But some of the white "tabs" that hold the memory cards to the motherboard are broken. I would rate this motherboard with 5 stars. I bought this board partly on the over-clocking features, and what setting do I have in the BIOS ? "Normal" :) I don't 'feel the need for speed' bad enough to risk frying this pricey motherboard or the CPU. It has more over-clocking options that I know what to do with. It is very fast, quiet, and energy efficient. So I can't state that every component on the board works as advertised.īut for a system with an Intel i7-3820 4-core CPU, two SATA HDDs, 2.0 speakers, a single Nvidia GTX 560 TI video card, and 16GB of RAM, it works just fine. I am not using every feature that this motherboard provides. Out of the several alternatives from Asus and other manufacturers, I purchased this particular board because it had most of the features that I was looking for.Īnd the name "Asus" seemed to be ranked highly from computer users that made comments about their systems on the Internet. I don't see very many reviews about this board. I've had this motherboard for the last 5 months. If you are of the same mindset go Asus and you won't regret it. The bottom line is that I think most people would rather have an operational system than a customer support line to call when their brand new $300+ product doesn't work and needs to be RMAd for a refurbished one just like most would rather have a working car than a constantly breaking or lemon law car with a good warranty that gets fixed and/or replaced. Might not seem that hard but after this experience with EVGA it is much appreciated by me.ĪSUS gets dinged a lot for poor customer support on the web and this has always made me hesitant to order them in favor of EVGA who is known for their good customer service. They packed a ton of options into this product and made it all operational. In addition to this board having several benefits compared to EVGA (most importantly internal USB 3.0 headers), it worked right away without needing to use the new processor. As I had two business days after this to resolve the issue, I leveraged Amazon's lovely Prime $3.99 overnight service to have this Asus board and an extra CPU (just in case) to show up just in time. #Asus p9x79 red cpu led codeIn a frustrating turn of events, I arrived last week and installed all of the new equipment to be greeted with an FF code from the EVGA board and it continuously rebooting. Unfortunately I did not have time as a luxury for this build as I was doing it as a present for my brother who lives on the other side of the country from me and this is why I went through the efforts to try and ensure a working MoBo. This led to little or no response from them and basically me being told that I could RMA the board with a several day turnaround time if I ran into issues. Before doing so, and while waiting for the product to arrive, I contacted their sales and support department, along with Matthew Hurwitz, their public "Assistant Product Manager" and requested the board be verified as operational. However, after posting on their forums and being reassured by some users that these issues had been resolved, I went ahead and ordered an EVGA X79 SLI board directly from EVGA. On this latest build, I hesitated initially to purchase EVGA x79 based on many of the reviews I viewed online with people stating problems with bad products showing up DOA or bad BIOS chips. Just trying to give some extra troubleshooting steps if you haven't tried anything else.I have been a fan of EVGA for years and have only purchased their motherboards. Also do you have ROG Connect setup? It can tell you what step it gets stuck on during POST. If you have either a spare CPU or MOBO that is compatible with the other I would try that to narrowing which component is bad.Īlso stupid question anything change from before to after it wouldn't start? You said you removed one GFX card but did you then switch them out and try the other card? I know it says CPU but I've seen some odd things with this board already lol. Is it POSTing or not? Unless I read that wrong some of it sounds like you were able to get into the BIOS or you set the RAM voltage way back when it worked? I would suggest trying to re-seat the CPU as Cyrekk said and maybe try clearing the CMOS if the first step doesn't work. What more can I do? The whole computer is no more than 3 weeks old. I am currently running stock nothing OC but fixed VRAM voltage at 1.5000, the machine has been running fine for the last 3 weeks but gave up on me Saturday. The BIOS is 0705 and I have the 1 stick of RAM in the slot next to the CPU. Neither of the on/off or the reset button is working when the led is shining I get the CPU_LED shining from the motherboard status led´s, I have removed 1 gfx card and 3 sticks of RAM but still it won’t boot. Since yesterday my computer won’t boot up,
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