NF980-G65 Problem

Last night when I got home from work I went to turn my desktop on and hear a loud pop the desktop powered off and there was a very strong ozone type smell.  I unplugged all the cables and opened up the case to see if I could find the source of the problem with no luck..
The PSU jump starts fine and when I hook up the PSU tester all of the rails check out.
All equipment seems to power fine when plugged seperately to the power supply, HDD, DVD burner, etc.
After disconnecting and removing everything from the motherboard to test with just PSU, CPU, and memory PSU cycles up briefly then cuts out, both in and out of case.
On visual inspection there are no scorch marks, or bulging canisters.
When trying to power cycle the mother board the first 3 diagnostic LEDs light up right away the fourth lights for a split second there is a light "static" noise like sparking or arcing but there is no visual electrical arc with all lights off in pitch black room, either in or out of case.
I have also tried all of the above with an identical PSU from a friends system with the same results.
I am at a loss as to what else to test, I am pretty confident it is the motherboard just a little lost as to what in particular since i am unable to locate any arcing or evidence of a blown capacitor.
Ay suggestions would be appreciated.

When you pull the board out, get a magnifying glass and good flash light. If there was arcing you will be able to see discoloration. Burn burns. to smell it away from the computer and hear, it sounds serious, check for ground contact anywhere you can, if its the case, or the case in point, you may have problems with a RMA board too. Like something sharp cutting through the laquer of mobo and making contact to ground. My 2 cents anyway 

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    Quote from: Henry on 10-January-10, 12:09:28
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  • NF980-G65 problem Cannot installl GPU

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  • Re: MSI NF980-G65 problem

    I have the same setup... and the problem.... I got it post (with the video card) by putting the ram in slot 1 and 3.... (single channel)... if I move my ram no monitor.

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  • NF980-G65 MCP temp problem

    Hi. I'm new here and I've been googling this problem for a while and haven't found a specific solution for my problem so I was hoping someone here could help me. First off, I am not a computer tech or know-it-all. I put this system together with no previous experience and it has been running fine till I downloaded Everest and hwmonitor and found that the temperatures of MCP and TMPIN1 is 85-95 C.
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       Debug Info T   255 255 255 
       Debug Info V   00 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 
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    I looked at many different posts and one suggested I try reapplying the thermal compound on my CPU chip which I did with Arctic silver 5 and it's helped my CPU temp a bit but not my MCP temp.
    Then I read from other posts that MCP is a different chip but I have no idea where it is. Is it the square silver (one with "MSI" written on it) next to the 2nd PCI-E slot? http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1885
    I would figure it would be that one since it's covered by the 2nd video card then it would make sense for the high temp.
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  • NF980-G65 ram problems

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    Quote from: nathon5000 on 05-March-10, 15:25:00
    good info. i did not know most of that. some i did. 
    i will try 1333 Mhz. i will let you know on this post. if it works. how ever i know that 1066 dose work. the board info.
    on the main site. says
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    - Supports a maximum memory size up to 16GB.
    i did see that and i check the MSI site. every time i buy a new board. oh and fast reply. im really glad to learn something.
    It's down to the CPU[memory controller is build in there] not board.
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  • NF980-G65 Must press reset button to get post boot problem.

    I've seen other posts here & on New Egg where I ordered the MSI 980-G65 Mobo, about when booting for the first time you may find you need to press the reset button to post boot. It seems this is not an isolated problem.
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    Hi
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  • NF980-G65 and 1075T

    I have a NF980-G65 with a 1075T I can get it to get into the bios but thats about it... I tried the MSI Forum HQ USB flashing tool however when I try to start it from the flash drive it just shows blank.
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    Quote from: Bas on 08-December-10, 18:01:41
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  • Cant Load Win 7 64 after rebuild NF980-G65

    Hi
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    Blue screen like that sounds like RAM, or overclocking, or overheating,  I guess you are not overclocking.
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    This is the favorite line in this forum:  Check your power supply!    A weak power supply may cause problem as well.
    Also try using single card before you do SLI when installing.
    Good luck!

  • What is the best way to upgrade BIOS in NF980-G65?

    Hello
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  • New NF980-G65 with an AMD X6 1090T and the BIOS Update Utility Crashes?

    Last week I received my new NF980-G65 board and with it an AMD Phenom II X6 1090T (Thuban 3.2GHz Socket AM3).  After installing the board and starting it up for the first time I noticed that it reports BIOS version 1.1 and CPU unknown.  Next I downloaded the BIOS update to version 1.3 from msi, made a boot USB stick and powered up again.  System will not boot from USB.  I tried now over 20 different sticks from 256MB to 64GB and none of them worked!
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    I am sorry, but I need to work with this thing since I make a living writing code, I do not play with it!  This thing and the support I am getting for it are not worth my time or money!
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    BIOS update utility
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    Quote
    ade me a boot disk
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  • MSI NF980-G65 freezes when trying to boot from disc

    I just recently purchased and received an MSI NF980-G65 motherboard to work with my AMD Phenom II x6 1055T, but sadly I have had nothing but trouble.
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    Power Supply: Tagan BZ Series 700W
    DVD: Samsung SH-S223 DVD burner with Lightscribe
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  • SSD (Solid State Drive) with my NF980-G65?

    I was curious if anybody else owning the NF980-G65 has a SSD Drive installed, and working good for you. I recently purchased one made by Intel http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167035 and wanted to find out if their is any special setting in the BIOS that I'll have to make in order for the system to recognize the drive as a SSD, and not give me fits when I try to do a fresh install of windows 7 (64-bit)?
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  • The Woeful NF980-G65.

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    Before overclocking, it used to 'cleanboot' as in you turn it on and it goes and starts up like normal, After overclocking and even after reseting everything back to factory default even in the bios, it Turns on for 5 seconds then cuts out, then boots up normaly (Only on a cold boot, standard resets after running are fine)
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    According to PCwizard 2010 from www.cpuid.com  and Hwmonitor from techpowerup the Mainboard temperature varies between 86 and 98 degree's when idle and under load, it simply switches at random the rest is below 50 even after a long gaming binge(Except for the GTx 460's ofcourse but they aren't really the problem i don't think)
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    I have had alot of drama with win7
    What kind of problems did you run into? 
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    And lastly, i would like to know if it is possible to put one of the new 1100T phenom II x6 cpu's in it says it supports the 1090T on the msi site, with Bios version 1.4, just wondering if it would take the 1100T
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