New System Problem P2

Teki187 · 7 Jan 2009 at 12:43

Following on from this thread http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17959322&highlight=system+problem.

Well i have just recieved a new Q6600 and i'm getting the same problems as i did with the other cpu.

Basically the system boots, the CPU_LED diagnostic light comes on for 2 seconds, the light goes off, the hard drives load, then just before the bios loads the CPU_LED light comes on and the system restarts.

I've tested all 4 gb of my memory in all the slots and it doesn't make any difference.

I'm about to try it in my old motherboard.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as its starting to become stupid now.

Thanks.

mp260767 · 7 Jan 2009 at 12:52

what voltage are you trying the ballistix at ?

linktoinsanity · 7 Jan 2009 at 12:59

I presume you have tried resetting the CMOS?

Teki187 · 7 Jan 2009 at 12:59

mp260767 said:
what voltage are you trying the ballistix at ?

I cant load the bios to change the volts, it wont even get to the point of loading the bios.

I've just tried the new cpu and other bits in my old motherboard and thats not working either.

So either both motherboards are faulty or something else.

Teki187 · 7 Jan 2009 at 13:01

Mattf121 said:
I presume you have tried resetting the CMOS?

Yeah i'm speaking with a guy from gigabyte online support via the tweaktown forum and he gave me a link to a 20min full cmos clear, which i did.

That includes putting pins on the clear cmos, taking the battery out for 20mins and holding down the clear cmos quick button for 1 minute.

mp260767 · 7 Jan 2009 at 15:20

any chance you have any other memory to try ?

my ballistix worked fine for a while then needed the voltage upped to work.

IAmATeaf · 7 Jan 2009 at 15:33

I've read the other thread but it's not clear if you've tried booting with just a single RAM stick?

Also have you had a look at the CPU socket to make sure there are no bent pins?

One last thing, I had a similar problem with my then old Gigabyte P965-DS3P, continual reboots and what I did was pull out the 4/8 pin mobo connector and plug it in whilst it was in the continual boot cycle, might have just been luck but the system fired up when I did this.

Teki187 · 7 Jan 2009 at 16:20

mp260767 said:
any chance you have any other memory to try ?

my ballistix worked fine for a while then needed the voltage upped to work.

Sadly i have no other memory.

IAmATeaf said:
I've read the other thread but it's not clear if you've tried booting with just a single RAM stick?

Yeah i have tried booting it with all 4 sticks individually in all 4 slots.

Also have you had a look at the CPU socket to make sure there are no bent pins?

Yeah i just checked and everything looks fine.

One last thing, I had a similar problem with my then old Gigabyte P965-DS3P, continual reboots and what I did was pull out the 4/8 pin mobo connector and plug it in whilst it was in the continual boot cycle, might have just been luck but the system fired up when I did this.

Just tried that and the CPU_LED diagnostic light was on all the time, i'm guessing it was because the 8-pin wasnt connected, soon as i plugged it in, 5-6 secs later it rebooted.

I've included a video of that problem, should help with understanding the issue a bit more.

The wushing noise at the beginning is the graphics card fan spinning up then slowing down.

http://s513.photobucket.com/albums/t336/tomhanroo1/?action=view&current=Video005.flv