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August 20, 2014 11:58:42 AM

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.

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August 20, 2014 12:29:37 PM

Poeticfire666 said:
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.
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August 20, 2014 1:00:23 PM

junkeymonkey said:
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-s...

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=saber...


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.
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August 20, 2014 1:29:43 PM

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
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August 20, 2014 2:56:22 PM

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.
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August 20, 2014 2:59:14 PM

asus boards with issues out number the rest here near 50 to 1
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August 20, 2014 3:06:30 PM

junkeymonkey said:
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 said:
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.


Where did you pruchase the board from?
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August 20, 2014 3:19:57 PM

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
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August 20, 2014 3:41:51 PM

junkeymonkey said:
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


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.

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August 20, 2014 4:31:12 PM

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
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August 20, 2014 4:53:11 PM

junkeymonkey said:
heres what you get searching for red led here

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


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.
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August 20, 2014 4:53:27 PM

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.
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August 20, 2014 5:13:47 PM

Poeticfire666 said:
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.


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.
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August 20, 2014 7:37:45 PM

I bought both of my 990FX Sabertooth Rev. 2 boards off the egg both run flawless.
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August 21, 2014 8:38:57 AM

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.
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August 21, 2014 8:41:47 AM

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.
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August 21, 2014 9:43:10 AM

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]
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August 21, 2014 9:59:35 AM

junkeymonkey said:
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?
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August 21, 2014 10:19:26 AM

??? 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 ....
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August 21, 2014 10:22:45 AM

junkeymonkey said:
??? 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 ....


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.
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August 21, 2014 10:32:34 AM

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
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August 21, 2014 10:41:17 AM

junkeymonkey said:
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


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+.
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August 21, 2014 10:53:09 AM

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_p...


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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August 21, 2014 11:06:12 AM

junkeymonkey said:
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_p...


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


Time matters. If it were a few years ago, like I said, It was probably more common than rare. Now, all I see is positive reviews. I do agree that is stupid to have that kind of experience. I never grew up with ASUS, or any brand for that matter. I choose carefully regardless of brand. Read reviews, buy from a trustworthy place, and you'll be set. In your case, that really opposes what I stated. I honestly agree ASUS is pretty cruel also, as I have seen.

Anyway, Poeticfire66, return the board get a new one, if you have the same issue, then buy from a different brand.
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August 21, 2014 11:38:23 AM

I'm not a brand fan boy all I ask is a quality stable product.. of all the brands I used I never experienced that as I did with the sabertooth and it reflects on my perception now of asus with asrock msi and gigabyte I don't need to look asus's way for anything I don't look at any of there items when its time to buy now

and yes to the better not let your return time run out .. maybe for you the 2ed time is the charm ..
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August 21, 2014 11:41:55 AM

Poeticfire666 said:
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.


Poeticfire66, return the board get a new one. If you have the same issue then buy from a different brand.
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August 24, 2014 9:25:05 AM

Returned board. New one is doing the same thing. My friend is coming to help me today, we are going to investigate whether it could be the power supply but I have doubts about that. This is depressing.
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August 24, 2014 10:05:47 AM

I am on my 2nd RMA w/ an ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0. It came back more screwed up than it was originally.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2270371/system-r...

Make sure your BIOS version supports the CPU you have. My original issue was it halted at CPU during POST, it was due to the BIOS version, although you'd think a "FX Chipset" board would support all FX CPU's natively. Good luck if you have to RMA, you'll need it.
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August 25, 2014 7:48:35 AM

I guess try another cpu and see how it will do

with all I said above we came down to asus bios is just got so complex and now its affecting things or there bios chips are getting a lot of defective ones cause just like the guy above its just not sabertooth with these issues

but I do hope yopu get some good luck going your way cause I do know how it feels
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August 25, 2014 8:10:45 PM

I will never NewEgg anything again. Long story short they send out open box return junk as new. 2 junk boards in 5 years. Amazon will make it right. I always get what is advertised on Amazon. Be it new, refurbished or used. No variations. Just be careful on Amazon, unless it is a warehouse for Amazon. Amazon Paid for my Sabertooth 990fx r1.
I made the mistake of buying from a "shop". It was a r1 and not as listed a r2. I have used Asus for years. I have not had problems. I discovered my cpu led on & machine wouldn't post or beep. Got to looking. I apparently didn't latch the cpu correctly. I used some AS ceramic and it almost bonded the heatsink to cpu. I pulled a little and the cpu popped out attached to the sink. That stuff even pitted my cpu cap/lid.
It maybe as simple as poor heatsink contact as in my situation. Had a computer since 1992, so IDK how this happened. Suspect the latch is defective. I hope you get a replacement Sabertooth and get it working. Keep us informed.
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August 26, 2014 10:59:50 AM

not toad more to your issue on this ,but one thing that kinda bothers me on this asus board is the fact it all ready got 17 bios updates on it .. 17 why is that ? is it the board is so unstable that they cant fix it ?? just seems to me that's a heck of a lot

to me , lets say if these boards I'm interested in been out for 6 months and board ''A'' has 7 bios updates and board ''b'' and ''c'' only have 3 I would tend not to look any more at board ''A'' .. something's up with that [opinion]
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September 6, 2014 5:05:07 PM

I have the same issue, Asus Sabertooth 990fx R2.0. AMD 8350FX, purchased all parts from amazon, water cooling block r9 280 graphics card.
RMA to Amazon 6 times all with the same issue, bios version on all boards rev 1.0.1.
Amazon threatened to close my account because of these returns.
So yes problem still there with FX chips.
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September 7, 2014 6:28:25 AM

Ivorysoldier said:
I have the same issue, Asus Sabertooth 990fx R2.0. AMD 8350FX, purchased all parts from amazon, water cooling block r9 280 graphics card.
RMA to Amazon 6 times all with the same issue, bios version on all boards rev 1.0.1.
Amazon threatened to close my account because of these returns.
So yes problem still there with FX chips.


The problem is not with the FX chips, it's the ASUS boards. I dumped the ASUS M5A99FXPro R2.0 for a MSI 990FXA-GD80V2, and life is all joy now.

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September 7, 2014 6:35:00 AM

that's how it worked for us junk the asus and put all the parts from it on another brands board and all's good no issues
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