RMA motherboard?

[Noni]

I replaced my dead motherboard, my old Asus Sli deluxe had damage so i bought a new one, put a zalman heatsink on it and off I went.

Everything booted up fine, I changed my usual settings in the BIOS (I.E. No silly logo at startup).

But, to test I used PRIME 95 and to my confusion I get random beeps. This are fast paced beeps and dont seem to be coming from the motherboard (as I took the speaker cable out of the motherboard header and the noise was still there. The noise is best described as a quietesh very fast paced beeps. It seems as though it is coming from the top end of my computer. Although I cannot be sure.

Here is my specs-

- AMD 3800+ Venice

- ASUS A8N SLI DELUXE

- ZALMAN 9500 and ZALMAN NB HEATSINK

- 7800GTX 256mb

- 250GB SATA HD

Now heres where it gets weird to try and sort it I tried the following-

Changed PSU- Noise still there

Tigtened CPU COOLER- Still there

Disconnected SPEAKER HEADER from MB - Still there

Reconnected NB COOLER (ZALMAN PASSIVE) - Still there (although i can fiddle with it abit, but maximum load VIA ASUS UTILITY is 37C. But when I touch it it burns me .

Disconnected DVD drives- Still there

Reseated Motherboard- Still there

Listened to hardrive- Not from there

GPU- Not there

Turned off EXHAUST fan and CPU fan- Still there

Changed PSu and even ran psu outside the comp- Still there



Its a very faint beeps, its a very very faced paced beeps too.

Now, I think its a bent resistor on the motherboard, as the noise is coming from near that area.



Shall I RMA? Or is this normal?

Thank you scan.

[Lee H]

If you log the problems in the query system at the following link returns will handle this accordingly ;

http://web6.scan.co.uk/Support/Query.ASP?QueryType=R

Best Regards,

[Noni]

Thank you scan, I have called up and it seems sorted.

One question, may I change the date when the courier will come?

Thanks.

[Lee H]

Yes, PM me the RMA number and the collection date you require and I'll pass this to the returns teams asap.

Best Regards,

[Noni]

Nah, i may want to change it later. Thats all .

Thank you scan.

[games130]

erm... i never used RMA before so i am not sure about the procedure but from what i seen .. SCAN organise someone to pick up the RMA goods? or do we have to send it back ourself?