Hi, I received the following today:
Gigabyte UD5
Intel i7 930
6GB of Corsair ram (TR3X6G1600C9)
XFX ATI Radeon HD 5830
Corsair HX 750W ATX Modular
Samsung SH-B083L 8X (Retail)
2 x Samsung F3 HDs
Prolimatech Megahalems Rev B
Corsair Obsidian Series 700D case
Not the first computer I am putting together so I have experience but it's not something I do daily/weekly or even monthly to be honest.
Anyway, all components connected, I switch it on then it goes in a loop of coming on, then restarting, all I see is code 88 on the LED display for 2 seconds (bottom left corner - when looking to the back of the board).
I disconnected the HD's, Optical drive and removed the GFX card, only RAM and CPU connected now. Same thing.
The lights that do come on are the ones just below the RAM slots (or just above the ATX power), they are yellow-green in colour. There is also a red light on at the same time next to the power button on the mobo, according to the manual, it's either the Overclock LED or the Phase LED, difficult to tell as I can't see all the light flash up.
All power is connected, I have disconnected the power leads then back in again, still no joy. If it's a BIOS issue, difficult for me to update as I can't even boot up and get into BIOS. I tried it without the RAM too, at least I would expect a post error code, nothing!
I haven't experienced a dead processor before so it may be that, it may also be that the motherboard has a fault but difficult to tell.
The CPU cooler is fanless but I did attach a fan to the cooler just in case it's high temps, same issue.
I will be calling Scan tomorrow, maybe they are aware of compatibility issues of some kind?
Can anyone help?
thanks