asus sabertooth 990fx r2.0 cpu red light no postd

Poeticfire666 · Aug 20, 2014

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2JKBzy

my build is listed in the above link.
i assembled the components, and am about ready to take everything apart and put it back together again since i finally got my GPU today, and after turning it on and thumbing through the BIOS to set up my boot order, it suddenly turned off on me. now it won't POST. the fans spin for a second and the CPU_LED flashes once and the power is terminated. i can cut power and do the same thing over again, but this is all it does. i may have bent some of the pins that run to the power switch on the case while installing the GPU, but i straightened them out (also it POSTed before i noticed this) and the power switch still turns it on, so i'm not sure how much of an issue that really is. please help! the most confusing part for me is that it worked for like 2-5 minutes before regressing into its current state, if it never POSTed in the first place i would know i didn't have it assembled correctly.

Jcomptech · Aug 20, 2014

Poeticfire666 :

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2JKBzy

my build is listed in the above link.
i assembled the components, and am about ready to take everything apart and put it back together again since i finally got my GPU today, and after turning it on and thumbing through the BIOS to set up my boot order, it suddenly turned off on me. now it won't POST. the fans spin for a second and the CPU_LED flashes once and the power is terminated. i can cut power and do the same thing over again, but this is all it does. i may have bent some of the pins that run to the power switch on the case while installing the GPU, but i straightened them out (also it POSTed before i noticed this) and the power switch still turns it on, so i'm not sure how much of an issue that really is. please help! the most confusing part for me is that it worked for like 2-5 minutes before regressing into its current state, if it never POSTed in the first place i would know i didn't have it assembled correctly.

It probably has to do with your cpu. You may have not seated it right if the red light signifies the cpu.

junkeymonkey · Aug 20, 2014

sabbertooth = biggest hunk of junk I ever seen or owned I give this old link for you to read my thinking of the ones we had around here . never again

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2136393/bought-sabertooth-z97-mark-replace-maximus-vii-hero.html

you can lok for the posts that got same issues as you and see if there solved ??

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/all.html?refine=sabertooth+990fx+

Jcomptech · Aug 20, 2014

junkeymonkey :

Were they all the sabertooth 990fx ? If so then I do not understand how you could get that bad of luck unless they were sitting out in a humid garage or dirty basement. Not to meantion, a lot of people say they are good boards.

junkeymonkey · Aug 20, 2014

yes all 990fx all bought at different times from the 3 of us all 3 junk my buddy has always built asus but after that deal with the saber he said '' I guess asus is not the way to go these days '' thing is all the parts went right on the different brand replacement boards and worked first boot with out issues

as I said that was my ''LAST'' asus they won't do me that way twice. I could see one of three bad but all 3 with different set ups bought a week or two apart that's just too much .. asus just sems to have got high on hype and low on quality .. there not the asus I grew up with anymore

Poeticfire666 · Aug 20, 2014

yeah, the cpu was on there right, i even pulled that out to make sure. pulled out my gpu, still the same situation. pulled out a stick of RAM. still the same.

junkeymonkey · Aug 20, 2014

asus boards with issues out number the rest here near 50 to 1

Jcomptech · Aug 20, 2014

junkeymonkey :

Poeticfire666 :

Where did you pruchase the board from?

junkeymonkey · Aug 20, 2014

mine came from newegg and I assume my buddies and his son's came from there to. then he sent his into asus and got back what looked to be a random select referb. [someone else's junk] .. so after seeing that deal we just went and ordered new boards to go with all the parts we got trying to figure out the deal on the asus boards .. 1 gigabyte and 2 asrocks and all fired right up and worked stable from first boot.. no issues .. 1 bad board = bad luck-- 2 bad boards = damn bad luck -- 4 bad boards = piss poor quality and then send them your 1st quality you just paid $189 for and get back a used referbed one in return that did not run stable as the one you sent in ?? asus no more I learned and it cost

Jcomptech · Aug 20, 2014

junkeymonkey :

I hear nothing but good coming from ROG and Sabertooth Z97 boards(70% of the time). I also posted a thread and some guy said his sabertooth last him two power surges. I do know ASUS is not the best with some other components like GPUs. They had some bad line ups with their GPUs. Although, I cannot say anything towards them personally because I have not used them.

junkeymonkey · Aug 20, 2014

well I guess they got to promote there product do you think you would here bad ??

I guess if I was selling hammered dog crap I would talk it up as good

mine lasted a year or so as long as I just used 1 stick of any memory and kept the bios at default 3 vid cards 3 different cpu's 3 memory kits plus all the parts we swapped out between us 3 -- all I can say is about what we experienced with them here and it was some kind of joke and a big wast of my hard earned money I started out doing that one build and ended up with parts to do 3 and it had to be the boards cause everything pulled right off them and were put right on the gigabyte and asrock boards no issues ..

if it was not the cpu led it was the ram led if not that it was the sb led if it got to windows it was bsod at any givin time all the time like I said a pure joke

I'm going to leave this as it is cause its not helping the op at all and I hope him good luck with it

junkeymonkey · Aug 20, 2014

heres what you get searching for red led here

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/all.html?refine=red+led

Jcomptech · Aug 20, 2014

junkeymonkey :

People have bad expierences with boards. That is technology. There are a handful of people that have bad boards. Then there are people that have had a good expierence with them. It happens to GIGABYTE, ASRock, MSI, etc. I will keep your advice in mind.

