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Is it really possible to mount a motherboard without standoffs? I don't see how it would line up with the I/O shield without them.
Newegg says this a VGA not a motherboard
RMA takes two weeks so I am seeing if I have money for a new board because I am not waiting 2 weeks on a RMA.
If the new board fixes it, what can I do with the extra board?
LIKE LITERALLY EVERYTHING IS ERRORING NOW! I think I broke my board not using the stand offs...
I seem to remember once upon a time that some cases had them built into the mb backplane but I haven't seen one like that in the last 15 years.
So you are planning to RMA a board because you couldm't be bothered to read the instructions and broke it. This is the point where you get 0 sympathy from me and 0 help now or in the future.
So you are planning to RMA a board because you couldm't be bothered to read the instructions and broke it. This is the point where you get 0 sympathy from me and 0 help now or in the future.
I broke my first mobo in my first build by not using standoffs. It was an AT case, and the standoffs were stupid little plastic things that "hung" in the case. I did actually find the one thing in the package that looked like a standoff for a screw, but I couldn't use it because there was only one. I took it back to the little shop where I bought it and they fixed it.
(No profanity in the tech forums.)Have you seen a ASRock manual, it's [bad].
I have the same mobo and mine cycles thru most of those codes before sitting on A2 for a while, ending in a normal boot.
As for the cpu fan spining for a half turn and then stoping, My first board did that and it was rma'ed. No fault of my own there.
Plug the fan for the CPU cooler into the fan header on the MOTHERBOARD marked CPU. If the fan doesnt spin it probably powered down when it over heated, or burned up.
Make sure the Motherboard has the 24 pin power and the 4-8 pin power plugs both plugged in.
If you start a motherboard and CPU fan does not initially come on in the first 30 seconds something is usually wrong with it. You might have it plugged into the wrong place.