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Not long ago I decided to make my first build for a desktop and ordered the components: -Asus Prime X570-P ATX motherboard; -GraphicsCard MSI GeForce RTX 2070 Ventus 8G; -SSD M.2 2280 Western Digital Blue SN550 1TB 3D NAND NVMe; -ATX Box MSI MAG Forge 100M Black. -AMD Ryzen 7 processor 3700X 8-Core (3.6GHz-4.4GHz) 36MB AM4; -Team Group Kit 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 3200MHz Dark Z Red CL16; -BitFenix Formula 650W 80+ Gold font. After assembling the components in the box and reviewing the connections several times according to the manuals of the various components, I can't even reach the BIOS page and I get stuck on the motherboard manufacturer's (ASUS) page with the message: press f2 or delete to go to uefi bios. I also have a keyboard connected to the USB input and I tried to click on the keys but without success. The keyboard is receiving power from the motherboard and I have already tested it with two keyboards that work on other machines. I have already reviewed all the connections on the motherboard, I have removed the connections from unnecessary leds, I have removed and put all the components and I have tried to connect the machine with just one ram and even in the slots contrary to those indicated in the motherboard manual. I also didn't see any LEDs on the motherboard that indicate a component malfunction. I also checked that all the fans for the various components are operational. Only when I removed the two rams did the monitor not receive an image and the printer started to ventilate with more power. Finally, I remembered to look on the ASUS and TeamGroup website if there would be compatibility between the motherboard and the rams. However, I noticed that the name of the rams is not on the list of compatible rams that was updated on 07/23/2019. I really need your help to understand if it is a compatibility problem between the rams and the motherboard that I ordered or if it could be from another component. If the compatibility problem is not verified I would like you to help me understand what the problem with my build may be, if possible. This is my first build, I spent 1500 euros in total with the various components + monitor and I'm not even getting to the BIOS. Can anyone help me?

As i am building a new rig and kabylake and the new and improved motherboards are out i was wondering if you could use a 6600K with a Z270 motherboard?

Main specs: Intel core i5 7600k Maximus VIII Gene Trident Z RGB 3200 8x2 GTX 1060 3GB gaming x Hello, For the last week I have been having quite the headache trying to figure out why my TridentZ RGB will not run in dual channel with my 7600k. Here is what all is going on. When I first got all the components in the mail, I swapped the old Mobo cpu and ram for the current specs listed above. I powered on with no post during bios. The TZ RGB lit up just fine and generally it looked like everything was okay. I assumed since this motherboard is z170 that I needed a bios update so that the 7th gen cpu would work. So naturally I ran over to my good friends house with my pc and threw his 6700 in it and it ran perfectly in dual channel no issues. I did the bios update to version 3201 I believe, and threw my cpu back in my own pc, his 6700 back into his and left before testing. When I returned home later that night, hooked all my cords and things up. Still no post. I started playing around with the ram and found out that if I use only one Dimm in the farthest to the right most slot, my computer posts and recognizes the TZ Rgb just fine, but as soon as I place both in my board flashes certain Q codes in this order 1. 49 2. 01 3. 03 Than continues to loop 01 and 03 after brief periods of time. When I first power on, I get q code 49 and the cpu led lights up. Than q codes changes to 01 than dram led lights up than to 03 and cpu led lights up again, than 01 with dram led and 03 with cpu led rinse repeat. Ive tried memok and it fails every time. Ive tried clear cmos and optimized defaults with the single dimm in bios. Also. For whatever reason I cant use either dimm singularly. Only the certain dimm works on the rightmost slot. No other combination of the two dimms in whatever slots post whatsoever. Any help would be amazing right as Im pretty much giving up until I have some other ideas to go off of. Thanks everyone for the ideas and help ahead of time. Ill answer and question and clarify if necessary.

hello everyone. i recently built my first pc. I just installed windows 7: CPU: i5 6500 Mobo: Asrock H110M-ITX Ram: 1 stick of 8gb HyperX fury Ram OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit SSD:sandisk z140 120gb ( its a NTFS format and im encountering some problems. i managed to install windows 7 by following the instructions asrock provides for the usb compatibility issues for intel 100 series chipsets and windows 7, OS is running ok , the only way to make my keyboard and mouse to work in the os is by enabling PS/2 emulator and having XHCI hand off disabled , ( Legacy USB support is enabled automaticly ) , but i cant connect any external usb 3.0 HDD , or my external optical disk drive to install the motherboard drivers. Ethernet isnt working too. When i enable XHCI Hand Off , keyboard and mouse dont work in OS ( and the rest usb devices dont work too) ( it doesnt matter if i leave PS/2 emulator enabled or disabled its the same..) Also i cant download drivers from within the bios cause that requires a fat32\fat16 file system and i have ntfs... I dont know how to solve this...:(

