Gigabyte X58A-OC issues, dead?

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Just put my new pc together, X58A-OC, 920 D0, 3 x 4GB vengeance, GTX480, all watercooled.

It was working fine yesterday, had a bit of a play with the clocks and I'd gotten round to trying to undervolt the CPU as the water is there for silence not clocking.

Ran intel burn test at 1.225v stock speed and it was chugging away quite happily for ages then it BSOD'ed and its not worked since.

It turns on, the gigabyte home screen comes on (the press enter for BIOS etc) and the post readout counts up to 50 then reboots. Over and over and over.

Tried the 2nd BIOS via the switch, removed the memory and tried various combinations in various slots, removed the HDDs, pulled the CMOS battery for hours, discharged any static etc etc.

Nothing, just does the same thing, reboots over and over again.

Reading the manual and the next test past 50 is to test all the memory so I'm half thinking the memory is dead as the burn test has that in it but could all 3 sticks be dead? must have tried them all in all slots by now. The memory was running stock speed and voltage.

I'd really rather not pull the mobo but I'm out of ideas here?
 
Don't you dare kill that board!!!

50 is USB initialisation iirc m8. 52 is memory. If 50 is tripping out then I would look more towards USB problems. Do you have something funky going on with USB (remove all USB peripherals inc on-board).
 
Mate I'm trying not to! I saw that was USB so I've pulled everything and tried, it gets to 50 and then goes past but it zips through so I can't see what actual number it dies on.

Was hoping you'd see this, help!! I've given this literally 0 grief!
 
You tell me anything lol!

So it's not rebooting on code 50? At what point does it reboot m8 (I know its hard looking at the debug readout and the screen). What is the last debug readout before it reboots. Does the screen go black like its loading or does the monitor lose signal (reboot).

Dumb question time (apologies in advance), when it posts and shows the GIGABYTE boot screen have you tried hitting .del or F8 repeatedly? Can you get into BIOS at all? When you press TAB to show POST procedure what is displayed.

Lots of questions - sorry
 
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Ok, it counts up to 50, then flicks past for a second and then back to c1

It shows the gigabyte logo once then the screen dies and it goes into a cycle where it doesn't even get to that screen and the monitor keeps showing a new input so it is rebooting and no I can't get into the bios and yes I've tried.

Haven't tried tab, I'll do that now.
 
Right, doesn't get to the tab bit either, just tried reseating the CPU and GFX and pulled the sound card. Nothing :( same boot loop over and over.
 
Mental. I don't suppose you have another system to try the cpu or have some other ram (even if its just one stick of ddr3)? I can't help m8 as my setup is gone after tonight and i7 won't fit my new socket.
 
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