Hi all,
I'm having all sorts of problems with my EP45-DS3. First off this is the spec of the pc:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3 Intel P45
OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready Power Supply
Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA-II 32MB Cache
Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 x 2
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler
Pioneer DVR-216DBK
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB
When I power on the machine it starts booting but for it can power it powers off again. It then powers back on a second or two later only to power off again before post. It may do this cycle once, twice, or even six or more times before it posts. Even then, it will boot windows and hang randomly. This is all at stock speeds as I don't overclock and don't intend to.
I went off looking around the internet and came across some posts around increasing vocre, mch volts, and dram volts in order to stablise the machine, but none of this made any difference.
I've tried the system with a single stick of ram in slot one, and got the same restarting. I've removed all the components except CPU and got the same problem. I've cleared the bios, to no avail. reflashed the bios to the latest release (f9) and still got the same problem. So it stand then that with or without components to machine keeps restarting prior to posting.
I am thinking about RMAing the board but before I do that I wanted to see if anyone here had any thoughts?
Also on RMA... is it best to go straight to gigabyte (if so where on their site is the rma form?) or go back to overclockers and seek a replacement from them?
cheers
I'm having all sorts of problems with my EP45-DS3. First off this is the spec of the pc:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3 Intel P45
OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready Power Supply
Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA-II 32MB Cache
Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 x 2
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler
Pioneer DVR-216DBK
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB
When I power on the machine it starts booting but for it can power it powers off again. It then powers back on a second or two later only to power off again before post. It may do this cycle once, twice, or even six or more times before it posts. Even then, it will boot windows and hang randomly. This is all at stock speeds as I don't overclock and don't intend to.
I went off looking around the internet and came across some posts around increasing vocre, mch volts, and dram volts in order to stablise the machine, but none of this made any difference.
I've tried the system with a single stick of ram in slot one, and got the same restarting. I've removed all the components except CPU and got the same problem. I've cleared the bios, to no avail. reflashed the bios to the latest release (f9) and still got the same problem. So it stand then that with or without components to machine keeps restarting prior to posting.
I am thinking about RMAing the board but before I do that I wanted to see if anyone here had any thoughts?
Also on RMA... is it best to go straight to gigabyte (if so where on their site is the rma form?) or go back to overclockers and seek a replacement from them?
cheers
