Question Found out why my Sabretooth Z77 mobo only sees half the ram ( I think )

[winr]

Tried everything then saw online, tons of posts of mobos with bent pins, some were new out of the box some stated

I did not know Intel went to pins in the socket, so many posts of mobo only recognizing 16 instead of 32 gig of memory

It ran great only seeing 16 gig of ram but I had to look and see for myself

When I put the i7 2600K back in .. nothing, should have left it alone ... lol

Look at all the bent pins .... the board, cpu/coolr and 4 different sticks of memory were given to me by a Friend

He had it at 3 different places and none could get it to boot, the bios was looking for a certain rpm for the cpu fan
The fan was turning slower than the above, took care of that, still would not boot, removed all but one stick of ram
Voila ... it booted up, I put a big cooler on it, loaded win. 10 and used it for months till I pulled the cpu to check for bent pins





When I pull the mobo, gonna see if I can straighten the pins just cause I like stuff like that



Ricky.

 

[bigboxes]

Yup. Take your time and repair the pins. It's just going to take time. You have one of those magnifying glass lights? That reminds me. I need one of those clamp on magnify lights.

 

[winr]

Aye and thanks .... gonna look out for one of those magnifying things with lights, not sure what to get though

Eyes are gettin older ..


Ricky.

 

[sdifox]

Aye and thanks .... gonna look out for one of those magnifying things with lights, not sure what to get though

Eyes are gettin older ..


Ricky.

Amazon.ca

example, not recommendation. just use one of those tabletop tripod to aim it at the socket and look at your phone to navigate your tiny pliers.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Amazon.ca

example, not recommendation. just use one of those tabletop tripod to aim it at the socket and look at your phone to navigate your tiny pliers.

I had no idea these had gotten so inexpensive. Phone screen is still not ideal, but I could cast it to the TV.

 

[sdifox]

I had no idea these had gotten so inexpensive. Phone screen is still not ideal, but I could cast it to the TV.

If you blow it up that big, it will be hard to control your hand movement distance. Maybe tablet?

 

[igor_kavinski]

Phone screen is still not ideal, but I could cast it to the TV.

Wow, now I can spy on ants!

 

[sdifox]

Wow, now I can spy on ants!

you and I both know you are going to try it on your "rear entrance" first.

 

[igor_kavinski]

you and I both know you are going to try it on your "rear entrance" first.

Hope never need to do that but yes, it can come in handy for close examination purposes before going to the Doc.

 

[winr]

Thanks for link, I could use that repairing vehicles as well

Ricky.

 

[winr]

I found the last Intel bios for my Intel DQ67SW with an installer ....SW0070 .. 2018

A guy saved a bunch before they were purged, I misplaced the link but will post when I find it


Ricky.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Not sure if you noticed, but you have at least 1 missing pin that broke off, and there are possibly 2 more that are broken off but the pic is not conclusive and they might be hiding in a shadow.