Unable to post on new Mobo

[The-Old]

I'm having trouble getting my new mobo to post. I've got everything seated correctly (checked, double checked, tripple checked). The board has power and everything lights up but no video will show up. I've tried my onboard video and my card to no avail. Would love some help. Only new things are the mobo and processer the rest have been carried over from the old system so I know they work. I'm wondering if the mobo is bad or if it's the ram not being low voltage. I'm not getting an error beeps on boot up or anything just a blank screen like it's not even reading there's a video cable attached.

 

System:

CPU - I-7 6600k skylake

mobo - ASUS Z170M-E d3

Ram - G.Skill Ripjaws ddr3 1600 1.5v 16gigs total (dropped to single stick up to 4 sticks to make sure that wasnt issue)

Graphics - MSI 970GTX 4gig

 

Not sure what other info you'll need.

 

Thanks

[Nonco]

Isnt Skylake DDR4 RAM?

[The-Old]

Skylake supports both. So it shouldnt be a problem.

[mikat]

Skylake supports both. So it shouldnt be a problem.

no!! ddr3 doesn't even fit in the slot, and skylake only supports DDR4 and DDR3L so no DDR3 on the desktop!

http://ark.intel.com/products/88191/Intel-Core-i5-6600K-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz

scroll down to memory

[The Official Czex]

Isnt Skylake DDR4 RAM?

 

That board supports DDR3 only.

[The Official Czex]

no!! ddr3 doesn't even fit in the slot, and skylake only supports DDR4 and DDR3L so no DDR3 on the desktop!

 

It supports it.

[The Official Czex]

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z170M-E-D3/

[The-Old]

What The offical Czex said, so why wont it post.

[The Official Czex]

Isnt Skylake DDR4 RAM?

 

no!! ddr3 doesn't even fit in the slot, and skylake only supports DDR4 and DDR3L so no DDR3 on the desktop!

http://ark.intel.com/products/88191/Intel-Core-i5-6600K-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz

scroll down to memory

 

Do more research before assuming: https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z170M-E-D3/

[The Official Czex]

What The offical Czex said, so why wont it post.

 

Try a different cable. HDMI, VGA, DVI, DVI-D, whatever you can use to see if it's a faulty output or cable.

[mikat]

Do more research before assuming: https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z170M-E-D3/

but intel's official site says you can only use DDR4 or DDR3L???

[The Official Czex]

but intel's official site says you can only use DDR4 or DDR3L???

 

Nope. DDR3 and DDR3L run on the same interface type, just a different slot. It will be compatible.

[mikat]

Nope. DDR3 and DDR3L run on the same interface type, just a different slot. It will be compatible.

strange...

[The-Old]

cable isn't faulty, been using it on the old build so i know that works as well. As well as tested that across multipe moniters

[The Official Czex]

strange...

 

My guess is that Intel just wants everyone to move on from DDR3, so they only list compatibility with DDR3L and DDR4 to make it easier for RAM compatibility in the future.

[Syh]

but intel's official site says you can only use DDR4 or DDR3L???

 

They wouldn't have created the board if DDR3 didn't work with it.

[The Official Czex]

cable isn't faulty, been using it on the old build so i know that works as well. As well as tested that across multipe moniters

 

Have you tried the same monitor but on a different rig just to see if the monitor is somehow faulty?

[The-Old]

They wouldn't have created the board if DDR3 didn't work with it.

 

Exactly and ASUS site says that it's compatible so that shouldn't be the issue. The only other thing that I can think of is that the cpu isnt seated correctly. It's the only thing that I haven't reseated since I've got the AIO cooler on it.

[The-Old]

Have you tried the same monitor but on a different rig just to see if the monitor is somehow faulty?

 

Using that monitor now to reply to here.

[The Official Czex]

Using that monitor now to reply to here.

 

Exactly and ASUS site says that it's compatible so that shouldn't be the issue. The only other thing that I can think of is that the cpu isnt seated correctly. It's the only thing that I haven't reseated since I've got the AIO cooler on it.

 

Reseat the CPU? Check for bent pins? etc...?

[phoenix230197]

I'm seeing a lot of doa Asus z170 series boards because of memory. 

 

Double check tension on cpu cooler as some boards are sensitive to over tightening of the cpu cooler which effects the memory bus (apparently).

 

Try if possible some different RAM or use 1 stick in each slot until you have cycled through all of the RAM individually.

 

Try speaking with  Vendor for DOA or Asus for RMA. 

[mikat]

They wouldn't have created the board if DDR3 didn't work with it.

i know, but i didnt know those existed because i thought it wasn't possible

[The-Old]

Just reseated the CPU, and cycled ram sticks. No dice. I know the board is getting power since all the fans are turning on. I'm gonna RMA it and see what happens. Either that or just return it and go with a DDR4 build and upgrade that stuff as well.

[The Official Czex]

Just reseated the CPU, and cycled ram sticks. No dice. I know the board is getting power since all the fans are turning on. I'm gonna RMA it and see what happens. Either that or just return it and go with a DDR4 build and upgrade that stuff as well.

 

Good luck! Sorry we couldn't find a solution.