- Apr 20, 2013
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Here's the situation. Building an ITX box for the parents. I spent a lot of time trying to find a combo of parts that met the requirements for the project. Swapped a lot of parts in and out of the shopping cart while doing this.
Motherboard is the Asrock E3C224D2I with the P2.10 bios (according to the sticker on the board). I THOUGHT I had ordered the Pentium G3450 but I in fact appeared to have ordered the G3250. Here's the problem, it won't POST. BMC works but shows no events in the log. So I see two possibilities. Memory or CPU. I've tried half a dozen different known good sticks of 1.5v DDR of various speeds, both ECC and not so it seems unlikely it's memory.
More importantly, the G3250 isn't on the CPU support list. My question is why not and any chance it's not the CPU that's the problem? The G3240 and G3450 are both on the support list. What makes the G3250 different enough not to work/be on the list? Looking at Ark they seem to be damn near identical save for the clock speed. Given the whole system cost $320, it really sucks to eat $70 on the processor.
Motherboard is the Asrock E3C224D2I with the P2.10 bios (according to the sticker on the board). I THOUGHT I had ordered the Pentium G3450 but I in fact appeared to have ordered the G3250. Here's the problem, it won't POST. BMC works but shows no events in the log. So I see two possibilities. Memory or CPU. I've tried half a dozen different known good sticks of 1.5v DDR of various speeds, both ECC and not so it seems unlikely it's memory.
More importantly, the G3250 isn't on the CPU support list. My question is why not and any chance it's not the CPU that's the problem? The G3240 and G3450 are both on the support list. What makes the G3250 different enough not to work/be on the list? Looking at Ark they seem to be damn near identical save for the clock speed. Given the whole system cost $320, it really sucks to eat $70 on the processor.