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Originally Posted by ginbong
ok guys, im about to put my pc together (finally got the courage to start, first time building a system solo with no help in person)
a question about RMA: what if my retailer wont change the board because they claim i already used it, but i have a 3 year warranty with asus. can i go and contact asus directly about RMAing?
i am in australia by the way for anyone who was wondering...
thanks
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"Already used it?", sounds like your retailer is dodging the issue, yeah you can RMA directly to the manufacturer yourself, I personally had the experience of RMA'ing a hard-drive twice becuase the one they sent back as replacement has another fault so I'm pretty sure they is no "using up". (Plus I worked as a junior techie in a retailer before and RMA'ed tons of stuff to the manufacturer and never had a problem.) Although sometimes manufacturers can be a picky on the fault description, for example "incompatability" is kind of iffy, although in ASUS's case they seem pretty open about it even on the forbidden overclocking problems (well since the market the word overclock all over their boards).
Problem with RMAing yourself is that the manufacturer's factory or testing site is usually abroad (in the case of my Hitachi
HDD they were in Germany), so you will need to fork out the delivery yourself which depending on weight cost £20-30 ($50USD), which is, quite ouch. Turn around time is 2 weeks in my case.
Good retailers in my experience, like my P5K-Premium last week, which had "incompatabilty problems" with
SATA drives, they took back my board and offered another exchange on the dot without testing it (well the problem was all over the net I guess). Most of the time they will offer to test it themselves and give you an answer in a few days, most retailers will not offer exchange until they successfully RMA'ed it, meaning, you have to wait 2 week-ish but they will pay for the delivery for RMA (unless RMA fails then they may demand fees).
Hope this info helps.
Back to my problem
So I retested this morning and set
Multiplier to 6
RAM to 6-6-6-18 (tested this on P5k-premium and it can goto over 1100mhz np, oh these are Ballistix 6400)
Changed the static control and transaction booster once in a while
CPU Voltage : 1.5v
CPU PLL Voltage : 1.6v
North Bridge Voltage : 1.51v
DRAM Voltage : 2.20v
FSB Termination Voltage : 1.4v
South Bridge Voltage : AUTO
Loadline Calibration : ENABLED
CPU GTL Reference : .63x
North Bridge
GTL Reference : .67x
at 430mhz it seems fine:
at 435: won't boot
at 440: won't boot
at 445: won't boot
at 450: weirdly BOOTS but:
Linear Mode
