Hello there, I recently came across of an old Asus P5P43TD Pro Motherboard
that I had stored for some Years.
2 Pics here, more to come
So I tried to making a working machine out of it to give it to a neighborhood kid to use it for school things.
I Gave the board a close inspection and gave it a good IPA cleaning, all the capacitors are Aluminium Polymer Capacitors and noone looked bulged or problematic so far.
Installed an C2duo and 2 Gigs of DDR3 memory and tried to boot a linux live usb and i run to the next problems:
1-BIOS, not everytime but most of times is getting weird uknown errors like :
"Uknown Bios Error. Error Code = FFFF or FFFB or FF7B
Press F1 To continue" (as i said that's not happening on everyboot but sometimes)
2-Auto Detecting Usb Mass Storage devices
00 USB mass storage devices found and configured
That's happening all the time, and I can't even enter BIOS with usb keyboard can't boot a live usb.
After encoutering those problems, i gave again an inspection and cleaned again the board and once again reset CMOS. Now the board is coming with Asus Express Gate which let you boots into a Splashtop OS just before bios and whenever you do a CMOS reset Express Gate will try to boot on the first power on.
And then I Noticed that my usb is blinking while express gate tries to load and stops when motherboard goes to normal Bios boot. I also put a usb ledbulb on every single usb and it powers on fine even on BIOS. So somehow Bios are failing to initilize the data bus for the usbs.
I started to believe that the bios was flashed incorrectly so I flashed the latest asus bios using a raspberry pi, that changed nothing.
Does anyone have encoutered something like that in the past?
Any ideas on what could be the problem will be appreciated.
Thanks
Edit : Socket has no Bent binds or any signs of damage,found one photo here at my phone from back when i was inspecting it,but with closed bracket. Added also to the first link.
Tried two different known working PSUs, the one at the moment powers up a Q6600 on a P5QC. No Difference.
Tried 2 Different CPUs. C2D e6750 and some Pentium since it needs lower juice, no difference.
About Rams, I Got a Pair 2x2GB XMS3 CMX4GX3M2A1333C8 that are known to be working(tested lately on another system) that are not on support list but the previous version is and spec-wise they are exact the same. Missing other DDR3's to test that out.
Tried those on every slot and single dimms, no difference.
that I had stored for some Years.
2 Pics here, more to come
So I tried to making a working machine out of it to give it to a neighborhood kid to use it for school things.
I Gave the board a close inspection and gave it a good IPA cleaning, all the capacitors are Aluminium Polymer Capacitors and noone looked bulged or problematic so far.
Installed an C2duo and 2 Gigs of DDR3 memory and tried to boot a linux live usb and i run to the next problems:
1-BIOS, not everytime but most of times is getting weird uknown errors like :
"Uknown Bios Error. Error Code = FFFF or FFFB or FF7B
Press F1 To continue" (as i said that's not happening on everyboot but sometimes)
2-Auto Detecting Usb Mass Storage devices
00 USB mass storage devices found and configured
That's happening all the time, and I can't even enter BIOS with usb keyboard can't boot a live usb.
After encoutering those problems, i gave again an inspection and cleaned again the board and once again reset CMOS. Now the board is coming with Asus Express Gate which let you boots into a Splashtop OS just before bios and whenever you do a CMOS reset Express Gate will try to boot on the first power on.
And then I Noticed that my usb is blinking while express gate tries to load and stops when motherboard goes to normal Bios boot. I also put a usb ledbulb on every single usb and it powers on fine even on BIOS. So somehow Bios are failing to initilize the data bus for the usbs.
I started to believe that the bios was flashed incorrectly so I flashed the latest asus bios using a raspberry pi, that changed nothing.
Does anyone have encoutered something like that in the past?
Any ideas on what could be the problem will be appreciated.
Thanks
Edit : Socket has no Bent binds or any signs of damage,found one photo here at my phone from back when i was inspecting it,but with closed bracket. Added also to the first link.
Tried two different known working PSUs, the one at the moment powers up a Q6600 on a P5QC. No Difference.
Tried 2 Different CPUs. C2D e6750 and some Pentium since it needs lower juice, no difference.
About Rams, I Got a Pair 2x2GB XMS3 CMX4GX3M2A1333C8 that are known to be working(tested lately on another system) that are not on support list but the previous version is and spec-wise they are exact the same. Missing other DDR3's to test that out.
Tried those on every slot and single dimms, no difference.
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