I've recently bought one of these boards with an i5-2500k and Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600Mhx.
The problem is that I've been totally unable to install any OS with just the Asrock mobo, CPU, RAM, CD/DVD and 1 clean SSD (Corsair M4) in AHCI mode.
With Win7-64 (I upgraded for this) it gets past the loading files, displays the starting windows logo then the screen goes blank and the machine resets. This has happened every time I've tried installing the OS. Occasionally it's got as fear as the language selection but done the same again.
Win7-32 ends with exactly the same result. In desperation, even tried XP install. This gets about 60% through 'Installing devices' but again ends in the machine doing a reset.
I've tried installing using 2 difference sets of RAM and two different had disks, i.e SSD and one of the 250Gb HDD (wiped clean).
It's powered by a 520w Nestek (previously powering Asus M2N32SLI deluxe, 2x 250gb HDD in RAID, LGA CD/DVD, 5600GT graphics card and Creative Audigy2). Surely this is enough to power basic components I'm trying to use.
Anyone got any ideas?
The problem is that I've been totally unable to install any OS with just the Asrock mobo, CPU, RAM, CD/DVD and 1 clean SSD (Corsair M4) in AHCI mode.
With Win7-64 (I upgraded for this) it gets past the loading files, displays the starting windows logo then the screen goes blank and the machine resets. This has happened every time I've tried installing the OS. Occasionally it's got as fear as the language selection but done the same again.
Win7-32 ends with exactly the same result. In desperation, even tried XP install. This gets about 60% through 'Installing devices' but again ends in the machine doing a reset.
I've tried installing using 2 difference sets of RAM and two different had disks, i.e SSD and one of the 250Gb HDD (wiped clean).
It's powered by a 520w Nestek (previously powering Asus M2N32SLI deluxe, 2x 250gb HDD in RAID, LGA CD/DVD, 5600GT graphics card and Creative Audigy2). Surely this is enough to power basic components I'm trying to use.
Anyone got any ideas?