Boot problems

adelburn · 9 Sep 2007 at 18:05

When I turn pc on the Gigabyte post screen comes on and thats it, it just stays on that screen, cant even get into the BIOS either. It happened after my nephew flicked the switch on the wall to turn pc off, since then cant get it to boot.

I've reset the CMOS still no luck, would it be the board thats duff?

Also on a similar note could someone reply with the hardware boot sequence when turning the pc on, think its Mobo, CPU, RAM, GPU, then all connected devices i.e. HDD, optical e.t.c. Is that right?

Board is a GA-P35C-DS3R
E2140 @ 2.6 ghz
2gb of ballistix 5300

adelburn · 10 Sep 2007 at 08:36

Anyone?

masterk · 10 Sep 2007 at 08:42

You have made sure you have fully cleared the CMOS? Is there a jumper on that board?

That sounds like a memory problem to me, i would perhaps try with one stick of memory and then the other by itself to rule that out first.

adelburn · 10 Sep 2007 at 09:02

Ye I've fully cleared CMOS, On my board you have 2 pins what you short for a few seconds to clear CMOS. I shorted them for about an hour just to make sure but no difference.

I've just took 1 stick of memory out and it booted up fine, did get an error message about CMOS checksum error so I think I will RMA the board and run memtest on both sticks of RAM.

masterk · 10 Sep 2007 at 09:03

The CMOS checksum error is normal after you reset the CMOS, you can just load all defaults from there.

I would definitely run memtest on each stick of memory though.

adelburn · 10 Sep 2007 at 11:19

I have definately got 1 duff stick. pc wont even boot with it in and other stick checks out ok in memtest.

Dont half notice the difference with there only being 1gb aswell.

Cheers for your help