Z68XP-UD3P boot loop

robj20 · 14 Nov 2012 at 06:19

Its driving me crazy now i have tried everything to sort it the only way to start up is leave it to boot loop for 5 mins where it will eventually start.

Tried clearing cmos overnight, tried different memory, two graphics cards, 2 cpus. All manor of different bios settings.

I hear it happens to a lot of boards are there any that work, seems to be limited to P67 and Z68.

robj20 · 15 Nov 2012 at 07:58

U1e bios, default settings with a few things like audio and firewire turned off.
G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz.

Its all worked fine for getting on 12 months now. Its annoyingly random as well, some days it does it for every power on, some days not at all.

robj20 · 16 Nov 2012 at 18:20

Im on the U1e bios, alt+f12 is bringing up the boot options menu.

Its not done it at all since. Need to find a way of copying the bios over to the backup though. Gigabytes literature on the UEFI bios is rubbish.

Also something else i have noticed is i cant make any changes to voltages, everything is stuck on auto.

robj20 · 29 Dec 2012 at 09:41

Its back, everything set to optimized defaults except my sata is set to ahci. The annoying thing is i previously had an MSI board that did the same think but got rid because of it. Starting to wonder if it could be something like memory?