Only tighten mounting screws down enough to make them snug, never over tighten as this can flex the board, damage traces or cause short to ground faults.
Also, some of these boards have RAM compatibility issues, always double check the manufactures website to verify that the memory you intend on using is supported by the board. Generally, unsupported RAM may work but can be unstable, entirely unsupported RAM will generally cause a power on - no POST (if powering on at all). This also includes checking your BIOS version and update it to current if required.
(!!—never flash for the sake of flashing; if you don’t know what you’re doing you’ll brick your board —!!)
Thirdly, reseatting the memory is always good practice as sometimes the contacts are not aligned or properly touching.
Finally it can come from the CPU as the clock has to synchronize with the RAM timing/clock. Failing to do so will either render the machine with a power no post or will be highly unstable. If you ever have a system you’re having issues with and believe it to be the board or CPU, the best way to test (b/c MOBOs have no real easy way to straight test it, it is either open or closed.) is to remove the memory entirely with only CPU connected. Turn the machine on and if it generates beep error codes, the board is functioning and looking to synchronize the CPU with the RAM. If not, then you are looking at a bad CPU or MOBO. The only way to really determine that is to use a test CPU supported by the board, putting memory and test CPU in, if the machine successfully POSTs, then we know its the CPU and not the motherboard.
Just throwing this out there for extra information, have fun!
Only tighten mounting screws down enough to make them snug, never over tighten as this can flex the board, damage traces or cause short to ground faults.
Also, some of these boards have RAM compatibility issues, always double check the manufactures website to verify that the memory you intend on using is supported by the board. Generally, unsupported RAM may work but can be unstable, entirely unsupported RAM will generally cause a power on - no POST (if powering on at all). This also includes checking your BIOS version and update it to current if required.
(!!—never flash for the sake of flashing; if you don’t know what you’re doing you’ll brick your board —!!)
Thirdly, reseatting the memory is always good practice as sometimes the contacts are not aligned or properly touching.
Finally it can come from the CPU as the clock has to synchronize with the RAM timing/clock. Failing to do so will either render the machine with a power no post or will be highly unstable. If you ever have a system you’re having issues with and believe it to be the board or CPU, the best way to test (b/c MOBOs have no real easy way to straight test it, it is either open or closed.) is to remove the memory entirely with only CPU connected. Turn the machine on and if it generates beep error codes, the board is functioning and looking to synchronize the CPU with the RAM. If not, then you are looking at a bad CPU or MOBO. The only way to really determine that is to use a test CPU supported by the board, putting memory and test CPU in, if the machine successfully POSTs, then we know its the CPU and not the motherboard.
Just throwing this out there for extra information, have fun!