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**profJim** · 01-07-2014, 12:04 AM

Re: Z87M Extreme4 no POST, nuffin

Glad to hear that everything is OK with your replacement motherboard.

Thanks for the update.

**parsec** · 01-09-2014, 01:42 AM

Re: Board replaced - all fine now !

Originally posted by A-l-e-x View Post

(Late) Happy New Year to everyone.

Sorry for the delay, the RMA process took quite a while, the holiday season certainly didn't speed things up either, I guess.

Although I, in my anger about having received a faulty board, stupidly and thoughtlessly damaged the socket even more by
putting the PnP cap onto the socket directly got the board replaced and ... everything worked just fine with the new board,
out of the box, even the "incompatible" RAM (Crucial Ballistix Tactical DDR3-1600 as mentioned earlier) didn't cause an issue at all.

Thanks for all input !

That's good, but you were lucky. Particularly if Crucial said the memory was not compatible.

Will memory not in the compatibility list work sometimes? Yes it will, but there is other memory that won't work. The lists aren't there to make money for the memory manufactures, there are specs that the memory must meet in order to work, and none of those specs are listed anywhere in the information on the manufacture's website. They might be in the model's data sheet, if there is one, and if it lists the type of memory chips used. That is then cross referenced with the memory controller specs for your CPU or chipset. Does that sound like fun?

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