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..edited for clarity, and I realize I sound like a whiny baby, removed some whining..
I have a Sabertooth Z87, which comes with a 5 year complete warranty and is supposed to be their bulletproof MB. It comes with all kinds of heat sinks and dust covers and was touted as military grade and military standard. 2 years into owning it, the system would randomly shutdown, my first thought was the 32 gigs of "Asus approved" ram was the problem.
After a lot of slow testing (because the shut downs would only occur every 6 weeks on average, usually 2 in 1 week and then third 3 months later). With the latest testing the system simply will not boot if any of my memory modules are in those slots, but if they are in either of the 2nd bank everything is fine. I finally figured out the problem is due to the 1st bank of slots specifically the slot closest to the CPU.
Asus support ran me through additional tests to verify there was a problem, and only after the phone call did I figure out that only slot 1 was bad. Due to it being 3 years old and not less than 1 year they will not offer an advanced replacement even with a CC deposit. When I complained that taking this system down for a week, let alone 3 weeks was too long I didn't receive any sympathy. So I'm left with sending the motherboard to them to review and likely replace in 2-3 weeks.
The down time on the system isn't acceptable to the people in my household, thankfully most of the services that are used in the house are on hyper V clients. Seeing how the only way to service the board is to send it in, does anyone have a suggestion on how to get everything up on a similar MB? Oh and does anyone know if a Z87 board that's still sold as I've only found them out of stock. Or any other advice?
I have a Sabertooth Z87, which comes with a 5 year complete warranty and is supposed to be their bulletproof MB. It comes with all kinds of heat sinks and dust covers and was touted as military grade and military standard. 2 years into owning it, the system would randomly shutdown, my first thought was the 32 gigs of "Asus approved" ram was the problem.
After a lot of slow testing (because the shut downs would only occur every 6 weeks on average, usually 2 in 1 week and then third 3 months later). With the latest testing the system simply will not boot if any of my memory modules are in those slots, but if they are in either of the 2nd bank everything is fine. I finally figured out the problem is due to the 1st bank of slots specifically the slot closest to the CPU.
Asus support ran me through additional tests to verify there was a problem, and only after the phone call did I figure out that only slot 1 was bad. Due to it being 3 years old and not less than 1 year they will not offer an advanced replacement even with a CC deposit. When I complained that taking this system down for a week, let alone 3 weeks was too long I didn't receive any sympathy. So I'm left with sending the motherboard to them to review and likely replace in 2-3 weeks.
The down time on the system isn't acceptable to the people in my household, thankfully most of the services that are used in the house are on hyper V clients. Seeing how the only way to service the board is to send it in, does anyone have a suggestion on how to get everything up on a similar MB? Oh and does anyone know if a Z87 board that's still sold as I've only found them out of stock. Or any other advice?
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