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GA-EP31-DS3L NO POST SCREEN

GA-EP31-DS3L NO POST SCREEN
« on: August 29, 2010, 06:41:40 am »
Had my mboard for a while but recently I've stopped getting a POST screen on boot.  Because the pc acts as a small home server its running 24/7 so its not normally a problem because it rarely gets re-booted.  But looking to change some hardware/software so need to be able to see POST to configure boot options etc.

No new hardware or software installed prior to problem.

Turn on/Reboot (black screen monitor on standby) > get post beep > fdd looks for boot disk > mboard sits and thinks for a while > then hd light start to flash (SATA drive) > that loads OS (Win7 ultimate) > but  only when you get to the Win7 welcome screen does the monitor come off standby and you get a display, windows logo etc.

ANy ideas?

Trevor

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Re: GA-EP31-DS3L NO POST SCREEN
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2010, 10:14:51 am »
Hi Trevor and welcome to the forum.
So once the computer has fully booted the monitor is fine, correct?
If that is right thenm the problem lies in the BIOS graphics settings somewhere. Lets start at the beginning though and from what you said it takes a while to boot as it 's looking for the various devices so I would advise disabling in the BIOS anything like the floppy drive, IDE, parallel port etc. It willl make the system faster to boot and release resources. Can you list your hardware too please?
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy