AMD 965 not supported.

[stoke1863]

Just got an AMD 965 and an this asus mobo

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-373-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481

The PC works fine and the bios and windows see my cpu as an X4 965. During post i get an error saying CPU is not supported press F1 to continue .

I have updated to latest bios and same thing happens. Its not a big problem becuase i have set the bios to ignore F1 errors and the PC seems to run nice

But i am wondering if something is wrong?

 

[stoke1863]

yes but as i said above the PC works 100% and windows see it as an x4 965 so no problems so no pin issues

 

[stoke1863]

According to asus.com - your motherboard doesn't support Phenom II 965
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=exJL00uovTJaDqxR&templete=2

argh you would think it would wouldnt you. Anyway the PC works fine so i gues there is no problem

 

[stoke1863]

Cheers Wayne. Its realy not a problem as it works great. My dad his loving his new PC now. Hes upgraded from an amd X2 4200!!

I managed to get a phenom 965 4GB DDR3 Ram and am3 motherboard combo for only a few quiad more an i3 combo would cost.

Hows that for bang for buck!!! Its mainly due the to the price of the Intel mobo's

 

[stoke1863]

Hey Hey stoke1863,

Is this your board please?

ASUS M4A78LT-M LE



Where is that?

I can see the PhII X4 945 as listed and that's a 125W TDP if I'm not mistaken?

Yea thats the one. It says up to 95w on the product specs on that site, Hmmm surely if it could only support 95watts my PC wouldnt even boot?

AMD 945 is only 95 watts. Should i RMA this mobo? Only got it today!

 

[stoke1863]

god damn it! Just my luck i just would have thought that this board would be able run all the phenom chips easy enough

 

[stoke1863]

well thats made things even more complicated! What you think i should do? Return to Overclockers and upgrade?