Hey guys, I was on the computer yesterday when it just died. It was instant, like someone unplugged the board. When I pushed the power button I got nothing I reached in the case and felt for hot-spots and nothing seemed abnormal so I turned off the PSU for a few min and came back to it. Turning on the PSU I got the green light on the board but when I push power I get less than 1/2 a second of life out of it and then it quits. After every attempt of the items below I got the same result when plugging in the PSU and pushing power.
Things I have tried,
0) ensuring all connections were firm
1) swapping out the PSU for a known working one
2) swapping out the CPU
3) Swapping out the video card (running out of ideas)
4) swapping out the ram (becoming certain its the board)
5) pulled the board to examine it... I could not see any trace of burns, scrapes, shorts, swollen or discolored capacitors... I really don't know what else I am looking for. I know this board seems antique-dated to many but it has served me well and I am quite fond of it.
6) I heard something [strike]about CPU dies being pressure sensitive so the boards will not boot without a heat sink should I try giving my heat sink tensioner a tweak[/strike]? I remembered wrong its will not boot without a working Heat Sink Fan.
Asus A8N-SLI board, FX60 processor(2.7 GHz unlocked dual core), NV 9series card and 4 gb of g-skill ram.
Things I have tried,
0) ensuring all connections were firm
1) swapping out the PSU for a known working one
2) swapping out the CPU
3) Swapping out the video card (running out of ideas)
4) swapping out the ram (becoming certain its the board)
5) pulled the board to examine it... I could not see any trace of burns, scrapes, shorts, swollen or discolored capacitors... I really don't know what else I am looking for. I know this board seems antique-dated to many but it has served me well and I am quite fond of it.
6) I heard something [strike]about CPU dies being pressure sensitive so the boards will not boot without a heat sink should I try giving my heat sink tensioner a tweak[/strike]? I remembered wrong its will not boot without a working Heat Sink Fan.
Asus A8N-SLI board, FX60 processor(2.7 GHz unlocked dual core), NV 9series card and 4 gb of g-skill ram.