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I have a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H (rev. 1.0) motherboard which has worked flawlessly since I bought it about 5 years ago until suddenly last week when my system stopped booting. Now when I power on, before I even see a 'Press [DEL] to enter BIOS' or whatever, it reboots. It seems to follow the same pattern every time I boot, which is:
As an aside, this happened right around the same time my various OSs on different drives stopped booting, although the only connection I can imagine is that, with all my system rebooting to try and get them working again, something on the motherboard/BIOS might've got fried...
Anyway, I assumed maybe it was something to do with the BIOS corrupting, so I tried resetting CMOS by jumping the pins inside, and when that didn't work I tried removing the battery for 10 mins. When this didn't work either, after a lot of web searching, I discovered I could manually force the system to 'rebuild' a corrupted BIOS by power-cycling from the switch on the PSU with the front power button held. This got my BIOS rebuilt and I was able to boot my system again, but then after a few shutdowns/reboots I'm back to square one. This has happened twice now and I'd rather not keep trying the power-cycling in case I'm doing more damage.
I've tested the CMOS battery with a meter and it's full. I haven't tested the PSU because I'm not sure if it's a likely culprit (or how to even check with a multimeter etc). I've also tried 'breadboarding', i.e. removing all connectors, removing the GPU and running on-board graphics, removing RAM and even re-seating the CPU, but nothing seems to work.....
Anybody have any ideas? If I'm looking at a new motherboard situation, I'd like to know what could've caused this one to break, in case I can avoid it in future....
- System powers up
- Drives/fans spin up, but no video output
- After about 5-10 seconds, power goes off
- a few seconds later, system powers on again
- this time, I get the 'old' Gigabyte boot logo (backup BIOS perhaps?)
- Blue screen with 'Gigabyte UEFI BIOS' header but no other text
- system powers off and return to step 1.
As an aside, this happened right around the same time my various OSs on different drives stopped booting, although the only connection I can imagine is that, with all my system rebooting to try and get them working again, something on the motherboard/BIOS might've got fried...
Anyway, I assumed maybe it was something to do with the BIOS corrupting, so I tried resetting CMOS by jumping the pins inside, and when that didn't work I tried removing the battery for 10 mins. When this didn't work either, after a lot of web searching, I discovered I could manually force the system to 'rebuild' a corrupted BIOS by power-cycling from the switch on the PSU with the front power button held. This got my BIOS rebuilt and I was able to boot my system again, but then after a few shutdowns/reboots I'm back to square one. This has happened twice now and I'd rather not keep trying the power-cycling in case I'm doing more damage.
I've tested the CMOS battery with a meter and it's full. I haven't tested the PSU because I'm not sure if it's a likely culprit (or how to even check with a multimeter etc). I've also tried 'breadboarding', i.e. removing all connectors, removing the GPU and running on-board graphics, removing RAM and even re-seating the CPU, but nothing seems to work.....
Anybody have any ideas? If I'm looking at a new motherboard situation, I'd like to know what could've caused this one to break, in case I can avoid it in future....