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i posted this on hardwarecanucks due to having a newegg.CA question, but i'll post here as well
the mobo is from newegg on july30, i picked it up from mississauga (what a waste of time & gas money crossing the GTA)
the apu is from ncix on july22, i already used the thief code
-what is the newegg.ca RMA process? probably cant return it since it's over 2 weeks ago, i dont mind getting a replacement, but do i pay for shipping using their ups label? the best might be to go over there in person to swap
-i doubt the apu is damaged but you never know... anyone in the GTA have a spare apu i can borrow? or an a88x mobo
-i'm near a canadacomputers, i could just buy a second mobo for $5 more than i paid at newegg, but that probably means i'll have 2 of them since the newegg one would most likely be replacement only
why do i think one of these is damaged? 6 hour long story short, i cant boot with a gfx driver or load anything that uses the gpu, either it will reset the whole system when windows loads (even though bsods are set to not do that) or it will hard lock then artifact during any gpu load within seconds/minutes
lowering the cpu & gpu frequencies guarantees a boot, but still eventually hard locks with artifacts during gpu load
a couple extra things that point toward the mobo in particular are some very rare bsods with BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER, i think mainly when a restart is triggered, & some kind of electrical noise coming out of... either the socket or vrms or usb ports... it doesnt seem like mere coil whine, seems more unhealthy
the mobo is from newegg on july30, i picked it up from mississauga (what a waste of time & gas money crossing the GTA)
the apu is from ncix on july22, i already used the thief code
-what is the newegg.ca RMA process? probably cant return it since it's over 2 weeks ago, i dont mind getting a replacement, but do i pay for shipping using their ups label? the best might be to go over there in person to swap
-i doubt the apu is damaged but you never know... anyone in the GTA have a spare apu i can borrow? or an a88x mobo
-i'm near a canadacomputers, i could just buy a second mobo for $5 more than i paid at newegg, but that probably means i'll have 2 of them since the newegg one would most likely be replacement only
why do i think one of these is damaged? 6 hour long story short, i cant boot with a gfx driver or load anything that uses the gpu, either it will reset the whole system when windows loads (even though bsods are set to not do that) or it will hard lock then artifact during any gpu load within seconds/minutes
lowering the cpu & gpu frequencies guarantees a boot, but still eventually hard locks with artifacts during gpu load
a couple extra things that point toward the mobo in particular are some very rare bsods with BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER, i think mainly when a restart is triggered, & some kind of electrical noise coming out of... either the socket or vrms or usb ports... it doesnt seem like mere coil whine, seems more unhealthy