So I decided to look at the latest AMD cpus. I also ordered an AMD FX-8320E 8-core Black Edition cpu (this was a mistake) however, I found the performance of this device is very comparable to the Phenom II 圆, and the Phenom II 圆 may even be better than the FX-8320E. 2.1) was a good choice however I found Newegg offered it at a much cheaper price. I went to Amazon looking for a replacement MOBO. Remove AMD Phenom II 圆 cpu and power up.Īfter the last step of removing the cpu, I realized the motherboard must have been toast Dead M4A88T-M.Remove DDR3 memory sticks and power up.Remove hard drive (2 SATA ports) and power up.Remove DVD IDE connection and power up.Press and hold the MemOK button – to no avail.Here are the steps I went through to figure out the problem:

Generally speaking the Asus boards are very reliable, so I don’t know what happened. Although I’m surprised that an Asus motherboard would ever get into the state where the board doesn’t boot and the BIOS screen doesn’t appear. I purchased the Asus M4A88T-M back in the year 2012 from Tiger Direct, so it’s had 5 years of good service.

One day I came home from work and powered up my PC and there was no BIOS indication shown on either of my monitors.

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