x58 ud3 rev2 not booting into windows

[zasker]

hi pleasehelp me as i am pulling my hair out rma,d my first board, bent cpu pins second board all looks ok loaded windows7 ok but just turns it self off just before or as windows home page comes on,i have a i950 cpu three 2 gig corsair sticks, all recognized ocz 780 psu, and a thermotake frio cooler,i have tried with just one stick of ram loading 32 vista= same problem and just updated bios to fb no difference,what confuses me the most is how it installs os fine but cant boot into it without pc turning itself off, please help as i am now reduced to mrs not worth a bean craptop
cheers

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.
I guess we had better help you before you are totally bald.
Can you please list all your hardware including your PSU?

[zasker]

  hi my parts list is
gigabyte ud3r x58 rev2
i950
memory corsair xms3 1600mhz times3 althoughonly one installed
cooler themotake frio
psu ocz 780 modxtreem
the cpu was installed in first motherboard when realized only recognized 4 out of 6 gig ram checked forums checked cpu socket pins found a couple bent, so dont know if cpu was damaged, personally dont think so as no problems in bios or installing windows, i can try my sons psu tomorrow ifyou think this is likely cause as i guess mine is knocking on although was never a problem in my lga775 ::)now wheres that comb

[Lsdmeasap]

In the Advanced BIOS page, inside "Hard Disk Boot Priority" do you have your OS disk moved to the top of that list?

If not please move it to the top.   Also, did you have any USB Devices connected when you installed the OS?

Sometimes if you have USB Devices installed, or another hard drive, the OS bootloader is installed to that device if it was set to first in the above mentioned list during the install.   If either of those are the case, it would be easier for you to just remove all drives except the one you want to install to, and remove all USB Devices, then install windows again.   Checking to be sure the OS Drive is first in the top of the "Hard Disk Boot Priority" list before you install, which in this case it should be as it would be the only hard drive.

[zasker]

hi yes th os diskdrive was first in boot order, and when you first turn pc on it always gets to starting windows page sometimes into windows main page but either not for long or if you click ona program pc turns off, at first lasted long enough for windows 7 expereience score now you cant even click on google but for most part it gets to windows black page with the windows flag and then few seconds later turns of with restart to follow

[Dark Mantis]

My gut feeling is that it is a power problem so if you can swap out the PSU even if it is just to eliminate it. The PSU is  a decent one but they do deteriorate over the years.

[zasker]

thankyou for helping me, as for you dark mantis you are the man borrowed my sons ocz 600 is about 6 months old, finished of loading windows been mucking about in it now continously running index and generally giving it a hard time for about the last hour and has been completely stable, iam counting myself lucky for your advice, having a psu i ccould borrow, i personally thought it was the ram! and the fact that my old psu hasnt damaged anthing in its old age my hair loss has stopped and i wont have to do a comb over.
thanks again
carl

[Dark Mantis]

Glad to have managed to save some of your hair When you replace your PSU i would advise going again for something of the same sort of size or bigger and if possible with a single 12v rail as they are more reliable with the more power hungry components today. All the best
DM