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We don't know if it's sheer bad luck or what but my neighbor first took a risk at an open box Gigabyte 990FX gaming board. He said it fired up twice and on the third time it would never POST nor beep. Did not matter what components we swapped out so he sent it back and got an MSI 970A-G43 PLUS that didn't even fire up once. Same thing, no POST, no beep. I even eliminated the new case as a culprit by running the board and graphics (two different cards, one of which the new 380X and the other a known good GTX 650) outside of the case and jumping the power switch header. Still no POST, no beep.
My neighbor is at wit's end because he had sold his Xbone and TV for all of this and is quite depressed. What is a sure choice for his FX 6300? I tried to steer him towards ASRock because my Z87 and Z97s have been incredible. Should I go through the trouble of helping him order the ASRock 970a-g/3.1 or let him give up because even the ASRock has reports of the same thing? Is this an inherent issue with AM3 chipsets? We can't even get a beep without RAM installed at all which is a bad sign. Anyone run into issues with AM3+ boards and finally hit upon a good'n?
My neighbor is at wit's end because he had sold his Xbone and TV for all of this and is quite depressed. What is a sure choice for his FX 6300? I tried to steer him towards ASRock because my Z87 and Z97s have been incredible. Should I go through the trouble of helping him order the ASRock 970a-g/3.1 or let him give up because even the ASRock has reports of the same thing? Is this an inherent issue with AM3 chipsets? We can't even get a beep without RAM installed at all which is a bad sign. Anyone run into issues with AM3+ boards and finally hit upon a good'n?
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