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Need some diagnostic advice

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Carbon_Rod

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Hi all! I just received the last couple pieces for my 2P build today... the CPUs. But I seem to have run into a wall and need a second opinion from you other tech gurus (particularly other owners of KGPE-D16 boards).

I so just installed the CPUs into the KGPE-D16 board I have and on boot up, it reports DIMM_H2 is bad. I tried the usual swapping of DIMMs twice after that, all with the same result. I even swapped the 4 DIMMs from CPU1 into CPU2 and still I get the error saying DIMM_H2 is bad. I removed a couple sticks from each bank so DIMM_H2 is not populated, and now the system boots no problems. About the only setting in the BIOS I touched relating to memory was to turn off ECC.

I'm using 2 sets of that G.Skill CL7 1333MHz 8GB quad channel memory in my system since it seems everyone else is having no issues with it. I have not gone through the trouble of doing a complete Memtest particularly because I'm almost convinced it's not the memory considering that out of the 8 DIMMs I have, the 4 of them I tried in that slot worked fine in other slots and the board also boots fine without that slot populated.

So, is there some quirk to these boards or is it just possible I have a dud? I'm still within the window for return but I thought I'd just ask first in case there's something I haven't tried yet before going through the RMA process.

Any help or info is appreciated.
 
Did you swap the CPUs?
If not, try it and clean the contacts on the CPU with rubbing alcohol while they are out of the MB. Also closely inspect socket pins for bent or damaged pins.
 
sounds like either as KMac said bad contact on the CPU, or bad board.
 
Ya... I'm now convinced it's actually the CPU. Just finished swapping the CPUs (cleaned the contacts, inspected CPU sockets in between) now it states that the 4th DIMM in its bank is bad (DIMM_D2).... so it's the same issue, just now swapped to the alternate CPU socket.

First off, they are used off ebay so ya, I can't expect perfection. The CPU in question actually has a small chip on the corner of its PCB, though I don't think that's really the issue. I figure that's just a cosmetic thing. But nonetheless, it's also that CPU that's got the memory issue.

Besides that, I thought I was buying 6176's (I even double checked the model number in the auction) and when I swapped the CPUs I noticed they're 6176 SE... minor issue as well, but still an issue. Guess this seller will be getting these back.
 
I had a board that had a very similar issue. I used it for a few days until it died the rest of the way. Asus replaced it.
 
jimh425 said:
I had a board that had a very similar issue. I used it for a few days until it died the rest of the way. Asus replaced it.
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I was hoping this was going to be the board too... dealing with returns with online retailers is much easier than dealing with some ebay sellers... but it appears it's most likely the CPU. Did another DIMM swap here in the past few minutes *just to be sure* and as expected I got the message that the CPU thinks that stick of memory is bad.
 
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