I recently bought a rma'd asus a8n-sli mobo. I booted it, and it posted, but it had a message that said: CMOS Checksum error. It gave me the options of F1 to continue on defaults, or del to enter setup. I entered setup set date and basics. Exited the bios and it didn't restart or post.
Had to clear the TRAM of the cmos to get it to boot again. Same message, posted first try. I pressed F1 to continue and nothing happened, but the screen going black.
I looked online and found that it could be caused by a faulty cmos battery, so I replaced it. Still the same problems.
I recently bought a rma'd asus a8n-sli mobo. I booted it, and it posted, but it had a message that said: CMOS Checksum error. It gave me the options of F1 to continue on defaults, or del to enter setup. I entered setup set date and basics. Exited the bios and it didn't restart or post.
Had to clear the TRAM of the cmos to get it to boot again. Same message, posted first try. I pressed F1 to continue and nothing happened, but the screen going black.
I looked online and found that it could be caused by a faulty cmos battery, so I replaced it. Still the same problems.
Does anyone have any constructive ideas?
Does Newegg allow you to exchange or RMA the board? I'm not sure if you are saying you bought a refurbished board, but I think their policy should let you exchange it at least? Removing the battery should've fixed the issue much less replacing it. It sounds like board is fubar'd.
I recently bought a rma'd asus a8n-sli mobo. I booted it, and it posted, but it had a message that said: CMOS Checksum error. It gave me the options of F1 to continue on defaults, or del to enter setup. I entered setup set date and basics. Exited the bios and it didn't restart or post.
Had to clear the TRAM of the cmos to get it to boot again. Same message, posted first try. I pressed F1 to continue and nothing happened, but the screen going black.
I looked online and found that it could be caused by a faulty cmos battery, so I replaced it. Still the same problems.
Does anyone have any constructive ideas?
Does Newegg allow you to exchange or RMA the board? I'm not sure if you are saying you bought a refurbished board, but I think their policy should let you exchange it at least? Removing the battery should've fixed the issue much less replacing it. It sounds like board is fubar'd.
Newegg is very liberal with their returns/exchanges. I recently bought a mobo that ended up failing about 5 days later. I requested an RMA for a refund rather than an exchange, since I wanted a dif mobo anyways, and there were no problems.
I would say that RMA'ing the board would be the easiest course of action, it seems like it has a lot of problems.
Newegg is very liberal with their returns/exchanges. I recently bought a mobo that ended up failing about 5 days later. I requested an RMA for a refund rather than an exchange, since I wanted a dif mobo anyways, and there were no problems.
I would say that RMA'ing the board would be the easiest course of action, it seems like it has a lot of problems.
since i bought the board from Kamikaze would i need his order information to rma it again?
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Kamakazi wrote:
I might be able to fire away with another RMA, already done it twice already, shitty Asus.
I wouldn't say shitty Asus.. I would say you're probably RMA'ing an out of production board, so you might be getting the leftovers... My AN8-sli deluxe has worked perfectly since I bought it in 05.
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I might be able to fire away with another RMA, already done it twice already, shitty Asus.
I wouldn't say shitty Asus.. I would say you're probably RMA'ing an out of production board, so you might be getting the leftovers... My AN8-sli deluxe has worked perfectly since I bought it in 05.
Same here except a A8N-SLI regular
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I might be able to fire away with another RMA, already done it twice already, shitty Asus.
Raise your hand if you had an A7n8x board die. *raises hand*
I still use my 5 year old asus a7n8x-e deluxe in one of the computers back home.
a7n8x-e deluxe represent! its what is in my desktop (athlon xp 2800 barton core, 1gb corsair ddr400, 256mb 7800gs), and works like a champ. I run all the latest source games at 1920x1050 with AA, AF, and all settings on High - gets 30-40fps. Asus boards rock.
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