Re: P5N-E SLI crapped out

David M wrote:
After 7 days, my ASUS P5N-E SLI crapped out. I came home tonight and
found the computer non-responsive. Pressing the reset button had no
effect. Pressing the front panel power switch had no effect. Only
unplugging the power supply shut it off.

Power supply voltages appeared to be OK (+5, +3.3, +12) when measured
at the ATX power connector. CPU cooler appeared to be cold...?
HDD activity light on all the time, even with HDD unplugged.

Did this M/B byte the big one? Any thoughts?


P5N-E SLI
1GB x 2
Core2 Duo 2GHz
Fedora 7



I'm assuming that the symptoms you describe are after restarting it.

Unplug everything that you can (including removing all memory) except
for power to the mainboard, then try starting the computer. You should
get some beeps complaining about there being no memory. If not, you have
a hardware problem. It could be the MB, CPU or power supply.

If you get that, then put some memory back in and try to get to the BIOS
screen. If you can do that, then start adding things back in one at a
time until something breaks again.

Good luck.

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