890fxa-gd70 motherboard no longer posts; blinking ff debug code

As topic says I am no longer capable of starting up my computer. Here is a detailed list of specs:
Msi 890fxa-gd70 mainboard
OCZ 1333mhz memory 2x2 gb
Amd phenom 2 1055t 6-core processor
Seasonic x-760 psu
ASus geforce gtx 580
Corsair a50 air cooler
After waking up this morning my computer was unable to post. I had a very mild overclock of 3.5 ghz from stock 2.8 ghz at 1.39-1.4 volts and ram multi lowered to keep things stable. I had an issue like this before involving g.skill memory but got this ocz kit to resolve the problem. I breadboarded the setup keeping only one stick in the slot closest to the CPU. Ive tried clearing CMOS while CPU out of socket and reseating CPU. All 4 CPU phase LEDs light up, NB phase light up, sOuthbridge LEDs light up and 2 DDR phase LEDs light on the motherboard. All these components were working before. After using a known working 2-core phenom 555 CPU, working 550w psu from tt, and a plethora of video cards, I'm thinking the bios or DDR slots on the motherboard has finally kicked the bucket. Is there anything else I can do to help resolve my problem?

Quote from: Froggy Gremlin on 25-September-12, 04:12:53
A low post count doesn't necessarily mean the people trying to assist are ignorant buffoons.
agreed! i only have over 570+ posts but ive been building computers since the 1990's when processors whern't compact single packages and where on literally a pci type board!
low posts don't mean we dont know what where talking about and ignorant posts like that are likely to make it so you get no support from us as its disrespectful!

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So I have TWICE returned this model motherboard for a new one under warranty. The second time they asked me to make sure there was a problem with the board because they didn't detect any problems with the first board I RMAed.
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Different processor
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These boards worked for a little while then just randomly stopped working. The latest board I got booted up for a while then kind of went into a sleep mode that it could never wake up from.
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I also tried my other OCZ 1000watt on it with only 1 GPU plugged in.
The lack of booting happens with 0-4 cards plugged in. Just the lights come on, particularly the red hdd light stays lit.
I tried multiple different types of DDR3.
Currently, It's OCZ platinum 7-7-7 DDR3 1600. This is a product listing of the memory that I'm currently using for it: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227381
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Quote from: Bas on 06-November-11, 04:07:12
>>Posting Guide<<
Sorry, here are my specs...
•   AMD Phenom II 965 Black Edition CPU (NEW)
•   MSI 890FXA-GD70 Motherboard (NEW)
•   G.SKILL Value Series 8GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) (NEW)
•   XFX 9800 GTX+ 512MB nvidia GPU
•   Western Digital 1TB HDD SATA 7200RPM
•   Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-500 500W ATX12V SLI Ready Modular Power Supply (+3.3V@32A, +5V@35A, +12V1@17A, +12V2@19A, [email protected], +5VSB@2A)

890FXA-GD70 BIOS Recovery Requested.

Hello Forum
I just put together a brand new system using the 890FXA-GD70 Motherboard and I have serious problems.
Occasionally the system will freeze and crash.
I will tell my story in order of how this began and all steps I have performed
While in the bios I attempted to change my boot order. As soon as I changed the device the bios froze. I started the computer back up
No screen input.
Reset button does nothing. System does nothing.
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“BIOS Recovery Requested” insert USB…
I tried to reboot a few times
Sometimes I would get the bios recovery requested message
Most times I would get nothing
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Exact bios image on the MSI site without changing the file name
The system would scroll the BIOS recovery message over and over until it rebooted
Said it disabled recovery just before it shut down
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So I re do everything as this is becoming normal procedure dealing with the system freezing in windows or in the bios (randomly in the bios nothing specifically triggers it)
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CPU : AMD|PH II X6 1100T 3.3G AM3 With OEM Heatsink and fan
PSU : CORSAIR|CMPSU-650TX 650W
RAM : 2Gx2|GSKILL F3-12800CL9D-4GB
HD : WD Black SATA 2 1TB 7200RPM 32MB cache
Video Card : GeForce 7950 512 mb with PCI-E power conencted
OS : Windows 7 Pro 64 (legit fresh install)
Other Details
USB keyboard Merc Stealth , Microsoft USB Intili Mouse , Internal 5 Port USB cardreader,
Liteon USB cdrom drive
Monitor is a 52 inch LCD TV using DVI input on a 25 foot cord on max video card resolution when permited 1080
Im guessing this is not a ram or cpu problem but the bios chip may be defective and when the system loses the bios it freezes
otherwise why would i get bios checksum errors and recovery prompts after each freeze.
Please advise this is brand new and i should not have something defective this soon.