Poeticfire666 · Aug 20, 2014

Got the board from Amazon, a shop within called 24pcsupply I think. The thing that's bothering me most is that it worked for like 5 minutes and then shut down and hasn't worked since. I know I'm not a computer genius but this just feels like something that isn't my fault. Everything is hooked up tight and tidy and I'm just really disappointed. The pins I mentioned being bent in OP were the power switch pins and it still powers up with the case switch.

Jcomptech · Aug 20, 2014

Poeticfire666 :

You bought it off a weird shop, that is for sure. If everything is connected right and tried every single step that can logically be applied then I would say bad motherboard. I buy from Newegg. Not sure if the place where you get it matters but purchase if from Amazon directly or Newegg, not random places as they may have bad components.

Dark Lord of Tech · Aug 20, 2014

I bought both of my 990FX Sabertooth Rev. 2 boards off the egg both run flawless.

Poeticfire666 · Aug 21, 2014

turns out i did buy it from amazon. i think i'm going to give them a call. however i left the computer off all night and most of the evening, turned it on this morning. computer posted, booted my windows install disc. i was picking the hdd to load windows on and then it turned off on me again, a power on fires fans, red light CPU_LED, no post no nothing.

Poeticfire666 · Aug 21, 2014

i'm torn as to whether i should try and keep dealing with this board or say fuck it and order a different board altogether. i can't just have all this other equipment sitting here waiting on this board to just "decide" when it wants to work properly.

junkeymonkey · Aug 21, 2014

well all I can say is that all 3 of us had one all 3 + 1 rma failed in some way
as is showed you in the link with red led that's a lot of asus with that ..

as I said all the parts from off the asus worked with out issues on other brands boards this board at newegg has only a 61% satisfaction and just go there and read the 1 and 2 egg reviews and see whats said

and yes we fooled around and spent a lot of unnecessary money in the hope that ours would go to working but ended up in the trash

as said above no matter what you buy in this field it is a roll of the dice on weather yours is good or a lemon but as we found that's just too many lemons at one time as we had just back to back to back that's just poor quality

the Five-Year Warranty* which is proudly provided that's all nice but how about proudly honoring it ?? like sending in a new board and getting back a random pick referb that seemed to be there hopes you over come the issues the guy that sent it in for had ??
now a days just seems asus is all hype and not the asus of the past where quality came first [opinion]

Jcomptech · Aug 21, 2014

junkeymonkey :

well all I can say is that all 3 of us had one all 3 + 1 rma failed in some way
as is showed you in the link with red led that's a lot of asus with that ..

as I said all the parts from off the asus worked with out issues on other brands boards this board at newegg has only a 61% satisfaction and just go there and read the 1 and 2 egg reviews and see whats said

and yes we fooled around and spent a lot of unnecessary money in the hope that ours would go to working but ended up in the trash

as said above no matter what you buy in this field it is a roll of the dice on weather yours is good or a lemon but as we found that's just too many lemons at one time as we had just back to back to back that's just poor quality

the Five-Year Warranty* which is proudly provided that's all nice but how about proudly honoring it ?? like sending in a new board and getting back a random pick referb that seemed to be there hopes you over come the issues the guy that sent it in for had ??
now a days just seems asus is all hype and not the asus of the past where quality came first [opinion]

When did you buy them?

junkeymonkey · Aug 21, 2014

??? I rather forget last year or 2 so ago?? I moved on from them and really anit looking that far back. just stuck in my mind how I was stuck in my a$$ pocket with them.. like I said I could see 1 board being a issue that's life but ....

Jcomptech · Aug 21, 2014

junkeymonkey :

If it was two years ago, that was when these motherboards had REAL issues. There QC has gone up a lot since 2 years ago or last year. There is a reason why that made the R2.0. To solve issues it had with cpus and upgraded its BIOS with the gen 3 one.

If I may add, regardless of the purchase, I do think that is rediculous. Their motherboards should have been perfected since day 1. Not with the BIOS updates, because that is inevitable with newer chipset cpus, but the red LED issue. If you and your buddies had all the same issue, then that probably signifies that their QC and boards were probably not perfected at the given time.

junkeymonkey · Aug 21, 2014

so your saying asus sell bad products early and screws customers ??? and knowingly selling a bad product as a first rate top quality?? so we now can expect asus to sell defected items until they get things ''caught up''??

what you just said tell me that if I buy asus it may be just a bad batch??

i'll try to stick with a brand that can do a better job of releasing a solid working product weather it s there first one or there last one

thanks for clearing that up

but I will admit the am3+ platform was just a big let down all around any way and finally drove me to intel for my first time in 14 years

Jcomptech · Aug 21, 2014

junkeymonkey :

That is my point. ASUS probably screwed a lot of people. It probably was a bad batch, considering at the time of purchase, it was when they were sorting things out with the first version of the board. I am only gonna build one AMD build because it seems to me AMD isnt the best with AM3+.

junkeymonkey · Aug 21, 2014

just for the heck of it I just went to amazon and found this read the review and the reply from mouse ...

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2IZJQONKPOIL1/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B008YDJHWM#wasThisHelpful

after something bites me as hard as this asus did theres no way I can ever trust them not when I know these other brands have been giving me little to no issues at all .. as I said my buddy has built nothing but asus and after this sabertooth deal he now runs gigabyte and will say that asus would be hard pressed to get him back see its not just me there were 3 of us with 3 boards with different set ups in 3 different towns ordered at 3 different times and all 4 failed .. that's not bad luck that's bull turds and low quality

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