Error 53 with EP2C612 WS

That celebration was a bit too early, or how we say it in germany: "zu früh gefreut" :(

Yes, the machine now starts, with the new bios chips and the onboard graphics card!
We used the old HDDs, so even the old windows starts!
BUT: With a graphics card in the PCI- E slots, nothing happens! Dell Monitor goes in "receiving mode" (the power button turns blue), but the screen remains black.

We tested 3 different cards in every slot, even if the manual says some slots are for SLI only.
GTX 770, GTX 1070, an older one, ripped from a PC in the company.

hence We want to build 5 PCs of the same kind, We tested a second board with exactly the same components. Same result :(

At least we gave up. Any ideas?

thank you 

Just for the record:

We got in contact with the ASrock support. they sent us Bios chips with a 2.10 Bios. changed them on the board.

It is working! :)

Many thanks to Elvis Christiaan at ASRockRack in the Netherlands ( asrockrack_euatasrock.nl )

thanks wtuppa, for the Ideas. Regarding IPMI... I even had to google it :/ Feels like this is way over my head.
That tip with the internal connector actually brought me something to look at, on the screen, at least a BMC countdown and "Initialization ... 53". That's it, no way to get into the bios.

completely different idea to bring up your board.

are you able to access the board when powered using IPMI (from the BMC prozessor), but it seems to need enabling in the BIOS first...
if it is enabled already, it should be possible to update the BIOS from IPMI.


Edited by wtuppa - 25 Jun 2017 at 10:53pm

wtuppa wrote: it may be possible due to unsupported CPU, the board may not be able to access the memory (or say better, the memory controller is not known how to enable memory access). on page 2 of the manual, it´s written, that for v4 processors, BIOS v2.0 or above is required. Maybe your BIOS is too old (in addition to the unsupported CPU). Can you check the board (and BIOS) with a v3 processor? If you are in luck, probably you have to update BIOS only.

That sounds interesting. My problem here is, that I don't even get to the bios, to update it. I don't even know what version it is. And if I have to install and old CPU first, to update the bios, to uninstall that cpu again, to install the right ones, on five machines ... I kill myself!