Hello good people- My first build and it wouldn't boot. After playing around I found it would boot as long as I just installed one memory stick. At first I thought it might be a bad stick but it doesn't matter which stick is installed. As lon...
guck1093 wrote:Asus is a crappy company. Sorry guck. Couldn't disagree more. Crappy companies don't become as successful as Asus. The sad truth is that after a company gets so big the vision and integrity at the top doesn't always flow all the wa...
@xeromist. I don't want to start a flame war but you sound like you work for the company. I can fully accept receiving a board with scratches, dents etc. But goop in the pins? Absolutely not. The board should be functioning and installable out of...
Hallelujah!!!! I removed all the connections and parts, pulled the mobo, bent the pin (it was just one pin under close inspection) nearly back into place, reassembled everything and Hallelujah!!! It booted with 16 gig! Very cool. And again, thank ...
Thank you, thank you thank you HiVizMan. Upon inspection of the CPU seat on the mobo there is indeed one or more bent pins. As this is my first build I read installation instructions and felt I was being careful. Moreover, I don't recall anyth...
That was a fun and interesting exercise (and I learned some things) but in the end the machine only boots with one memory module. I ran several full cycles of memtest86, on both modules, with no errors reported. I then enabled XMP profile #1, booted...
