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P4C800 Delux "system failure, CPU check"
Hi folks... I've had the above MB with a P4 3.0 gig CPU for about 6
months and it's been great... Today my monitor went black but the box stayed on with the MB lights and fans spinning... After reboot the screen stays black and I get a voice message "System failure, CPU check"... I don't have any method of checking the MB or the CPU to determine the culprit... Anyone had experience with a problem like this??? TIA Jack |
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Me Exact same thing. Turns out my ATI 9800 PRO was fried. I suggest trying another video card. "Jack Harney" wrote in message ... Hi folks... I've had the above MB with a P4 3.0 gig CPU for about 6 months and it's been great... Today my monitor went black but the box stayed on with the MB lights and fans spinning... After reboot the screen stays black and I get a voice message "System failure, CPU check"... I don't have any method of checking the MB or the CPU to determine the culprit... Anyone had experience with a problem like this??? TIA Jack |
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I have an Asus Radeon 9800XT... First thing I did was yank it out and
try an old VooDoo Banshee PCI card and a S3 PCI card... Same result... Thanks for the reply... On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 23:51:49 GMT, "RaiderNation" wrote: Yep. Me Exact same thing. Turns out my ATI 9800 PRO was fried. I suggest trying another video card. "Jack Harney" wrote in message .. . Hi folks... I've had the above MB with a P4 3.0 gig CPU for about 6 months and it's been great... Today my monitor went black but the box stayed on with the MB lights and fans spinning... After reboot the screen stays black and I get a voice message "System failure, CPU check"... I don't have any method of checking the MB or the CPU to determine the culprit... Anyone had experience with a problem like this??? TIA Jack |
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In article , Jack Harney
wrote: I have an Asus Radeon 9800XT... First thing I did was yank it out and try an old VooDoo Banshee PCI card and a S3 PCI card... Same result... Thanks for the reply... On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 23:51:49 GMT, "RaiderNation" wrote: Yep. Me Exact same thing. Turns out my ATI 9800 PRO was fried. I suggest trying another video card. "Jack Harney" wrote in message .. . Hi folks... I've had the above MB with a P4 3.0 gig CPU for about 6 months and it's been great... Today my monitor went black but the box stayed on with the MB lights and fans spinning... After reboot the screen stays black and I get a voice message "System failure, CPU check"... I don't have any method of checking the MB or the CPU to determine the culprit... Anyone had experience with a problem like this??? TIA Jack Check the power cables to the motherboard. Unplug and replug the ATX 20pin connector. Unplug and replug the 2x2 ATX 12V processor power connector. Sometimes they make bad connections, and a power drop results. A connector that fails in this way, will fail again at a future date, so this will be a chronic problem if it happens. Have a spare PSU handy ? A 9800XT and a 3.0C is a reasonable load for a PSU, and maybe the PSU got a little tired ? Another possibility, is there is a problem with the Vcore circuit near the S478 socket. Check the capacitors for bulging or leaking, or check to see if any MOSFETs (three legs, tab soldered to board) are burnt. A Vcore failure might prevent post as well. Based on the stats in this group, my money is on the PSU (especially as you've tried another video card :-) There is hardly a reason for other parts of the motherboard to fail, or the processor itself for that matter. If the processor overheats, it has throttling features and has a 135C shutdown temp detector inside the processor. Finally, an obscure problem was caused by some extra solder caused by the support underneath the CPU, on the solder side of the board, dragging in the wave solder machine. There are probably a few thousand boards with this fault in circulation. http://www.techsupportforums.com/sho...=&postid=41955 http://koti.mbnet.fi/~nightops/eki/DSC00249.JPG The lower right blob in the JPG, shorts to what looks like a +12V track. The short can be intermittent, and twisting pressure on the board can make the short disappear and reappear. HTH, Paul |
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Paul wrote:
In article , Jack Harney wrote: I have an Asus Radeon 9800XT... First thing I did was yank it out and try an old VooDoo Banshee PCI card and a S3 PCI card... Same result... Thanks for the reply... On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 23:51:49 GMT, "RaiderNation" wrote: Yep. Me Exact same thing. Turns out my ATI 9800 PRO was fried. I suggest trying another video card. "Jack Harney" wrote in message ... Hi folks... I've had the above MB with a P4 3.0 gig CPU for about 6 months and it's been great... Today my monitor went black but the box stayed on with the MB lights and fans spinning... After reboot the screen stays black and I get a voice message "System failure, CPU check"... I don't have any method of checking the MB or the CPU to determine the culprit... Anyone had experience with a problem like this??? TIA Jack Check the power cables to the motherboard. Unplug and replug the ATX 20pin connector. Unplug and replug the 2x2 ATX 12V processor power connector. Sometimes they make bad connections, and a power drop results. A connector that fails in this way, will fail again at a future date, so this will be a chronic problem if it happens. Have a spare PSU handy ? A 9800XT and a 3.0C is a reasonable load for a PSU, and maybe the PSU got a little tired ? Another possibility, is there is a problem with the Vcore circuit near the S478 socket. Check the capacitors for bulging or leaking, or check to see if any MOSFETs (three legs, tab soldered to board) are burnt. A Vcore failure might prevent post as well. Based on the stats in this group, my money is on the PSU (especially as you've tried another video card :-) There is hardly a reason for other parts of the motherboard to fail, or the processor itself for that matter. If the processor overheats, it has throttling features and has a 135C shutdown temp detector inside the processor. Finally, an obscure problem was caused by some extra solder caused by the support underneath the CPU, on the solder side of the board, dragging in the wave solder machine. There are probably a few thousand boards with this fault in circulation. http://www.techsupportforums.com/sho...=&postid=41955 http://koti.mbnet.fi/~nightops/eki/DSC00249.JPG The lower right blob in the JPG, shorts to what looks like a +12V track. The short can be intermittent, and twisting pressure on the board can make the short disappear and reappear. HTH, Paul Samething happened to my P4P800 Deluxe. Swapped out all the components to no avail. It eventually would not post and i had to RMA it to ASUS. NBK |
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