I built a new PC mostly from scratch today. The only parts I didn’t buy stand-alone were a pair of DDR4 2666Mhz sticks made by Micron and an i7-8700, both of which I took from a prebuilt I had.
Unfortunately, there seem to be some problems. For one, the only RAM slots that are working are the 3rd and 4th ones. I have tried both RAM sticks in all 4 slots and only those two seem to work. Whenever I try to put the second stick of RAM in, the DRAM debug light comes on solid for a few seconds then flashes for a split second to the CPU before going back to the DRAM light.
Second, something that’s very strange which I don’t understand is the motherboard tried to boot up from a hard drive which had no OS on it instead of my SSD. This caused a problem where Windows would try to “repair” the disk but just ended up giving me a “recovering” loop. This was “solved” by me disconnecting the HDDs and leaving only the SSD in. When only the SSD is in or I specify every time I boot up that the ADATA Drive is the boot drive, things seem fine aside from no Ethernet connection.
And third, my Ethernet cable isn’t being recognized. So I have no internet except Wi-Fi which isn’t exactly ideal.
I’m really hoping the motherboard isn’t fried somehow because that would really suck. It took me a long time to build this thing, I really hope I don’t have to send the motherboard back to Amazon then reconnect everything all over again
i7-8700
Z390 MSI Gaming Edge Motherboard
16GB DDR4 2666Mhz CL19 Micron Technology RAM
GTX 1070 Ti EVGA Ultra Silent
650W EVGA G3 PSU
1TB SU800 SSD
2TB Seagate barracuda HDD
3TB Seagate barracuda HDD
Unfortunately, there seem to be some problems. For one, the only RAM slots that are working are the 3rd and 4th ones. I have tried both RAM sticks in all 4 slots and only those two seem to work. Whenever I try to put the second stick of RAM in, the DRAM debug light comes on solid for a few seconds then flashes for a split second to the CPU before going back to the DRAM light.
Second, something that’s very strange which I don’t understand is the motherboard tried to boot up from a hard drive which had no OS on it instead of my SSD. This caused a problem where Windows would try to “repair” the disk but just ended up giving me a “recovering” loop. This was “solved” by me disconnecting the HDDs and leaving only the SSD in. When only the SSD is in or I specify every time I boot up that the ADATA Drive is the boot drive, things seem fine aside from no Ethernet connection.
And third, my Ethernet cable isn’t being recognized. So I have no internet except Wi-Fi which isn’t exactly ideal.
I’m really hoping the motherboard isn’t fried somehow because that would really suck. It took me a long time to build this thing, I really hope I don’t have to send the motherboard back to Amazon then reconnect everything all over again
i7-8700
Z390 MSI Gaming Edge Motherboard
16GB DDR4 2666Mhz CL19 Micron Technology RAM
GTX 1070 Ti EVGA Ultra Silent
650W EVGA G3 PSU
1TB SU800 SSD
2TB Seagate barracuda HDD
3TB Seagate barracuda HDD
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