I just finished a horror build using these components.....
What are the chances of scoring a DOA motherboard AND a stick of faulty RAM? not slim enough it seems.
I initially built this system and for the life of me could not get into the BIOS (as no keyboard could be recognised) so I tore the system apart and isolation tested the RAM, the drives etc. with no luck. In the end we ended up RMA'ing the motherboard based on a few things....
1) the one time I got a keyboard to recognise and enter the BIOS I got a checksum error
2) I got no response out of isolation testing any of the other componentry.
3) isolating the RAM sticks had no effect
So tonight I went for a second round with the replacement motherboard.....same result. I was about to throw the box out the window when I decided to pull the RAM and start the debug process....turns out that one of the RAM sticks was at fault. So unfortunately my friend's new rig has only 8GB of RAM at this point in time, neither of us will be very popular with the retailer (we said we isolation tested the RAM the first time around), so is it possible to RMA directly?
BTW we are based in Sydney (Australia) and purchased from mwave.com.au.
Just for reference the system is:
AMD FX4100
Gigabyte GA990FXA-UD3 Rev 1.1
16GB G.Skill ARES 1333 (8gb atm)
Gigabyte HD 7750 (880Mhz ed)
128GB Samsung 830 Series SSD
2TB Seagate Barrcuda
Corsair CX600
Antec 302 v2
What are the chances of scoring a DOA motherboard AND a stick of faulty RAM? not slim enough it seems.
I initially built this system and for the life of me could not get into the BIOS (as no keyboard could be recognised) so I tore the system apart and isolation tested the RAM, the drives etc. with no luck. In the end we ended up RMA'ing the motherboard based on a few things....
1) the one time I got a keyboard to recognise and enter the BIOS I got a checksum error
2) I got no response out of isolation testing any of the other componentry.
3) isolating the RAM sticks had no effect
So tonight I went for a second round with the replacement motherboard.....same result. I was about to throw the box out the window when I decided to pull the RAM and start the debug process....turns out that one of the RAM sticks was at fault. So unfortunately my friend's new rig has only 8GB of RAM at this point in time, neither of us will be very popular with the retailer (we said we isolation tested the RAM the first time around), so is it possible to RMA directly?
BTW we are based in Sydney (Australia) and purchased from mwave.com.au.
Just for reference the system is:
AMD FX4100
Gigabyte GA990FXA-UD3 Rev 1.1
16GB G.Skill ARES 1333 (8gb atm)
Gigabyte HD 7750 (880Mhz ed)
128GB Samsung 830 Series SSD
2TB Seagate Barrcuda
Corsair CX600
Antec 302 v2
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