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Code 19 on MOBO

Juggernaught
By Juggernaught
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So I had to send in my X99A Power AC back to MSI because it crapped out on me after a year and half.  I received an "upgraded" X99A Godlike board.  The board is obviously refurbished and has scratches on the colored plates.  I called MSI and they said they only send out refurbished parts for RMAs.  I found that to be a bullshit tactic if my original board is under warranty.  That rant is for another time, so I went ahead and put this pc together.  I go to boot and it gets stuck on Code 19 "Early Southbridge Initialization". I have tried both Bios A and B, clearing CMOS, and attempting to boot without the Graphics Card.  

 

Did MSI send me a refurbished dud?

CPU: i7 - 5930k  GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti  MOBO: MSI XPower AC X99 RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 32GB  Boot Drive: M.2 SM951 512GB Storage: 850 Pro 1TB SSD PSU: EVGA 1000W Case: TT Core X9 CPU Cooler: Cryorig R1 Ultimate Case Fans: 2x Cooler Master 200mm Fan, 5x Cougar Vortex 120mm, 4x Be quiet! Pure Wings 140mm Peripherals: Corsair K70 and G5 Mouse

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I would say sounds like it... directly send it back as DOA... no working gimme working NAO!

 

This refurbished bull**** is getting worse and worse... but it's cheaper and faster than checking and fixing your original board, which will be done also and send off to another costumer.

 

As an edit... 

 

I not so long ago bought a Asrock Z87 Extreme mobo as replacement for the broken Abit Fatal1ty FP In 9 Sli (which I will repair when I feel like doing it, need to get a new soldering iron first), it was a DOA as well. I ordered that with a 4th gen I5, which is exactly what that board was made for. But no matter what, the postcode said "no cpu installed"... So I sent it back as DOA, as well as the CPU, now here in europe there is an excellent what I call "Hardware Höker" called Alternate, they have a good repair team as well. So after a week gone I had the board back fixed and running. 

 

They found out that both bioses a and b were both corrupt. They fixed that and all was well.

Main System:

Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI

 

System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

 

On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display

 

Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060

 

(Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing)

 

Nostalgia: Amiga 1200, Tower Build, CPU/FPU/MMU 68EC020, 68030, 68882 @50 Mhz, 10 MByte ram (2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast), Fast SCSI II, 2 CDRoms, 2 1 GB SCSI II IBM Harddrives, 512 MB Quantum Lightning HDD, self soldered Sync changer to attach VGA displays, WLAN

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