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Hey all new to the forums and I've got kind of a puzzling situation that I'm hoping one of the guru's can help me with. I would like to apologize now for a long post, but I believe the more info that's provided the better of an analysis can be made.
So, my fiance got me this board for christmas, along with a E8400 and 2x2G sticks of Crucial Ballistix PC 6400 memory. I swap everything out of my case, get the computer back into my room and hook up only the monitor, keyboard and mouse. hit the power button and the computer comes to life.... for about 3 seconds. goes into endless reboot cycle. found out that my 24 pin plug wasnt pushed in all the way. after correcting this, it booted up fine and even made it all the way to windows to the point of it telling me that my "hardware has significantly changed and you need to reactivate windows". now you would think this is a successful build story, but it hasnt even started yet.
so i reboot the system with the intention of getting the BIOS set up and reinstalling windows. BIOS comes up, I set the time, boot order, etc. and save and exit. put the windows CD into the disk drive while the system reboots (it actually turns off my computer for about 4 seconds then starts back up, not sure if this is normal for GB). it makes is to the screen that says setup is detecting hardware... then the screen goes blank. the monitor does not go into standby mode or anything, just goes blank. i hit the reboot button (again, it shuts down completely then starts up again). no BIOS somes up, no POST beep, it just sits there wit all the lights on. about 10 seconds later, it shuts off on it's own and starts back up. it then proceeds with the reboot cycle again.
I have to cycle the power on the PSU to clear the problem, and when I do all of my BIOS setting except for the date and time are set to default. I also get random lockups in BIOS. Now i have tried a few things to get this to work. I have moved the ram sticks from the 1 and 3 slot to the 2 and 4 slot. unplugged one of my disc drives and hard drived leaving my main drive and my other disc drive plugged in. reseatted my video card, and tweaked the BIOS settings for the RAM (i heard after the fact that crucial ballistix isnt too hot on this mobo). i eventually took one stick of RAM out and it seems to be working better. I can now actually get INTO windows setup before the screen goes black on me and I have to cycle the PSU power. If someone would be kind enough to post a settings template I would be more than happy to post my BIOS settings.
So, my fiance got me this board for christmas, along with a E8400 and 2x2G sticks of Crucial Ballistix PC 6400 memory. I swap everything out of my case, get the computer back into my room and hook up only the monitor, keyboard and mouse. hit the power button and the computer comes to life.... for about 3 seconds. goes into endless reboot cycle. found out that my 24 pin plug wasnt pushed in all the way. after correcting this, it booted up fine and even made it all the way to windows to the point of it telling me that my "hardware has significantly changed and you need to reactivate windows". now you would think this is a successful build story, but it hasnt even started yet.
so i reboot the system with the intention of getting the BIOS set up and reinstalling windows. BIOS comes up, I set the time, boot order, etc. and save and exit. put the windows CD into the disk drive while the system reboots (it actually turns off my computer for about 4 seconds then starts back up, not sure if this is normal for GB). it makes is to the screen that says setup is detecting hardware... then the screen goes blank. the monitor does not go into standby mode or anything, just goes blank. i hit the reboot button (again, it shuts down completely then starts up again). no BIOS somes up, no POST beep, it just sits there wit all the lights on. about 10 seconds later, it shuts off on it's own and starts back up. it then proceeds with the reboot cycle again.
I have to cycle the power on the PSU to clear the problem, and when I do all of my BIOS setting except for the date and time are set to default. I also get random lockups in BIOS. Now i have tried a few things to get this to work. I have moved the ram sticks from the 1 and 3 slot to the 2 and 4 slot. unplugged one of my disc drives and hard drived leaving my main drive and my other disc drive plugged in. reseatted my video card, and tweaked the BIOS settings for the RAM (i heard after the fact that crucial ballistix isnt too hot on this mobo). i eventually took one stick of RAM out and it seems to be working better. I can now actually get INTO windows setup before the screen goes black on me and I have to cycle the PSU power. If someone would be kind enough to post a settings template I would be more than happy to post my BIOS settings.
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