My 6 week old motherboard has died today. It was working fine, I left the computer for a few hours and when I came back the computer was frozen. I rebooted the computer and the computer froze before it even started to boot windows. I turned the system off for an hour and when I came back it still would not even boot into bios. I unplugged the computer and removed the cmos battery for a few minutes. The system made it into bios but the system froze soon afterward. There is not really anything else I can do. It is about 2 weeks too late to send it back to newegg, so I'm thinking I need to RMA back to Gigabyte. Any idea how long I will be without my computer?
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Just for fun have you tried a different power supply unit?Antec 900 case (4 120mm and 1 200mm lighted fans + UFO flashing light set + 2 12" and 1 6" Mutant Mods meteor lights) - Aerogate ll thermal controller - Asus M2N-e SLI - AMD 64 X2 AM2 6400+ - Corsair TX650 PSU - MSI 450GTS Cyclone OC - 2 X 2GB Patriot Extreme Performance PC2 6400 RAM - SATA 320 GB Seagate HD, SATA 300GB Maxtor HD and IDE 80 GB Samsung HD - Floppy Drive/Card Reader Combo - LG SuperMulti Lightscribe 18x DVD RW - Plextor PX-716A DVD r/rw - Windows 7 Home Premium 64
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I made a little bit of progress yesterday, I swapped out 1 stick of memory for another and the computer will boot. I have 2 questions about the memory settings. I have been running the memory at the default voltage (auto). My memory takes 2.2v. Will the motherboard correctly set the voltage to 2.2v or do I have to add +.4 to the voltage in the bios?
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This makes the second stick of ram to go bad in this board in the 5 weeks I've had it. It could just be a coincidence but I'm worried the motherboard might be frying the memory. I was just using the default voltage. which should be 1.8, so I find it hard to believe that would cause the memory to go bad. Has anybody else had problems with memory going bad in this board? I suppose I'll RMA the memory and see if the next batch works any better.
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Re: GA-P35C-DS3R Died
Originally posted by DFranch View PostThis makes the second stick of ram to go bad in this board in the 5 weeks I've had it. It could just be a coincidence but I'm worried the motherboard might be frying the memory. I was just using the default voltage. which should be 1.8, so I find it hard to believe that would cause the memory to go bad. Has anybody else had problems with memory going bad in this board? I suppose I'll RMA the memory and see if the next batch works any better.
Definitely dheck your voltages with SpeedFan-- Queasytune just reads back the bios setting - not the actual voltage.Last edited by blargh23; 12-02-2007, 10:12 AM.
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