updating Bios

[phillpower2]

Sorry Bean1 but going off topic in a thread is frowned upon, confirm that all of the other hardware is working as it should and then someone can look at the case question.

Before worrying about fitting the board into the case the MB and other hardware should be assembled outside of the case and tested on a non conductive surface such as the box that the MB shipped in.

[Beani1]

Sorry Bean1 but going off topic in a thread is frowned upon, confirm that all of the other hardware is working as it should and then someone can look at the case question.

Before worrying about fitting the board into the case the MB and other hardware should be assembled outside of the case and tested on a non conductive surface such as the box that the MB shipped in.

Sorry i went off topic. Theres no way i can test motherboard outside of the case without disassebling my other pc, which im using as a guide for connecting new motherboard.

[phillpower2]

No worries but had you explained what was going on we would have understood.

For clarity, are you trying to connect an RGB splitter to the same type of board as in the link here

Can I ask that you do not quote every reply, it really does not help any and just makes for unnecessary reading, thanks.

[Beani1]

No, trying to connect it to Asus M5A97 R2.0

[phillpower2]

The answer is the same as it would have been for the Gigabyte MB, you cannot connect the RGB splitter to the board as it is not compatible, RGB lighting wasn’t around when those boards were state of the art so there is no 12V four pin header on the board to power the lights.

[Beani1]

Is there any way around it, or have just wasted £60 on the new case?

[phillpower2]

Sorry but no way around it i`m afraid

The only 4 pin headers on a MB that are anything like what is required are for power controlled cooling fans and they are not powered by anything near 12V, there is also the matter of software that may be required for RGB lighting, ASUS for example use AURA software which again is not compatible with older hardware.

[Beani1]

Great just wrote an email to pcpartpicker telling them the info on their site is wrong. Will have to put new mb in my old crappy case tomorrow. Will let you know how it goes.

[phillpower2]

Not sure why PCPartPicker still has such old hardware on their system tbh as there is no way that anyone has checked that your MB is RGB capable, the specs here confirm that there is no 12V four pin header on the MB.

[Beani1]

Tried booting it without ram (the ram i have is not compatable, typical) all i got was message ‘check signal cable’ . Tried taking out mb battery and then putting back in fix. That didnt work.

[phillpower2]

A MB will not pass the power on self test (POST) if there is no RAM in the board.

The boot process is realistically the final part of the POST as Windows can only boot up after all hardware has passed the power on self test at which point the BIOS looks for a storage/boot device that has an OS on it to boot into.

[Beani1]

So i need to buy and install ram first?

Also when i power up the hard drive dosent start.

[phillpower2]

Yes.

Did you read and understand the information at the POST link that was included in my reply #26, if any item of hardware is either faulty or missing the POST is aborted and you will get an onscreen error message.

If you wish to troubleshoot this latest board or set up can I ask that you start a new thread but only once you have all of the necessary hardware for it to actually boot up.

[Beani1]

Yeah i read it. Will start new thread if i still have problem after i buy RAM. Thanks

[phillpower2]

Good call and you are welcome

If the board does not have one get yourself a BIOS error speaker like the one in the attachment, always a good thing to have in the toolbox for when troubleshooting.