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Patrick Martin
I just RMAed my two week old P4C800-E Deluxe M/B to NewEgg.Com because of
BIOS problems http://helpdesk.asus.com and I couldn't correct. Even after
updating to the latest BIOS version, I'd typically get "New CPU Installed"
alerts from the BIOS and have to manually reset BIOS data to get the M/B to
complete startup. ASUS was concerned about "EMI interference" and/or
improper grounding of the M/B to the case and suggested removing the M/B
from the case and test with just video card, and keyboard (no memory) on a
non-conducting surface (wooden workbench, phone book, or the box the M/B
came in) and if this worked reinstall in the case with electricians tape
over the metal M/B stand-offs and red-paper washers under the heads of the
ten screws that secure the M/B to the Lian-Li M/B tray. The system wouldn't
peep or show any life until I installed the RAM. After installing the
memory, it'd would fine and the BIOS retaining all the settings. The tape &
paper washers seemed to fix the problem (it'd regularly boot to XP w/o
incident) until I exchanged the newly assembled PC for my eight year old
200MHz machine. After hooking up things like the phone line, printer,
joystick to the game port, and an open-ended serial port cable, the new PC
would halt during POST with a "Black Screen". After a few cold reboots, I
got a display indicating the BIOS had again halted due to "CPU
Overclocking". The maddening thing is that the dam thing would again boot
to XP after removing the M/B tray from the case (M/B still bolted to the
tray), hooking up the internal stuff (power, HDD, floppies, PCI Modem, video
card, and CD-RW devices) and powering up. At that point I said "M/B latent
defect" and RMAed it back to the point of sale.
Is anyone else have any "EMI interference" and/or improper grounding problem
solutions they can share with us along with the workarounds?
Patrick
BIOS problems http://helpdesk.asus.com and I couldn't correct. Even after
updating to the latest BIOS version, I'd typically get "New CPU Installed"
alerts from the BIOS and have to manually reset BIOS data to get the M/B to
complete startup. ASUS was concerned about "EMI interference" and/or
improper grounding of the M/B to the case and suggested removing the M/B
from the case and test with just video card, and keyboard (no memory) on a
non-conducting surface (wooden workbench, phone book, or the box the M/B
came in) and if this worked reinstall in the case with electricians tape
over the metal M/B stand-offs and red-paper washers under the heads of the
ten screws that secure the M/B to the Lian-Li M/B tray. The system wouldn't
peep or show any life until I installed the RAM. After installing the
memory, it'd would fine and the BIOS retaining all the settings. The tape &
paper washers seemed to fix the problem (it'd regularly boot to XP w/o
incident) until I exchanged the newly assembled PC for my eight year old
200MHz machine. After hooking up things like the phone line, printer,
joystick to the game port, and an open-ended serial port cable, the new PC
would halt during POST with a "Black Screen". After a few cold reboots, I
got a display indicating the BIOS had again halted due to "CPU
Overclocking". The maddening thing is that the dam thing would again boot
to XP after removing the M/B tray from the case (M/B still bolted to the
tray), hooking up the internal stuff (power, HDD, floppies, PCI Modem, video
card, and CD-RW devices) and powering up. At that point I said "M/B latent
defect" and RMAed it back to the point of sale.
Is anyone else have any "EMI interference" and/or improper grounding problem
solutions they can share with us along with the workarounds?
Patrick