Here are the results of my troubleshooting my motherboard (see earlier post for details). I swapped out the power supply to another board, which powered up without any problems. I took the power supply from that board and put it on my ASUS and still got the big twitch, but nothing else. I removed all components and tried powering it up that way — no dice. I went so far as to remove both the RAM and the display card as well — nothing helped. I think the board is hosed. Dave, any other suggestions?
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Depends how drastic you want to get before you play the RMA card.
If you want to, the next thing to try is cutting the green wire in the connection between your power supply and motherboard, then shorting it to the chassis. This will give you an “always on” sort of behaviour, if the motherboard still works at all.
And by “short to the chassis”, I mean cut the green wire, strip a little of its end, then put it under a screw somewhere. Once all that is done, try plugging the beasty in, and see what happens.
If this fixes things, then your motherboard powerup circuit is bad, and the motherboard needs replaced…
So really, at this point, you’re pretty much in RMA territory no matter what. So you should probably just ignore what I just said, and ship the thing back. It’ll save time in the long run.
Sooo, if I were to buy a completely different motherboard, what would all y’all out there recommend? I have an AMD Athlon XP 1900 processor, so it needs to be Socket A. Anyone out there have a good experience with Socket A motherboards?
Not that I’m displeased with the ASUS a7v600x — it would be a great motherboard. . .if it worked.