DS3 won't boot

Hogthrob

Hogthrob

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My PC was all together and running fine for about a year. On Saturday, it suddenly re-booted, re-booted a couple more times, and now won't boot at all.

The CPU fan starts up, the fan on the GFX card starts up, the drives spin up, but I don't get any beeps at all.

I have tried booting with RAM, drives and GFX card removed, and it's the same story.

Dead mobo?
 
This sounds like my mobo woes. Does the whole full power thing, but no post or anything.

But magically, after being off for a weekend, its now working fine. restarts and resets my OC tho, but on stock speeds works fine.

If you find out what the iussue is, let me know, my thread on it seems to have died :(
 
Hogthrob said:
What would that do?
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resets the cmos memory to default (all the settings in the BIOS the blue screen you can enter by pressing delete when it boots)

if there are any conflicts thatt are stopping your machine booting it may help to resolve them

doggo
 
My Ds3 does the same every now and again was yours overclocked?
To fix I just turn it off remove the power plug then reboot a couple of times, it then boots with standard settings (no overclock).
 
Does sound like your motherboard is on its way out. Best to contact either the retailer or GByte and get it replaced before its dies proper.
 
Whats the warranty on a DS3?

Also, is overclocking your other cmoponents counted as OCing the mobo, and therefore validating the warranty? The reason I ask is my machine boots fine with default settings and clocks, but wont boot with any sort of OC any more? (it used to be fine)
 
Oh, 3 years? Where did you hear that? I was assuming it was 1 year (my mobo is about 18 months old). How would you go about making a claim? I bought the mobo from OCUK, btw.
 
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Skeeter said:
Whats the warranty on a DS3?

Also, is overclocking your other cmoponents counted as OCing the mobo, and therefore validating the warranty? The reason I ask is my machine boots fine with default settings and clocks, but wont boot with any sort of OC any more? (it used to be fine)
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Is it possible to OC a mobo? You are only using standard settings available in the BIOS (and described in the manual). The CPU / RAM / GFX card might get higher voltages or bus frequencies than they are "designed" for, but you aren't really doing the same thing to the mobo.
 
yeah, but my FSB is (was) running at 1600Mhz, wheras the board officially only supports 1066Mhz. I cant really send in an RMA for "my board is absolutely fine normally, but If i fiddle with the settings it fails"
 
Well I contacted Gigbyte support last night, and they have replied already. They want me to repeat the bare board test, and if it still doesn't work, they want me to try another CPU to confirm that it isn't the CPU. Guess what?
 
danoliver1 said:
My Ds3 does the same every now and again was yours overclocked?
To fix I just turn it off remove the power plug then reboot a couple of times, it then boots with standard settings (no overclock).
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Same here too, boards must be abit flakey, once I thought it was me ram but I kept the PC turned off for an hour or so and it magically booted, tbh I needed that hour off the PC anyway so the DS3 helped me out abit :p.
 
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