I don't know where else to turn with this. I bought an E8500 with the E0 stepping a couple of months ago and a GA-EP35-DS3L to go with it. My system works perfectly when I run it with my old Pentium D processor but I get no post with the E8500. I've updated the BIOS to F5 and then to F6a and it makes no difference. No beeps, no post, nothing.
I thought it was just a bad CPU so I RMA'd the E8500 to Intel and they sent me another one, but it has the exact same problem. I'm highly skeptical that I somehow got two different bad CPUs, so it has to be either a BIOS issue or a motherboard issue, right?
Is RMAing the board just a waste of time, since it works with the older cpu?
Is it even possible that there's some flaw with the board that would only prevent it from working with the e0?
I thought it was just a bad CPU so I RMA'd the E8500 to Intel and they sent me another one, but it has the exact same problem. I'm highly skeptical that I somehow got two different bad CPUs, so it has to be either a BIOS issue or a motherboard issue, right?
Is RMAing the board just a waste of time, since it works with the older cpu?
Is it even possible that there's some flaw with the board that would only prevent it from working with the e0?
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