Chino wrote:
Please confirm that you have your 8 pin power cable connected to your motherboard.
Yeah , well the PSU only gives the 4 pin power for the CPU but in the manual it says it's fine and it's plugged into the correct 4 holes as shown in the booklet
Wickman wrote:
You rename your Z87-PRO-ASUS-1802.CAP file to Z87P.CAP.
Place it on the root of your thumb USB drive.
Delete the other .zip and .cap files.
Be awere of that the USB drive MUST be a USB 2 drive and formatted FAT32 and placed in the right usb port.
The mob shall be in stand by position.
Good Luck
Thanks for the help , managed to flash the BIOS ( well it was running for a while and then stopped so assumed it completed)
Put back in the CPU,Fan and the RAM and tried booting up but again no luck.
Still getting the red cpu_led and q-Code 00.
My options seem to be this
- Motherboard is faulty and no recognising CPU ( I've examined the pins and none are bent )
- CPU is faulty , there's no pins on it to be bent or external damage but it could simply be a dud
outside chance
- The PSU is faulty and not supplying enough power ( only seen on other forums where the PSU powered the fans but didn't give enough juice for the CPU )
I'll be getting a friends PSU tonight and will test it out and post results in case others are having same issues
