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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: tontoe on October 16, 2009, 06:53:52 pm

Title: EP45-DS3R splash screen buty no POST
Post by: tontoe on October 16, 2009, 06:53:52 pm

I built a PC earlier this year using a EP45-DS3R MOBO, Quad Core Intel Q6660, 4 gb Corsair RAM, 1 GB Samsung Spinpoint HDD & Matrox Millennium P690 PCIe Graphics Card.
I'm running (or was running) Windows XP Professional SP2.

Everything was fine until one day last week I turned the machine back on and it just kept cycling - showing the splash screen and then restarting   - never got to POST screen.

I have tried  disconnecting everything from the MOBO (incl Hard Disks, floppy/CD Drives) & also tried a different Graphics card that I know works.

I also removed CMOS battery overnight. Still no joy. It never gets to the POST screen so I can't do anything with it.

I swapped the Hard Disks to another PC (with Gigabyte GA P35 S3G MOBO) and everything works (once I'd installed drivers).

Help!! Does anyone have any ideas?

Title: Re: EP45-DS3R splash screen buty no POST
Post by: oggmonster on October 19, 2009, 10:28:40 am

Try testing your PSU in other machine. Or running a memtest on your memory modules :)

Title: Re: EP45-DS3R splash screen buty no POST
Post by: tontoe on October 19, 2009, 11:48:13 am

Thanks
Will try a PSU and memory modules I am certain are working...