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Hello all,

Having a problem with my spanky new Asus K8N skt754 motherboard. Since installing it I have had problems with the USB ports....

Whenever I plug anything into them a very high frequency whistling seems to be emitted from somewhere on the motherboard. It sounds like and electrical buzz or something. It is both very irritatingand rather worrying coz I am worried it it a precursor to my whole system blowing.

Firstly I thought it was just my speedtouch modem, as I found a post on another forum that has similar troubles Thought maybe it was drawing too much power... But I got a bluetooth dongle for Xmas and that has the same result. I doubt a dongle would place much demand on the PSU so I am guessing its not that.

If it helps anyone give advice my system is

Athlon64 3000+
Asus K8N
2 x Maxtor 20GB drives
1 MSI CDRW drive
1 Creative Labs DVD-ROM drive
Ancient Ati Rage Fury Pro Vivo (An insult to the CPU but couldn`t afford to upgrade yet)
512mb Crucial 3200


I got it from E-buyer.... Anyone advise me on what their returns policy is?? Coz theorectially it ain`t broken but I don`t want to leave it and it to blow my CPU and RAM in four weeks time when the MB blows. Don`t know if I could send it back on the grounds thats the LED`s on the Ethernet port seem to have stopped working????? A minor detail I suppose.

Any help greatly appreciated... as am very worried that in a few days my lovely Xmas present will be just a pile of smoldering ashes..


Regards

Bob.C

Are you sure its not the PSU complaining about increased load due to the motherboard?

I would imagine that would be one of the first questions e-buyer would ask, "have you tried another PSU?".



My Christmas Message "First they tell me the peace is on, then it`s peace off!"

This item was edited on Tuesday, 28th December 2004, 21:09

Can`t be positive, but its a new 500w PSU bought at the time I purchased the board... Ebuyers own brand so I can`t expect miracles from it but thought that it would be able to cope as I don`t have my system overloaded with a monster of a graphics card or anything.
I do have another 400w one I can test it with though..... Not sure that it would be enough for an Athlon64.

Great snowmen btw.

Regards

Bob.C

Thanks, I forget where I found them, they just followed me home from the pub one night.




My Christmas Message "First they tell me the peace is on, then it`s peace off!"