Gigabyte S3 not working at all.

SidewinderINC

SidewinderINC

SidewinderINC

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Hi all,

couldnt get the P5N-E so i bought the S3, and after setting it up perfectly well and having it running for about 12 hours its now stopped working and wont even post.

i managed to scavenge a motherboard/case speaker to use the diagnostics beeps, but alas it doesnt even beep at all.

when i press the power button both the graphics card fan and cpu fan both spin up and carry on spinning, the DVD drive also spins up fine.
but i get no signal to the monitor at all, i cant check with another graphics card yet but i dont think that is the problem as even without the graphics card plugged in i get no beeps at all.

can anyone suggest what this might be?


Specs are

Gigabyte S3
C2D E6300
Crucial 10th anniversary ram
Tagan 480W PSU - its the old one and only has a single 12V rail with 28A on it.

i dont think it is a power issue as i had it playing CSS and Quake4 with everything maxed out and it ran perfectly fine.



help me, Matt.
 
yep, tried resetting the cmos, leaving the cmos battery out for a couple of hours, 1 stick, no sticks (just to see if it would beep at me... which it didnt)

i think its RMA time, as i only bought it friday can i just walk it back into the shop, or would i be better contacting gigabyte directly?
 
well, back to the shop tomorrow.

do gigabyte have it documented anywhere that you shouldnt use the micron D9 memory chips with their boards? as ive done a little research and apparently you shouldnt...

and am i likely to be able to get a refund if they can get it to work?
 
and thats what i call customer service :D

walked into the service reception and said "bought it friday, its now refusing to even post" and he too a look at the recipt asked if i wanted a replacement and then went and got it :) 5 mins all done.

in and working fine now :)

except processor is about 5deg hotter, and theres about 7deg difference between each core :s
 
SidewinderINC said:
well, back to the shop tomorrow.

do gigabyte have it documented anywhere that you shouldnt use the micron D9 memory chips with their boards? as ive done a little research and apparently you shouldnt...

and am i likely to be able to get a refund if they can get it to work?
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The newer BIOS's are supposed to have solved the D9 issues. The latest is f10 and is pretty solid atm.

The board will run fine on a earlier BIOS with D9, but won't overclock past ~450Mhz without upgrading to a newer BIOS.
 
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Is it the P965 version of the S3? AFAIK the S3 and the DS3 use the exact same BIOS, the only difference being the reporting of the model.

So f8 for the S3 should be exactly the same as f10 for the DS3 (same dates), and the D9 problems should be 'solved'.
 
yup, it is the GA-965P-S3

seems to be running quite nicely now... think i'll overclock it when ive done my exams in 2 weeks as its perfectly fast enough now and i dont want to risk another collapse :p
 
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