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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: gpatz on December 06, 2009, 07:49:15 pm

Title: GA-G41M-ES2H Start Up Screens boots SSSlow and reboots loop
Post by: gpatz on December 06, 2009, 07:49:15 pm: Hi all,
Decided to upgrade Wife's Computer with new MOB. Have always preferred Gigabyte and had my old Core 2 Duo E6600 CPU 2.40 65nm as a hand me down for her. The orignal MOB I had the CPU always had minor issues and it finally died on me trying to get it running while installing it on her computer. I installed a new GA-G41M-ES2H in which the CPU was compatible, installed new Corsair 2048-8500C5G which S/B compatible since the C5D is listed on Gigabyte's sight, and installed new PS to 500W and a 24 pin power connector. When I fired it up I get the usual single beep and the Start up screen has the Energy Saving Star logo, Dual Bios in the right of screen and the little blue Award Modular bios logo only on the screen. It hesitates for several seconds and starts to load the text one letter at a time till it slowly enters all text. Once all the text is entered it reboots repeating the sequence once again over and over again. I tried to enter the Bios to reset the default settings and it will not enter the Bios , just reboots. I also cleared the CMOS, no help there. I returned the MOB and exchanged it for another one thinking it was defective, same result with this one. I decided to upgrade and boost the speed up 2.93 CPU to Core 2 Duo E7500 54nm to see if that made a difference, nada. One other thing that I have noticed is with the first CPU it was identified at the wrong clock speed 2.13 and the new CPU is at 2.26. With this being a weekend I am unable to contact support.
Has anybody encountered this problem before? Am I overlooking something so simple that I do not see it. In all the years that I have built and upgraded my computers I have never ran across this problem.
Title: Re: GA-G41M-ES2H Start Up Screens boots SSSlow and reboots loop
Post by: Pottypete on December 07, 2009, 07:47:52 am: Hi,
Can you check your bios version to the latest available,
The memory timings and voltage may need to be set manually,
Clear cmos and set the cpu fsb,
There are quite a few ppl having problems with corsair memory at the mo,
Run mem test on all your sticks,
Cheers
Title: Re: GA-G41M-ES2H Start Up Screens boots SSSlow and reboots loop
Post by: sqwidd on June 17, 2010, 10:01:53 pm: Disable the floppy drive
Title: Re: GA-G41M-ES2H Start Up Screens boots SSSlow and reboots loop
Post by: Dark Mantis on June 18, 2010, 08:25:16 pm: Have you checked the output voltages from the PSU, it sounds like you may be getting a low voltage. The other thing is that you said the memory should be ok but then quoted two slightly different memory modules.
Title: Re: GA-G41M-ES2H Start Up Screens boots SSSlow and reboots loop
Post by: carnyx on July 03, 2010, 10:16:01 am: I solved my problem of endless looping of the windows intallation, by unplugging the sata hard dri ve drive and fitting a new 'normal' hard drive with a parallel cable, and links set as 'master'.
Title: Re: GA-G41M-ES2H Start Up Screens boots SSSlow and reboots loop
Post by: Dark Mantis on July 03, 2010, 02:18:53 pm: Quote
I solved my problem of endless looping of the windows intallation, by unplugging the sata hard dri ve drive and fitting a new 'normal' hard drive with a parallel cable, and links set as 'master'.

What's this carnyx, a multiple copy and paste exercise ???
Title: Re: GA-G41M-ES2H Start Up Screens boots SSSlow and reboots loop
Post by: absic on July 03, 2010, 02:50:12 pm: Quote from: Dark Mantis on July 03, 2010, 02:18:53 pm
What's this carnyx, a multiple copy and paste exercise ???

No, he's just testing your powers of observation. You should do what I normally do and just ignore it. Annoying though, isn't it?
Title: Re: GA-G41M-ES2H Start Up Screens boots SSSlow and reboots loop
Post by: Dark Mantis on July 04, 2010, 09:13:39 pm: Annoying is one way of putting it, I would just say stupid. It just wastes other peoples time reading about something that has nothing to do with the thread.