A few problems with a M5A97 R2.0 - Ram speed,CPU fan, and Boot priority

Miko00

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so i have:

M5A97 R2.0
Cruicial Ballistix Elite 8GB DDR3-1866 (PC3-14900)
AMD Fx 8350 4.0
GTX 580
Corsair Tx650w PSU
W7 64


my problem, first of all this CPU/mobo/ram are brand new as of yesterday, the rest is not:

every time i turn on the system, it stops me and says "CPU fan error press F1 to enter setup" the CPU fan is plugged in properly as far as i can tell, it is also spinning perfectly fine. but every time i have to go into the BIOS because it wont do anything unless i press F1. i'd like some help in figuring out how to fix this if possible. also it may be related but in order to leave the BIOS i then have to go to Boot devices and select my SSD, even though it's listed as the main priority in every place i can find to make it so.

my other problem is with the ram, it is supposed to be 1866, the mobo says it supports 1866, the very first time i turned the system on the ram showed up as 1333, but i saw in the bios a menu to easily change it to 1866 so i did. then randomly later as i was restarting and installing programs i noticed it said the ram was at 1429(i could be wrong on the exact number, but i know it was 14xx) and 1866 was not even in the BIOS menu as an option anymore in the spot that i had found it before. according to the motherboard manual if im using a single stick of Ram it should be installed into the second slot, which it is.

any help with this would be great, thanks
 
Solution
The fan speed is under 600 RPM. There is a setting in BIOS, Monitor speed for ignoring the CPU fan speed low limit.
Have you enabled DOCP in BIOS?

Miko00

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DOCP was the problem, just restarted and looked in the BIOS, made the change and it let me select 1866, thanks for your help with what.

however im not quite understanding you on the fan part, the RPMs shown in the bios were well over 600. it was showing RPMs for 2 fans, one was like 3400 which im pretty sure if one of my case fans, and the other was around 1200. http://i.imgur.com/dHxBHer.jpg

now that i look at this picture...im gonna feel really dumb if its because the fans i have plugged in are in the #2 and #3 spot and since it doesnt show anything in the first its throwing me an error....
 

Miko00

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yep you were correct, it was a stupid mistake by me, swapped which spot the fan was plugged into and no longer got the error message. thanks again. looks like everything is booting and running properly now