HELP ! FX-8 6150 and GA-990FXA-UD7

jdsp · 2 Nov 2011 at 21:33

Hi,

Hope someone can help it appears Gigabyte have left the planet (I get no reply from their support and they apparently don't even open email).

I bought a GA-990FXA-UD7 + AMD FX-8 6150 with 16Gb Corsair 1866 DDR3 ram two Vertex 3 120Gb SSD's with antec 750w psu and HD6950 Toxic + other bits to make a fast system.

Problem is having put together nothing but F2 displayed on MB diagnostic display.

Tried another Display Adapter and took out 8 gb of memory nothing other than a 2gb data II disk used disco Vertex drives.

Reset cmos still nothing except F2 cycling on display with 00 shown briefly.

Nowhere can i find meaning of this code. As MB is week old and packaging says FX supported I cannot see it should not work.

Any ideas please help.....

jdsp · 2 Nov 2011 at 22:10

Any ideas what the F2 means?

Any idea what the F2 code means??

jdsp · 3 Nov 2011 at 12:51

Okay well no information except I know issue, MotherBoard is shipped with F2 bios does not support FX-8 or any FX even if it says everywhere it does!!!!!!!!!!

I think this is meaning of display but no one says!!!

Need older athlon, sempron etc. AM3 cpu to bootstrap it up........

What a failure ..............................

jdsp · 3 Nov 2011 at 13:41

Well no the board performs no type of even stage one boot, ie. because the CPU is not recognised nothing happens.

It is a really poor bios coding that allows this situation I would have thought as you say there could be a bootstrap that did exactly what you descibe.