After spending 12-14 hours on the problem i can now safely give a detailed report of the problem
Disregard what i said before as they were just symptoms of another problem
It boots 100% stable if DIMM slots 1 2 and 3 are empty
it does not matter the make or model of the ram in slot 4 but the system boots and works flawlessly.
I ran extensive tests with prime 95 and memory tests. It works flawlessly in this configuration.
As soon as a stick of ram goes into any other slot either singular or dual channel the board does a rapid boot cycle
this constant power on and off if left too long corrupts the bios settings
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if i make the system boot with standard memory configuration such as one in DIMM 1 or 1+2 i get odd voltage readings
(extremely unstable if im lucky enough to get it to boot)
the NB voltage quickly fluctuates between 1.15 and 1.7+ every min or so like if there are micro spikes in voltage
While this happens the 2 lights next to the slots indicating i believe the dram power phase blink
But
When i only put a ram stick into DIMM 4 only one light for the powerphase is lit and it is stable
So this so far is not a corrupt BIOS chip to me but rather a symptom of another problem
I have another CPU coming in the mail tommorow I will test it out along with a few other boards
a 1090T
2 890fxa-gd70's and some others
If i have a hardware problem it will surely be singled out
I will find out what the problem is with this board and post my result.
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Need help overclocking Phenom 2 1100T cpu on a 890FXA-GD70 mobo

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I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to use all 6 PCI Express expansion slots on the motherboard (the 5 Full x16 slot and the 1 x1 slot) at the same time? I know I'd lose the capability for x16 bandwidth but does using any of the slots automatically disable any of the other slots? I have 6 single wide x1 PCI express cards I want to use at the same time and they do not all seem to be getting recognized by the OS (W7 x64).
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I have 6 single wide x1 PCI express cards I want to use at the same time and they do not all seem to be getting recognized by the OS (W7 x64).
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I know I'd lose the capability for x16 bandwidth but does using any of the slots automatically disable any of the other slots?
• 5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots
- PCI_E1 supports up to PCIE x16 speed (when PCI_E3 is empty)
- PCI_E5 supports up to PCIE x16 speed (when PCI_E6 is empty)
- If you want to install two graphics cards, please use PCI_E1 & PCI_E5 slots
- PCI_E3 & PCI_E6 support up to PCIE x8 speed
- If you want to install four expansion cards into PCI_E1, E3, E5 & E6 slots, these four PCIE x 16 lanes will auto arrange from x16/ x0/ x16/ x0 to x8/ x8/ x8/ x8
- PCI_E4 supports up to PCIE x4 speed
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The question mark is the small PCI-E x1 slot.
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What hapends if you fill 5x of those cards into the five of the PCI-E slots, except the small PCI-E x1 slot?

