I have read over the forum and I noticed that this issue is kind of common for other boards (I think I have seen it happen to two other mobos) but no one has posted about this board yet: GA-P35-DS4 Revision 2
Also, I have a couple of different things that happened during this too.
Well here is my tale:
Here is a little background to the story. I had a Nvidia 680i MB for about a year and then it died and I replaced it with the GA-P35-DS4 about 3 weeks ago. I reinstalled Windows VISTA (clean install), updated the BIOS version via the utility (sorry I do not recall the BIOs version I updated to and I can not go in and check it but it would most likely be F8 as I updated on Dec 2 or 3rd 2007) and everything was fine, there were no errors nor any odd behaviour for three weeks. (The Nvidia 680i had odd behaviours and various bluescreens of death before it finally died so I knew that something was going on in that case).
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Up until 2 days ago I was using my PC normally and there have been no errors or issues of any kind since I swapped out the old Nvidia for this mobo. I turned it off for the evening as normal and all was fine with the world. Next day I get up and turn it on. The PC turns on and starts to boot, the fans start to turn on and then suddenly it powers off automatically and restarts to reboot. This continued on and on and the motherboard did not post (there was no activity of any kind nor error messages on the screen except one:
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Award Bootlock
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"BIOS autocovery starting........ "
(something like this, I do not recall the exact message).
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This recovery never finished as the PC started to reboot again automatically. This message happened twice and both times the PC auto restarted before it finished recovering the BIOs. There were no other messages nor errors nor "beeps" of any kind. In fact I never got as far as to see any activity on the screen at all except that BIOs recovery message.
I tried to get it to work again and hope that the BIOs recovery would happen but it did not and that message never came again. I could not get into the BIOs to make changes nor anything. The last thing I did on the PC before this issue started was simply sending email and browsing the web. I have not updated nor changed any drivers of any kind since the Windows Vista install of 3 weeks ago when I bought the board and rebuilt my PC.
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The problem is that the PC is continually rebooting and restarting much like the issues noted here. I have taken out the CMOS battery and left it out for a few minutes, I have tried to clear CMOS but shorting the pins as the manual suggests and others on this board have tried. I took out the memory and just put in one stick (I had 2 sticks of 1GB) and swapped the sticks around thinking that one of them might have died. I went as far as to buy two more sticks for a total of 4GB and tried the fresh ones in the board. Nothing has worked and nothing resolves this. I just keep getting an endless cycle of power up and power down without getting the MB to post. <o:p></o:p>It looks like somehow the BIOS is corrupted but the backup is also not working.
<o:p> </o:p> How can I fix this issue?
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Thank you.
System Specs:
2.4 GHZ Intel 6600
4 GB 1066mhz Corsair Dominator RAM
GA-P35-DS4 Revision 2
Nvidia GTX 8800
700W PSU (can't recall brand now and I am at work so I can't check)
Windows VISTA 64 bit.
No overclocking of any kind.
Also, I have a couple of different things that happened during this too.
Well here is my tale:
Here is a little background to the story. I had a Nvidia 680i MB for about a year and then it died and I replaced it with the GA-P35-DS4 about 3 weeks ago. I reinstalled Windows VISTA (clean install), updated the BIOS version via the utility (sorry I do not recall the BIOs version I updated to and I can not go in and check it but it would most likely be F8 as I updated on Dec 2 or 3rd 2007) and everything was fine, there were no errors nor any odd behaviour for three weeks. (The Nvidia 680i had odd behaviours and various bluescreens of death before it finally died so I knew that something was going on in that case).
<o:p> </o:p>
Up until 2 days ago I was using my PC normally and there have been no errors or issues of any kind since I swapped out the old Nvidia for this mobo. I turned it off for the evening as normal and all was fine with the world. Next day I get up and turn it on. The PC turns on and starts to boot, the fans start to turn on and then suddenly it powers off automatically and restarts to reboot. This continued on and on and the motherboard did not post (there was no activity of any kind nor error messages on the screen except one:
<o:p> </o:p>
Award Bootlock
<o:p></o:p>
<o:p>
</o:p>
"BIOS autocovery starting........ "
(something like this, I do not recall the exact message).
<o:p> </o:p>
This recovery never finished as the PC started to reboot again automatically. This message happened twice and both times the PC auto restarted before it finished recovering the BIOs. There were no other messages nor errors nor "beeps" of any kind. In fact I never got as far as to see any activity on the screen at all except that BIOs recovery message.
I tried to get it to work again and hope that the BIOs recovery would happen but it did not and that message never came again. I could not get into the BIOs to make changes nor anything. The last thing I did on the PC before this issue started was simply sending email and browsing the web. I have not updated nor changed any drivers of any kind since the Windows Vista install of 3 weeks ago when I bought the board and rebuilt my PC.
<o:p> </o:p>
The problem is that the PC is continually rebooting and restarting much like the issues noted here. I have taken out the CMOS battery and left it out for a few minutes, I have tried to clear CMOS but shorting the pins as the manual suggests and others on this board have tried. I took out the memory and just put in one stick (I had 2 sticks of 1GB) and swapped the sticks around thinking that one of them might have died. I went as far as to buy two more sticks for a total of 4GB and tried the fresh ones in the board. Nothing has worked and nothing resolves this. I just keep getting an endless cycle of power up and power down without getting the MB to post. <o:p></o:p>It looks like somehow the BIOS is corrupted but the backup is also not working.
<o:p> </o:p> How can I fix this issue?
<o:p> </o:p>
Thank you.
System Specs:
2.4 GHZ Intel 6600
4 GB 1066mhz Corsair Dominator RAM
GA-P35-DS4 Revision 2
Nvidia GTX 8800
700W PSU (can't recall brand now and I am at work so I can't check)
Windows VISTA 64 bit.
No overclocking of any kind.
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