Abit gt3 x48 problems

kriscookuk

kriscookuk

kriscookuk

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Hi all,

i recently built myself a new rig. Works great, top service from overclockers.

just one problem ive having with my mobo.

I can not seem to get bios to save anything. if i change something in the bios like boot order save and exit it'll shut down then turn back on and hang there with either a c1 c3 or c5 error (listed on the mobo itself).

I can get around it by reseting the bios and getting the checksum error and pressing f1.

ive tried replacing the battery, fail safe defaults, optimized defaults, comos jumper pins even changed the operating system. nothing works. its driving me mental.

any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Specs:

Q6600
4870
gt3 x48 hotfoot
ddr3 1600mhz
ocz 700 watt psu
zalman resorator
 
First - CLAIMED! Before some other grubby forum user gets in there! :D

...And welcome to the forums :).

Hmm, a cold boot problem. This seemed to happen a fair bit on ome of the P35 boards but I haven't seen it on X48 or P45. Have you tried updating the BIOS? Worst case scenario, reflash the BIOS in DOS using a USB stick or some such contraption...

You've clearly covered most of the standard grounds I'd advise.
 
thanks for he warm welcome :)

bios is up to date. reflashing the bios is certainly something i havent tried yet.

never flashed my bios before, you got any pointers?
 
Yes - don't do it by floppy or in Windows.

Use a USB memory stick (with a FAT paritition so it is recognised by DOS) and have a look here. You comfortable with using DOS? Know how to copy files etc?
 
hi again

im having trouble making a bootable ms dos flash drive, in xp and vista the option to make a ms dos bootable disk is greyed out. very strange. i dont have a floppy drive anymore so i cant do it the old skool way.
 
=/ Use a bootable DOS CD - I have an image for this very thing here.

Please don't mess this up - BIOS flashing is risky and can kill boards (I've only ever managed to do this once but I just bought a new BIOS chip with a preloaded BIOS at a cost of £15 to fix this).
 
okay, i burned the iso and tryed to boot from it but got 'not a system disc'

i did find another guy who had the same problem as me, his solution was to put the bios back into optimized defaults but this wont work for me :(

is the included bios flasher that came with my board completly useless?

thanks for your help.
 
okay i got the flash formatted properly now but when i boot it says 'boot failure insert sytem disc' (i have to unplug my hd's as it would boot these first)

i can not change boot order in bios so i can get it to boot from the flash drive.

any ideas? i just want to throw it out the window now!
 
ive still had no luck with this.

do you guys reckon overclockers would be able to fix this if i brought it into the shop?

its just a pain in the arse to get it moved from london.

alternativley does anyone know any good mobile tech support that could sort a problem like this.

thanks
 
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