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see the following two links:
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20100609185547531&SLanguage=en-us&board_id=1&model=M4A89TD%20PRO/USB3
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http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20100606232119109&board_id=1&model=Crosshair+IV+Formula&page=1&SLanguage=en-us
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http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/ga-890fxa-ud5-iommu-bios-switch-39801/ - IOMMU support on 890FX motherboards
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"Thank you for contacting AMD. I would like to verify for you that yes, the 890FX chipset does offer the IOMMU feature, however you will want to keep in mind that manufacturers can decide to enable or disable this feature through the BIOS and therefore you will want to verify with manufacturer of your specific board. But in short, yes it does offer the ability to do so."
Pre-Sales Support -> http://us.msi.com/msi_user/PreSaleForm.aspx
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I submitted a support ticket asking when/if they were planning to add support but again there was some confusion about it being different from SVM. Still waiting to hear back, I'll let you know when I do.

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That said, I was hoping that you could tell me, is G.Skill Flare 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 2000MHz 7-9-7-24 (or two) going to work for me? I'm actually hoping to get 8gigs of RAM, so, would a G.Skill Flare 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 2000MHz 8-9-8-24 be better? Would they work at said speeds with these motherboard and CPU? I suppose that two sticks is better than four in dual channel mode. I need fast memory for games, and lots of it, too (for virtualisation and such).
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This means to be able to reach the rated speeds (or close to it if you have a shotty chip) you much over clock the ram from within the BIOs and experiment with suitable ram timings to gain stability.
(If you have to google any of the terms I have discussed or do not wish to spend the hours putting in the work testing stability; than you are not ready to do this)
Some screen shots of Geil Evo two @ 2000Mhz+
(These terms below you can google lol)
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890FXA-GD70 ram sugestions

Hi,
I have a 890FXA-GD70 motherboard and I currently have OCZ Reaper DDR3 12800 2x2Gb and find myself running out of ram very fast while using lightroom and photoshop for editing images.
It dose not have to be DDR3 1600 as phenom2 only supports 1333. I've read that 1333 is mainly for 2 sticks of ram and has to be dropped down to 1066 when using 4 sticks while overclocking. That's not ideal but i'm willing to sacrifice marginal speed for more ram.
I currently do not overclock my cpu, i have however tested it and its stable at 4.0 ghz with only using the multiplier and voltages. So when it starts showing its age in a year or two I plan on overclocking it then, but do not want to have trouble with the ram when i start to overclock.
I would like to put 4x4 (16Gb) of ram into my pc to remedy me running out of ram while using editing programs. The reason i would like to use 16Gb is because i recently put together a panoramic image in photoshop with only 6 pictures, and soon as it started compiling them the ram usage just shot up like a rocket, and i plan on using 20 or more images on other pano's.
Some suggestions of 1333+ DDR3 4x4Gb (matched sets only plz) that would complement my board would really help me out.
Below is the set i was looking at, but was informed that it was for intel only, not really sure what the difference may be but.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145312
Rest of my system specs:
Motherboard - MSI 890FXA-GD70
Processor - Phenom II X6 1090T
CPU Cooelr - Corsair H50
Memory - OCZ Reaper DDR3 12800 2x2Gb
Video Card(s) - (2) Sapphire 1Gb 4850's
Hard Drive - Samsung 500Gb F1 / 1Tb F3
Power Supply - 700w OCZ Stealth Xtreme
Thank you very much.

Quote from: Bas on 13-November-10, 02:23:14
Duh = Intel memory.
Do not go there!
It may fail.
I would use 2 of these kits: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226095
Cheaper too
Yeah, I noticed that as well, so i went over to the ocz site to check on it.
http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/desktop-memory/ddr3/enthusiasts/reaper-hpc-series/reaper-hpc--small----dual-channel-ddr3/ocz-ddr3-pc3-10666-reaper-cl9-edition-low-voltage-dual-channel.html
It said they Qualified on AMD 7 Series and 8 Series Chipsets, X4/X6 CPU
I'm currently using a set that sais something similar on newegg but have never had an issue with them, even when overclocking.
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890FXA-GD70 is here

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Quote from: Sea Dog on 08-August-14, 02:31:23
Since the OP hasn't been back for half a year, maybe it is best for you to open a new thread listing all of your particulars of system components, etc..
Exactly, therefor: -- LOCKED --

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