Rampage II Extreme orange BIOS light, no POST.

Akagi

Akagi

Akagi

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Hi guys, I just spent about 4 hours with absolute pigs of parts, some of which were probably designed by pigs, building my replacement server...

On first power on, no joy, everything turns on just fine, but there is not POST, and the orange BIOS light is on... Have tried resetting CMOS, have removed the motherboard battery for a long while (30 mins +), have tried different RAM and so on.

Spec:

Xeon X5650 w' Zalman CNPS9900DF
Asus Rampage II Extreme
6GB (3x 2GB) Corsair XMS3
Palit GTX460 1GB w' Scythe cooler
850W CM Silent Pro M
Fractal Define XL

No drives are connected at present, but I don't think this is relevant. I always check to see if a system outputs something to the display before attaching drives and things.

I have boxed the remaining bits back up, and the PC is sitting on the floor 3/4 built.

I don't even want to look at it for a few days, because I needed *something* to go right for a change, and it didn't, so I am kind of at my wits end...

Would appreciate any input you may have, as to what the issue may be.

My thoughts:

Board should be compatible with the CPU, but may have a BIOS which is causing incompatibility.

Board is dead (was sold to me as "untested" on the MM, chap said he had bought it and never used it)

If someone sorts this I will buy you an eBeer, because you may have saved my life...
 
Best thing you can do is try to borrow a different CPU and flash the bios, it's likely that you need a bios update for that CPU. I had to update my Asus P6T-SE to support my X5670
 
Have received the i7 920 and bunged it in, no joy. So I think the board is probably dead. Have used a known-working GPU, known-working RAM, no drives connected, no USB devices connected, BIOS/CMOS cleared, the PSU was bought recently and powers the system up so should be totally fine, the correct motherboard standoffs have been used, I've tried different memory slots, and the socket pins look fine... :(

Is there any way I can tell if the board is completely borked or if it is just a corrupted BIOS or something? Can I buy replacement pre-flashed BIOS chips?
 
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The jumper is currently on pins 1 & 2.

I have never actually done a BIOS flashback with a jumper before. Do I need to have power to the motherboard, then move the jumper to pins 5 & 6, then leave it for a few seconds, then put it back on 1 & 2, then hit the power button and hope for the best?
 
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Well I:

put it on 5 & 6, then back on 1 & 2, and turned it on.
put it on 5 & 6, and turned it on.
put it on 3 & 4 then back on 1 & 2, and turned it on.
put it on 3 & 4, and turned it on.

None of which made any difference. :(
 
Have the same board at home, actually going home tonight to pull it apart as it shut down with an overheating SB fault (auto shuts at 90 deg) last night.

Not much help apart from pain felt.
 
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