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p4p800e-dlx won't post - memory socket problem (and question)
Hi folks,
For those of you who are having some problems with the p4p800e-dlx, I thought I would share my recent experience. For the sake of brevity, I will condense things. p4p800e-dlx p4 3.0 northwood 2x512MB corsair xms memory gigabyte 9600xt Symptom: no post, no audio alert, no video. fans spin. After some testing, it appears that my 2nd DIMM socket was bad! If I put the two memory sticks in sockets 1 and 2, I would get a full 1GB in single channel mode. If I put the memory in sockets 1 and 3 (for dual channel mode), it would not post nor give me any voice alert. I could place a single memory stick in either socket 1, 2, or 4 and it would boot up just fine (yes, I used both memory modules just to be sure that I did not have a bad one). I spoke with ASUS tech support and went through a number of tests and they told me to RMA the board. I just thought I would share this with you all, just in case anyone else is experiencing similar behaviour. Now the questions.... I will have to remove the CPU and heatsink in order to send the board back. What is the best way to remove the heatsink? Just pull it straight up or should I twist it a bit? Also, will I need to clean off the remnants of the thermal pad from the CPU and heatsink or will I be able just to smush them back together again once I get the new mb? Thanks, Zag |
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