Asus A8N SLi Premium

[Harvey]

Re: Asus A8N SLi Premium

Looking at the second picture, is that a burn mark on the BIOS chip?

[stavr0]

Re: Asus A8N SLi Premium

ah crud. That's what I have. A8N SLi MB + ANTEC PSU. The PSU has started acting up-- won't power up unless I ground the PwrOn (green wire)

[Scenic]

Re: Asus A8N SLi Premium

you guys won't freakin believe this

had a pc here for repair.

was a nice sys when it worked (P4 Northwood 2,8GHz HT, 4x512MB DDR400, GF6800GT AGP).

well.. the problem was the cheap-ass ATX case with its even cheaper noname ATX PSU

a real noname PSU. weight? well.. about as "much" as a usual HDD!
"Model: 420WATT" written in Arial size 48 ... and under those horrible engrish blah blah on it's label ... "Tot.max.OP:240W" in text size 8 or less

to keep this short: PSU blew up, board didnt POST, owner thought the whole PC is fried.

Board: EPoX 4PDA5+

tested the board with a known good 350W Seasonic PSU, P4 1,6GHz, 256MB DDR266. turns on, no beep, no POST. clearing the CMOS didn't help.

then i noticed exactly the same Marvell 88E8001-EKJ 1GBit/s Ethernet chip as in this thread... and guess what?



well.. as i had nothing to lose i removed the chip...WITH A FLAT SCREWDRIVER!

had to clean up the contact pads on the board (well.. at least those that were still there )


looks nasty... i know..



after i checked those contact pads with a magnifiying glass i tried to power it up again...

BINGO! 8)






@ asus11: i don't know where you're from, but i've got an Asus A8N-SLI SE here
it works, but as i dont have a CPU for it it's useless for me..

[i4004]

Re: Asus A8N SLi Premium

scenic, its magic health indicator doesn't say you did open heart surgery on it?
hehe...

next time try heat-gun. they're cheap, and it would look nicer...
you just need something to lift the chip after its heated, as if you go sideways with it, you'll move the surrounding components too.
tweezer of some sort...

[Scenic]

Re: Asus A8N SLi Premium

scenic, its magic health indicator doesn't say you did open heart surgery on it?
hehe...

*?*

next time try heat-gun. they're cheap, and it would look nicer...

well.. i was about to put this board into the trash box (to the other 9 dead boards). next time i will get a heat gun as i now know that it's possible to bring a board with a fried ethernet chip back to life

you just need something to lift the chip after its heated, as if you go sideways with it, you'll move the surrounding components too.
tweezer of some sort...

well... i guess i'm gonna practice this with those really dead (burn marks on northbridge and stuff like that) boards

[i4004]

Re: Asus A8N SLi Premium

>*?*

near the bottom of the post screen
"magic health"...

[kc8adu]

Re: Asus A8N SLi Premium

computer heal thy self!

[zandrax]

Re: Asus A8N SLi Premium

scenic, its magic health indicator doesn't say you did open heart surgery on it?
hehe...

Nope: intrusion detection and hardware monitoring (the "Magic Health") are unrelated.
Anyway I like the "Magic Health" nickname: what Scenic did was really black magic

Zandrax

[i4004]

Re: Asus A8N SLi Premium

well, "monitoring chips removal"(nice category there!) should be in hardware monitoring category!
lol!

winbond(or whatever) chip should be going like
"hm...let me first see if somebody stole any chips from this mobo i'm monitoring...."
(it talks to itself and everything...)

continuing along same lines, would chassis intrusion detection be any good for pedophiles?
cops come, try to open it, and then pc beats the living crap out of them!
afterwards, it jumps thru the window and runs to its kids loving owner...a renegade in its own right!

[zandrax]

Re: Asus A8N SLi Premium

well, "monitoring chips removal"(nice category there!) should be in hardware monitoring category!
lol!

winbond(or whatever) chip should be going like
"hm...let me first see if somebody stole any chips from this mobo i'm monitoring...."
(it talks to itself and everything...)

Gotcha! Did you try to steal my beloved gigabit companion, uh?

continuing along same lines, would chassis intrusion detection be any good for pedophiles?
cops come, try to open it, and then pc beats the living crap out of them!
afterwards, it jumps thru the window and runs to its kids loving owner...a renegade in its own right!

Nope: policemen already copied the hdd content, so they got every evidence they need.
Best trick is using an encrypted partiotion or, better, a file with strong encryption and a deceiving name: eg., install a regular copy of Doom 3 and create a file named game6.pak or similar, change the creation date to 2003 and ... enjoy your crypto-stenographic secret.
Oh my, I just posted it: someone knocking at my door ... RUUUUUUUN!


[Yes, I'm a little mad sometimes ]

Zandrax