I just got the parts installed tonight and it all started with great promise...the system came on and went into the initial BIOS setup. I looked around but changed nothing until I finished surveying the land. It looked good until I got to the memory info and found that only 4GB was being seen by the BIOS not the full 8GB installed. So, I shut down, pulled the power and re-seated the memory. Once again the BIOS said 4GB so I went through the same process but this time only installed one of the DIMM's. The power comes on but the BIOS doesn't load...no POST. So, again I disconnect the power, etc. and swap the DIMM's...this time using just the one DIMM I'd left out of the system. Same result...powers on but never goes beyond that. I've tried it with both DIMM's in, just 1 DIMM and in different slots...the board has 4 DIMM slots.
The board also has a MemOK! switch and it was in the On position throughout but at no point did I see the LED come on or flash as the manual says. Frankly I can't even see an LED...might be there but I can't see it. I tried powering off and switching MemOK! off...restarting...powering off...switching MemOK! back on and then powering up again but it made no difference. At no time did I see any time of memory training occurring though the LED's on the two PCI slots flash...not that it helps.
Also, when I was able to get the BIOS to load I saw that it recognized the SSD...so at least that worked right.
I don't have access to any test equipment or other hardware I can experiment on so I'm limited in the additional testing I can do. Ideas are welcome as I'm at a loss right now.
Other than the parts you see below nothing else was connected to the system...no USB drives, no HDD's or SSD's...nothing else. Well, keyboard, mouse and monitor (via HDMI) of course.
Key system specs are as follows and from what I read before buying everything is (should be) compatible:
New Parts:
Motherboard: Asus Prime Z390-P
CPU: Intel Core i5-9600K 3.7 GHz Six-Core LGA 1151 Processor
RAM: Patriot Viper 4 Series 3000MHz Dual Channel DDR4 2x4GB
SSD: Samsung 970 EVO Plus - 250GB
GPU: This is a simple work computer for my wife so I'm not planning to add a graphics card...the CPU has the Intel UHD Graphics 630 chipset so I don't need one on this build
OS: None yet...this is a new build and I haven't gotten that far but it will be Win10
Used Parts (harvested from recently deceased PC):
Optical Drive: Pioneer Black Blu-ray Disc/DVD/CD Writer SATA BDR-205BKS (will have to be replaced as I discovered tonight that it won't open...lol) ... note too that I disconnected the power to this drive during troubleshooting but it had no effect
2nd SSD: Older Samsung SSD from the old PC but although I connected the SATA data cable at no time was the drive powered on...I wanted to get the system fully operational on the Samsung 970 EVO+ drive before connecting the old SSD. The goal is to just harvest old files from this drive and then use it for some extra storage if needed...the new OS will be a fresh install on the 970 EVO+.
The board also has a MemOK! switch and it was in the On position throughout but at no point did I see the LED come on or flash as the manual says. Frankly I can't even see an LED...might be there but I can't see it. I tried powering off and switching MemOK! off...restarting...powering off...switching MemOK! back on and then powering up again but it made no difference. At no time did I see any time of memory training occurring though the LED's on the two PCI slots flash...not that it helps.
Also, when I was able to get the BIOS to load I saw that it recognized the SSD...so at least that worked right.
I don't have access to any test equipment or other hardware I can experiment on so I'm limited in the additional testing I can do. Ideas are welcome as I'm at a loss right now.
Other than the parts you see below nothing else was connected to the system...no USB drives, no HDD's or SSD's...nothing else. Well, keyboard, mouse and monitor (via HDMI) of course.
Key system specs are as follows and from what I read before buying everything is (should be) compatible:
New Parts:
Motherboard: Asus Prime Z390-P
CPU: Intel Core i5-9600K 3.7 GHz Six-Core LGA 1151 Processor
RAM: Patriot Viper 4 Series 3000MHz Dual Channel DDR4 2x4GB
SSD: Samsung 970 EVO Plus - 250GB
GPU: This is a simple work computer for my wife so I'm not planning to add a graphics card...the CPU has the Intel UHD Graphics 630 chipset so I don't need one on this build
OS: None yet...this is a new build and I haven't gotten that far but it will be Win10
Used Parts (harvested from recently deceased PC):
Optical Drive: Pioneer Black Blu-ray Disc/DVD/CD Writer SATA BDR-205BKS (will have to be replaced as I discovered tonight that it won't open...lol) ... note too that I disconnected the power to this drive during troubleshooting but it had no effect
2nd SSD: Older Samsung SSD from the old PC but although I connected the SATA data cable at no time was the drive powered on...I wanted to get the system fully operational on the Samsung 970 EVO+ drive before connecting the old SSD. The goal is to just harvest old files from this drive and then use it for some extra storage if needed...the new OS will be a fresh install on the 970 EVO+.