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system with xeon 1230 v2 and asrock z77 extreme4 not working

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Friend got himself a xeon 1230 v2 ( ivy bridge ) and a Asrock Z77 extreme4 gen3.

Upon assembling and starting the fans start spinning, but no signal out of the videocard ( which works perfect in other system ) and nothing is showing up on the LED debug.

Broken mainboard or small chance of bios being so outdated it doesnt support the xeon? its been supported since april and saw videos of it back in may on youtube of that combo.

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I would make sure your friend has the latest BIOS available.
Make sure everything is plugged into the Mobo? (no forgotten cables? sounds silly but it happens).
Maybe re-install the processor again?
Try another Video card? Make sure GC has power connection to PSU if needed?
Make sure no RAM problems?
 
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had him double check , gonna tripple check it in a bit, though how would one update the bios when cpu isnt supported?
 

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If you can't get far enough to even update the BIOS because it's not supported at all, I imagine one would have to use another processor to do that.
I've never run into that situation.
 
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just to make sure, unsupported cpu doesnt mean one cant get into bios and update it? so we can rule out the chance its the oldest bios.
 

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just to make sure, unsupported cpu doesnt mean one cant get into bios and update it? so we can rule out the chance its the oldest bios.

Yep, outdated BIOS means the machine won't even post. I just had the same problem on an ASUS board when using an IvyBridge Xeon, the BIOS the board came with didn't support IvyBridge processors. Board would power on, spin the fans, but not POST. It wouldn't even initialize the video. Dropped in a Sandybridge and it powered right up.
 
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