Asus Rampage Motherboard Woes
 

Okay;

I had an Asus Rampage II motherboard with 6GB of DDR 3 1600mhz RAM (Kingston) and 8 each 1TB USB external Buffalo drives serving as my movie server. I decided to upgrade to an Antec 12-Hundred-Two tower case with 8 each Caviar Black 2TB 3-1/2" internal drives, 24 GB DDR 3 1600mhz RAM (Corsair), Asus Rampage III motherboard for the 9 each SATA drive inputs. I am using a Cool Master 600W PSU.

Well, Rampage III would not boot up, even after I stripped back to nothing. She powers up the CPU and all that but no video.

So, I took it all apart and tried the Rampage II and same exact thing thing.

Any ideas? I've got about $4K in stuff and none of it seems to work. I am totally stumped. I have built about 30 PC's for my own use over the last 20 years so I am not new to the assembly process but this is the first time I have had this level of difficulty.

I appreciate any ideas and help on this.

Re: Asus Rampage Motherboard Woes
 

I think you have fried your graphics card, if you can try another card I would and see what happens.

If it still doesnt work then something else is at fault but its to early at the moment so will answer abit more later.

Re: Asus Rampage Motherboard Woes
 

Words of sense from Damien..eliminate the obvious..then proceed further.

And i don't build pcs..i buy them :D

Re: Asus Rampage Motherboard Woes
 

Ok I am more awake now :dozey:

Right so you have put your pc back together in the Rampage II Extreme board and you still have no video display.

Right do this and report back.

Check each stick of ram on there own to see if any of them are faulty.

Then take the cpu out of the board and make sure there is no thermal paste on the bottom of the cpu and on the pins.

Then disconnect all drives etc and see if the post screen comes up.

You are going to need another graphic's card to test it with aswell, also try another power supply as well as the power supply could have gone faulty if you have plugged the wrong power connectors in to the board.

Trust me though forget about the Rampage 3 Extreme board get a Gigabyte UD7 board.

I have had the following:

Rampage II Extreme
Rampage III Extreme
Gigabyte EX58 Extreme

The Rampage III Extreme kept giving me IOH Overheat issues and other issues and in the end I had 6 of them in the space, of a week all faulty and all got returned after the 6th failed I got my money back and, went back to using my Rampage II Extreme board and spent the money on a new GTX 480.

My Rampage II Extreme then started to have issues with the ram so I had to send that for repair and it, turned out that a pin was bent on the board and that was causing it not to pick up a stick of ram, then I got that back and then used that till last month when it decided it was going to start messing up this time it was a sound fault, in the fact it does not like my sound card.

So now I am running my Gigabyte EX58 Extreme board and have actually found that my chip can run at a higher overclock, and also my ram runs at 1950mhz instead of 2000mhz which is due to the overclock, whereas in the Asus board it would only run at 1600mhz.

As you graphic's card now appears not to be working even in the Rampage III Extreme board, then maybe your Rampage III Extreme board is not faulty after all and it could be one of the following or a combination:

PSU
RAM
HDD's
CPU

I wish you luck with this as I am not the most patient person as some people know, but by now I would of lost it and thrown the lot out the window and started from scratch.