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Title: GA-EX58-UD4P starting to boot cycle
Post by: malachi on June 02, 2009, 01:38:12 pm

For the past 3 weeks I have been running my i7 D0 with the Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P motherboard and OCZ Intel i7 6GB RAM.
I am running everything at stock and no overclocking has been done. For the past few days from a cold boot, the computer will completly lockup when booting into Windows. When I restart the computer, it boot cycles 5 or 8 times before it starts up correctly.
Could this be a problem with the motherboard or the type of RAM I am using? I have updated to the latest bios, temp are running no higher than 65 on full load and I have reset the CMOS 3 times but it still random happens from time to time.

Title: Re: GA-EX58-UD4P starting to boot cycle
Post by: oggmonster on June 02, 2009, 02:04:27 pm

Have you tried reseating memory&cpu/all connections? You could try running a memtest and then a HDD diagnostic test (download from manufacturers site) Are you plugging anything into the machine? (printers, external HDDs etc) try booting with just essentials - keyboard, mouse, power, monitor.
Does the windows error log provide you with any information?

Title: Re: GA-EX58-UD4P starting to boot cycle
Post by: malachi on June 02, 2009, 04:01:04 pm

Yep, Ive done all that part from the memtest.  Yesterday I had 1 blue screen with the IRQ less or Equal.  As I went into the bios to double check the settings the computer froze on the bios setup screen but after I reboot everything was working fine.
Strange thing is I had this same problem with one of my GA-P35 skt775 motherboards in my other computer last week which kept on boot cycling but never came on.  It was working fine for the 8 months I had it and the setup was never changed.  Turned out the motherboard was faulty after I sent it back for testing, that had been my 4th GA-P35 skt775 before then.

Title: Re: GA-EX58-UD4P starting to boot cycle
Post by: oggmonster on June 02, 2009, 04:09:44 pm

Was it a fresh install of windows? Try running a memtest the reporting back the resaults http://www.memtest.org/#downiso (http://www.memtest.org/#downiso) download the ISO then burn imagine to disk (using nero image burner for example.) Then set to boot from cd in BIOS.

Which HDD diagnostics did you use?

Title: Re: GA-EX58-UD4P starting to boot cycle
Post by: Badbonji on June 02, 2009, 04:19:08 pm

Seems like a memory error, so run memtest.
Check the BIOS to make sure the X.M.P. is correct, or whatever settings you use that it is the correct voltage (default 1.5V for ram, might need up to 1.65V - try raising to 1.55-1.6V anyway, to see if that helps). Make sure all the timings are right.

If memtest turns up with errors, then you should RMA the set.
Good luck,
Ben.