The board is a litle older a p5p800 se, slightly different than p5p800. First the problems started with auto shutdowns and when rebooting it said you were over clocking which i wasn't. Then it would start normally and work for a while then it got worse and finally the vid card blew up so i replaced that and all was fine for a while. Then a power supply went out and got a new one and worked fine for a while but still kept getting the overclock msg when none was done at all.
Then cleaned out the cooler and put fresh thermal paste on and it went on for months after after cleaning it first of course. So time goes by and all of the sudden i get scrambled video out of the blue and a freeze and rebooting doesn't help, all the fans spin it either starts for a few seconds then stops or i get a scrambled post and a freeze. so i replace the battery unplugg the psu for a few hours and try again and the same thing and one time it starts so i leave it on and back up everything to an external drive just in case and the video scramble starts again and wont start after. I take it apart and notice two buldged caps and order caps for the whole thing. Replaced those two and all the others of the same size then noticed on the back of the board a brownish area near where the cpu is, it wasn't crud because it was washed out good before and drying for days. A better cpu cooler was put in a Zalman.
The brownish area underneath was near the cpu but not there it was by three tiny chips VRM?
Anyway these prescott chips are known to run hot so thats probably where the overclock errors came from. Booting from a linux disk with a memtest passed. So now from everything i read here it's basically fried and not worth saving.
Might not have happened if i put in a better cooler before?
Also my brother had the same model and it blew up too but different symptoms. And on another msg board some guy with the same got a p5p800 to replace the se and said the heat sink was different and ran cooler.
So it's partly my fault and Asus i guess and i'd rather get a used board instead of getting something else that needs different ram and now everything is pci-e and dont want to get all new cards either nor a fan because the one for LGA wont work either.
So it's a pisser and I see lots of other people had trouble with them.
Oh and the reverse polarity on the caps all i did was put the stripe on the same side where the old ones were same side.
Ps when i washed it everything was taken out and douched with simple green and rinsed totally off for a half hour and blown dry with a compressor forever then left to dry for days in front of a fan so that can't be the problem.
(just had to vent)
Then cleaned out the cooler and put fresh thermal paste on and it went on for months after after cleaning it first of course. So time goes by and all of the sudden i get scrambled video out of the blue and a freeze and rebooting doesn't help, all the fans spin it either starts for a few seconds then stops or i get a scrambled post and a freeze. so i replace the battery unplugg the psu for a few hours and try again and the same thing and one time it starts so i leave it on and back up everything to an external drive just in case and the video scramble starts again and wont start after. I take it apart and notice two buldged caps and order caps for the whole thing. Replaced those two and all the others of the same size then noticed on the back of the board a brownish area near where the cpu is, it wasn't crud because it was washed out good before and drying for days. A better cpu cooler was put in a Zalman.
The brownish area underneath was near the cpu but not there it was by three tiny chips VRM?
Anyway these prescott chips are known to run hot so thats probably where the overclock errors came from. Booting from a linux disk with a memtest passed. So now from everything i read here it's basically fried and not worth saving.
Might not have happened if i put in a better cooler before?
Also my brother had the same model and it blew up too but different symptoms. And on another msg board some guy with the same got a p5p800 to replace the se and said the heat sink was different and ran cooler.
So it's partly my fault and Asus i guess and i'd rather get a used board instead of getting something else that needs different ram and now everything is pci-e and dont want to get all new cards either nor a fan because the one for LGA wont work either.
So it's a pisser and I see lots of other people had trouble with them.
Oh and the reverse polarity on the caps all i did was put the stripe on the same side where the old ones were same side.
Ps when i washed it everything was taken out and douched with simple green and rinsed totally off for a half hour and blown dry with a compressor forever then left to dry for days in front of a fan so that can't be the problem.
(just had to vent)
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