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GA-Z270 Gaming K3 first build - flashing 6 times when trying to POST

Hello everybody,

So I'm working on my first homebuilt PC with these parts:

MOBO -- GA-Z270 K3
CPU --Intel i7 7700K
GPU -- 8 GB Gigabyte GeForce GTX,
Memory -- 2x8 GB Corsair DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz
Storage -- 2TB Seagate Firecuda 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s
PSU -- Seasonic SSR-650RM
Case -- NZXT S340VR-Elite

I got everything together today and plugged in with fingers crossed. I hit the power button and red lights mobo came on with the fan, so I was excited at first, but it's not quite there. No display on my monitor, and mobo lights flash 6 times, then turned off. It keeps cycling like this, and I can't find anything about what the flashing indicates. It's not in the manual.

Any idea about this? I have not yet deconstructed, because I thought the flashing would be an error code, but as I said no luck yet in determining the meaning behind it.

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Re: GA-Z270 Gaming K3 first build - flashing 6 times when trying to POST
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2017, 05:19:03 pm »
If you have confirmed all of your connections, believe the PSU is good and are fairly confident no problems with the CPU or socket exist, I would look at memory next.

If its not on the QVL for the board, it might be incompatible or require manual settings.  Try boot with just one stick installed.
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Re: GA-Z270 Gaming K3 first build - flashing 6 times when trying to POST
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2017, 06:36:45 am »
Hello everybody,

So I'm working on my first homebuilt PC with these parts:

MOBO -- GA-Z270 K3
CPU --Intel i7 7700K
GPU -- 8 GB Gigabyte GeForce GTX,
Memory -- 2x8 GB Corsair DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz
Storage -- 2TB Seagate Firecuda 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s
PSU -- Seasonic SSR-650RM
Case -- NZXT S340VR-Elite

I got everything together today and plugged in with fingers crossed. I hit the power button and red lights mobo came on with the fan, so I was excited at first, but it's not quite there. No display on my monitor, and mobo lights flash 6 times, then turned off. It keeps cycling like this, and I can't find anything about what the flashing indicates. It's not in the manual.

Any idea about this? I have not yet deconstructed, because I thought the flashing would be an error code, but as I said no luck yet in determining the meaning behind it.

Hi,

I found that this motherboard is very RAM sensitive. I have this board too I have RAMs from tested and supported RAMs from Gigabyte and I still feel some strange behaviour. First of all try to reset BIOS with jumper. If you have older BIOS than F5 ( I have last stable F6 but now is not on Gigabyte site ) flash new one - dont flash F7 or F8beta ( they are unstable and cause bad restart ). Then try sigle RAM to boot. Sometimes helps reinsert CPU to socket > check pins on socket.

Milan