Pacfanweb
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Part Number: 122-CK-NF68-A1 Part Desc: nForce 680i SLI 775 A1 Version Been my daily PC since I built it in November 2007. Several video cards and hard drives along the way, but it's worked great. Until yesterday. It had gotten to where if it went to sleep, when you woke it up...you could wake it with the keyboard, but once awake, neither keyboard nor mouse would work. You had to reboot. But then it'd work fine. I figured its time was coming, just not this soon.
So 2 days ago, to avoid that reboot, I shut it off when I went to bed. Next day, started it....no USB activity at all now. Nothing works on USB from any port. Don't even get a light on the keyboard. I think the day has come, sadly. I've been putting off building a new PC for years, kind of a point of pride that this one has worked for so long. Anyway....I know it's under lifetime warranty. I flirted with replacing it some years ago, when the network adapter stopped working, but after some finagling, it started back and I just stuck with it rather than build a new PC. At that time, I was told I'd probably get a more modern motherboard as a replacement since it was unlikely EVGA would have one of these old dinosaurs still sitting around. I assume that years later, this will still be the case. So I am wondering just what it might be replaced with? Since basically none of my other components are likely to be of much use on a new board, might as well get a head start so it's not down as long. Any ideas?
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Re: Motherboard finally died?
2020/06/19 09:19:48
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your MB served you well all these years EVGA has different stock for RMA ... we have no idea what you would get If your not ready for the new CPU & RAM purchase the new MB will probably require ... how about buying a cheap USB card to toss into your MB ?
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Re: Motherboard finally died?
2020/06/19 09:20:17
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Pacfanweb Part Number: 122-CK-NF68-A1 Part Desc: nForce 680i SLI 775 A1 Version
Been my daily PC since I built it in November 2007. Several video cards and hard drives along the way, but it's worked great.
Until yesterday. It had gotten to where if it went to sleep, when you woke it up...you could wake it with the keyboard, but once awake, neither keyboard nor mouse would work. You had to reboot. But then it'd work fine. I figured its time was coming, just not this soon.
So 2 days ago, to avoid that reboot, I shut it off when I went to bed. Next day, started it....no USB activity at all now. Nothing works on USB from any port. Don't even get a light on the keyboard. I think the day has come, sadly. I've been putting off building a new PC for years, kind of a point of pride that this one has worked for so long.
Anyway....I know it's under lifetime warranty. I flirted with replacing it some years ago, when the network adapter stopped working, but after some finagling, it started back and I just stuck with it rather than build a new PC. At that time, I was told I'd probably get a more modern motherboard as a replacement since it was unlikely EVGA would have one of these old dinosaurs still sitting around. I assume that years later, this will still be the case. So I am wondering just what it might be replaced with? Since basically none of my other components are likely to be of much use on a new board, might as well get a head start so it's not down as long.
Any ideas?
In this case I would ask that you talk with EVGA customer support directly.
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Re: Motherboard finally died?
2020/06/19 09:30:46
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Cool GTX your MB served you well all these years EVGA has different stock for RMA ... we have no idea what you would get If your not ready for the new CPU & RAM purchase the new MB will probably require ... how about buying a cheap USB card to toss into your MB ?
No, I'm ready, just was wondering what they might send. I had been contemplating building a new one and making this one just a storage PC for pictures and such, since it already had a ton on it anyway, so I was ready...but was going to do it gradually, not "right this minute", lol. And yes, it's been a darn good one. No complaints from me about that.
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Re: Motherboard finally died?
2020/06/19 10:04:13
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So anyway, I noticed on the "my products" section there's a "start an RMA" link.
Is that what I should start with, or something else?
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Re: Motherboard finally died?
2020/06/19 10:29:12
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Pacfanweb So anyway, I noticed on the "my products" section there's a "start an RMA" link.
Is that what I should start with, or something else?
yes
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Re: Motherboard finally died?
2020/06/20 08:42:35
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Sent the initial email in yesterday
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Re: Motherboard finally died?
2020/08/20 07:53:03
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Just wanted to follow up: RMA went fine, they sent me an X299 FTW board as a replacement. It was either that or $50 in EVGA credit, so I briefly researched the motherboard and decided on that. I realize now that most gaming types go with a different socket CPU. But, I decided to stick with it and build this one, as it should be just fine. So got a pile of parts on the way. Only the power supply won't be here by this weekend so I have to wait until next week to build it, lol. Anyway, happy with the RMA process and EVGA's help. Going to post about my build in the appropriate motherboard section in a few. Thanks for the help!
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Re: Motherboard finally died?
2020/08/20 09:34:41
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Pacfanweb Just wanted to follow up: RMA went fine, they sent me an X299 FTW board as a replacement. It was either that or $50 in EVGA credit, so I briefly researched the motherboard and decided on that. I realize now that most gaming types go with a different socket CPU. But, I decided to stick with it and build this one, as it should be just fine. So got a pile of parts on the way. Only the power supply won't be here by this weekend so I have to wait until next week to build it, lol. Anyway, happy with the RMA process and EVGA's help. Going to post about my build in the appropriate motherboard section in a few. Thanks for the help!
That's a pretty decent trade. That motherboard supports quad channel DDR4 memory. What processor are you going with?
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Re: Motherboard finally died?
2020/08/20 11:18:03
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Quite the upgrade RMA ... nice
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Re: Motherboard finally died?
2020/08/20 13:01:55
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RainStryke That's a pretty decent trade. That motherboard supports quad channel DDR4 memory. What processor are you going with?
I have a I7 9800x on the way. Couldn't stomach the price of an I9. At least the wife couldn't, lol. 4 8gb sticks of memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz C16RTX 2060 OC video card. Cool looking "top of the desk" case, 1TB SSD, Coolermaster liquid cooler. Hopefully it'll be as good as the old one was. Lots of room for upgrades down the line, as the faster processors come down in price.
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Re: Motherboard finally died?
2020/08/20 17:51:47
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That should hold you over for a long time. I've had the i7 9800X in a previous system, it was one of the best chips I owned on the X299 boards. Running dual channel memory instead of quad will give you more overclocking headroom.
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Re: Motherboard finally died?
2020/08/23 20:26:42
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RainStryke That should hold you over for a long time. I've had the i7 9800X in a previous system, it was one of the best chips I owned on the X299 boards. Running dual channel memory instead of quad will give you more overclocking headroom.
Interesting. I thought quad would be faster. Will probably run it "as is" for awhile, see how I like it, before I try any O/C shenanigans. Assuming I ever get all the parts, lol. The hard drive is evidently lost somewhere.
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Re: Motherboard finally died?
2020/08/24 10:24:28
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Well, bandwidth wise, quad channel is faster at transferring data. For gaming, it doesn't really make much of a difference... Make sure to enable XMP on your memory to get it to run at 3200MHz, otherwise it will default to 2666MHz.
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Re: Motherboard finally died?
2020/08/30 09:07:59
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Last part came in, SSD got lost and had to wait for a new one. Got a couple of issues, will post in the appropriate thread for this motherboard
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