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    Asus M5A78L-M Usb3 Repair

    Yep, that looks hard af. I tryed to but there is A LOT to check. Tryed looking at a tutorial but couldn't find any decent one that explained what to check. If you know a video where is explained how to check and what to check i'll try it. I guess i'll try to get a known good cpu and some ram to...
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    Asus M5A78L-M Usb3 Repair

    So you are sayin that when repaired and working fine, without a cpu and ram it wont beep, or are you saying that with the sb shorted it doesn beep. Anyways im going to check the sb capacitors Southbridge capacitors are all fine. None of them shorted alltho i find quite interesting that there...
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    Asus M5A78L-M Usb3 Repair

    yeah, i've seen the response but does your mb beep even without cpu and ram? want to know before spending some time searching for shorts on the mb. because that would confirm that there is a short in somewhere i assume. In that case i guess the short make the bios corrupt so it wouldnt even...
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    Asus M5A78L-M Usb3 Repair

    i've seen you got the same mb, does it beep without ram and cpu? How do i check the clock generator? thx :)
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    Asus M5A78L-M Usb3 Repair

    So, After receiving the Ch341a, an extra BIOS chip (just in case the other one was fully dead). I reprogrammed Both Bios chips with the latest bios and kept the old version just in case. I also bought a new psu for my main rig, so got the old one to do some testing. With the old bios chip...
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    M5A78L-M / USB3 Rev. 1.00 does not turn on

    how did you get to the conclusion that was the sb and the clock generator? thx :)
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    M5A78L-M / USB3 Rev. 1.00 does not turn on

    Thx man, i'll try it out! :)
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    M5A78L-M / USB3 Rev. 1.00 does not turn on

    What schematic did you follow to check if all the voltages are ok? I have the same problem and did buy a programer and bios chip but im waiting on the shipment cause its from aliexpress so... Does your motherboard spins the fan but no post or does it spin the fan for slip second and then stop...
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    Asus M5A78L-M Usb3 Repair

    I tought so on the bios being corrupt, already tryed clearing cmos but didn't work out. Maybe i buy a bios programmer in Aliexpress and try to reprogram the bios chip. The tracers i might be able to repair dont find it that dificult just nice and steady wrist. Thx for your help :) Okey so, i...
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    Asus M5A78L-M Usb3 Repair

    So, a friend of mine gifted me this faulty motherboard, it just spins the fans indefenetly and doesnt boot, with a speaker didnt throw any beeps. I tryed giving it a good clean just in case it had some liquid damage or whatever and while removing the NB cooler i scratched some traces: (Dumb me...
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    Fsb overclock causing Nvidia drivers to fail?

    Okay, i'll post a reply tomorrow, its late here in spain so... So... Nope, nothing, f1 opens general help, but ctrl or alt +f1 does nothing aside opening f1. Anyway, Thx for the help. We'll leave it stock because this motherboard is way too basic. Thx to everybody for the help and the warm...
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    Fsb overclock causing Nvidia drivers to fail?

    This are screenshots from the Bios, they are from the manual but updates didnt change them (or the options) so they are the same.
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    Fsb overclock causing Nvidia drivers to fail?

    Nope, i already read guides and all that, gonna post a image of the bios options here later. I think that the board is way too basic to overclock propperly.
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    Fsb overclock causing Nvidia drivers to fail?

    Yeah, the plan was to squeeze every fps out of it till the Ryzen upgrade when all this quarantine thing ends. guess we'll leave it stock. Thx for the replies and time.
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    Fsb overclock causing Nvidia drivers to fail?

    Yes, the bios is in the latest version. Gotcha, one more question. With a 9500Gt, even with the fsb overclock, worked fine, why is its that whith the old graphics card worked, but with the 960 doesn't? Im fairly new in this "Old school" fsb overclocking so... Thx for the help again!
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