Hey guys, Need some help please. I sold a motherboard on eBay just before Christmas, ASROCK Z170M Pro4S LGA1151 I had been using it with a 6700k and 16gb of Corsair DDR4 ram for a couple of years in my watercooled loop with no issues. The buyer is needing to reset the bios on a cold boot, when running there is no issue but sometimes it wont post from cold. He seems like a decent guy and is keen to get it fixed rather than returning it so I am keen to help him. We have tried in decreasing order of likelihood of success: Running without an overclock Replacing battery Upgrading the BIOS Resetting to factory bios settings Trying different ram slots Running with just the board, CPU and RAM. His setup: i5-6600k 8 GB of "ddr4 8gb stick of 2133mhz" gamemax 800w psu The fact its an issue with cold boot (once booted it works fine) seems to indicate some sort of bios issue (at least to me) but do you fine people have any other ideas I might have overlooked?
Sounds like a ram issue. Even if set to auto or xmp it might protest. Might be fixed by playing with the timings.
Thanks Guys, I pointed the bloke here. hopefully he can get this resolved with some help rather than doing the return dance with eBay.
