GA-P35C-DS3R boot problem

[cenoevil]

Hi all,

Problem with my GA-P35C-DS3R and booting up.

Had this board as part of my system for about 3 years now, and no issues of note until yesterday.

I applied a couple of updates and then shut the box down.  Upon powering up I started having issues.  The machine would just hang at the bois screen, at the point where 'memory' comes up before saying how much RAM is installed.

I tried to reboot on a couple of occasions, and still exactly the same result.  I also left it at that point for about 10 minutes, and still no joy.  I have unplugged it from the mains and left it for a while also.  I have made no hardware changes at all recently.

I have attached an image of where it sticks at at POST.

I am assuming it must be a memory error, because that is where the system halts at power up?  Also, there are no beeps.

Can anyone advise on this problem for me?

TIA!

[Dark Mantis]

Well the first thing is are you overclocking any of your components at all? If you are reset them to the default settings. If you are not firstly I would recommend clearing the CMOS and then loading the BIOS optimised defaults. Please list all your hardware for us to have a proper idea of the problem you are facing.

[cenoevil]

Cheers for reply.

Ok - no overlcoking at all.
Spec;  C2D E6850@3ghz, 6gig RAM DDR2 @ 800mhz, 2x Barracuda 500gig HDD's, NVidia 8800 GTS, Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit, Corsair TX 650W PSU.

I willl try the CMOS clear later.  If that works I will then load the optimised defaults.

Cheers.

[Dark Mantis]

The other thing is what updates did you apply prior to the problem?

[cenoevil]

Updates as per Patch Tuesday from MS; Silverlight, Word, Excel, IE and a TCP update I believe...

[Dark Mantis]

OK, nothing out of the ordinary then. The other thing you could try is to run Memtest86 on your RAM one module at a time for several loops.

[liv2roc]

I was having this same problem and I could remove one of the four sticks of ram and keep moving them around and it would finaly start . but next time I restart the system it would do it again. sent the board RMA to gigabyte the returned it saying could find nothing wrong with it. so I threw it in a box and bought a new one . now 6 months later I got it going again  installed new ram but it still will restart 2 or 3 time by it self before it gets a diaplay on my monitor then runs fine.

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte forum.

My first thoughts would be that you have the memory set to Auto in the BIOS and it is not giving you the optimal settings for the RAM. Try setting the timings and voltages manually and see if that helps.