First Mobo Install - 3 Beeps, No System! Asus Experts Needed!

Aderes Devorah · 11 Nov 2012 at 00:20

Hi all

Got a Asus Crosshair V Formula Z AMD 990FX today.

My first ever new mobo proceedure, and I need help.

I believe I've connected everything up correctly, but I'm getting three beeps and nothing else (apart from power).

The Error Code is '50' which is memory related, but my RAM is only about a fortnight old and hasn't been overclocked (not that I'd be reckless anyway).

The RAM is also in the correct slots (A2 and B2 if I recall correctly).

I know some of you have these mobos, so I'm looking for some excellent advice.

Best

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wazza300 · 11 Nov 2012 at 00:43

try with just one ram stick installed,try each slot on at a time,it will bootup from any slot if its working

Aderes Devorah · 11 Nov 2012 at 00:48

RAM

wazza300 said:
try with just one ram stick installed,try each slot on at a time,it will bootup from any slot if its working

Thanks

I haven't tried the RAM one at a time in ALL of them, just the ones rec. in the manual.

I'll give it a go.

Cheers

PS Love the pic.! "****! You burnt the ******* money!"

wazza300 · 11 Nov 2012 at 00:49

haha thanks

yeah try and see if any luck with one slot at a time,it wont hurt anything ive done it lots of times

Aderes Devorah · 11 Nov 2012 at 02:46

Power supply (related question)

wazza300 said:
haha thanks

yeah try and see if any luck with one slot at a time,it wont hurt anything ive done it lots of times

I'm leaving it for tonight, but dor when I start tomorrow...

The board has four different power ports:

24 Pin ATX
8 Pin
4 Pin
Molex

I have the 24 pin connected (obviously) and the 8 Pin, but not the other two.

Surely all four don't have to be connected?

Cheers

Aderes Devorah · 11 Nov 2012 at 18:03

Last hurdle

wazza300 said:
haha thanks

yeah try and see if any luck with one slot at a time,it wont hurt anything ive done it lots of times

Hi again!

If you are around...

Hopefully I'm getting to the end of my first build and this is the final hurdle.

Everything is cool until I stick in my old WD 2TB HDD (which I want to use as a backup).

When I do this I just get sent back to the BIOS.

Do you know which setting I have to change because this is totally new to me.

Thanks

wazza300 · 12 Nov 2012 at 00:07

what drives are you using? makesure you set the operating system drive as first boot device in the bios,so it boots from that and not the wd backup drive

Aderes Devorah · 25 Nov 2012 at 17:09

Cheers (from 2 weeks ago)

wazza300 said:
try with just one ram stick installed,try each slot on at a time,it will boot-up from any slot if its working

You got it spot on with the RAM comment.

Can't recall if I said thanks.

It was a big relief (first mobo installation)

Regards

wazza300 · 25 Nov 2012 at 17:48

what was it? in the wrong slots?

glad you got it working now