gigabyte GA-990fxa-ud3 Rev 4 & fx-8120

[alucke]

I got my new ga-990fxa-ud3 Rev. 4 yesterday.  Installed the motherboard and components, found out that my zerotherm btf-90 died so installed a cheap heatsink/fan.  it was running fine, till I restarted after updating win 8.1.  Now it won't beep and post.  I didn't all the trouble-shooting.  The motherboard beeps like it suppose to with out memory, and the same without video card.  all the fans, hdd's, and optical drives spin.  Please help!!!  Did I fry my cpu by installing cheap heatsink/fan on my CPU???

[dmdilks]

I would do some research on this because windows has done a update that sounds just like some body told me the other day.

He had the same kind of problem and had to boot the computer using usb with a patch to fix his problem from Microsoft.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/ouc1too/archive/2013/10/20/windows-8-1-upgrade-reboots-to-black-screen-of-nothingness.aspx

If this will fix it. People you can do what you want, but please stay away from windows 8 & 8.1 for now till they fix.

[alucke]

the motherboard won't boot with the processor. the motherboard does one long beep and 2 short beeps with out memory,  and one long beep and 3 short beeps without the graphics card.  I had this same problem when I got my FX 8120 back in 2012, which was a bad processor, which I RMA'ed at the time and got a replacement, which worked.  So I ordered a FX-8350, and a good cpu cooler, yesterday.  Since the GA-990fxa-ud3 Rev 4 supports it.

[dmdilks]

all the fans, hdd's, and optical drives spin. 

You said in your first post that stuff is running. Is the computer coming on but nothing on the screen right? That is why I put up that link.

Now when you say you put on a cheap heatsink was it the one that comes with CPU?  Have you tried to clear the cmos and pull the battery?

You can try what was posted on the 3rd post. http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,15067.0.html

till I restarted after updating win 8.1.

You are dealing with windows 8.1 and this happen after you did the update. The computer was running till that point.

[alucke]

followed the post 3 from the link that was posted, and that didn't work.  So a friend lent me his Sempron processor, to test the mobo.  Everything worked with the Sempron processor.  So I know now, my old fx-8120 is dead.