Gigabyte DS3R P35C nightmare

fishleg

fishleg

fishleg

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On my third board now both went the route of crashing on load of vista followed by an endless reboot cycle.

So after just getting back my RMA for the second board I've put it all back together but I'm having major stability issues. I used the previous install of windows first but that resulted in having random crashes followed by a black screen which was combined with the cd drive and harddrive goings nuts forever.

My two previous boards where rev 1.1 the new one is 2.0 if that makes much of a difference. I'm using Geil PC 6400 memory and have put the voltage up to 2.1v. After screaming at the bios screen and underclocking memory with no success I formated the harddrive just incase windows got corrupted but since then have been unable to complete an install before it goes black.

I have 4 sets of 1 gig Geil but its unstable with any of the four but with just the one in it does seem to give me more time I was able to update the bios before I formatted windows.

No matter what I do the computer has random crashes like what I stated above a black screen with all fans still spinning and the cd/hd drive having random spurts of access.

I can do a memtest in dos and so far its lasted 2 hours without crashing or errors. I also managed to backup the harddisk from safe mode which lead me to think it was the vista install that was causing the problem but it doesnt seem to be the case.

My spec,
Intel Quad Core Q6600
Geil PC2 6400 4-4-4-12 1 gig x4
256M MSI NX8600GT

I'm out of ideas....

Thanks for any help,
Fishy
 
dokko said:
Well now on 600w, with Vista on a new HD and it hasn't restarted yet (although i've not pushed it or OC'd it in any way) but it keeps on making a noise as if its switching itself off, load click and power down of fans, then it stays on still, weird, this thing is just bloody weird.
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How did you overcome that ? Ill go through all the settings in that post but what you describe at the end pritty much is identical to what I'm going through. On mine it seems to power down hd and drive start having pulsing activity cycles forever.

Memtest was on all night for 10 hours didnt cause it to crash. As soon as I go to install Vista it crashes within 10 mins or within 10 mins when I had vista installed on the desktop.

Cheers again,
fishy
 
fishleg said:
How did you overcome that ? Ill go through all the settings in that post but what you describe at the end pritty much is identical to what I'm going through. On mine it seems to power down hd and drive start having pulsing activity cycles forever.

Memtest was on all night for 10 hours didnt cause it to crash. As soon as I go to install Vista it crashes within 10 mins or within 10 mins when I had vista installed on the desktop.

Cheers again,
fishy
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Mine did the same, it kept on crashing with vista (on the loading screen where the bar moves) Then I thought vista was corrupted so I formated my hard drive and tried to reinstall vista. No joy as the installer would hang in one point.

in order to overcome this, I had to clear the cmos, install the F2 bios, load optimised defaults and save&exit. this fixed the whole problem. now, everythings running fine. my board seems to dislike other bios updates. my board is a rev2
 
Madness, I removed the battery for the heck of it even though I cleared the cmos already and some how I think thats fixed it like you said.

Had a hell of a time getting back into bios though as my ram wont run unless theres 2.1v the mboard defaults to 1.8v so for some reason having one of my sticks in bay 3 was able to keep it stable long enuff for me to juice it up. I also went back to the F2 bios so could have been either.

I'm praying it was just the cmos or bios as I've only got 2/4 gigs of ram I have plugged into slots 3 & 4 instead of 1 & 2 just so its diff to last time.

Would never buy a gigabyte board again the last gigabyte board I had you needed to do all crazyness to get it to work and this one is the same. should have learned my lesson last time.

So far managed to do a clean install with out a crash. Ill leave it benchmarking all night.
 
Remove two of the sticks of ram and see how that fairs. I had the same problem and it all works a treat now...only problem is it's running on 2x 1Gig sticks and not 4x 1Gig sticks
 
fishleg said:
How did you overcome that ? Ill go through all the settings in that post but what you describe at the end pritty much is identical to what I'm going through. On mine it seems to power down hd and drive start having pulsing activity cycles forever.

Memtest was on all night for 10 hours didnt cause it to crash. As soon as I go to install Vista it crashes within 10 mins or within 10 mins when I had vista installed on the desktop.

Cheers again,
fishy
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Mate if i knew i'd tell Gigabyte and ask for a job.

Its actually trying to turn off less and less, in fact i think i've been on all day and it hasn't happened once.

I've also for the 1st time oc'd the CPU to 2.8 from 2.4, and its rock solid, no resets.

A few more days of this (been playing Witcher, Bioshock & FM) then i will bump it up to 3.2 and i will be a happy lad.

These boards have a mind of their own, literally, the amount of crap you need to disable is beyond stupidity, but 4gb in 1's seem a huge no-no for the GA series of 775 boards, its just not worth it.
 
This is driving me nuts sometimes it wont boot with 4 dims >< so you gotta switch them around take 2 out before it will boot....

Surely thats enuff grounds to get this piece of crap replaced ? unless theres some crazy option in the bios.

Thanks again.
 
Sorry to hear that m8 but atleast you can send it back now and get a board not made by crazy people.

You sure it over volts ram as my 2.1v wont work without errors below the setting of +0.3v on top of what i thought was 1.8v.
 
fishleg said:
Sorry to hear that m8 but atleast you can send it back now and get a board not made by crazy people.

You sure it over volts ram as my 2.1v wont work without errors below the setting of +0.3v on top of what i thought was 1.8v.
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well mine does, and I've heard a lot of other peoples do, but I cannot garrentee it.
 
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