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please lord can i give stacey slater one before the asteroid lands:D

In order ...our lazy moggies cola aka elvis as one of his front teeth is missing and does the lip thing(15)& his sister cocoa(15) muffin(15) gizmo the most cunning and trouble making cat we have (2) and her brother eko(2) 'scuse the mess in house am just painting kitchen which has proven to be a bit difficult with the array of cats we have

when i get round to pulling the board I will try one of my others in that case on that psu it's far easier than trying to get the psu out of that case it's a right pig

yup have 3 other desktops 2 laptops and 2 spares in the loft so never get stuck :D

cheers for all your help still not got round to taking the board out been paintin' the kitchen

had our garage roller shutter door 6m wide 2m high galvanised 2 remotes installed for £850 if you go for a roller shutter type they're all pretty competitive and do powder coated colours too http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=111033&highlight=garage+finished

unfortunately I bought it online and the company is no longer trading :( next board will be ordered from my local shop which has been around a long time

asus RMA policy is.. I pay them £16 for an RMA number(tesing, their shipping fees etc.) and I have to pay to have it posted to their UK repair distributer which in turn sends it to their europe repair centre. If it turns out that it is knackered and it's their feckin' board at fault they don't refund me either. ###ts

i like them pity the pound has suffered so much against the dollar

asus customer support it sh#t for starter. All componenets stripped out murt just the mainboard, power cables to it and case switches. It does not post just the green power LED as before or fire up the psu. The psu will fire on it's own when cables removed and green bridged to black. Guess mobo is dead by the looks.

hope this is the last they say bad luck comes in 3's dead battery on car when I got back to gatwick from holidays just over a week ago. My pc died saturday night. Now the foil on my microscreen shaver split and slashed my face up :headvswal

still waiting for asus to reply takinig the psu back to shop tomorrow also to be tested. Board is 18 months old(3 year warranty) didn't think i'd had it that long psu only a few months

I'll strip the components out and try to see if the board posts now in a bit be back soon cheers dude

if it's a via chipset they used to do a 4in1 driver. The system or board manufacturer will usually have support on their site for older stuff too. check this too http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=2

I have seen a mobo I would like I have an asus p5n32e sli (same as striker extreme except a few things like LED display etc) it's another asus one that takes ddr2 or ddr3 which is good plus I think it has the new 45nm technology for newer quads. I just need to eliminate what is wrong for sure first :cry: also just noticed it has a 3 year warranty on the box i'll drop 'em an email anyone had any dealings with asus board warranty?

disconnected board, card and drive connectors then bridged the green and black terminals and power supply runs the fans ok. I can't find my circuit tested to test the on off switch properly although all connections are solid. Need to properly test that next. Is the on of switch just a signal voltage or constant feed?

cheers murty will give pop it out and try tommorrow. I was gonna try running the psu in a spare system but will try that first. I had a power supply fail before that ran as normal but wouldnt crank the board up. It ejected the cd trays and everything but would fire. I just found this http://www.squidoo.com/power-supply-failure-symptoms hopefully will find out tommorrow

managed to pull the power supply partially enought to check for fuses.....I can find no fuses in this one and the outer label says no user servicable parts. Also checked the case power switch seems to be ok. looks like it'll have to go in to shop I got psu from at least if they check it should still come under warranty as they can see what's at fault if it is that.just before last xmas my car went pop I feckin detest xmas

when I leave it a few mins then try power button the illuminated fan flashes as if it briefly tries to power but runs out of current :headvswal prob is everything is a new build gfx,cpu,ram,hdd, the other computers I have are all older technology so can't even go through each item one at a time. It's gonna take 1/2 a day to get the supply out of the tw@t will check the power switch like you said I can get to that easy would be a good port of call

would the mobo light come on then though as it is lit up but just won't fire

just bin playing my new left 4 dead and it just died like a power cut. Motherboard light is on but nothing will fire. I think it may be the power supply it's only 4 months old a Red PC power one and was nearly £125 on its own. I am so fecked off just hope it's not the mobo or taken my quad out with it :headvswal:headvswal:headvswal:cry::cry:

The part that really fecked me off was this issue "It is possible to deport an offender only if an agreement exists with their country of origin to take them." We can take them in to commit a crime and pay to have them locked up but their own country has to agree to take them back!!!........... easy immigration

:headvswal:headvswal:headvswal prisoners released early with compo http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3949322/Thousands-of-foreign-prisoners-freed-early---with-compensation.html

though it was gonna be another one of thoses zed in a porno again :D

got it for xmas of wifey gets boring quickly on single player but is a lot more interesting online