Hello chaps, first thing: Happy New Year to you all!
Anyway I'm having trouble discovering the source of this problem and I'm looking to educate myself slightly about it. I added a new motherboard, RAM and CPU to my system; specifically an AMD FX-6300, a ASRock 970 pro3 R2.0 and 8 GB (2 4GB sticks) of memory. I assembled the build and turned on the computer to see that it wouldn't boot, I assumed this may be due to the fact that Windows didn't have the drivers in order to boot so I tried to reinstall windows which was causing BSOD. I tried to eliminate memory as a cause and removed a stick from the first slot and the PC booted without issue, I then put what I assumed to be the working memory stick in slot one to see the previous issues happen again. I've since put both sticks in slots 2 and 4 with no problems encountered yet other than a few small ones.
First thing is the PC doesn't seem to power off properly, whenever I shut down the PC I get "windows did not shut down correctly" only other thing is since the changes my PC seems to take longer to boot than it did with lesser hardware.
From what I can gather it's either the CPU has a pin bent (not checked yet because I don't have any thermal paste to reapply) or the motherboard is faulty and one of them is causing the problem. So my question to you fine people is: what is it exactly causing the issue so the component can be RMA'd.
Anyway I'm having trouble discovering the source of this problem and I'm looking to educate myself slightly about it. I added a new motherboard, RAM and CPU to my system; specifically an AMD FX-6300, a ASRock 970 pro3 R2.0 and 8 GB (2 4GB sticks) of memory. I assembled the build and turned on the computer to see that it wouldn't boot, I assumed this may be due to the fact that Windows didn't have the drivers in order to boot so I tried to reinstall windows which was causing BSOD. I tried to eliminate memory as a cause and removed a stick from the first slot and the PC booted without issue, I then put what I assumed to be the working memory stick in slot one to see the previous issues happen again. I've since put both sticks in slots 2 and 4 with no problems encountered yet other than a few small ones.
First thing is the PC doesn't seem to power off properly, whenever I shut down the PC I get "windows did not shut down correctly" only other thing is since the changes my PC seems to take longer to boot than it did with lesser hardware.
From what I can gather it's either the CPU has a pin bent (not checked yet because I don't have any thermal paste to reapply) or the motherboard is faulty and one of them is causing the problem. So my question to you fine people is: what is it exactly causing the issue so the component can be RMA'd.