Problem with PC

SamMillarF1

SamMillarF1

SamMillarF1

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Hi Guys,

Sold my old PC to a friend. When I say old, it was 4 years old. Had an upgraded PSU and GPU from the original one I bought. It left my house fine and when it got to his and was plugged it, it was asking for boot media to be selected. I thought this was normal because I unplugged one of my old hard drives as it had a lot of my files on it. This hard drive did NOT have the Windows OS on it, so it wasn't booting from this HDD.

I figured as I had upset the boot order that this was the reason for it. It has the Z77-D3H mobo in it, and it usually fires up with a black Gigabyte splash screen.. however since it left here it has been firing up with a White one. When you press DEL to enter the BIOS, nothing happens.

The HDD that has the OS on it was making strange 'beep' like noises that I've never heard before, so I thought that the HDD was goosed and so I ordered a new one and installed it tonight. I installed Windows from a USB onto the new HDD and it powered up fine. I then turned it off and restarted it to do some updated and the machine reverted back to the white mobo splash screen, and powers itself up and down every 5 or so seconds. Sometimes you can see it has entered the BIOS CP, but it doesn't fully load and shuts down again.

I'm at the end of my tether with it and need some help diagnosing the problem please.
 
Have you got another PSU to test the motherboard?

Unplug everything (HD's, Drives etc) from the mobo bar the psu, cpu and ram and use the onboard mobo graphics. Boot with test PSU and see if it goes into the bios everytime.
 
This the gigabyte z77x I take it? I have the same board and have seen a lot of threads regarding BIOS/boot issues with it, mine does the same.
The two different splash screens must be the dual BIOS having two different versions, the white one is the older on IIRC.
Sounds like the BIOS would need reset or reflashed, there's a few threads on this already that should help with that board specifically.
 
Neural said:
This the gigabyte z77x I take it? I have the same board and have seen a lot of threads regarding BIOS/boot issues with it, mine does the same.
The two different splash screens must be the dual BIOS having two different versions, the white one is the older on IIRC.
Sounds like the BIOS would need reset or reflashed, there's a few threads on this already that should help with that board specifically.
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Is it just an update issue then or is it goosed? I've sold the computer so don't want to fire money at it really. Was fine when it left my house.
 
reset the bios. eaither by the jumper or removing the cmos battery.

you might find that it resolves itself after that. might need to go into the bios after it though to sort memory speed, timings and boot order though.
 
IceWind said:
reset the bios. eaither by the jumper or removing the cmos battery.

you might find that it resolves itself after that. might need to go into the bios after it though to sort memory speed, timings and boot order though.
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^ this sounds like the most likely fix to me
 
Okay so quick update. Seems to me like the Mobo is busted.

I hooked my new PCs PSU up to the old computer and fired it up, still did the same turn off and back on every 5 seconds. Unplugged the RAM and tried the same, with same effect. Also repeated the steps for removal of graphics card, and mobo battery. Disconnected all HDDs until it was nothing but the bare necessities to power the PC and regardless of what I tried it left me with the same result of turning off and on every 5 seconds.

To me this can only mean one thing and that's that the mobo is shot.

Anyone agree?
 
You've not confirmed if you've reset the bios via a battery pull. EdIT.. try another battery pull.

My board in my sig mysteriously spazzed out a few times whilst stabilising my overclock, and a battery pull magically fixed it, albeit I had to put tje overclocked settings back in as it will reset to standard.
 
mattyfez said:
You've not confirmed if you've reset the bios via a battery pull. EdIT.. try another battery pull.

My board in my sig mysteriously spazzed out a few times whilst stabilising my overclock, and a battery pull magically fixed it, albeit I had to put tje overclocked settings back in as it will reset to standard.
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I've done a few battery pulls with it. Could it be the battery itself?
 
I doubt it but for the sake of a quid it's maybe worth a try.
Id guess a mobo or PSU issue.

Can you flash the BIOS with a new one?
 
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