Gigabyte mobo gone to beddy bye-bye?

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Hi all,

I'm just wondering if I can confirm my fears with others who may have a greater knowledge and experience of these things:

Important info first:
my mobo is the Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R

I've updated the mobo BIOS a couple of times in the past. First time when I received it (I can't remember what the reason was now but seem to recall it being necessary - think I had some faulty ram but was told it was a mobo prob), and then again later when another update was released. I did both of these using the @BIOS prog supplied by gigabyte.

Recently, I've been having real issues with my computer and sleep mode, and was thinking of upgrading the processor so wanted to make sure the latest cpus for this board were supported, and ran the program again.

Unfortunately, something has gone very wrong! :eek: The computer now no longer even gets to display anything on the monitor, so I'm guessing it's not getting to the bios now due to something going wrong with the flash.

I don't know if there are any bios beeps as i've not got a mini speaker thing inside (I'll see if I can get hold of one tho). The hard drive sounds like it spins up and does it's clicking noise business, then everything just seems to stop.

Is there any way of resurrecting my computer or am I doomed to have to buy a new mobo? Don't suppose I can get any form of replacement from gigabyte as it's over a year old now and was broken by bios flashing? :confused:

I've tried shorting the cmos jumper and removing the battery, both to no avail. I've also tried removing the pci-e graphics card and using the in-built one, but again no luck. I've also tried booting with just one stick of ram in, but... no luck! :rolleyes:
 
reset the CMOS

what ram do you have? might need to set it to +0.4v if you have 2.1/2.2v OCZ ram

if i don't have mine set to this on my gigabyte board, it fails to come out of sleep.

NEVER use the windows flashing tool.
 
With regards to your BIOS flash, I had exactly the same woes as you mate. Flashed the BIOS from the BIOS based flash prog with the bin on a USB stick, it booted into the "Award BIOS recovery" screen then proceeded to commit hari kari in the same way yours did with the black screen. I ended up RMAing it to the place I bought it from and bought another board (foolish fool, should have bought a DFI P45 Lan Party mATX board instead of another DSR2!)

We're discussing GB board sleep weirdness in here too:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17966274

Mine has started doing this coming out of sleep, killing the O/C settings and sitting there with fans on 100% duty cycle until I power it off. Then it comes back up, and resumes Windows eventually (takes considerably longer and boots in a different way to a normal S3 resume). Interesting point Bledd, I've got my volts on +0.3 for 2.1v RAM. Might try upping it to 0.4v and see if that makes a difference, I was going to try taking out 2x1gb sticks to leave 2x1gb in there tonight but I'll add that to the list of things to try.

Oh, O/T but I've just remembered I owe you a blanking plate! Sorry matey! Will take a look at that tonight as well.

Ta
 
Just got my board back from GBT UK, my bios chip has been replaced. Albeit mini rage during the rebuild when i couldn't get a boot. Found out that pressing inset when you switch on can help, so maybee give that a go first.
 
bledd. said:
reset the CMOS
what ram do you have? might need to set it to +0.4v if you have 2.1/2.2v OCZ ram
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Unfortunately I've tried a resetting of the CMOS but to no avail - so can't even get to the bios bit to alter the ram voltage :(



randal24 said:
With regards to your BIOS flash, I had exactly the same woes as you mate. Flashed the BIOS from the BIOS based flash prog with the bin on a USB stick, it booted into the "Award BIOS recovery" screen then proceeded to commit hari kari in the same way yours did with the black screen. I ended up RMAing it to the place I bought it from and bought another board (foolish fool, should have bought a DFI P45 Lan Party mATX board instead of another DSR2!)
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Glad it's not just me then! :D How long did the RMA take? I'm wondering about whether to buy another mobo in the meantime, but not sure which...?



Da[]San;13330724 said:
Just got my board back from GBT UK, my bios chip has been replaced. Albeit mini rage during the rebuild when i couldn't get a boot. Found out that pressing inset when you switch on can help, so maybee give that a go first.
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How long was your mobo away for? I'll try pressing the insert key in the morning too - fingers crossed it'll do the trick, but my keyboard is bluetooth so suspect it won't even register! :(
 
I ended up getting a refund as the board is over 12 months old, the vendor worked out the market value (-£15 off original price).

I bought another DSR2 foolishly, which is driving me nuts at the moment. The frequency of the hang-on-resumes has increased to every time now, as opposed to randomly. It's doing it whatever the setting, is driving me nuts as normal boots into Vista can take ages and the suspend/resume was a really handy feature.

Still, the board craps out at 410fsb... but I'm willing to bet the DFI would go higher :D
 
I did exactly the same thing to my GA-P35-DS3L a couple of weeks ago :( Spent a few hours trying different things but it was dead. It cost me £56 13 months ago so I just put it down to experience and bought a P45 board. I still have the old one here but doubt I'll bother to do anything with it
 
I tried the Insert key thing with a ps2 keyboard but unfortunatley still didn't help, so I've RMA'd it :( It's going to cost about a third of what I bought it for to send it off and get it back though! :eek: Stupid bios...

I must say that Gigabyte were extremely quick at answering my emails, so fingers crossed for an equally prompt return time.

Out of curiosity, as it seems quite a common problem now - which BIOS version were people updating to? I was attempting the latest beta version, but I think I was on the previous latest, v7? before that.
 
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