More trouble with ds3 board. Advice needed.

viking12344

viking12344

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Ok, I think its a ds3-board problem. Here is my setup:
E6400 (413X8)@3.3GHz 48c 10 hour Orthos test-stable 59c max load
965p-ds3 Gigabyte board
2GB Adata pc 6400 5-5-5-12 in dual channel
EVGA 8800 gts @ 650/2000 60c stable
80-GB seagate SATA drive
Antec Truepower 2.0 500W
3d mark 06- 10725- a work in progress.
winxp pro sp2

All was well as of last night with temps steady like they always are and nothing new installed. This morning I turn on the PC and all the fans start, I hear the hdd's getting power, the computer light and HDD light on the front of the case come on (and stay on). My EVGA 8800GTS fan starts and speeds up to 100% (I know this because I have it set at 100% but it never accelerates to 100% until I boot into windows via riva tuner.)

And that is it. No signal to the monitor and no beeps. I reseat the video card, the ram, re-check all connections, ect. After turning it on and off 5 or 6 more times it starts. I get into windows. I browse the net a bit and then play oblivion where I notice performance is big time doggy. I strat cpu-z and see my o/c is gone. I am running the e6400 stock all of a sudden. I figure I will reboot the machine and re-clock it. Good idea but on re-starting the machine goes back into what it was doing before and will not boot. After once again messing with the case innards...and 5-6 times restarting, the machine boots.

And here I am. The ds3 is a revision 2 with the f7 bios. My first ds3 dies within 2 weeks and never did see my ram is dual channel. This one has been going great since christmas.

Any thoughts or ideas?

Thanks.
 
I had an issue that was pretty much the same with my new build DS3 set up, that arrived with me on Tuesday just gone. I built it and it worked fine for an hour or so.

Then the whole system froze, there was a burning smell and after re-booting, the same issue happened - fans span etc but no output to monitor and no boot. Exactly the same thing as you.

Tried re-seating and checking everything but same occurred and, due to the burning smell, I was a little loathe to go any further so I'm in the process of returning it, and the CPU, at the moment.

Just out of interest - do you have a Tuniq cooler?
 
I have the freezer pro 7. I think my problem is the ccold boot problem that plagues this board. Odd thing is, its been working fine for 4-5 weeks until today. They say that the new bios' are supposed to help but every time I have seen the problem actually fixed, its was because of an rma. :(

I will never go gigabyte again, this is all I know for sure.
 
I totally agree actually. I re-ordered and went with an Asus P5B Deluxe. Great board - no issues at all - and a nice 3.2GHz overclock so far for my E6400 :)
 
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