K9N2 Sli Platinum led and hibernate problem

Hello all. I built a system in October 2008. The system was fine or appeared to be.I have the 4 red diagnostic leds. I was about to add more ram when I noticed the 4 red diagnostic lights.I had it below my desk so I am not sure for how long. If I reboot the system the lights are green and they will stay green as long as i do not suspend. But once I suspend it always comes back from suspend with red leds. I have built several systems so I have tested every component in the system except CPU. Taken everything out of case, reseated, everything I can think of. I know the red lights are supposed to mean a bad CPU but wouldn't they be red at all times rather than awake from suspend only? Could the logic board of mobo be bad? I always had it setup for S3 suspend so I decided to try S1 and it does not work. Any help is appreciated.

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GTX 260
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Quote from: cosmicaug on 19-June-09, 04:31:26
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8 NC No control
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Try this:
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Hey guys. My computer practically crapped itself the other day, and there were so many symptoms I'm not quite sure
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used to flash bios: Sempron 1800
# Motherboard model: K9N2 SLI Platnium
# Video card: MSI 8800GTS
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# Operating system: win32 XP
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Quote from: hifi239 on 04-February-09, 00:37:10
Thanks for all the information. As I said, I have the MB working on a spare Sempron and I am waiting for a new 940, but here are some facts I'm still curious about:
1. With a plain vanilla Sempron 3400+ and a plain vanilla one stick of slow memory my K9N2 SLI Platinum will not boot correctly with bios 3.3, even after resetting cmos, unplugging, etc. MSI tech had to send me 3.3B3. Anyone know why that would be. Is there something wrong or different about my MB compared with everyone else that has 3.3? What bug in 3.3 is fixed with 3.3B3?
The sempron should boot correctly. (3.3Beta3 is a pre-3.30)
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2. I'm sorry but I think that with 3.2 or 3.3 or 3.3B3, before flashing, after flashing, with cmos reset, with cmos not reset, the bios should never put the red maximum 1.8 volts on a CPU it doesn't recognize. I never set that parameter. It is a bios bug for it to switch up to 1.8 Vcore. I had the 9850BE at Auto (about 1.1V I think).
You need 3.30 and after reset the cmos.
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3. "I doubt it burned the CPU" Really? The max case temp for 940 is 60C. Mine got to 80C. That's not good, even if it does still work. Fortunately I purchased from NE who will RMA it.
I doubt yours even got 80C as you where using the wrong BIOS...did you measure it with a digital temp-meter?
Did you burn your fingers on the heatsink?
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4. digit123abc said "i have the same board and 940BE, 3.3 sets the cpu voltage to 1.8volts even after bios reset and loading defaults" So, when I get the new 940, with 3.3B3 am I really going to have to rush into the bios and change the 1.8Volts to auto before I burn that CPU also? If so, that's a bad bios bug.
A BIOS default is Vcore at Auto, never seen anything else....not a BIOS-bug but he didn't reset the cmos after flashing.
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http://imageshack.us/f/691/bioch.jpg/
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Quote from: Bas on 15-January-09, 15:56:44
I agree, probably other parts went up in smoke as well.
The first thing comes to mind it the board is damaged too, as it's the first part being connected to the PSU.
Quote from: a4m4d64 on 15-January-09, 22:25:39
Most likely, the board shorted and fried the PS, Board RMA ????
Oh no...I hope the board isn't dead. I am going to be getting a new CPU and I will find out if it works or not. *Keeping my fingers cross.*
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