Failing board?

JLuchinski

JLuchinski

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I have an Asus M4A88T-M mobo and I've been having some strange problems. I bought it on clearance about 3 months ago. About a month ago I got a BSOD and after rebooting all of my BIOS settings were reset back to default and it forgot my RAID settings. I thought that was odd so I replaced the CMOS battery and moved on. About a week later it did the same thing and ever since then I've been having performance issues. I re-installed Windows and still the same thing. I bought a GTX 480 the other day and it was crashing like crazy so I took it back to the store and they are going to bench test it. So last night I threw my GTX 280 back in my system while I wait and it's stuttering like crazy no matter what game I play. And I plugged in my external drive via E-SATA and it doesn't work so I have to use the USB plugs.
 
Alright replaced the motherboard and the store gave me a brand new card, everything runs perfectly. The store couldn't even get me old card to boot, maybe it was on the way out.
 
I wouldn't be trusting that PSU with bulging caps. Especially with a GTX 480. As the components age and degrade the PSU won't be able to put out as much power.
 
linkin said:
I wouldn't be trusting that PSU with bulging caps. Especially with a GTX 480. As the components age and degrade the PSU won't be able to put out as much power.
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If you read his post again, it says it doesn't have bulging caps. :)
 
Yeah everything's been working great except I got a system lockup when I was updating Windows, I rebooted then did the "install updates then shutdown" now it seems to be OK.
 
Alright update, my POS system is locking up while doing nothing. This $*!) is really starting to piss me off, I spent all fricken day yesterday updating stupid ass Windows to end up back to square one.
 
I ran Windows memory test and it passed. I'm going to try a different test. Any good ones that you would recommend?
 
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