Hi all, for about 3 days now ive been trying to build my own pc for the first time. i have a asrock z68 extreme3 gen3 mobo and intel i5 2500 cpu. everything seemed fine, got everything connected and went into bios and got my boot sequence changed to cdrom and went to install windows. it came with sp1 and for some strange reason wanted to upgrade. anyhow i went to reboot and got the blue screen of death. upon trying to start up again a display wouldnt come up and 45 was on my dr debug led on the mobo. a possible issue is that i had two ram sticks right next to each other when there was supposed to be a slot between them. however if this was the issue, wouldnt it have created a prpblem as soon as power was supllied? why would it wait to freak out until a windows install was attempted?
i read in another thread that error 45 was fixed by some by taking out the cpu and putting it back in. this didnt do anything for me. since my mobo wont post, i cant get a display and thus cant get into my bios. i have tried the clear cmos button as well as trying every ram combo possible - 2 sticks staggered 2 diff ways and one stick in all 4 slots. almost always get 38 now on my dr debug except when i have a single stick which sometimes comes up as 38 sometimes 45.
maybe part of the issue is i cant get into my bios to have it look to mobo before cdrom, im not sure. i also tried switching the jumper for the bios reset but power wouldnt come on so dont think that did anything.
im guessing at this point it might be best to send back the cpu and mobo. since theres no way for me to tell which is the problem (maybe i messed something up reinserting the cpu?) id hate to return one and set everything up again to find out the other item is the issue. thanks in advance for any help...also took mobo out of case to make sure it wasnt some sort of grounding issue. not sure ehat else to try...
i read in another thread that error 45 was fixed by some by taking out the cpu and putting it back in. this didnt do anything for me. since my mobo wont post, i cant get a display and thus cant get into my bios. i have tried the clear cmos button as well as trying every ram combo possible - 2 sticks staggered 2 diff ways and one stick in all 4 slots. almost always get 38 now on my dr debug except when i have a single stick which sometimes comes up as 38 sometimes 45.
maybe part of the issue is i cant get into my bios to have it look to mobo before cdrom, im not sure. i also tried switching the jumper for the bios reset but power wouldnt come on so dont think that did anything.
im guessing at this point it might be best to send back the cpu and mobo. since theres no way for me to tell which is the problem (maybe i messed something up reinserting the cpu?) id hate to return one and set everything up again to find out the other item is the issue. thanks in advance for any help...also took mobo out of case to make sure it wasnt some sort of grounding issue. not sure ehat else to try...
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