So I built my PC about a year and a half ago, built a couple others between now and then. Last night I was building my friend his first PC and ran into some complications.
Here are the specs before we get into details:
Asus Prime Z270-A
Intel i5-7600k
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
EVGA 970 FTW+ ACX 2.0
16GB Kingston HyperX DDR4 2133 MHz (2x8GB)
Corsair CX 450M
So this is what happened. I got everything together, ready to go, did a couple tests with power to make sure everything was powering on properly and then booted the computer. First time fans on GPU did not spin. Turned it off, unplugged and re plugged GPU cables and worked the next time. Then the on-board LED that can indicate errors, stayed a solid yellow. According to the manual this is caused by a DRAM error. So for the following 45 minutes I played with the RAM to see if one of them was DOA. I swapped both from A2/B2, I tried every combination of RAM in the slots, same issue. What is interesting to me is that when I power the PC on everything comes to life, all the fans, the mobo visual LEDs (not the information ones), and then it does not stop until I turn it off.
I originally thought it was because the BIOS needed to be updated but I feel like the error message wouldn't be coming as a RAM issue if the bios was out of date, it would come as a CPU issue right?
Now I do not have access to the computer right now, I am currently at home about to go to work. I will be going over there shortly after and I was wondering if the community could help me get some ideas together before we go out and buy more RAM at a local PC shop.
I appreciate all those who respond, if you have any questions let me know I will be happy to answer them all to get this solved asap.
Here are the specs before we get into details:
Asus Prime Z270-A
Intel i5-7600k
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
EVGA 970 FTW+ ACX 2.0
16GB Kingston HyperX DDR4 2133 MHz (2x8GB)
Corsair CX 450M
So this is what happened. I got everything together, ready to go, did a couple tests with power to make sure everything was powering on properly and then booted the computer. First time fans on GPU did not spin. Turned it off, unplugged and re plugged GPU cables and worked the next time. Then the on-board LED that can indicate errors, stayed a solid yellow. According to the manual this is caused by a DRAM error. So for the following 45 minutes I played with the RAM to see if one of them was DOA. I swapped both from A2/B2, I tried every combination of RAM in the slots, same issue. What is interesting to me is that when I power the PC on everything comes to life, all the fans, the mobo visual LEDs (not the information ones), and then it does not stop until I turn it off.
I originally thought it was because the BIOS needed to be updated but I feel like the error message wouldn't be coming as a RAM issue if the bios was out of date, it would come as a CPU issue right?
Now I do not have access to the computer right now, I am currently at home about to go to work. I will be going over there shortly after and I was wondering if the community could help me get some ideas together before we go out and buy more RAM at a local PC shop.
I appreciate all those who respond, if you have any questions let me know I will be happy to answer them all to get this solved asap.
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