Hello all,
I was wondering if I could ask for a bit of help/advice/suggestions for my problem....
I'm a long-time PC builder (my favourite mobo+CPU combo was the Opteron 165 and DFI LanParty NF Ultra-D... those were the days........), and have a weird issue with my new build.
Important bits: I have a:
Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3HP - it's an AMD A88X mobo
AMD Athlon X4 880K
AMD Radeon RX 480
Corsair 620W PSU
Corsair Vengeance Pro memory (2x8GB)
The issue is that the system will hang before the boot screen on a reboot, either with the reboot button, or by soft reboot. The fans spin up, and then nothing.
If I turn the system off, wait a about 20 seconds, and then turn it on again, it boots fine.
This ONLY happens with the RX 480. I have an old Geforce 8800 series card (ANCIENT, I know), and with it, everything is fine! Soft-reboots, hard reboots, reboots with the button, turn off and on again in quick succession - all fine.
Of course, goes without saying - I'm using all stock settings in the BIOS.
Am I correct in assuming this a motherboard incompatibility? Any ideas? I'd rather send the mobo back and get a different one - I got it from Scan, so hopefully they'll let me do that.
Thanks