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I set it aside for a while and came back to it last week. I can't get to the BIOS, at all. It seems corrupted. I can get to EZ Flash one out of every 5 attempts, and I can select the BIOS I want. It gets 1/4 of the way through and then reboots, starting the cycle over again. I want to say it's the CPU that's at fault as well, but I threw it in another 1155 motherboard I had lying around and it booted to windows just fine.

So I recently built a new computer. Ryzen 5 3600, Asus Prime X570-P (BIOS 1405), G-Skill Trident 3600mhz 2x8gb, Seasonic CM 750w. So, Monday the 6th, got it built, posted, windows installed, benchmarks, we're all good. Set up folding at home, throw a movie on, and go to bed. Wake up Tuesday, tower is shut down. I figured, weird power surge, no worries. Power up, do general shit and gaming for the day, no problems. Go to make a cup of coffee, come back, and it's powered off again. Power on, boots to Windows. I go to launch firefox, and it instantly powers off. Go to BIOS, check to see if anything was weird, and nothing was. But I went and loaded optimized defaults again anyway and went back to windows. Run Prime95 and Cinebench R20 for an hour. Not so much as a hiccup. Load up a few episodes of MASH before crawling into bed, and hard power down 5 minutes later. Wednesday I figure it's just a problem with the PSU, so I RMA and get it sent off. In the mean time, I've got an old Antec 650w that I was using for my last rig. So I gave this a try in the mean time. Not a single problem all of Wednesday. Before bed, I got brave and tried getting my RAM clocked to it's proper 3600mhz and setting the Infinity Fabric to 1800mhz to match. Hard nope, hard to reset to CMOS. Eventually got it set to 3200mhz and IF to 1600mhz. Ran some stress tests before bed, no issues. Turned Folding at Home on, went to bed. Thursday, used it as normal for games and general browsing with no problems until late evening. Hard power down in the middle of scrolling Reddit. Figure, oh well, just reset the CMOS and let it run itself at auto until I have more brain power to tweak everything. So I jumped the CMOS jumpers, went to power on, and the power ran for a fraction of a second. Held down the button, it ran for about 4 seconds and then gave up. It will now only draw power as long as I'm shorting the power pin, or holding the button, but never for longer than 5 seconds. I've disconnected everything, and reseated everything except the CPU, which who the heck knows might work. I've popped out the CMOS battery, drained the capacitors, jumped the CMOS pins again, popped the battery back in and still nothing. What are my other troubleshooting options, if any? Should I RMA this and pay the difference on a better board?

Alright, so I've had my P8Z68 and i5-2500k for quite some time. Happily overclocked to 4.3ghz for the last 6 months. While at idle, my computer locked up and BSOD'd me. I didn't catch the error, and just let the system reboot. From that moment on, trying to boot windows from my boot drive, flash drive, or install disc results in a Watchdog Exception error. I tried to reset the bios, and it decided to crap the bed half way through downgrading the bios from 3606 to 3402. So, I tried reflashing 3606. It EVENTUALLY boots into Asus EZ Flash, but the flash drive isn't detected. It only picks up my boot drive. So I slapped the bios update onto the boot drive and tried selecting that to flash. It runs for 2 seconds and then it resets again. I can occasionally get back to the EZ Flash page, but not consistently. One of the other errors that occurs is a CPU fan speed error (below 500RPM) and I can't do anything about that as every fan I connect to it results in that error until the CPU heats up slightly and the fan spins at a proper speed. Give me the diagnosis. Am I up the creek without a paddle? Or is there a way to salvage this board?