Problems with XFX 680i SLI board

[DazTora]

I got a replacement motherboard for the faulty Asus P5NE (USB and On Board Ethernet dieing), problem is after building my pc up with the new board I cant boot, Ive spent all last night and most of today trying stuff, I'm now on a ****ty little P4 my uncle lent me. Thank god for the internet.

My set up is the same just replace my motherboard obviously.

I am getting really irritated with this string of bad luck I have been having this past month, someone really doesn't like me

Thankyou in advance, Ill try and answer any questions.

[FREELINE57]

Have you tried to boot this outside the box with one stick of ram and video card?

[DazTora]

No I haven't, I just did a straight swap

[DazTora]

Nevermind gonna RMA it and get the 750i

[ericeod]

My experience with NVIDIA chipset boards have been about the same as yours. I went through 2 ASUS NVIDIA boards, then 5 eVGA NVIDIA boards before finally giving up on the 600i and 700i chipset and moving to Intel.

[DazTora]

For my next build I'm not going to get a 'graphics card guys' motherboard that's for sure.. there garbage

[DazTora]

Had another crack at it since I dont like giving up.

Reset CMOS took battery out and all that and booted it out of the case with just one stick of ram, DVD rom, 1 hard drive and the graphics card, and guess what it booted did a fresh install of XP, while I wait for 7 and did like 20 restarts. On the 10th I added my other stick of ram to put it back up to 4gb and it works.

I hope it holds out, I have read really bad things about the 680i boards so I am hoping this is the last of my problems. All there Is left to do now is get a Quad in the new year. I was thinking about the Q6600, old I know but its such a cracking chip get the baby up to 3ghz and Ill be happy until my next build in about a year.

Thanks again rep to all.