New Asus P4P800 Deluxe - No video at all?

"Patrick" wrote in message
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Hi-

Had the same experience this weekend. Apparently, there's a known issue
using the retail box version of the P4 heatsink and fan. There, located
beneath the CPU heatsink mounting bracket on the underside of the board,
there is a small glob of solder located beneath where the bracket sits
that,
when pressure from the bracket is applied, shorts the motherboard. It
appears that this is a problem on large numbers of these boards.

How is the a defect in the P4 heatsink mount? It looks like bad mainboard
design to me!

Have a look at the thread

at:http://techsupportforum.com/showthre...&perpage=20&pa
genumber=3
(look for the post by MechaBouncer (on the middle of the page).

There's a picture of the bad solder he
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~nightops/eki/DSC00249.JPG

Just remove the solder. It wouldn't take much to remove with a small wattage
iron and a piece of solder wick. You might even be able to cut it with an
exacto knife if you're careful.