Are people really rma'ing boards and getting them sent back with nothing found? I really hope this is not the case.
I am one of the others who has done 'this dance' and I hardly think having to disconnect everything, leaving it off then plugging everything in and it magically working in the middle of the night without pressing the power button (as happened to me too) is not considered normal or functional. I'm dreading sending it back tomorrow only to get an all clear and get charged $55 service fee plus postage both ways and having to wait a couple of weeks. That would be a massive slap in the face.
Do you really think it's as you say 'not a hardware fault'? What would you call it? Users shouldn't have to go to these lengths just from shutting down their PC. We are all having similar issues. I've exhausted all options, where what you did worked for me too a week or so ago but now nothing seems to work even with a new psu and CMOS battery. Left for a few days powered off, now I give up. You don't get a chance to flash anything and soon I fear you will be in the same boat.
😞 Regardless if they find anything or not this is not normal for users to experience this and it's not something I think anyone should have to suffer with. I'm not trying to be difficult or rude, I just want a working PC and for $450-$490 top end motherboard, it should at bare minimum run
🙂 Anyways mine leaves tomorrow. I just hope they find something otherwise it's going to be 1/3 the price of getting a new motherboard to find no problems. Wish me luck and I hope you have more luck than I did
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CPU Intel Core i7-3930K, Motherboard Asus ROG Rampage IV Extreme, BIOS 4102, PSU Corsair 860i, RAM Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 16GB Dual/Quad Channel DDR3 Memory Kit (CML16GX3M4X1600C8), Cooling Corsair H100, Case Corsair Obsidian Series 650D Mid-Tower, Graphics Asus 570 GTX SLI, SSD#1 Corsair Neutron-GTX 256GB SSD, SSD#2 Corsair GT 128GB SSD, Data HDDs Western Digital 3TB RED RAID 1.