My mate ordered an A8N32 SLI motherboard from Scan, for his 939 based PC as his old one was having problems with the SATA ports. The new board arrived Monday, and he kept it boxed.
I went round, "simple swap job" i thought, but it wouldn't boot at all. Fans attempt to spin, power supply hisses (two power supplies infact, one of which works perfectly), so I'm thinking dead board. It seems to be trying to start the fans but not succeeding....the light on the motherboard which shows power is running through the board is lit.
It's now sat on my table, out of case, to rule out the board shorting on the case, still refusing to boot. I don't wanna tell him its dead, he RMA's it and it comes back fine. I need to be sure.
I'm going to try his old board tomorrow and see if it fires, but is there anything i have missed?
Thanks.