So I finally have all the parts I wanted for my Rig and I set about trying to assemble it over the weekend. In the end when I powered up my PC - she ran for 2 seconds are less before rebooting constantly (boot loop). The motherboard has a debug counter. It does from
04 - Power on North Bridge Initialization
60 - ?
55 - Early Memory Initialization
I tried figuring out what went wrong and I am hoping I haven't permanently messed up the board or the processor. A few things I have noticed:
Apart from the 24 pin connector, there are two other connectors on top of the board. A 8-pin and a 4pin connector. My understanding is that the 8Pin is needed and the 4pin is options (for extreme overclocking - which I have no intention to undertake). Considering the PC powered up I am guessing that I am right.
I have only 2 DDR4 RAM sticks of 16GB capacity each. MSI recommends that I put them in the first and the last slots (there are 8) of the board for dual channel configuration. Again my understanding is that they can be on any slots, they just won't perform to their max capacity (3200). Am I correct? They are currently in slot 5 and slot 7. As to why I didn't do what MSI recommended is because I didn't figure this out until after I put the RAM stick in. I didn't want to move them until I got some advice lest I ah heck up the diagnosis.
Finally - here's my fear - I think I might have overdone it with the thermal compound. Some of it might have oozed out from the underside of the CPU cooler. I can't see any trace of it but again I haven't taken out the CPU cooler before I got some advice. If I did - would this short out / damage the motherboard? How can I be absolutely sure that I messed up the motherboard?
My Specs :
i7 - 6800K
MSI X99A Godlike Gaming Carbon Motherboard
32 GB Corsair Vengeance (3200 Mhz 16 X 2)
Cooler Master Evo 212 CPU cooler
EVGA G2 650W PSU
In Win 909 Case
MSI Geforce 1070 Gaming X 8G Video card
Seagate Barracuda 2 TB hard drive.
04 - Power on North Bridge Initialization
60 - ?
55 - Early Memory Initialization
I tried figuring out what went wrong and I am hoping I haven't permanently messed up the board or the processor. A few things I have noticed:
Apart from the 24 pin connector, there are two other connectors on top of the board. A 8-pin and a 4pin connector. My understanding is that the 8Pin is needed and the 4pin is options (for extreme overclocking - which I have no intention to undertake). Considering the PC powered up I am guessing that I am right.
I have only 2 DDR4 RAM sticks of 16GB capacity each. MSI recommends that I put them in the first and the last slots (there are 8) of the board for dual channel configuration. Again my understanding is that they can be on any slots, they just won't perform to their max capacity (3200). Am I correct? They are currently in slot 5 and slot 7. As to why I didn't do what MSI recommended is because I didn't figure this out until after I put the RAM stick in. I didn't want to move them until I got some advice lest I ah heck up the diagnosis.
Finally - here's my fear - I think I might have overdone it with the thermal compound. Some of it might have oozed out from the underside of the CPU cooler. I can't see any trace of it but again I haven't taken out the CPU cooler before I got some advice. If I did - would this short out / damage the motherboard? How can I be absolutely sure that I messed up the motherboard?
My Specs :
i7 - 6800K
MSI X99A Godlike Gaming Carbon Motherboard
32 GB Corsair Vengeance (3200 Mhz 16 X 2)
Cooler Master Evo 212 CPU cooler
EVGA G2 650W PSU
In Win 909 Case
MSI Geforce 1070 Gaming X 8G Video card
Seagate Barracuda 2 TB hard drive.
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