Re: NEW BUILD TROUBLESHOOTING

pezgarden@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Thanks guys,

The MB is a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L. Bought new yesterday. Revision 2.
This system has never run. When the Logo screen comes up it lists the
Bios keys you can press. nothing happens when I press, DEL or TAB or
END. I have never gotten into the bios.

I bought this at Frys. They were not to knowledgable this evening.
They said to reset the Bios. i will try that. Perhaps the board is not
able to run the new e8400 CPU. But I thought i read elsewhere, that
even if you need to update bios for the e8400, you'd be able to get
deep enough into the bios to do that.

I'm glad it sounds like my CPU is okay. I put in a replacement
Motherboard but I only get to the LOGO Screen.

I don't have another 775 chip to try to get into bios and flash.

i don't think I can find out the bios version from the exterior?

Wish me luck.

Max

The CPU support for E8400, would have been added pretty recently. I checked
the BIOS downloads, and F8a was released Dec.6 of last year. Chances
are, you are not running that BIOS right now. A reviewer on Newegg,
says he got a board with F7 BIOS and the E8400 ran with it. So apparently
the latest BIOS is not an absolute requirement (on some brands of
motherboards, you wouldn't be getting anywhere with the wrong BIOS,
so this is good news). Another reviewer got a board with an F6
BIOS and that ran the E8400 as well. Apparently the BIOS is not in
a socket on this motherboard.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/CPUSupport_Model.aspx?ProductID=2629

There are hundreds of reviews here. The reviews claim the same Newegg
order number is used for Rev.1 and Rev.2, which is a minor inconvenience
in terms of using the info here.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16813128059

If I'm reading the manual right, pressing <tab> is supposed to make
the full screen logo go away. <del> should allow entering the BIOS.
So it must be getting stuck after putting up that logo.

Is the keyboard being used, a PS/2 or a USB ?

If the keyboard lights are no longer flashing, then maybe it isn't
even getting as far as accessing the keyboard.

There is a description in the manual for the CLR_CMOS header. Unplug
the computer before going near it. To reset the CMOS, short the two
pins together for a short time, while the computer is unplugged. The
pins are to be left disconnected, before plugging back in. You're
not supposed to leave any jumper cap on it.

When you've been fooling around with the RAM, have you turned off the
power at the back in each case ? The RAM socket still has power if the
computer supply is on at the back. As long as you're still seeing
the logo, I don't expect anything is busted. I'm surprised you aren't
getting any beep codes through the computer case speaker, while you're
trying your various tests (like removing all the RAM should have
given a beep code for "missing RAM").

So I'm stumped. I don't see an easy way out of this, short of buying
the cheapest compatible Celeron D you can find, for testing. I mean,
it could be related to the use of a PCI video card, but you did get
the logo...

Paul
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