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990FX Sabertooth R2.0 CPU LED On After Power On

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January 30, 2014 7:12:15 PM

I bought an open box Asus Sabertooth R2.0 for my first build, and I put a brand new FX 8320 in it, but every time I boot up, the CPU LED is on but not blinking and I get no display. All the fans power up, and I also tested an FX 4300 and the same thing happened. What could the problem be? Also, I have 1 4gb stick of G-Skill Ripjaws running at 1600Mhz.

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January 30, 2014 7:21:25 PM

Do you have your 8 pin power plugged all the way in the board?
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January 30, 2014 7:31:59 PM

SR-71 Blackbird said:
Do you have your 8 pin power plugged all the way in the board?


I do have both the eight pin, and the EATX cable plugged in.
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January 30, 2014 8:16:40 PM

SR-71 Blackbird said:
Do you have your 8 pin power plugged all the way in the board?


mc962 said:
Try doing a BIOS update. If I remember right a lot of times you need to do a BIOS update in order to put that CPU in the board

http://event.asus.com/2012/mb/usb_bios_flashback_guide/


I noticed that those are all for X79 Mobos but I have an 990FX board, would those solutions work for mine?
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January 30, 2014 8:21:31 PM

Have you tried pressing the MEMok? My system wouldn't boot when i had everything installed but when i pressed the MEMok button for the first time on the sabertooth 990fx it posted just fine. Maybe that isn't the issue but it's an idea :D 
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January 31, 2014 10:22:19 AM

I've downloaded the Bios from http://support.asus.com/Cpusupport/detail.aspx?SLanguag... and have taken all of the steps required to put it on the Flash drive and flash the Bios on the board, but it still won't work! I've tried this with the CPU and RAM plugged in and without, but the computer still won't boot.
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January 31, 2014 10:39:47 AM

mc962 said:
Try doing a BIOS update. If I remember right a lot of times you need to do a BIOS update in order to put that CPU in the board

http://event.asus.com/2012/mb/usb_bios_flashback_guide/


I tried doing this, but it still won't boot. I'm thinking that I might just return this even though I got a great deal on it, and pick up a GA-990FXA-UD5.
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January 31, 2014 11:23:32 AM

I'd return it for a new one instead. Sabertooth is supposed to be a quality board that should last a while, you might have just gotten one of the few broken ones, which is always possible with something like motherboards. Also make sure there are no bent pins anywhere, I know that can be a problem with the socket for intel processors when some of the key pins on the socket were bent or even broken for one reason or another
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January 31, 2014 2:49:03 PM

mc962 said:
I'd return it for a new one instead. Sabertooth is supposed to be a quality board that should last a while, you might have just gotten one of the few broken ones, which is always possible with something like motherboards. Also make sure there are no bent pins anywhere, I know that can be a problem with the socket for intel processors when some of the key pins on the socket were bent or even broken for one reason or another


Thankfully I'm careful enough to not bend any pins, I would slap myself if I did that with my brand-new 8320! I'm hoping that they give me a good deal on this new board because this'll be the third board I've gotten from Micro Center in the last month. Not that it's a bad store, but the amount of gas I've spent going back and forth could buy me whole other board!
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February 8, 2014 10:52:12 PM

For some reason, after I decided to assemble all of my parts back in my case and haul it Micro Center to have my problem diagnosed, the system booted up. I had to combat a RAM LED but after some trouble shooting that went away, and now I have a functioning system!
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