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I built my computer roughly 9months ago and the past month I have been having problems starting my machine up. It has gotten worse lately and waiting for gigabyte support is a joke to say the least.
Anyway the problem is when I start my machine the motherboard status code will say a combination of B and 8 as I cannot tell the difference between them. This will just sit like this until I turn my machine off and try again. It takes a random amount of restarts to get my machine to boot. Most of the time its 2 or 3 reboots but a few days ago it took me roughly 5 hours of constant reboots to get it to start up.
I have noticed a little trick I can do to increase my chances though, if I leave it turned on for a good 15-20 minutes so it heats up a bit it normally boots up on the next restart.
Any help or ideas would be great. So far I have reset my CMOS, checked RAM timings/voltage, taken off my over clock, unplugged my x-fi and used my old 8800GTS in case it was a graphics issue.
cheers.
Anyway the problem is when I start my machine the motherboard status code will say a combination of B and 8 as I cannot tell the difference between them. This will just sit like this until I turn my machine off and try again. It takes a random amount of restarts to get my machine to boot. Most of the time its 2 or 3 reboots but a few days ago it took me roughly 5 hours of constant reboots to get it to start up.
I have noticed a little trick I can do to increase my chances though, if I leave it turned on for a good 15-20 minutes so it heats up a bit it normally boots up on the next restart.
Any help or ideas would be great. So far I have reset my CMOS, checked RAM timings/voltage, taken off my over clock, unplugged my x-fi and used my old 8800GTS in case it was a graphics issue.
cheers.
