FX-6300 Not Booting on Asrock Board

[Sepiaspiral]

I've just upgraded from an Athlon X2 6000 to an FX-6300 Black.

Specs:

Asrock 960GC GS FX
Seagate 1TB
(2 other HD's, disconnectable)
3GB DDR2 Ram
NVidia MSI NX8800 GTS
Corsair VX450 PSU

X2 ran fine, FX-6300 won't run.

It's the only adjustment I made.

Fans etc, but black screen, no keyboard lights, no HDs.

Have tried resetting CMOS & jumper but no luck.

Any ideas?

 

[i7Baby]

The motherboard spec - http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/960GC-GS%20FX/?cat=Specifications

says
"- Support for Socket AM3 processors: AMD Phenom™ II X6 / X4 / X3 / X2 (except 920 / 940) / Athlon II X4 / X3 / X2 / Sempron processors
- Support for Socket AM2+ / AM2 processors: AMD Phenom™ FX / Phenom / Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core / Athlon X2 Dual-Core / Athlon 64 / Sempron processor
- Supports 8-Core CPU"



NOT AM3+ FX cpu's!!!!

 

[Sepiaspiral]

Hmmm. The CPU refs here http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/960GC-GS%20FX/?cat=CPU show AM3+ FX compatibility.

 

[i7Baby]

That's just the memory support list. Look at the specs and you'll get what I copied.

 

[Calnin]

Have you tried updating the bios?

Edit: i7baby, the CPU support list shows AM3+ is supported.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/960GC-GS%20FX/?cat=CPU

 

[Sepiaspiral]

Looks like AsRock is saying one thing one one page and something else on another.

My ref definitely shows a compat CPU list and the fx-6300 is included, alongside various phenoms etc.

 

[Sepiaspiral]

Ah, now I see it.

In order to run fx-6300 you need ddr3 mem.

Is that right?

 

[i7Baby]

Did you look at the link I provided? That's where I got it from. That's why your pc isn't working.

Get a mobo that is compatible with a fx6300 eg
RS 10000 - http://www.flipkart.com/gigabyte-ga-990xa-ud3-motherboard/p/itmd5rrryzqgufwy

 

[Calnin]

Again, have you tried updating the bios?

 

[Sepiaspiral]

Thanks for all the help so far.

i7Baby, I see your point, but my link definitely OKs the FD6300WMW6KHK.

As for BIOS, board is new and last BIOS update seems to be 2013.

Can't boot computer in any case!

My diagnosis so far is that this isn't running because of my DDR2 RAM. My old A2 chip will run with this, but anything AM3+ based needs DDR3.

 

[Sepiaspiral]

Ok, just to clarify — new Kingston 4GB DDR3 RAM stick in, and hey presto.

As far as I'm concerned the fx-6300 and the Asrock 960GC GS FX ARE ok together.

 

[SonnyCrockett]

I have the same board with the FX 6300 on it.
You need DDR3 RAM to run that Prozessor.
You must not use DDR2 RAM and DDR3 RAM at the same time.
I use 1.30 BIOS and hat to adjust the clockspeed of my corsair RAMs as
they fell back to 533 Mhz