Gigabyte EX58-Extreme 6F Post Error

aydinh

aydinh

aydinh

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Hi, I have a bit of a problem with my computer booting, I shall back track and give a full account of the problems. ~6 Months ago one of my flat mates dropped half a pint of vimto in to the top fan of my tower computer and needless to say it wouldn't turn on and I pretty much abandoned it believing it would never work (The top fan sprayed the vimto over almost all of the components). However I took it apart blasted it with warm air for almost two days, and hey presto it worked. Apart from my SSD which I RMA'd and got a new one, which again broke 2months later, but that's a different story. About 3 months later I tried to turn my computer on and it wouldn't boot. Giving the post code 6F. I researched and found that the problem was unrelated to what the manual suggested. The manual suggests that the problem was to do with a floppy controller. I took the computer apart and left it for a day, I came back and it turned on quite happily, this has happened about 3 times. After resetting the CMOS the computer happily boots.

Now, I have just come back from a night away from my flat to walk in, it was pretty muggy in here, tried to boot my computer and I'm getting the same error, I can't shake it this time though. I've stripped it down to bear minimum components, reset CMOS etc, etc.

I am under the impression that this fault only happens when it's really hot and the vimto is coming back with vengeance. I don't know what to do, the computer cost me so much money I don't have. Is it worth RMAing? Will it likely be replaced as when the computer does work, more or less everyday day in the last 6 months minus 3 or 4 days, it works perfectly fine.

Does anyone agree with my theory on heat, or could it be something else?

PS. I can't even get to the BIOS as computer does not get that far, It just hangs at 6F for a while then turns off.

Thanks for any help

Aydin Hassan
 
Hi Aydin,

I would not necessarily rule out the floppy controller as being the culprit - it may well be that there is still liquid there causing a short or maybe the controller has been damaged by shorting. I could be well off the mark here - but maybe worth a physical look at it to check.Failing that - perhaps you could try leaving the bios battery out for 24 hrs and see if that allows you to access the bios. May also be worth taking the processor out of the board at the same time, and maybe give that a look over as well as the socket. If you leave the proc and bios bat out for 24 hrs this sometimes re sets the board to default, which may allow you to make some progress.
Personally I dont think heat is the problem. Let me know how u get on.

Mark
 
Yeah I have checked the board all over and cannot find any burnt parts or anything like that. I will leave the proc and battery out tonight and see if it works tomorrow. I have RMA'd it to gigabyte and I'm awaiting a response but I'm not too sure its going to be successful. If not I think I'm just going to buy another board. Cheers for the advice though.
 
aydinh said:
Yeah I have checked the board all over and cannot find any burnt parts or anything like that. I will leave the proc and battery out tonight and see if it works tomorrow. I have RMA'd it to gigabyte and I'm awaiting a response but I'm not too sure its going to be successful. If not I think I'm just going to buy another board. Cheers for the advice though.
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Your welcome - just hope you get a result.

Mark
 
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