You are showing your age. They are DIMMS now. :)
I'd try a single DIMM in each socket. Does this motherboard have a RAM
config button (some do). If so, try that.
Have you tried a different power supply? I've had power supplies which
will power up the motherboard but not allow it to boot.
T
On 03-Dec-2023 3:54 p.m., _ Winterlight wrote:
After 10 years my E6896_P9X79_WS with i7-4930K has failed me. My original
setup was running fine but one day it wouldn’t boot and the board reported a
CPU error. I cleaned the dust off the board and did a major cleaning of the CPU
fan and heat sink and it seemed to run just fine. I had a couple extra RAM
SIMMS so I decided to install them. What I had installed was 4 CRUCIAL DDR 3
4GB SIMM running at 1866. What I added into bank two was two 8GB CRUCIAL DDR3
running at 1600. It didn’t seem to recognize all the RAM so I went into the
BIOS to try different settings. I enabled Auto Memory frequency settings saved
and exited out. This is when my troubles began.
The PC hung at post. I saw nothing on the screen just a black screen. At first
I thought something must of got corrupt so I tried auto flashing the BIOS but
it wasn’t working normally so I tried clearing the bios with the on board pin,
and finally I pulled everything off the board, removed it from the case and let
it sit in it’s box for a month. Then I cleaned everything and put it back
together but same problem.
It occurred to me that maybe the CPU burned out when the fan slowed down and then my
memory bios adjustment finished it off. So I purchased a used but tested CPU on Ebay
and tried again. Same issue. I hate to just throw this board away but I am out of
ideas. Anybody have any ideas to jump start the board? Thanks <w>
