Hi OC'ers
I recently received my new EP43-UD3L from Overclockers.
Had some hassles recently with another gigabyte board that wasn't 8GB capable with DS memory , so got the EP43 instead.
So Installed and with great joy saw it registered all of my 8GB RAM in the bios.
Off I went and started to get vista 64 OS loaded. Had just finished msn'ing a mate to say it was thumbs up this time by the looks of it!
Spoke to soon as usual!!!!
Just that second the computer switched off, was sitting at the choose locale screen in Vista.
Strange says aye and went for the power switch, no response - zippo.
Off with the hood, checked there were no shorts going on, to be sure lifted board partially out of case to rule out shorts and retried , nothing.
There is a split second power to the board diagnostic leds and then nothing.
No CPU fan spin or case fan action.
Reseated everything and tried again, nothing, cleared CMOS using jumper, nada.
Have another identical case with built in PSU, tried board on that to rule out PSU, same led flash on MB but no start.
Tried with a single stick of RAM , alternated single stick, still dead.
So I am thinking its the MB or the Video card.
I am sure I would get some form of MB bleep or led light if the video card was a goner.
What are your thoughts guys (and gals!)?
Likely just to be a duff MB ?
When I first did my reseat I saw one peg on my CPU cooler was not fully down (clumsy!) but still plenty of heatsink on that CPU I am sure.
Would running for 5 mins without perfect cooler contact blow a chip?
Its an old E6300 1.86 (this is a test rig) but I thought CPUS were a bit more forgiving these days.
Any thoughts gents and if its down to CPU or MB its much more likely to be MB , right?
Cheers
Mooky
I recently received my new EP43-UD3L from Overclockers.
Had some hassles recently with another gigabyte board that wasn't 8GB capable with DS memory , so got the EP43 instead.
So Installed and with great joy saw it registered all of my 8GB RAM in the bios.
Off I went and started to get vista 64 OS loaded. Had just finished msn'ing a mate to say it was thumbs up this time by the looks of it!
Spoke to soon as usual!!!!
Just that second the computer switched off, was sitting at the choose locale screen in Vista.
Strange says aye and went for the power switch, no response - zippo.
Off with the hood, checked there were no shorts going on, to be sure lifted board partially out of case to rule out shorts and retried , nothing.
There is a split second power to the board diagnostic leds and then nothing.
No CPU fan spin or case fan action.
Reseated everything and tried again, nothing, cleared CMOS using jumper, nada.
Have another identical case with built in PSU, tried board on that to rule out PSU, same led flash on MB but no start.
Tried with a single stick of RAM , alternated single stick, still dead.
So I am thinking its the MB or the Video card.
I am sure I would get some form of MB bleep or led light if the video card was a goner.
What are your thoughts guys (and gals!)?
Likely just to be a duff MB ?
When I first did my reseat I saw one peg on my CPU cooler was not fully down (clumsy!) but still plenty of heatsink on that CPU I am sure.
Would running for 5 mins without perfect cooler contact blow a chip?
Its an old E6300 1.86 (this is a test rig) but I thought CPUS were a bit more forgiving these days.
Any thoughts gents and if its down to CPU or MB its much more likely to be MB , right?
Cheers
Mooky