DS4 'Fun'

KRSW

KRSW

KRSW

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Hi there,

Yet another - problems with Gigabyte DS series boards - thread.

I bought a DS4 a couple of weeks ago, every thing was fine with it, had some Corsair 6400 C4 sticks in it, updated bios to offical F3 - all good - lovely.... spent the rest of the day installing/restarting powering up/down....

Powered it up the next day only to have the power up, fans spin, shut down problem. I found that if you power cycled it from the PSU it did infact at least get to say it was recovering a bios from the harddrive (or included CD rom), it then shuts down mid recover then goes back into the loop again.

I assumed through some google searches that it was the board, so stupidly ordered another one - it arrived - it worked. Its at this point I found this forum... so I RMA'd the original board and was ready to send this off when the second board goes and does exactly the same thing. - this is after I made sure that the Dualbios settings were turned on..

I've read some posts here and see others with very similar problems and some suggested to get some really cheap ram and it may help you get into the bios (as the corsair I have may/may not work due to it requiring 2.1v and the board giving 1.8)
Got some cheap ram, no joy. same as before.

Now do I send the original RMA'd board back and have Overclockers return it saying theres nothing wrong with it? do you suppose that I really do have 2 bad boards? what are my options here anyone?

thanks for reading :)
 
The board came as F2/F2 and worked great but when I updated the Main to F3 I kept the backup as F2 as a fallback. - thinking that the board would actually use that should anything fail. F3 worked great.. then...
When it does display the award bootblock for recovery, theres no apparent way of telling if its pulling that from main or backup... Im starting to wonder if F3 is slightly borked in some way at release..

Monstermunch, Decided to send the first board back to OC, will be interesting to see what happens, its dead as far as im concerned so got nothing to lose really.
Second board I may send on to gigabyte dependant on what happens with the first.
 
Blimey I've just got the second board to actually post!

what I did was take the power off of the PSU for a small while, so next time it powered up it would at least try to recover the bios off HD,
now before I powered up the board I held in the reset button then powered up keeping the reset button pressed, it didnt reset itself mid restore and kept going to the end, next boot it posted! this was with the cheapo ram stick in it though..

OK just stuck in my C4's after upping the VDIMM +0.300, posted fine, everything looks ok.....
 
KRSW said:
Blimey I've just got the second board to actually post!

what I did was take the power off of the PSU for a small while, so next time it powered up it would at least try to recover the bios off HD,
now before I powered up the board I held in the reset button then powered up keeping the reset button pressed, it didnt reset itself mid restore and kept going to the end, next boot it posted! this was with the cheapo ram stick in it though..

OK just stuck in my C4's after upping the VDIMM +0.300, posted fine, everything looks ok.....
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You're lucky then...... This is my nightmare: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17618030
 
that ram should boot up with only 1.8Volts as that does mine with no problems

did you go into bios and load "optimized defaults" after you updated the bios and did you clear cmos?

I know a lot of people have problems with thesse board but i have now used and build 12 systems with both the DS3/DS4 boards and yet to have any problems and all so far has been able to hit high FSB (450+ to )
 
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