Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 not recognising usb dvd-rw

[yorkie]

Cheers Allan

I tried to mix the oil and water but got nowhere, now I'm trying to mix oil with oil, ufortunately still getting nowhere.

The board never booted up and or found an IDE drive, or a usb drive or a usb zip

I already had a sata 3 drive connected and about 8 hours ago I purchased a sata dvd-rw, this was picked up straight away, my problems now are gfx and ram.

Keep watching sure there will be more fun and games!

[Aussie Allan]

  Good to hear buddy !

  Now you need to hit that little CMOS CLEAR button on the back and treat it like a new build with the right DVD player under the hood ...... seriously, once in , .... load optimized defaults , save and reboot (with one stick in of memory of course) .....you may just fall off your chair

Aussie Allan .

[Rolo42]

I have to ask rather than assume, did you plug the PCIe power connector(s) into the 560 from the PSU?

[Dark Mantis]

The board never booted up and or found an IDE drive, or a usb drive or a usb zip

I already had a sata 3 drive connected and about 8 hours ago I purchased a sata dvd-rw, this was picked up straight away, my problems now are gfx and ram.

You didn't mention to start with that the system never booted. Just that the drive wasn't recognised. Make sure that you have the 8 pin 12v ATX plug inserted near the CPU on the mainboard as well as the 24 pin power plug.

[yorkie]

Yes there are two 6 pin pci connectors that need plugging in for the 560 ti, just one for the 4850. (Still can' get the 560 ti to put out a signal)

For the onboard graphics should it just be the case of plugging in the monitor to the hdmi slot on the mobo? (I am using a dvi-d to hdmi converter but can't get that to put out a signal too)

Anyway with one stick of ram and using the 4850 I have installed windows, not had chance to play around with it but it looks like it is 'cold booting' if that's the correct term. I left it last night  several times displaying the desktop but when I came up 30 minutes later each time it had rebooted itself back to the log in screen. I have put the other sticks of ram back in so may be worth taking them out again to see if they are causing the boot issue.

Next job is to update bios and drivers, ha had enough by last night and so had some beer, which was nice! At work now so will be this evening before  I get chance to work on it.

Dark Mantis you are correct in that I didn't say it wouldn't boot originally, it was a typo by me last night, I meant I couldn't get it to load windows not boot, my bad.

[Dark Mantis]

OK I understand now re the booting issue.

With the use of the onboard graphics on some boards they will not let you use an adapter for the booting output so I would try to do it without to be safe. You also need to set the BIOS to use that display which is difficult if you can't get a display to work.

[Rolo42]

Best to go with straight DVI for on-board; HDMI seems hit-or-miss.

Do you have another PSU you could try/borrow?  I'm really suspecting it.  If you don't have any BSODs in the event log to go with those reboots, it's is almost certainly your PSU.

[Dark Mantis]

Best to go with straight DVI for on-board; HDMI seems hit-or-miss.

Problem is on this board there is only the HDMI option. A bit limiting really. 

[yorkie]

Just updated bios to F6, no problems, started updating drivers all seemed to go smoothly, however then I got a message saying activate windows this isn't a genuine copy or words to those effects (it is a genuine retail copy), then out of blue BSOD, rebooted and BSOD, rebooted asked to activate windows then BSOD, tried this several times no luck! Then final time all fans spin up for a few seconds as well as dvd drive, monitor never switches on, then repeats over and over again without actually booting. Cleared cmos no luck, so currently have power off and battery out, going to give it overnight probably and try again tomorrow. Have to say this mobo is certainly moody! My socket 775 Gigabyte rig that I have just replaced was so sweet and was a breeze to install, I mistakenly thought this one would be easier! 

[Rolo42]

Oh, its rebooting before POST is finished.  How many times have you let it cycle before turning off?

The only issue I have with mine is after a BSOD, it will cold-boot during POST 4-6 times (and I have to restore my CMOS settings); perhaps yours is doing something similar and needs to "work it out...eventually".

[yorkie]

Let it cold boot about 8 times.

[yorkie]

Although it doesn't even post

[Rolo42]

Did you clear CMOS via the jumper?

[yorkie]

Fiddlesticks, got the computer to boot up again but windows was corrupted and kept BSOD again, tried reinstalling but no joy keeps coming up with error code: 0x80070002 while installing, unplugged all usb devices other than keyboard and mouse. If I can't get it working by this pm, think I'm going to RMA it.

[Rolo42]

I believe that's file not found, which may imply bad media or your USB connection is flaky.