Hey everyone,
I bought myself a new motherboard, CPU and RAM, and have had nothing but trouble trying to get it to work.
When I turn the PC on, my motherboard lights up white for a few seconds, then change to red, then reboots with red lights on, and stays on, after a minute or two the graphics card fans stop spinning.
I have tried absolutely everything I can think off.
- Booting the PC with no RAM, or CPU, it will reboot instantly and repeatedly.
- Tried different RAM sticks, 2 sticks at a time, and 1 on it's own
- Tried booting with and without hard drives plugged in
- Checked the CPU socket to bent pins, they don't look bent to me, nor the 3 other people I've asked
- Tried booting without the graphics card (obviously I'd get no post then, but I was seeing if it would do anything differently, which is doesn't)
- Rebuilt it out of the case
- Tried flashing the motherboard to latest BIOS using a formatted FAT32 memory stick inserted in the white USB port, with the file renamed to GIGABYTE.BIN (no change in boot at all)
- Tried flashing with RAM or CPU removed
- Read the manual a lot of times
- Read the internet a lot of times
- Read the same thing over and over a lot of times
- Checked that all my parts are compatible with each other (apparently they are)
- All the fans spin, hard drives power up
- Tried resetting CMOS
Anyway, here's my hardware and a video on the boot process
https://youtu.be/59ynZKCWsEMGIGABYTE GA-X99 ULTRA GAMING Motherboard LGA2011-3 Socket
Intel Core i7-6850K (The box says LGA2011, but the internet says LGA2011-3. Is this normal?)
Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) LPX DDR4 RAM
MSI GeForce GTX 970
700w power supply
This is a horrible week, if anyone can help me I will be so grateful, I've been building for about 5 years and I've never ever had so much trouble.