GA P55A UD6 rev. 1: problems with DES and CPU phases

[rodius]

Hello,

I just assembled my new rig:
GA P55A UD6
2*2gigs Corsair Dominator 1600
Corsair 850HX
XFX Radeon 5750
Kingston V+ 128gigs as boot disk
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1 tb as data disk
Optiarc SATA dvd burner
Windows 7 64bit

All went well excpet that the power phase led are always lit (on the old machine, based on GA EP45 UD4, even during Windows installation the phase leds went on and off).
I installed the latest version of DES 2 and it shows that all the 24 phases are on, even when selecting maximum saving.
I changed the power management options in Windows, setting them to maximun saving but nothing changed.
I finally updated the BIOS to version F11 and again no changes.
Even with the PC idle I have 24 phases on...

is there something to be done before RMAing the board?

Thank you

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome to the forum.
Have you made any overclocks on the board so far? If so return them to defaults.
Next I would advise building the system up outside of the case. Lay the motherboard on some cardboard or other non conductive material. Check the pins in the CPU socket closely to see if any are slightly bent. If you are unsure please just post some close up "Macro" shots of the socket in good lighting and we wil check them for you.

[rodius]

Hi,

No overclock except for manually setting the RAM speed, timings and voltage.
The machine was assembled, as usual, outside the case.
I think there were no bent pins, but I will check.

thank you.