that I had seen occurring with Windows Vista. I even reset the Mobo defaults by clearing the CMOS prior to that in an effort to resolve this issue.

BTW. I am running Windows Vista Home Premium x64 which is a whole other story (many driver and update issues with this OS).

- B

Message edited by bradbehrens on 11-02-2009 at 06:11:10 AM

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Not much on responses here... I saw on another post that it means that you are doing everything right and there is not much anyone else can suggest to help you out.

Anyway, so I RMA'd the Mobo to Newegg.com after I did a suite of bare minimum tests and that seemed to eliminate all of the other hardware. A bit hard to test the CPU as it is an AMD Phenom II x4 965BE but I must assume that it is fine. I guess I will know for sure when I get the replacement Mobo. Besides, it was locking sometimes BEFORE it got to the BIOS screen which makes me think that it was the Mobo, otherwise it worked fine!

I will let you know what the outcome is on the new Mobo. ASUS makes some pretty solid and reliable stuff so I was reluctant to think that it was the MoBo but I have also seen SOME complaints on the ASUS MoBo's as well.

- BSB

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