Gigabyte GA 965P-DQ6 not booting

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hi
can you help?
I broght a GA-965p-dq6 and corsair ddr2 twina 2gb pc6400 and i have just built it into my machine with a intel core2 duo e6400. It will not go to post keep stop/starting. hi
can you help?
I broght a GA-965p-dq6 and corsair ddr2 twina 2gb pc6400 and i have just built it into my machine with a intel core2 duo e6400. It will not go to post keep stop/starting.
i e-mailed gigabyte with this problem and they advised me to use memory listed on the gigabyte website. i have sent back the corsair ddr2 twinx pc6500c5 and brought some Geil (gx22gb5300dc)x2 but even with this approved memory the computer still takes between 4 and 20 trys before it will post. once its runing its OK.
as i have seen on a lot of you guys on oc forums with ds3/4s are having the same problem. i have updated the bios with f3c fron a link on this forum but it made no diffrance i like gigabyte and would like to keep it but not if it dos not work.
please help
regards
 
There is an F3E bios for the DQ6 here

Please bear in mind I don't have a DQ6 so read up on the link and use with caution. Good luck.
 
hi fc-pja
thanks for the advice i have already been to that forum but went back after your post. on the last few pages i found biso f3g so i will try it later today
thanks
 
ok I got the DQ6 with 2gb Corsair 6400 ram and an E6600 and it worked straight from the box then crashed down, CPU was running far too hot. re-seated the heatsink and it ran fine.

If you can get to bios check the CPU temp from health-check.

I didnt need to flash the bios to make it work at all.

Hope this helps as its a far less drastic thing than flashing.
 
I have the DQ6 with E6600 and G.Skill 2Gb NR memory, and no matter which bios I load, or how I set the memory timings it will not boot, just the endless restart cycle. I do have it running on some value ram at 667 speed, but to tell the truth I am really disappointed with it. I have four western digital 320 GB harddrives running in raid 5 and every couple of days the machine will blue screen and shut down, rebooting with a Raid 'initialize', that takes four or five hours to complete and gives a serious system slow down.

Each of the beta bioses have been loaded and the memory retried, no good everytime. The memory works fine in a P5LD2 deluxe board and a D805.

I have ordered a Abit AB9 Pro to see if that is any better.
 
hi
i got an e-mail from gigabye with bios f3g that i already flash this morring still no joy.
i can get it to post with some kingston 533 ram after 2 to 4 retires but its still not right, any help is wecome
 
G.Skill 2Gb NR memory no good with the AB9Pro either, guess that I just need to buy some decent memory, will RMA the G.Skill.

That said I definately prefer the Gigabyte board, a much better layout, though it is down from 10 sata on the ABit to 'only' 8 on the Gigabyte
 
If it's not posting at all, and you've tried it with just 1 stick of ram, cpu, mobo & PSU and it still just starts and 2-3 secs later re-starts and so on without posting & no beeps then it's most likely BORKED like mine is.....

Just RMA'd my DS4 for the same reason, I have read more than 15 people complaining of the same symptoms so far...... Think they're just a bad mobo, badly made. Gigabyte have never really been that good IMO..... So i'm gonna get a refund and get an ASUS board instead!
 
Justintime said:
1.9-2.0v should be fine. Also have you set the timings manually?
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yes all the cas ect. have tried and now the voltage as well.
with a mix of geil and the kingston it booted after 4 trys this morning so there is some inprovement, i've e-mailed gigabyte again and i will wait for the reply and then deside what to do.
 
DQ6 is hard Work

Been on wrong thread (Although this seems to be common to DS3/4/DQ6)
I have just got a DQ6 with 4GB 2 x (2 x 1gb) G.SKILL NR and a E6700 to build a flying machine.
However, like most others I seem to be having some probs with the now infamous on .. off .. on .. off problem.
Did change the PSU which made no diff. :rolleyes:
Put in one stick 'old' DDR2 which then allowed the mobo to POST.
Put in second stick of 'old' DDR2 and all OK and was recognised as dual channel working. :)
Set the CAS to 5,5,5,15 and the memory voltage to 2.1 (+0.3)
Mobo then works with one stick of NR - but reverts to old prob if I install second stick. :mad:
DOES ANYONE HAVE A DQ6 WITH G.SKILL NR ACTUALLY WORKING PROPERLY???
 
I have just RMAed my NR memory, I am sure that the majority of the blame lies with the memory. My DQ6 works fine with some 667MHz Kingmax memory, but as soon as the G.Skill is inserted the machine does the on off on off routine.

I am currently running the DQ6 on one stick of Kingmax( borrowed from my other machine), though it is fine with two, awaiting the arrival of the Geil memory.

I have also tried the G.Skill on the Abit 9pro and that will not boot either, it does however have a numerical readout on the board that displays the POST test currently underway, it hangs on C1, which is detecting memory settings.

I think that the problem is that even when we manually set the memory to a specific speed the board still tries to interogate the memory and here in lies the fault, the Abit hangs, the Gigabyte reboots.

On a side note I must say that the constant rebooting can not be good for hard drives etc.
 
Pandobear said:
I am currently running the DQ6 on one stick of Kingmax( borrowed from my other machine), though it is fine with two, awaiting the arrival of the Geil memory.
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I would like to know if your Geil works when you get it i've got Geil (gx22gb5300dc)x2 and it still keeps stop/starting
 
Geil PC6400 is fine!

Just to let you know my Geil PC6400 800MHz arrived and I now have four sticks running on the DQ6. :p
Still using Bios F2 with all settings at default inclding memory voltage.
I fitted a floppy so that I can do bios upgrades and I booted the limited system with a MSDOS system floppy. DOS is running quite happily on 4 GB RAM. :rolleyes:
Will proceed now with hard drives and XP.
All the best ;)
 
Munromax said:
Just to let you know my Geil PC6400 800MHz arrived and I now have four sticks running on the DQ6. :p
Still using Bios F2 with all settings at default inclding memory voltage.
I fitted a floppy so that I can do bios upgrades and I booted the limited system with a MSDOS system floppy. DOS is running quite happily on 4 GB RAM. :rolleyes:
Will proceed now with hard drives and XP.
All the best ;)
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You can do bios updates within the BIOS.
 
Yeah I know, just downloaded it from The Gigabyte website. will copy it to floppy when I can find a PC with one and then use Q-Flash?
 
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