Hello,
Built a new system and experiencing random reboots during installation of windows 8. Tried Win xp and win 7 as well on different drives and same thing happens. The reboot seems to occur at the same point in the installation.All these versions of windows were purchased.
Summary of tests carried out so far. During all the tests it still rebooted
Setup is on a workbench not in a case and there are no connections to the power,reset header.(i short out power button pins to start)
Tried 3 different SATA harddrives,and tried different SATA ports
Replaced power supply with 750 watt PS
Tried every memory port with one stick of Ram.
Run 4 hour memtest on both memory ,checked out OK.
Removed video card and ran onboard graphics with HDMI.
Flashed bios to version FD, ran optimized defaults.
Tried installing from USB and CD.
Tried XMP profile1.
Removed USB mouse
Tried keyboard in USB and PS2 ports
Reseated CPU and applied new thermal paste, (running with stock cooler)
Bios reported 38 - 45 temp.
Only odd thing is i removed a harddrive from a working PC that has WinXP installed and tried on the new build then booted into safe mode and it worked. left it over 4 hours and there were no reboots.
Thanks for any help with this.
Specs:
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 (ver 2.0)
Intel core i5 2500K
Corsair DDR3 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9
Sapphire HD3650 512mb video or Gigabyte 6770
WD 320gb hardrive
500watt Power supply
Built a new system and experiencing random reboots during installation of windows 8. Tried Win xp and win 7 as well on different drives and same thing happens. The reboot seems to occur at the same point in the installation.All these versions of windows were purchased.
Summary of tests carried out so far. During all the tests it still rebooted
Setup is on a workbench not in a case and there are no connections to the power,reset header.(i short out power button pins to start)
Tried 3 different SATA harddrives,and tried different SATA ports
Replaced power supply with 750 watt PS
Tried every memory port with one stick of Ram.
Run 4 hour memtest on both memory ,checked out OK.
Removed video card and ran onboard graphics with HDMI.
Flashed bios to version FD, ran optimized defaults.
Tried installing from USB and CD.
Tried XMP profile1.
Removed USB mouse
Tried keyboard in USB and PS2 ports
Reseated CPU and applied new thermal paste, (running with stock cooler)
Bios reported 38 - 45 temp.
Only odd thing is i removed a harddrive from a working PC that has WinXP installed and tried on the new build then booted into safe mode and it worked. left it over 4 hours and there were no reboots.
Thanks for any help with this.
Specs:
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 (ver 2.0)
Intel core i5 2500K
Corsair DDR3 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9
Sapphire HD3650 512mb video or Gigabyte 6770
WD 320gb hardrive
500watt Power supply
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