First post in a long time here, mainly due to being out of ideas haha. Perhaps the community can help me in my situation:
SPECS:
Biostar A880G+ AM3 Mobo
Phenom II x4 965 BE @ Stock
2x2GB G.skill (F3-10666CL9D-4GBRL)
ATI 6850
Back in april my house was struck by lighting. This caused everything connected to a coaxial cable to be fried, including my modem and router which was connected to my mobo. Doing the sensible thing, I RMA'd the mobo back to biostar which has taken 2 weeks.
Fast forward to today, mobo gets delivered, I install it and immediately notice the system is constantly restarting on its own. Doesn't matter if I'm in the windows loading screen, desktop, bios, etc... It's constantly(and randomly) freezing or instantly restarting showing me "Hyper Transport Sync Flood Error on last boot". After some fancy googling and noticing this error is beyond sporadic, I have tried:
Increasing/Drecreasing voltages on the cpu/NB/HTLink
Increasing ram timings manually rather than setting to auto
Re-seating the cpu
Using different(known working) ram sticks separately and in different dimms
Resetting the cmos/pulling the battery
Bare bones(mobo/cpu/ram only) system start
To add to the mystery, sometimes the mobo wont give any video display. The fans/led/drives will run, but the mobo doesn't show any power to the monitor through onboard or the vid card.Ive also noticed that with a bare-bones start the onboard video rarely displays and tends to be going blank/flickering sporadically. I also cannot open my disc drive even with power on.
So my question is: did biostar send me a faulty mobo as a replacement or did my cpu also die with the original lightning stricken mobo? Both are "rma-able".
SPECS:
Biostar A880G+ AM3 Mobo
Phenom II x4 965 BE @ Stock
2x2GB G.skill (F3-10666CL9D-4GBRL)
ATI 6850
Back in april my house was struck by lighting. This caused everything connected to a coaxial cable to be fried, including my modem and router which was connected to my mobo. Doing the sensible thing, I RMA'd the mobo back to biostar which has taken 2 weeks.
Fast forward to today, mobo gets delivered, I install it and immediately notice the system is constantly restarting on its own. Doesn't matter if I'm in the windows loading screen, desktop, bios, etc... It's constantly(and randomly) freezing or instantly restarting showing me "Hyper Transport Sync Flood Error on last boot". After some fancy googling and noticing this error is beyond sporadic, I have tried:
Increasing/Drecreasing voltages on the cpu/NB/HTLink
Increasing ram timings manually rather than setting to auto
Re-seating the cpu
Using different(known working) ram sticks separately and in different dimms
Resetting the cmos/pulling the battery
Bare bones(mobo/cpu/ram only) system start
To add to the mystery, sometimes the mobo wont give any video display. The fans/led/drives will run, but the mobo doesn't show any power to the monitor through onboard or the vid card.Ive also noticed that with a bare-bones start the onboard video rarely displays and tends to be going blank/flickering sporadically. I also cannot open my disc drive even with power on.
So my question is: did biostar send me a faulty mobo as a replacement or did my cpu also die with the original lightning stricken mobo? Both are "rma-able".