970m pro3 annoying me (Ram reserved, boot probs)

I have so many problems with this motherboard.

First of all when I moved all my old working hardware to this motherboard it didn?™t boot. While I was on another channel on my tv the notification that the pc (in the hdmi slot I?™m using was available) then when I went to the channel it kept saying no signal. I managed to fix that somehow by plugging out 3 of my 4 dimms and only using one. After reading a million forums and nearly giving up.

Ok cool jumped that hurdle. Then I proceeded to try use the other rams in the other dimm slots. My next problem was that they somehow didn?™t let me boot with 4 indentical model, size and speed rams. It let me use 1 or 2, booted with 3 inside but wouldn?™t boot or showed no signal on my tv. So I had to find the fix for that. I tried changing the settings in bios and I tried installing the latest bios via windows. I don?™t know which one did the job but it eventually allowed me to use 3 rams and then 4 after I tested them one by one.

I was kinda happy that problem was solved but then noticed that when I had 4 dimms working (4 x 4gb ram) I was only getting 12GB ram out of 16GB. The pc worked fine and it wasn?™t the end of the world but I wanted my full 16GB. I tested and played some Grand Theft Aito and although it did run ok I noticed that there was some occasional frame drops. So I deciided that maybe I should reset my Pc and start from fresh especially after not finding anyway to change it to let me use my full 16gb ram.

After wasting my time resetting the pc and then realising that it didn?™t change the ram issue I thought I would also install the bios especially after seeing that somehow it wasn?™t updated again (maybe due to my pc resetting) so I do the same bios install I did before via windows and guess what? It crashed somehow while I was in windows. I tried to boot after that and I?™m gettung no signal on my tv again.

Now I?™m back to square one again where my tv detects a signal from the pc but then when I go to the channel it says no signal. I dunno what is going on I suspect that it?™s a faulty motherboard before my hardware wasn?™t this retarded before. I?™m now writing this after trying to clear the CMOS for the 4th time. I?™ve even tried plugging out the other 3 rams again. Plugging out any hard drive that may have problems. Reading a million didn?™t theories. Right now I?™m trying to clear the CMOS again but wait long when the battery is out. You guys have no customer service number to call which is totally shocking to be honest. I doubt that I will even get any help beyond the same information that is online. With so many complaints about your product it?™s impossible to figure out which post has the info I need other then clear the CMOS which doesn?™t work for me. So seriously?

Thanks for your reply and yeah I guessed it was the bios update but ASrock shouldn?™t give you the ability to do the bios in windows if there is a problem doing it. Gigabyte doesn?™t have this problem and I just actually put all my stuff back in my old motherboard and it worked and booted up fine. So annoyed and not impressed by all of this all I wanted to do was change my motherboard from Atx to Matx. Also why isn?™t the clear CMOS working? So now I have to send it back for them to do something that should just work in the first place. Sounds even more annoying.

Also my specs are amd fx 6350 (6core 3.9 hz) I have 4 x 4gb Corsair Vengence 1600 has which should give me 16gb not 12gb ahem ahem asRock. 8gb sapphire rx 470 I also woudlnt of had to re install the whole damm pc and bios to have a bad bios experience if that thing actually worked. Just literally wasted 24 hours straight of my life trying to figure this out and stressing to have to put it back on my old Mobo again anyways. Then supposedly hope they fix. lolololololol FML man. Totally ridiculous

Haha that?™s funny cos I?™m from North London. I actually changed the ram to 1333 hz to get the three dims working. I also did the flash update in windows before I reset the pc with no trouble so was so annoying when it crashed cos I only just had it working kinda properly. I was reading that the Ram might of been reserved for my gpu but didn?™t know why that would be the case since I didn?™t set it like that and didn?™t see any settingsi like that.

I copied the same first message and wrote to customer service when I did this forum but here?™s something I don?™t get. The Rma support is only for America and asking me for an American address? There is no number to call. I got this from cclonline (will be the last time I do that btw) and I literally just missed the closing time to call them after trying to get it to work all day. I only have had it a day so far. I?™m sure it?™s stupid DPD that flung the board around or something cos from the start it?™s been a pain in the ass. Something was dodgy was before the bios flash. Anyways knowing my luck or should I say lack of it there will be either some lengthy bull I have to wait to get sorted or they won?™t help or replace it then charge me for posting it etc on top of that. Might even try get a refund considering I wanted to get a fx8350 in a week or two and this grannyboard can?™t even handle a fx 6350 and 4 Ram sticks. Damm wtf

Oh just to let you know thought I would update you.

So I contacted Ccl and you was right they replaced my Mobo they confirmed it was faulty. I also just got a captain 240 ex cooler and a fx 8350 and I gotta say I?™m pretty happy right now. The cooler is keeping my cpu temp super low around 24c idle and 43 while playing games. My ram issue is gone also. Getting the full amount although it seems like it?™s giving meb1333hz speed although my ram is 1600 hz. Possibly cos I have two versions of the same ram. I purchased a second hand set of two 4gb rams so I could extend my ram to 16gb until I can get something nice like the hyper X. Will probably get 32gb sometime around Black Friday. I was thinking of getting a new gpu but I don?™t think The sapphire rx470 nitro is that bad for now. Seen quite a bit of improvement from my previous set up that had less ram and useless cooling.

ran 1055T @ 2000 fx should go higher