Asus Northbridge Roaster

Problem.

I bought Brand New, 2GB Kingston,2 250g Sata Seagates, 7600 Video Card, DVDR Drive, and Pentium D 3.4Ghz. Got it today from Newegg.

So I got my mobo back from Asus RMA like a week ago. I've been Praying that I won't run into the same problems.
So. . I get windows installed, install S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and the thing go's BSOD and now the video won't boot. :evil:

Driving me crazy.
Here is the problem with the P5N32SLI:

The Power Mosfets are transferring heat to my north bridge instead of dissipating it. Thing was so hot it burnt me.
The Northbridge cooler I made didn't cool it enough apparently.

Hopefully. . I can just remove the heat pipes.

You wouldn't happen to be having this motherboard oriented upside down would you? You could try putting a fan over the northbridge. If you do take the stock heatsink off, you could replace it with some Thermalright ones instead of making your own.

No its in a regular case in the regular orientation :D

Well I really don't want to spend more money on it if its going to continue to be problematic.
Thats what happened the last time, the Northbridge burned up.

It came with fans for the power mosfets heatsinks but it warns not to use them inless you watercool the CPU.
. . My God. . $500.00 Later I have a SLI Rig that runs for a while. :(

You would think that for the $230.00 I paid . .I'd get a mobo that would work for more than a month.

I don't know what to do . . everything is brand new except the Mobo.
I don't have another Socket 775 Mobo laying around.

Should I send the P5N32 back for another RMA?

I noticed my north bride was a little hot too, but not hot enough to burn me. I added a fan just to be safe.

I just got off the phone with ASUS they told me to move the RAM
to the second RAM Bus and It booted up just fine.

Hopefully there is no more BSOD.

I'm putting my Northbridge cooler fan back on,
. .Hopefully I have no problems from here on out.

Well so much for that board. It started doing the same thing, All over agian.
Time to get a ECS Elite Group!

I wish I had just, stuck with them.