I have had a number of issues with this board, it had been taking 30 mins plus to POST, I thought this was down to a low wattage PSU (620), and the GPU was using too much wattage (EN9800GX2), when I first purchased the motherboard I had to update the firmware to even recognise the CPU, however it's been working (with the above issues for a while. until about 3 months ago, then it started randomly rebooting for no reason, sometimes it would restart straight away, other times you could hear it POST around 30 mins after. So I updated the BIOS, I believe i was on F6. I am very very very disappointed, I have just read the compatibility list, which lists my Processor Phenom 9850 as unsupported. When I purchased this motherboard it was because it was supported. I would appreciate it if someone could help me out on this. I have taken out the GPU, removed all but 3 2 and 1 DIMMS, and installed a brand new 1000w PSU. I am sure I have now got to the bottom of my issues and it is Mainboard related.
- GA-MA790FX-DS5
- AMD AM2+ Phenom 9850 BE
- 4x Corsair 2048 MB 1066 RAM (I know also unsupported!)
- Corsair 1000w modular PSU
- EN9800GX2
- 8 SATA drives
