Hi All,
I just recently bought a Asrock P45XE. I installed the board into my case along with everything else. (Q9400 Quad-Core, 2 x XFX 4850, Rangemaster Wireless N, OCZ Gold DDR2 1066, HDD and DVD, FPS Crossfire Power Supply and 500 watt generic PSU) I tried to boot it and there was nothing. I realised that I had not connected the 4 pin connector then bingo everything came on.
The problem was I was then stuck at post, no graphic output. There are three beeps repeating over and over again. I removed the RAM to see if this changed the error code but it did not.
I have checked with my motherboard manufaturer to ensure that the RAM is on there QVL list and it is. I bought 2 Dual Channel Kits. ( 4 x 1GB) I rotated all four round and have tried them in various combinations, to no avail.
When I removed the processor to re-seat it I notice that not all the contacts had a little "dot shaped scratch" on them from where they had come into contact with the CPU socket. I noticed at least 4 without the scratch. Some scratches were even right at the edge of the contact. Would this affect the CPU not being able to find the RAM e.g. a faulty socket?
I have no other DDR2 RAM to test. As I stated the RAM was new and surely not all of it can be defective!
Please if anyone has any ideas please let me know.
All the Best SupaTed
P.S. The motherboard states that it is crossfire enabled, does this mean that I will not need a crossfire bridge as neither the GFX cards or MOBO came with one.
Thanks again.http://forums.techguy.org/register.php?a=act&u=543439&i=5a629e424164b8fb24c6ddf9493abe45d8be9869
I just recently bought a Asrock P45XE. I installed the board into my case along with everything else. (Q9400 Quad-Core, 2 x XFX 4850, Rangemaster Wireless N, OCZ Gold DDR2 1066, HDD and DVD, FPS Crossfire Power Supply and 500 watt generic PSU) I tried to boot it and there was nothing. I realised that I had not connected the 4 pin connector then bingo everything came on.
The problem was I was then stuck at post, no graphic output. There are three beeps repeating over and over again. I removed the RAM to see if this changed the error code but it did not.
I have checked with my motherboard manufaturer to ensure that the RAM is on there QVL list and it is. I bought 2 Dual Channel Kits. ( 4 x 1GB) I rotated all four round and have tried them in various combinations, to no avail.
When I removed the processor to re-seat it I notice that not all the contacts had a little "dot shaped scratch" on them from where they had come into contact with the CPU socket. I noticed at least 4 without the scratch. Some scratches were even right at the edge of the contact. Would this affect the CPU not being able to find the RAM e.g. a faulty socket?
I have no other DDR2 RAM to test. As I stated the RAM was new and surely not all of it can be defective!
Please if anyone has any ideas please let me know.
All the Best SupaTed
P.S. The motherboard states that it is crossfire enabled, does this mean that I will not need a crossfire bridge as neither the GFX cards or MOBO came with one.
Thanks again.http://forums.techguy.org/register.php?a=act&u=543439&i=5a629e424164b8fb24c6ddf9493abe45d8be9869