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kajiura fan:
I'm wondering if anyone here has experienced problems with the ASUS motherboards, specifically the m5a97.
My boyfriend built his own desktop last week and it's been giving him problems. The computer is mainly for playing games which seems to work fine at the moment however when he tries to watch videos on youtube, the computer freezes and crashes but only after he opens another tab to look at forums or news sites.
The audio becomes distorted and one time it began repeating in the same spot. This only happens when he uses Firefox or Google Chrome.
Another problem came up today where the computer would crash when he tried to play music or video files. He's reached his limit, I think, and plans on replacing the motherboard AND the processor (not sure of make or model at the moment).
I just want to know if anyone else has been having similar issues and might have some suggestions or solutions.
Eternal_Newbie:
Hi, finally made my descision bought my parts, and they won't boot. :(
Core i5 2400
8 Gb Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3 RAM
GigabyteGA-Z68X-UD3-B3 (was on sale and only slightly more expensive than the Asus P8Z68-V LX and has lots more connectors)
Being used with a 1Tb Samsung HDD, Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 and OCZ Stealth XStream 600W PSU from my existing machine .
What happens is that I press power, it starts, thate fans on the the CPU, Graphics card and case spin. But there is no signal to the Display and no power to the keyboard or mouse (both USB). The fans will happily continue spinning, they don't just start spinning and immediately then shut down. My case doesn't have a speaker so I can't hear the beeps.
I've reseated the motherboard, unplugged and pugged back all cables and unplugged everything except the Graphics card (no onboard graphics with this Motherboard) 1 stick ram and keyboard. The same happens, fans spin, no signal to the monitor, no power to keyboard.
I think it could be one of 3 things
1) Motherboard doesn't like the ram, although everything I've read says it should work with tthis motherboard. Don't have any other DDR3 ram to test in it.
2) PSU, even though it's a decent 600w isn't supplying enough power to the motherboard (although it powers my old Core 2 Duo fine) It is a couple of years old. I've got an old dodgy 400w PSU lying about I could try, but i don't think it has all the right connectors.
3) the motherboard or CPU are fried. (I don't _think_ I did it, I took extreme care)
BTW, I put my old motherboard back in and it runs fine so I didn't fry the graphics card or PSU when putting the new stuff in , at least
Thoughts, anyone?
EDIT: Crucial not Corsair
IrrationalPie:
It's one of the following :
a) RAM
Try putting one stick of RAM in one slot. If it doesn't work, put it one of the other sticks. Unless you're unlucky, if both don't work, the problem most likely isn't your RAM.
If you have another computer you can burn an ubuntu disc, pop the RAM sticks in that computer, and do a memory test after booting off the CD.
b) Power Supply
You might be missing some connections from your power supply to your CPU or motherboard; just because the fans are spinning, doesn't necessarily mean your CPU has power.
Your 600W PSU should be more than enough power for a 5770 and your i5. I'm running a similar setup with an old i7.
c) CPU
This could may be fried or defective.
d) Motherboard
This might be defective.
LTK:
Try the other slot for a single stick of RAM as well, there might be a broken connector. Also - even though you've probably already checked this - make sure that the fastening brackets on the RAM and other slots are in the correct position; they have to be in the same spot as closed brackets in empty slots.
The motherboard is powered with a 2x12-pin slot, but the PSU might only have a 2x10 pin connector with an extra 2x2 pins on the side, you can check for that as well.
pwhodges:
I have experienced problems with RAM, motherboard and PS, but never (in my case) the cpu. I've also had OK motherboards which were prevented from booting by the presence of a faulty disk or a faulty graphics card. You just have to go through removing things, and swapping what you can with known good until you get to it.
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