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Papa Chester
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Not sure if this should be in the software room or what.
I had one of my old boards laying around. It's an M4a78 Pro AMD board. I have used it before and as it seems, my stuff only works well with ME and no one else.
Anyway.. We installed the board and an older Phenom 9950 I had. He had the board running for a couple hours, but now it won't even post. Can't get into the BIOS, nothing. We have to KEEP resetting the CMOS to get it to run for only a couple minutes before it blue screens. Misc errors on the BSOD.
Now he's getting a checksum error. He's a programmer, but he's been out of this game for a LONG time so this board is new to him. He's thinking bad BIOS. How do we do a FW update if it won't post? I knnow this has AMD Live where it has been VERY easy to update the BIOS. But if it won't post.......... What the heck??
He was mixing RAM before thinking it was bad ram. I told him to just stick ONE new 1066 2G Kingston stick in DIMM 1A and try to run it just for diag purposes.
There's just been nothing but drama with this board..
Ideas?? bad CPU?
I had one of my old boards laying around. It's an M4a78 Pro AMD board. I have used it before and as it seems, my stuff only works well with ME and no one else.
Anyway.. We installed the board and an older Phenom 9950 I had. He had the board running for a couple hours, but now it won't even post. Can't get into the BIOS, nothing. We have to KEEP resetting the CMOS to get it to run for only a couple minutes before it blue screens. Misc errors on the BSOD.
Now he's getting a checksum error. He's a programmer, but he's been out of this game for a LONG time so this board is new to him. He's thinking bad BIOS. How do we do a FW update if it won't post? I knnow this has AMD Live where it has been VERY easy to update the BIOS. But if it won't post.......... What the heck??
He was mixing RAM before thinking it was bad ram. I told him to just stick ONE new 1066 2G Kingston stick in DIMM 1A and try to run it just for diag purposes.
There's just been nothing but drama with this board..
Ideas?? bad CPU?