Does the DS3 need a BIOS update to POST with a Core 2 Duo?

Emp.Man · 20 Sep 2006 at 15:43

Hi all, my newly bought DS3 is giving me nothing whatsoever at startup, no beeps, no POST, no nothing except the fans. Having seen similar problems with Gigabytes on here I'm 90% sure it's dead, but OC support have said they think the BIOS needs updating and that's where my problem lies. Trouble is, I've got no other socket 775 cpu to try with it, and apparently neither does any PC repair place near me that I can find.

So my question is, does this sound likely or would I be wasting my time trying to track down another cpu from somewhere? It seems like it's going to be a big hassle to do and obviously I'd rather just RMA it now if it's most likely going to be fruitless in the end.

Cheers

Emp.Man · 20 Sep 2006 at 15:59

I'm got the Geil PC6400, full setup is here in my general cry for help thread

It's frustrating as I'm sure you can imagine, looked forward to getting this PC built for ages and now it seems I'm a bit stuck, don't have other DDR2 memory I can try either.

Edit: Yeah, I've had a go stripping it to the bare essentials and trying with a single stick as per someone's advice in the other thread. No luck I'm afraid.

Emp.Man · 21 Sep 2006 at 09:42

Thanks a lot, just bought the cheapest pc4200 I could find on eBay. Hopefully it will do the trick!

Emp.Man · 21 Sep 2006 at 14:26

Lashout_UK said:
According to the Gigabyte website, the DS3 only supports Core 2 Duos from bios version F1 (If I remember correctly). Maybe you got an early one, that needs flashing

Isn't the F1 the original BIOS though? On their site every processor is listed as only being supported from F1.

wizardmaxx said:
Check thread on new bios. Seems many fixes for conroe

Sounds like good stuff, but going to have a hard time updating it until I get it working at all

Emp.Man · 22 Sep 2006 at 13:34

OK, got the new RAM this morning and tried it.. Still nothing at all apart from the fans, which keep spinning at a uniform speed.

Time to RMA the board?

Emp.Man · 22 Sep 2006 at 16:35

carpmaster said:
Tempted to just RMA the motherboard as I shouldn't have to buy an extra stick of ram to try and get the thing to post.

Ridiculous.

Probably the best thing to do mate, that's two of us in this thread that's shelled out for more RAM only for it to make no difference. Since I've sent it now and have to wait for the verdict from OC I'd be happy to lend you the stick that I bought if you like.

It's such a stupid situation though, if the board's tested as OK then I'm completely flummoxed and if it's not there's a good possibility the same thing's going to happen with the replacement.

Emp.Man · 23 Sep 2006 at 14:27

Well I've bitten the bullet and gone for the Asus P5WDG2-WS Pro, expensive but after all this messing about I think it'll be money well spent for the peace of mind you get with a quality product.

The DS3 will be getting sold on, I'll not be bothering to buy Gigabyte again.