ASUS M4A87TD

[chatten007]

Hello,
I recently built a new rig and I can't get past the POST and it isn't "seeing" my SATA drives, but does see an old IDE HDD. I keep getting to a screen that says:

Please enter setup to recover bios setting
the data in the ec or ec flash might be corrupted.
Please contact Asus technical support for help
Fatal Error... System halted.

Followed by three short beeps.

I have tried changing the battery to the CMOS, unplugging everything unimportant, and reseating all connections.

What else can I try? Asus has been no help thus far.

 

[badmagic]

I built a system with Asus M4A87TD EVO, AMD PH II X4 955 3.2G AM3 RT and 2Gx2 - GSKILL F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL. She was fast and reliable for 3-months then received the same EC or EC Flash error as started this thread. I replaced battery and removed all non-vital components but could never get to BIOS w/o receiving the EC Error.

All components tested out, so off to Asus to fight for RMA... just letting the world know it's not an isolated instance!

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