AC2005 POST code 9.0?

[enjay]

Nice easy one lol


PC keeps hanging at this code and not booting, got it to boot once and flashed the bios to rule it out but no joy. Trying to sort out a psu but need to wrangle up a 4 pin to 8 pin plug for the cpu.


It's an Abit AB9 QuadGT motherboard, core 2 duo E6300 usually running at 2.6, 2 2 gig sticks of ddr 2 ram, nvidia GTX460 graphics, Creative extreme music sound card, 2 sata HD's and one DVD rw.

PSU is some jeantech thing, 650watt modular job.


Anyway any gurus got any other ideas?

[enjay]

Well that's a bummer, I've ruled out the psu, that means it's the main board or cpu, I suspect it'll be the board though.

[bkkkpewsey]

Try swapping out the ram as that post code error can be caused by bad ram according to some folks on Hexus

[enjay]

It's not even getting as far as the ram, you can remove it all together and it's exactly the same. It usually stops at C1 if there's a ram issue. The monitor isn't coming on or anything, it's just not getting far enough through the POST to get anywhere.

[decoy]

www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f15/abit-aa8xe-3rd-eye-intermittent-cold-boot-post-code-9-0-a-540789.html
might help

[enjay]

Sounds like it will be the mobo, all my fans power up fine though and no speed changes at all if you press anywhere. Maybe I'll see about the chips, see if abit are still around and still have some.

No idea how you found that either, you must be like a google zen master lol

[decoy]

Mar 24, 2014 15:02:14 GMT enjay said:

Sounds like it will be the mobo, all my fans power up fine though and no speed changes at all if you press anywhere. Maybe I'll see about the chips, see if abit are still around and still have some.

No idea how you found that either, you must be like a google zen master lol

no just spent a lot of time swearing at my own pc lol
but it looks like it might be the bios chip is fubared

[enjay]

Well I managed to get a board off a friend, he had some crappy asrock thing knocking about so I'm up and running thankfully. I was using a little netbook but really hate it lol.

I'm going to see if I can contact abit about the bios chip/chips.

[decoy]

yay but I think you will be lucky if they have the chip
don't order a 775 mobo of ebay unless its in uk and you can pick it up cause I got one from the far east and it arrived bent and yep you guessed it inop
I can have an ask round the clan members and see if anyone has one knocking about if you wish(it is 775 socket isn't it)

[enjay]

Yeh socket 775, I want the best most overclockable and I want it for pennies lol.

That's the thing with that abit board, I could push the cpu hard and no errors at all, not even a glitch. I'm definitely going to contact abit though, they're bound to have a stock pile of these chips seeing as they stuck them in so many boards, newer ones too and there's a number of them all having the same issue.

[decoy]

you may have burnt out a vrm power thingy's on the board as well if you been overclocking
tbh if any of them still have a 775 mobo it will prob cost you postage and that's all
I feal you pain it happened to me at the wrong time and I ended up having to get new mobo cpu and ram

[enjay]

The temps were always good, loads of fans too, big ones. It also booted up a couple of times and ran sweet, it's just booting it struggles with.

I'm using a zigmatek case with the psu on the bottom and a massive fan up top, one 120 at the front and one at the rear and a 120 on the cpu.

[enjay]

Well abit are defunct as far as pc's go but there's a few places like this

bios-repair.co.uk/Programmed-BIOS/Abit/Abit-Index.html

Need to contact them to ask about pricing

[decoy]

the vrm,s are what supply power to the cpu and its not heat that kills them normally just volts
I wont beable to find out what peps have spare till thurs night as I work night shift but will pm you with what's about