New Gaming Rig Advice..

Plec said:
Check the kettle lead is firmly plugged in
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It is and that is brilliant that you've found someone with my exact problem, at least we have a lead now! Yeah I do I think but I'm going to have to stop now. Got a very grumpy girlfriend upstairs who was meant to have my attention tonight and I've spent 3 hours on my computer.. oops.
 
OK, tomorrow do the following:

Unplug your PC - unplug all the sata leads from the motherboard and remove your gfx card - and any other cards you may have installed..

1 stick of memory and then plug your monitor into the onboard gfx.

Clear the CMOS as before.

Then post back when your ready - i'll get back to you as soon as i'm available,

If we don't have any luck then - we could remove the MB - but you may want to try the backup BIOS option.
 
Thanks very much for your help Plec and patience. Just had a final go of making sure everything is plugged in as correct but still getting the short restarts. If I unplug the hard drives how is it going to boot?
 
BeadyRoller said:
Got a very grumpy girlfriend upstairs who was meant to have my attention tonight and I've spent 3 hours on my computer.. oops.
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I've been cooking, helping kids with homework (earlier) and looking through reports - who says men can't mulitask.

My wife for 1...
 
BeadyRoller said:
Thanks very much for your help Plec and patience.
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And no worries - i'm gutted for you that this didn't go as planned - but unfortunately PCs can do this.

And it seems that it wasn't your CMOS clearing that caused the problem so don't beat yourself up about it.
 
Go and keep your GF company - certainly more fun than this!

I'll finish my paper - not quite so much fun as entertaining a GF.
 
To give you a bot of hope, this is a copy of the text from the guy with a similar problem to yours who also changed his IDE to ACHI:

Guy with similar problem said:
So, after trying to change my data drivers to ahci through bios, windows wouldn't boot, so I restarted to change it back to ide, but I couldn't get to the bios. The pc hangs in a blue screen with "gigabyte uefi dual bios" written across the top. I already tried shorting the mobo reset switching, resetting the cmos by taking the battery out, I even tried to swap bios by pressing ctrl f10, but it just gets me to another page with a pretty picture and some options, but I can't access any of them, seconds later it just goes back to that screen I mentioned. I already removed all usbs, and ram to check if it beeps the no ram error, and it does. It stays in a loop that goes like: power on, then after a few seconds power off. Then power on, stay on for a while no vid, then power off, then power on, beeps and show me that screen. I dont know what else to do, it is a 2 year old mobo, and by the symptoms I don't believe it is dead, please help
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His problem was sorted via the BIOS recovery - but we will need to rule just a couple more things out before we resort to that.
 
Plec said:
Go and keep your GF company - certainly more fun than this!

I'll finish my paper - not quite so much fun as entertaining a GF.
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Bloody PC's eh! Haha bless her, I told her it would be a 10 minute job..

Good work on the multi tasking by the way, very impressive!

I'm just concerned now about the short restarts and why it's changed to doing that. I haven't buggered the power supply somehow have I?
 
BeadyRoller said:
I'm just concerned now about the short restarts and why it's changed to doing that. I haven't buggered the power supply somehow have I?
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It could be the PSU - but if is you didn't b*gger it as the switch is there to be used - and it's not uncommon for a PC to power up when the psu switch is turned back to on.

Unfortunately, you have one of those problems that nearly covers every single component as a possible suspect - but at the moment the MB and the PSU are the ones i'm considering.

I'm hoping that we can declutter the motherboard and simplify it's connections (take out gfx card etc) and hopefully nip into the BIOS with a skeleton setup. At the same time we will be putting less stress on the PSU - if it was to have a potential problem we would find out once we started connecting things and the system suddenly buckeled. It would be the component we last connected or its lead/socket or the PSU.

But sometimes these things just start working again once you get back into the BIOS and reassemble.

We can only hope at the moment...
 
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Right ok that's calmed me down a bit. So what exactly do I need to remove tomorrow when I try fire up the PC again?

And what is the reason for not doing in the dual bios straight away? Is it hard to do?
 
BeadyRoller said:
Right ok that's calmed me down a bit. So what exactly do I need to remove tomorrow when I try fire up the PC again?
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Tomorrow do the following:

Unplug your PC - unplug all the sata leads from the motherboard and remove your gfx card - and any other cards you may have installed..

Leave 1 stick of memory and then plug your monitor into the onboard gfx via either connection.

Clear the CMOS as before touching the pins with PC unplugged.

Then post back before switching on - just to double check what you've done and if you've come across anything else while disconnecting components.

BeadyRoller said:
And what is the reason for not doing in the dual bios straight away? Is it hard to do?
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Because if it is a shorting problem or PSU related - you don't want to be flashing the BIOS while its shorting or perhaps not getting enough power.

I don't want to risk your backup BIOS until we've ruled the above out as best we can. I doubt it would effect the back up BIOS - but i don't want to risk it for the sake of a few tests.
 
Can't sleep so been googling stuff, came across this:

  1. I´ve got the exact same problem. Same motherboard.
    This helped me:

    "1. Shut off the power supply using the switch on the back of the PSU, wait 10-15 seconds.

    2. Press and hold the case Power On swtich, then while still holding turn on the power supply from the switch on the rear.

    3. Still holding the case power on switch, the board will start, once it does release the case power on switch and shut off the power supply via the switch on the read of the unit. (Do the latter two parts as quickly as you can once the board starts)

    4. The board will shut down.

    5. Turn the power supply back on using the switch on the rear of the unit.

    6. Turn on the motherboard by pressing the case power on button.

    Once the board starts this time you should see the Gigabyte splash screen, or POST page, then the Auto-Recovery from Dual BIOS will kick in. You will see a checksum error, and then recovery from BACKUP BIOS will begin."

    Ater that i installed the second latest bios. Now everything runs fine
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Few people replied saying it worked for them, worth a go?
 
Yep - that's the dual BIOS restore - that's what we're keeping in our back pocket (I've got it saved already to go if/when needed).

I can't see the use of the F12 key on that description what was the date of post?
 
We may very well try this but not straight away for reasons I mentioned earlier. Plus, there are conflicting methods and i want to be sure we use the right one first time.

But that was for your board?
 
If you can't sleep you could remove the battery and leave it out over night. But if you're in bed like me swiping away at a tiny screen - don't bother - as it's a hail Mary...
 
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