Gigabyte - Boot Loop / Cold Boot Update

Neil79 · 11 Jan 2012 at 22:53

Bit of a small update -

As for the splash screen advise turning that off and DON'T be tempted to enable Quick Boot!

MOOGLEYS · 11 Jan 2012 at 22:55

Still no issues for me. Quite a lot of overclocking done today with freezing, blue screens and failed clocks but not one cold boot...

Neil79 · 11 Jan 2012 at 22:56

MOOGLEYS said:
Still no issues for me. Quite a lot of overclocking done today with freezing, blue screens and failed clocks but not one cold boot...

Haven't had a cold boot in two days now, haven't really done anything different

MOOGLEYS · 11 Jan 2012 at 22:58

Neil79 said:
Haven't had a cold boot in two days now, haven't really done anything different

You just know one day when you think all is good... Boom... !!!

I stuck with this board as apart from the cold boot it's a superb board.

Neil79 · 11 Jan 2012 at 23:02

Same as

Neil79 · 12 Jan 2012 at 13:01

After 3 days of no cold boot issues, today I go out for two hours come back home, turn the system on it doesn't show a boot screen with no video display it shuts itself off :mad:

. I take out the psu cable, plug it back in the system boots on it's own and again it shuts off :mad:

Take out the psu cable again, plug it back in system boots on it's own and it works perfectly back into windows :rolleyes:

horrorwood · 12 Jan 2012 at 13:10

I'll be fitting an Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 into my machine at the weekend.

I was hoping to avoid changing the board but it seems I have no choice. It won't be a small job

MOOGLEYS · 18 Jan 2012 at 18:41

Mine is cold booting again today and so far i can't stop it. Have been running stock settings all day testing a 7970. I have re-done the rma as I cannot be bothered having to do this every few days. The board is to unreliable for my needs so will be replacing it with an Asus or asrock tomorrow.

wazza300 · 18 Jan 2012 at 18:45

the z68 v pro is a great board if your gonna go for it,just recieved some corsair vengeance 8gb as i was using old ram from x58 board and no cold boots at all,oh and i love the bluetooth feature on this board,gigabyte are just too lazy or slow in fixing this

just pray you dont bend or break any cpu pins on those asus boards though as they wont fix em like gigabyte

MOOGLEYS · 18 Jan 2012 at 18:49

Have just had a look at the z68-v pro Gen 3 and think I'm going to go with that as it looks like a good board.

MOOGLEYS · 18 Jan 2012 at 18:56

Just tried it once more and got a nice big pop and smell of burning Electrics. Seems like the board has blown a cap? Hope everything else is ok otherwise gigabyte will be getting a big bill... :mad:

MOOGLEYS · 18 Jan 2012 at 22:45

I have just swapped out the board with another I had for another build exactly the same board on stock bios F3.
Luckily everything works inc the £500 7970 thank god. I have tried to power the board on my test rig and it's now completely dead. Nothing happens when power is applied so whatever has blown has killed the board.

wazza300 · 18 Jan 2012 at 22:47

that could have been the cause of cold boots to begin with? whatever it ws has finally choked n died? should rma for new though they are good at rma

drbx19 · 19 Jan 2012 at 13:55

I had this problem...

Except it only happened when the computer went into sleep mode

So I reset the CMOS battery to get the PC to boot up again, went into Windows and turned off sleep mode. The problem never happened again, although I can't go into sleep mode, I haven't tried going into it manually though.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 14 Oct 2014 at 11:48

Sorry to bump this old thread but I seem to be having this problem with my H67N mini-ITX motherboard after upgrading to windows 8. It would do the short startup/ shutdown loop after the computer went into sleep state. The only rectify this was to unplug the PSU cable and clear the CMOS.

It did the same last night and now is just switching on and off if short the power jumpers. Tried different CPUs,ram sticks,graphics cards,HDDs and ssds. Even removed everything from the case and powered the CPU cooler direct from the PSU.

Tried different batteries,clearing CMOS manually or even keeping the mb for an hour with battery disconnected from power. Nothing changes.

I assume that means the mb is fubared then?