Hey all. Have a 400 Watt power supply for an AsRock FM2A78M-HD+ -- the third mainboard I had replaced, after an ECS and I think MSI.
I have a 3.2GHz Athlon ii X4, one 4GB stick ddr3-1600, and a Sapphire R7 240 pci-E video. Also sATA3 SSD. No optical drive; 1 case fan.
Tech at AsRock suggested my power supply inadequate? Suggested a 500 Watt? Problems am having are: Windows Experience Index for RAM dropped to 5.9 from 7.1 with this newest board. Graphics intensive programs (games) cause reboot after a min in. Random reboots while in BIOS menu after 30 sec or so. Etc. Temperatures normal. I updated BIOS to most recent at suggestion of AsRock tech. I'm really at a loss. Is it PSU? CPU? I don't think it's graphics. I tested with another card, an older PCI-e -- nVidia 9800GT -- and it wouldn't let me past POST screen. Reboot loop.
Quick rundown of experience with other 2 boards: #1 as with current board, would randomly reboot while in BIOS, after like 30 seconds. Wouldn't boot past POST. Would enter reboot loop. Board 2 would randomly reboot from within Windows (7 64-bit), BIOS froze once, once sound exploded from speakers- sounded like static- and screen shut off, to power-save mode.
Bought 4GB DDR3-1300 to test w board 2. Same problems, returned stick to OfficeDepot.
Please help me someone! Freaking frustrated; went all out and upgraded whole Athlon 5600+ system after SSD failed. And still after 1 months of send-backs etc.. little progress. At least this board kinda more stable-- it doesn't reboot unless under heavy load.
I have a 3.2GHz Athlon ii X4, one 4GB stick ddr3-1600, and a Sapphire R7 240 pci-E video. Also sATA3 SSD. No optical drive; 1 case fan.
Tech at AsRock suggested my power supply inadequate? Suggested a 500 Watt? Problems am having are: Windows Experience Index for RAM dropped to 5.9 from 7.1 with this newest board. Graphics intensive programs (games) cause reboot after a min in. Random reboots while in BIOS menu after 30 sec or so. Etc. Temperatures normal. I updated BIOS to most recent at suggestion of AsRock tech. I'm really at a loss. Is it PSU? CPU? I don't think it's graphics. I tested with another card, an older PCI-e -- nVidia 9800GT -- and it wouldn't let me past POST screen. Reboot loop.
Quick rundown of experience with other 2 boards: #1 as with current board, would randomly reboot while in BIOS, after like 30 seconds. Wouldn't boot past POST. Would enter reboot loop. Board 2 would randomly reboot from within Windows (7 64-bit), BIOS froze once, once sound exploded from speakers- sounded like static- and screen shut off, to power-save mode.
Bought 4GB DDR3-1300 to test w board 2. Same problems, returned stick to OfficeDepot.
Please help me someone! Freaking frustrated; went all out and upgraded whole Athlon 5600+ system after SSD failed. And still after 1 months of send-backs etc.. little progress. At least this board kinda more stable-- it doesn't reboot unless under heavy load.
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