In summary I decided to do an easy up grade and bought a new mobo and proc. I am under a very tight budget as my wife just had surgery. I installed my new proc and mobo like I have done serveral times before but this time the mobo took an average of anywhere from 20 to 2min to post. from there it looks like it runs slower than molasses on a winter day.
My question is has anybody else ran in to this and also what mobo do you suggest to replace this one with? I am looking at the Asus M4A77D as i have heard good things about this board.
Background: I originally built this computer around 2004 and have upgraded and replaced vaious pieces since then. I am upgrading my system once more and I am having issues with my new mobo I suspect. I have listed the last setthat I had that was stable for the last 4-5 months. The new system is listed below. I tested the PSU before building. PSU passed test with flying colors. Completed set up of mobo and new processor, plugged in other hardware. powered up no post. cleared cmos, no post. setup for trouble shooting(proc,ram and video only). posted after 20 minutes. foun out that board will only post with the 2x2gb ram chips installed. plugged everything backup and machine eventually posted, after 5 mins. set up bios. machine would not post after restart. I had to make a cold start and it finally posted. this time after about 2mins. attempted loading old windows load. loaded very slowly and eventually bsod'd (no good code for ts). I am now frustrated. i have tried all troubleshooting I know and I am ready to kick this board to the curb.
old system:
Asus M2N-Sli
AMD Phenom 9600
6 GB Corsair (2x1gb/2x2gb)
ATI Saphire hd 4770
2 x500 WD Sata HD
1 x750 WD Sata HD
2x cd-rw/dvd rom drives
windows 7 64 bit
new system:
Asus M4A78 Plus
AMD Phenom II 925 2.8 ghz
6 GB Corsair (2x1gb/2x2gb)
ATI Saphire hd 4770
2 x500 WD Sata HD
1 x750 WD Sata HD
2x cd-rw/dvd rom drives
windows 7 64 bit
My question is has anybody else ran in to this and also what mobo do you suggest to replace this one with? I am looking at the Asus M4A77D as i have heard good things about this board.
Background: I originally built this computer around 2004 and have upgraded and replaced vaious pieces since then. I am upgrading my system once more and I am having issues with my new mobo I suspect. I have listed the last setthat I had that was stable for the last 4-5 months. The new system is listed below. I tested the PSU before building. PSU passed test with flying colors. Completed set up of mobo and new processor, plugged in other hardware. powered up no post. cleared cmos, no post. setup for trouble shooting(proc,ram and video only). posted after 20 minutes. foun out that board will only post with the 2x2gb ram chips installed. plugged everything backup and machine eventually posted, after 5 mins. set up bios. machine would not post after restart. I had to make a cold start and it finally posted. this time after about 2mins. attempted loading old windows load. loaded very slowly and eventually bsod'd (no good code for ts). I am now frustrated. i have tried all troubleshooting I know and I am ready to kick this board to the curb.
old system:
Asus M2N-Sli
AMD Phenom 9600
6 GB Corsair (2x1gb/2x2gb)
ATI Saphire hd 4770
2 x500 WD Sata HD
1 x750 WD Sata HD
2x cd-rw/dvd rom drives
windows 7 64 bit
new system:
Asus M4A78 Plus
AMD Phenom II 925 2.8 ghz
6 GB Corsair (2x1gb/2x2gb)
ATI Saphire hd 4770
2 x500 WD Sata HD
1 x750 WD Sata HD
2x cd-rw/dvd rom drives
windows 7 64 bit