HELP!! GA-P35-DS4 BIOS crisis!!

[fishboy]

I've just finished a new build with a GA-P35-DS4 mobo. Everything appeared to be working (at least from within BIOS) so I tried to update the BIOS before I went any further.

That seemed to go ok too but now the damn thing won't boot at all. It comes on for about 20 secs then just restarts and goes through the same cycle indefinetly. No sign of life in the keyboard, nothing happens on the monitor at all. Plugged in an old speaker and it sometimes posts but just 6 short beeps then dies on the 6th.

Can anyone please help!!?

Cheers, Andy.

 

[fishboy]

Oh, tried resetting the CMOS several times (power off and unplugged as per the manual) but that hasn't helped either (

 

[Servo]

try with one stick of memory
then before adding the next stick, up the ram volts.

 

[fishboy]

Just one single stick? It all appeared to be working fine

 

[fishboy]

Oh, if that works, how much should I put the ram volts up?

Will have to go and power off and swap the keyboard over...

 

[Servo]

Yes one stick mate, I sometimes have the same problem

 

[Servo]

+.2 vplts in mit, and make sure turbo memory ain't selected

 

[fishboy]

Right-oh, I'll be back...

Thanks for the suggestion in the meantime!!

 

[fishboy]

Didn't work, still just cycles through powering up, beeping six times, then powering off again

 

[Servo]

I checked the m/b book, it has the error codes in, there's nothing for six beeps.
1long 3 short is keyboard
continous long beeps is graphic's card
............. Short beeps is power error

1long 9 short bios rom error

 

[fishboy]

Be surprised if its power, seems a big coincidence that it was immediately on updating the BIOS. Its definetly six short beeps every time but I can 't find anything about the error code either

 

[Servo]

try removing the battery overnight.

 

[fishboy]

Not sure how that can help any more than resetting the CMOS but its worth a try. Typical just before xmas..!

THanks, Andy.

 

[Garyj881]

Was it ok on the old bios?

If so why not just go back to the old bios, could also try swapping the ram to make sure the other stick works.

 

[fishboy]

It may well have been ok with the old BIOS, it looked ok without going as far as installing an OS or formatting discs, just seemed sensible to update the BIOS at the beginning :s

If there was a way of going back to the old BIOS I would but it doesn't appear to be dual bios so

(Removing the CMOS battery didn't help)

 

[fishboy]

Correction, the box says it is Dual BIOS - why isn't it going to the 2nd bios then!?

 

[mrgubby]

I'm on my 2nd GA-P35-DS3P , the first did what you're describing but NOT after a BIOS flash.

Basically the PC did a Vista BSOD , BIOS message said something about BIOS recovery , it rebooted , ran for 5 minutes then another BSOD. After that it just looped around , switching itself on / off every 5s (ish). I tried removing everything / reseting BIOS etc but it was snafu.

In the end I phoned up those very nice people at OcUK , got a RMA number & sent it back. It was confirmed as a dead-un and they sent me a new one by the end of the week .

 

[Cob]

The DS4 should be able to recover from a bad BIOS flash due to its dual BIOS thingy.

 

[fishboy]

Have now tried all the above (battery out, different RAM modules etc.) but no success yet.

Don't understand why the 2nd BIOS isn't kicking in and allowing recovery, very odd. Screen just stays completely dead, not even kicking the monitor back into life from standyby. Emailed Gigabyte and they told me if the CMOS reset doesn't work then its back to sender

No christmas meddling for me then.

 

[Servo]

You did use the right bios? There's 3 versions of the bios for the boards, v1.0, v1.1 and v2.0 I think.

My board is v1.0