Not Posting, Help! Asus A88XM-Plus

Nov 2, 2018
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Hello, long time reader, first post. I can almost always find an answer here but not this time, so i'm going to post it.

Recently I got an Asus A88XM-Plus MB from my cousin (he's new to the computer building world), he bought the MB thinking it was compatible with the FX6300 Cpu I gave him. Long story short I ended up with the MB. With that I bought a bundle with a X4 880k cpu and a MSI A88XM-e35 MB for $50. Everything works (except for the cpu fan header) on the MSI MB and the X4 880k Cpu, but it only has 2 memory slots and I want at least 16gb of memory and 16gb (8gbx2) kits of ddr3 memory is still pretty expensive. Its a non apu cpu, I have a discrete graphics card for purposes of testing builds like this.

Everything powers up on the Asus MB but its just not posting, no beeps unless there's no memory

I just tried about almost every method to remedy this -
Cleared CMOS
Removed and Replaced CMOS Battery
Performed CPU Parameter Recall (CPR)
Different Power Supplies (380w, 450w, 500w, 1000w all good and working PSU's)
Different Memory set-ups (I have 2 4gb x 4 kits, and 1 1gb x4 kit) beeps without memory
Different Graphics Cards (HD6450, GTX 280, R7 370)

I'm guessing this might be a Bios problem, but in the back of my mind i'm dreading the fact it just might be a dead MB.

Hopefully someone can help me or let me down easy lol

Thanks!






 


So idk if thats wrong or not, but I'm running the X4 880k on the MSI board perfectly fine, i'm posting and even installed windows 10 and other various programs using the MSI board, its also compatible for the Asus board that i need help with. Thanks though