With great excitement, I unpacked this beautifully packaged and crafted motherboard. I really had never seen such attention to details in motherboard product range.
But no charm. I installed AMD Phenom II X4 965BE boxed processor, fan and heatsink, connected both power supply rails, installed HD 5850 graphics card in PCIe slot, Kingston 2 x 4GB RAM (QVL), and powered it on. Everything spun up but no beep, no POST, and thus no display. I thought, it happens, let's check everything and I did. In vain.
I noticed that the Dr. Debug LED would stay off and wouldn't light up to give me any code. Now how can one debug a debugger?? Also, the power and reset buttons on the board wouldn't light up, either. They would only flash red the moment I powered my power supply on and then nothing, even upon pressing. The power button worked though. I couldn't tell if RESET button was working.
Any suggestions? I have been given an opportunity to send it back to where I bought it from for a free replacement. Should I do that, or give this another try?
But no charm. I installed AMD Phenom II X4 965BE boxed processor, fan and heatsink, connected both power supply rails, installed HD 5850 graphics card in PCIe slot, Kingston 2 x 4GB RAM (QVL), and powered it on. Everything spun up but no beep, no POST, and thus no display. I thought, it happens, let's check everything and I did. In vain.
I noticed that the Dr. Debug LED would stay off and wouldn't light up to give me any code. Now how can one debug a debugger?? Also, the power and reset buttons on the board wouldn't light up, either. They would only flash red the moment I powered my power supply on and then nothing, even upon pressing. The power button worked though. I couldn't tell if RESET button was working.
Any suggestions? I have been given an opportunity to send it back to where I bought it from for a free replacement. Should I do that, or give this another try?
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