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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: 1967Typhoon on March 02, 2016, 02:05:19 pm
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Last night I had an issue with an OC setting not wanting to boot.
I thought "no big deal I will clear CMOS". I went to clear the CMOS and nothing happened. I tried a few more times, and nothing. I had to pull the battery for 30 seconds. To get defaults to load. That has never happened.
Here is the next problem I had. Once I had cleared the CMOS, I went into the BIOS and got my settings how I wanted them. I saved the BIOS, then rebooted and went back into the BIOS so I could power the machine down. (I have performance ram that wont boot on defaults). For the past five years, I have been able to press the power button on the case to power down when I am in the BIOS. Now when I press it, the screen goes black but the machine stays ON. This causes the BIOS to go haywire and need a reset. And then I have to pull the battery and wait 30 seconds again.
The other thing I tried is to power the machine down while in the BIOS with the power switch, and guess what? IT MAKES THE BIOS NEED A RESET.
I have flashed the BIOS, and it still behaves this way. Is this board done? I have never had an issue like this with any board over the years. I plan on ripping the whole thing out of the case tonight and trying it barebones with a different PSU to see if that may have some effect.
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Maybe you need a new battery.
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Put in a brand new battery last night. Old battery read 3.17v on my meter, brand new battery was 3.27v. I doubt it was the issue, but I put a new battery in anyway.
My main problem is not being able to power down in the BIOS from the power button. That is a totally new issue. That is the main issue preventing me from swapping ram sticks.
I REALLY don't understand why more BIOSes don't have a "Save and Shutdown" option. It's really really stupid.
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You should have this in the bios unless you are using the UEFI bios then you might not.
This is in Power Management.
Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN
Configures the way to turn off the computer in MS-DOS mode using the power button.
Instant-Off - Press the power button and then the system will be turned off instantly. (Default)
Delay 4 Sec. - Press and hold the power button for 4 seconds to turn off the system. If the power
button is pressed for less than 4 seconds, the system will enter suspend mode.
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I swapped PSUs on my lunch break and now the board behaves as it should. I am going to try cleaning all of the connectors on the old unit and try again. If that fails I know the PSU is shot. Thanks for the help.
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After a few minutes of it behaving nicely, the entire board powered down for no reason. BOTH power supplies check out OK. I can get the board to power back on if I use a low power GPU, but when I put my R9 290 in, it won't even attempt to boot when I press the power button.
I'm thinking the board is shot. In all honesty I thought it was a tremendously underwhelming board considering how much I paid for it new. It always hated RAM, it couldn't OC very well, and the BIOS is trash. Adios, Gigabyte.
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I can get the board to power back on if I use a low power GPU, but when I put my R9 290 in, it won't even attempt to boot when I press the power button.
What PSU you using if it doesn't have enough amps with R9-290 it could be using all the amps up. Those card could be using as much as 30 amps a lone. Plus if the computer is working with the other GPU then it isn't the board. If the board is bad it is bad.
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I have both a 750w and 650w PSU I am using for testing. Both are high quality units.
Just an update:
I pulled the CMOS battery again overnight, and got it to boot to the BIOS. I saved defaults and loaded windows no problem at all. Thinking I had finally gotten this somewhat working, I shut it down in windows. After shut down I tried to boot again, and it once again did not boot into BIOS. It just gave me a black screen with all fans running. I am going to hook up a speaker now and check for any beep errors.