790FX GD70 STUCK ON FF

Question

MSI 790FX GD70 BIOS 1.7 AND 1.10
OCZ AMD BLACK 1600 MHZ 2X2GB
PC POWER AND COOLING 750W
AMD 965 125W C3
ZALMAN 9700
WD 640GB BLACK
SAPPHIRE 5870 2GB VAPOR X
Okay,I need help,newbuild ,hooked everything up,hit power button,fans on case and card spin,all the leds on board light up 2 of the leds,my lcd poster is stuck on ff.RMA'Dmotherboard,msi said m/b was fine and updated the bios to 1.10 from 1.7,hooked up still doing the same thing,rma'd cpu,still does same,rma,d memory,still same,tried psu in another computer works fine,gpu works fine,tried clearing cmos,took mb out of case with only cpu ,fan ,memory ,gpu,8 pin and 24 pin attached,still stuck on ff,any suggestions??

Answer 1

Quote from: Fredrik on 24-June-10, 02:19:44
Processor problem most likely.
0 Unplug power cable, wait a little, and only then clear CMOS.
1 How did you go about seating the processor?
2 And check and recheck, please, all power connections meant for the motherboard/processor.
3 You do not absolutely need a graphics card to only POST. Without it you wont see much on-screen, but POST it might.
Suspicious mind... What happened to the previous system? Still live and kicking?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Unpluged power cable,hit clear cmos multipletimes,took battery out over night,jumped pins manually,all of this on old a new board
 pulled socket lever back,lined up arrows on cpu and socket,dropped in smoothly, closed lever,felt secure,applied mx2paste ,mounted fancpu
 I have connected 8 pin and 24 pin mb power connectors,gpu connectors,fans ,hd,optic drive,cpu fan,i got all my parts for this build about 3 months ago,ive proably spent at least 50hours trying to get this sob to work,ive rmad about every part ,even brought to a local computer shop,these morons told me my motherboard and cpu arent compatible,i told them it was with the newer bios,he suggested me to buy an i7 and intel board,i told him to f-off.anyway new build still playing on my p4 2.8ht 2 gb pc3200 ati 850 pro agp,just so frustrated spending all this money on a bad ass computer,all this money on rma ing parts back to vendors,waiting for parts to come back,and it doing the same thing,ive alredy rmad my cpu once,some gut reason makes me think this mother board is stll bad,i e-mailed msi support asking if i could send my mb,cpu,and ram to see if they can get it to post,been 4 business still no reply back,dont really no what to do