Is This A Motherboard Issue?

last option I can say is try an updated BIOS. your probably running 1.3. Try 2.0. If that does not do it, then It may very well be the motherboard.
 
OK, Before it wouldn't recognize the boot MGR on the preinstallation disk, now it doesn't for the installation disk either, will try Ubuntu again in a minute, it did this before too and after a few tries it worked i think, but i just cleared the cmos with the jumper. Is this the motherboard, right now i'm almost hoping it is so i can say it's not my fault he has to wait and all, Yeah i think after this i might be staying away from ASRock from now on unless it's like an amazing deal.
 
hopefully they won't charge anything, if it's more than 10 or 20 bucks just to look at it then screw them. Gonna call ASRock and see if they have any advice before i do anything though.
 
on the UEFI splash screen its the first entry. The revision number in the first line here. Its the P number.

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Ur input is fine but i wish other people would comment so i could be more sure and get a straight yes or no whether it is or isn't the mobo.
 
Id say its probably installation media, the source comes into question, i really cant say one way or the other though. Server stuff generally isnt meant to run on stuff that isnt a server, friend had to find drivers for his 690G board i sold him, but managed to find some drivers that worked...just was a pain in the meantime
 
so if i tried the disk in my computer, as long as i haven't put in the code then it isn't registered and will still work with the other computer, allowing me to check the disk to see if it is the problem? i did try the usb drive on my computer and it didn't work but it didn't even load the first screen which the other one does.
 
And because i had disabled the RAID i had to re set that up which involved wiping the hard drive of the installation, and when i went to re install even without the second stick of ram it didn't work, damn it :mad:
 
okay, so if I am reading right, you took out a RAM, and it installed, but then reenabled RAID and it won't reinstall? That may just be a suck arse RAID controller. Are you RAIDing on the SATA 2 or SATA 3?
 
the 2 drives are on the bottom 2 connectors, idk if that's 2 or 3.

The first time i had only the first drive connected and after removing the second stick of ram (slot A2), it installed no problem. The second time i connected the second drive, went into the bios and enabled RAID, set it up in raid 1, restarted and took out the second stick before booting again, then when i started to install it again, it froze up in the same place
 
okay. Might not be an issue, but worth a shot since you installed the second drive after the successful install. Run seatools on it with just the second drive in. It may be a faulty drive.
 
but i tried it many times without the second in without it working, then it worked the second i removed the second stick. I responded with this info to the email with the support and will see what he says, but i guess can you give me a link to that program anyways, might just do a software raid if nothing else and see how that goes.
 
Idk why i havent mentioned this yet but no matter what when im installing it never recognizes the raid setup as a single drive like it should (shouldnt it?) always shows the 2 seperate drives.
 
I think it might just be a bad dvd drive, hooked mine up and seems to be working, but it didnt work once and randomly messed up and restarted when i left the room.
 
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