A7N8X & Kingston HyperX PC3500 compatibility?

[BadA]

Anybody running this combination?

System won't post/boot and power cuts off after several seconds. I've reinstalled heatsink and removed all connections except power, power switch.

System reporter correctly identifies no CPU, and no memory, but if I add the HyperX memory, I get no report and the system just dies after about 30 seconds.

Any suggestions??

Thanks!

 

[mechBgon]

What heatsink are you using? Power cutoff is usually caused by the board's CPU overheat-prevention circuitry. Maybe your heatsink is on in the correct direction, but too close to the solid-plastic end of the CPU socket, so it gets hung up on it. This happened to me recently with my Thermalright heatsink.

Also, I assume you are using some kind of thermal compound

 

[BadA]

Yep, using Arctic Silver compound and a Vantech AeroFlow cooler. I've tried reseating the CPU and think I've got a good connection.

 

[mechBgon]

Maybe it's running into the same issue that was arising with some high-speed Corsair modules. Do you have some slower RAM on hand? If so, throw it in there, set the timings manually to something like 2.5 2 2 6 in the BIOS, save & exit, let the board go all the way through the next POST so it knows those timings are workable, and then shut down and install your Kingston. Good luck, HTH.

 

[BadA]

Thanks mech!

I think I'm going to pickup a different kind of DIMM and new CMOS battery to test those two things. I don't know what I'd do if I didn't live so close to Frys.