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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: ak2000 on November 22, 2009, 05:52:14 am

Title: EP45-UD3P Power up question
Post by: ak2000 on November 22, 2009, 05:52:14 am

Hello everyone, new member here, but not new to Gigabyte Mobos. I have three different PCs with GB boards, but I have a question on one:
When I press the power button on my PC, I get 4 "starts" then POST just fine. It appears that the power on trys 4 times then catches. Hard to explain, but this is something I am not used to. PC boots up and runs just fine, just the strange power up has me concerned. Any ideas? Thanks

Title: Re: EP45-UD3P Power up question
Post by: Pottypete on November 22, 2009, 12:57:51 pm

Hi,
Have you the latest bios
Try unplugging all your usb devices
Have you got your Boot drive set in bios
Cheers

Title: Re: EP45-UD3P Power up question
Post by: ak2000 on November 23, 2009, 01:55:39 am

I have the latest BIOS, FC. Flashed it before I posted this. Didn't change the strange startup behavior.
Boot drive is set as the First Boot drive in BIOS.
I was thinking that it might be the usb devices. I had a MSI Mobo that would beep X amount of times before starting up indicating the USB devices plugged in.

Title: Re: EP45-UD3P Power up question
Post by: oggmonster on November 23, 2009, 09:47:54 am

Have you tried running with bare minimum - no optical drives, front usb etc. Just CPU, 1 stick RAM and graphics card of some description. Obviously all power connections aswell. Then see if it will post straight away. You may also want to consider running a memtest http://memtest.org/#downiso (http://memtest.org/#downiso) download and mount the ISO using nero or similar program. Then set your boot device priority to boot from cd. Sometimes dodgey memory can cause this.