Hi everyone, I'm wondering if anyone has some advice to offer on a build I'm working on with a student. We had originally purchased an ASRock 970 Extreme 4 mobo and AMD FX-8350 CPU. Originally, we obtained only a flashing 00 on the debug led. We RMA'ed the board after speaking to ASRock customer service. With the new board, we got only a solid 00 (a step up, I guess.) Thinking it may be a BIOS issue, I purchased a Sempron 145, figuring that would certainly be supported, and if it would post, I could then flash update the BIOS. I then got a debug led code of d6 - no video output, which I liked since I hadn't yet installed the GPU. On putting in the GPU, I obtained a 36 - post-memory CPU initialization. Thinking that maybe the memory was too fast for the CPU to handle, I checked the support list for both the CPU and the mobo, and bought 2 1G sticks at 1066, since I had seen that the CPU doesn't support faster speeds. I have since tried both sticks in all 4 RAM slots - in DIMM 1 it gives the same results as before, and in any other slot, it stops at 36 even without the GPU in place.
Also, I'm not sure if it's supposed to do this or not, but the debug led doesn't just ramp up to, say, d6, then stop. Instead, it goes up to d6, then goes back down to 00, works its way back up to d6, and repeats that process indefinitely. On my first build, with an MSI board, it didn't behave that way, but I'm not sure if that's the way the ASRock is supposed to behave or not.
Here is a full system description:
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Extreme 4
CPU: AMD Sempron 145 Single Core
Memory: G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F3-8500CL7D-2GBNQ
Video Card: AMD Sapphire 7850 2G
HDD: Western Digital WD10EZEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"
Internal Hard Drive, Blue - OEM
Thanks in advance for any ideas or suggestions.
Also, I'm not sure if it's supposed to do this or not, but the debug led doesn't just ramp up to, say, d6, then stop. Instead, it goes up to d6, then goes back down to 00, works its way back up to d6, and repeats that process indefinitely. On my first build, with an MSI board, it didn't behave that way, but I'm not sure if that's the way the ASRock is supposed to behave or not.
Here is a full system description:
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Extreme 4
CPU: AMD Sempron 145 Single Core
Memory: G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F3-8500CL7D-2GBNQ
Video Card: AMD Sapphire 7850 2G
HDD: Western Digital WD10EZEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"
Internal Hard Drive, Blue - OEM
Thanks in advance for any ideas or suggestions.