CURRENT BUILD PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KWsCRk CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X 3.4 GHz 8-Core Processor CPU Cooler: Cooler Master MasterLiquid Lite 240 66.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler Motherboard: ASRock B450M Steel Legend Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL15 Memory Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL15 Memory Storage: PNY CS900 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (used strictly as scratch disc for adobe) Storage: Western Digital Black NVMe 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (main) Storage: Crucial M500 960 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (game drive) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Green 2 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (long term storage) Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB Video Card ISSUE For a bit now I have had stuttering issues and various video playing issues in chrome. I would say for about 6 months or so. Windows will stop responding or hang. Sometimes Windows Update helps and sometimes it doesn't. Though we all know Windows Updates cause more harm than solve haha. Usually a restart will make it okay for a bit. The Ram was previously used in an Intel sytem with an i7 6700 and moved over at beginning of year to the above computer config. Things worked for the most part. I had really bad windows issues( downloading caused system lag/freeze up until download finished, occasional lag of mouse/system) that I solved with a Windows reinstall and thought that would be the end of it. However overtime I have been getting windows explorer hangups and chrome not responding and most recently in last month or 2 blue screens. I first noticed this when trying to play Hitman 2. It would sometimes just not start or it would let me play for around hour on average before blue screening. Leading to a error in page fault (I forget the exact error) that pointed to memory issues in event viewer. I "solved" the blue screening by lowering my ram from 3000 to 2800mhz and the other day I tried to bring it back to 3000mhz after a windows update to see if things got better...well it blue screened upon login screen and/or login with same page fault issues. This happened 3 times in row. Wasn't stable again until dropped to 2800mhz. I decided to check if a bios update was available for my board, and it was. Though it didn't quite fix any issues I am having it did mention better overclocking support for ram. I noticed at this time that they do recommend not updating the Bios if you are using a first gen Ryzen CPU though. I can't remember what for but I needed the latest BIOS update for something important to work on my machine awhile and had no choice to upgrade version 2.90 and this version also states not recommended for first gen processors. I figured since I already had a non-recommended version that I might as well update and so I did get the latest. I noticed a couple things, timings were MUCH better in bios and predetermined more accurately. Even if the board isn't applying the correct main ones (example, it says the current CAS is 16 while it states in the field that it would be set to 15, the actual CAS of my ram). Not sure if it was because of these better timings but now Windows would boot at 3000mhz but blue screened with same page fault issue after about half hour. Again, only being long-term stable after dropping ram to 2800mhz. However, I noticed during all of this that while AsRock supports first gen Ryzen processors they don't even have a QVL list for ram for first gen CPUs. Checking the list for second gen CPUs I notice my ram isn't listed either. Checking some other board for my specific ram modules "F4-3000C15D-16GTZR", I did not find them listed. However, weirdly I found the same models except the CAS latency being 16 CAS instead were listed on some QVLs (and here I thought I was doing myself a favour getting the better CAS Latency). Additionally, I ran only 2 sticks for awhile with little issue and I noticed that some ram module have support on a QVL, BUT they don't support the full 4 stick configuration. Beginning of the year I upgraded from 16GB to 32GB for multitasking and creative work. I am beginning to think that this introduced some of the issues since I regularly use over 16GB of ram. If the board can't support all 4 properly this would explain the page fault issues. QUESTION 1 I have not had problems with the RAM itself before and mostly been stable until recently and most issue with Hitman 2. G.Skill has typically been reliable for compatibility, however I have noticed that AsRock's spport for ram for even even second and third gen processors is really poor. So would you say that it is my board support/compatibility that is causing issues? First Gen CPU issues? or is my ram just not compatible with Ryzen and most boards? All of the above? I am not used to really needing to worry about ram compatibility and this is unfortunately either hard or expensive to test for. QUESTION 2/EVENTUAL SOLUTION I intend to build a new computer based on either 3000 or 4000 series Ryzen with an x570 board (more than likely the Crosshair) in the next 6 months. I unfortunately can't afford the money or the time to invest in the board currently and rebuild the machine. I would hate to replace the ram now if it would work well later down the line with improved ram support from 3rd gen and later processors. However, ram has been dropping price and I could replace my 4 8GB sticks with 2 16GB sticks. This would allow me to upgrade further later, as well as, bring the working ram back down to 2 sticks which seems most compatible with majority of boards. Not to mention the speed increase from 3000 to 3600mhz (though, more than likely wouldn't work with current setup, would be good for future). Hopefully enabling me better stability on current board/cpu until I can upgrade. However, I would hate to buy new ram that I ultimately don't need to find it it's just really a bad combination of hardware and poor support between the board and 1700x. Has anyone else had issues with this particular model (F4-3000C15D-16GTZR) of G. Skill Ram? I thought i was getting the better modules but it seems like its less popular to be supported and people even talk about the CAS 15 modules on forums less than they do the CAS 16 Modules. Is it a strong chance it is the ram and I would be able to solve my problem by buying 32GB of a compatible ram that will be future proof?