[dead asrock a75 extreme6]

[semicodin]

still wouldn't light I performed the paperclip test on the Enermax PSU and (no surprise) it worked beautifully. By the way . . . what a quiet PSU! Wow.

My PIII having now officially died last week I summoned my courage to return to the Build-From-Hell but this time I pulled out my old Supermicro manuals and studied their troubleshooting section. They begin with an extremely logical flowchart graphic with dozens of branches. The first branch asks : Does the motherboard have power? and that is when you notice that all of those troubleshooting branches are on one side only. If you answered No to Supermicro's first question on the flowchart (does the motherboard have lights) their answer is perfunctory: Replace Motherboard.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

I'm at the library typing this because I have no computer.costlynightmare.

semicodin

[- wardog -]

Re: [dead asrock a75 extreme6]

And yet you don't give thought to the CoolerMaster PSU possibly being the cause of your MB woes? ........

I'm not saying that the MB might or might not have have been DOA, but .............

[semicodin]

Re: [dead asrock a75 extreme6]

And yet you don't give thought to the CoolerMaster PSU possibly being the cause of your MB woes?

Wardog, I forgive you that comment. Not only did I have the CoolerMaster repaired, when the Asrock still arriving to the U.S. DOA.

Fortunately I live in Silicon Valley and have access to motherboard repair services from really, really skilled tech engineers armed with soldering guns. Jesus wept.

[- wardog -]

Re: [dead asrock a75 extreme6]

Wardog, I forgive you that comment. Not only did I have the CoolerMaster repaired, when the Asrock still wouldn't light ...........

My point. Consider the CoolerMaster took the MB out on your initial installation/building.

Fortunately I live in Silicon Valley and have access to motherboard repair services from really, really skilled tech engineers armed with soldering guns. Jesus wept.

I myself would prefer a reflow station over a soldering gun. Heyzeus played.

[profJim]

Re: [dead asrock a75 extreme6]

FYI: 2014 Motherboard RMA Rate (new update from Hardware.fr) | TechPowerUp Forums

2014 Motherboard RMA Rate (new update from Hardware.fr)

note: The forum member in the TechPowerUp thread, post #3 produced some charts that are easy to read.

[- wardog -]

Re: [dead asrock a75 extreme6]

I began using ASRock MB's as a less expensive alternative.

Now though, although their pricing is somewhat lower, I buy them because they simply work and the features offered don't differentiate too far from the others. Gigabyte MB's here seem to have the highest defect rate.

There are many good things to take away in that link. For instance when the AMD FX 125w CPUs came out, there wasn't a manufacturer one that did not claim their 970 boards could handle the FX's 125w. We now know that is complete bull sheet. The VRM's got hot and either cut back, or worse, and more predictably, simply burnt out when they became stressed and overloaded due to heat. ASRock is just as guilty of this as is the others. BIOS release trying to quell the overloading, limit the max CPU, etc etc .... The list went on and on but in the end they all admitted their 970 board just couldn't keep up with the 125w requirements of the FX's.