Forum: Motherboards

Hi folks, iv been having an ongoing problem since i purchased the above board, but wasnt aware of any drawbacks until i delved into watercooling and started to push things like like fsb, northbridge, ram. The problem im having is getting my northbridge overclock to post from a cold boot....

Good day everyone, I have 2 issues I would like some help, or just discussing about it will do, beforehand, these are my speccs: Motherboard: PC-AM3RS790G CPU: Phenom II x4 965 3.4Ghz RAM: 4 GB DDR3 at 1333 Mhz, 2 sticks of 2 GB each, both of them KingStone ValueRam (Edited this, It is 1333...

Hi there, looking for some advice/help. Got a PURE CrossFire™ 1600 Advantage PC-A9RD480Adv motherboard with a amd 4200 x2. All is running fine as far as i can tell (just put it together and loaded vista no problems). I went into the bios to set things up and the cpu temperature is showing...

i have had a look in the PI-A9RX480 manual and the search button dosent seem to be working. where can i find the post beep codes for the PI-A9RX480? im getting a single long beep then a pause it did this yesterday so i reseated the GPU and my RAM and checked cable connections which worked, i...

I'm aware this board is Crossfire only, and I have 2 Nvidia cards (an 8600 and an 8400, I'm using the 8400 for Physx). This board works fine with the single 8600 but anything I add in the slave slot, the board just constantly restarts whenever I attempt to turn it on, but, only when I turn on that...

Hello I built a machine this Thursday using the Sapphire 780G mobo along with AMD Athlon X2 7850 2.8GHz Black Edition 4GB of Crucial 800MHz ram and a 300gb Western digital hard drive. On Thursday and Friday it was fine apart from a message I was getting on boot up which was "AMD Data Change...

Im looking at buying the AM2RS790GX http://www.sapphiretech.com/us/products/products_overview.php?gpid=276&grp=6 But I want to buy ram that supports it I have been to the OCZ and Crucial website but this mobo isn't even on the list can anyone reccomend any ram for this mobo? Edit: Would this...

Hi guys..i have the followig problem my Sapphire MB model PC-AM2RS790G is overheating i get really high temp on my NB heatsink 58 C in idle and 67 in load.I dont think its a sensor problem beacouse i touched the NB cooler and it is preaty hot.I tried the new bios they released on 22 May but still...

I have just installed a new PC-A9RD480Adv motherboard and have come accross a few problems which I did not encounter with the board that was previously being used. I hope technical support will be able to assist with the following problems and guide me through the process of pulling and posting...

The bios does not detect any hard drives connected to the SATA-2 connectors. I have the controller enabled in the bios and have it set to IDE as i do not want to run raid on this controller. But the bios does not detect them and i can't access the raid bios <crtl-s> when booting:mad:

Hello I Have Problem With The Bios I Close Normally The Pc Unplugged From Power For About 30 Min And When I Start It The Bios Wont Post.freeze At"verifying Dmi Pool Data" The Diagnostic Led Is 96 Any Ideas?? Thanks For Advance

hi what ram is compatible with my mobo im using ddr at the moment could i use ddr2 or ddr3 as well? thanks mobo is sapphire PI-A9RX480

Hi everyone I am new her :) I have a question about Sapphire 790FX motherboard. I think that the memory volt regulator has strange sound. The only gripe with this power supply system is its open coils in the memory voltage regulator - they hiss in some modes Is there anything that i...

After I had flashed the bios by winflash v1.79 and restarted the system, it could not boot any more. Post code indicator shows 41(1 long 2 short then 1 short continous beeps). System booted with backup bios with message "main bios crashed. reflash main bios". When attempting to reflash by awdflash...

first what is the molex plug on the board for? should it be plugged?with what? 2nd. is it a bad idea to not reinstall vista-I changed mobo from a msi k9ngm4 to a am2rd580 kept same; cpu,hdd,gpu,psu new ram. windows boots and runs fine no lost settings/folders i can see, is thgis wise to leave...

I have the PURE PI-AM2RS780G mobo with os XPsp3 with AMD 5000+ BE & 2 gig ddr2 800, which worked well for me for three weeks, then the the pc froze,windows crashed. I formatted the hdd & re-installed windows XP sp3. I loaded the drivers for the mobo from the original driver cd, thinking all is...

HI GUYS! I have a problem with installation of Windows Vista on mi PC: CPU: AMD ATHLON 64 X2 5000+ (Windsor Core) RAM: 2 x 1GB DDR II 800Mhz Apacer (Dual Channel) Mobo: Sapphire Pure Crossfire 3200 ADV (PC-AM2RD580Adv) Last BIOS VGA: Sapphire X1950XTX HD: Western Digital 320GB SATA II HD:...