@#^%!

[ken_cinder]

Turn my main desktop PC on earlier.......nothing. Fans and drives spin up, but otherwise NOTHING.

 

I go through the usual "OK something's misbehaving" process of pulling EVERYTHING out but 1 stick of RAM and 1 video card. STILL nothing, not even a beep.

 

Swap RAM, nothing. Swap video cards, nothing. Try NO video card, nothing. Try NO RAM, nothing. Pull the f**king CPU out and turn it on.......NOTHING!

 

Down to the motherboard or the power supply I think.

 

Just my f**king luck, I can't afford to replace any of it being out of work and all.

 

Where's my baseball bat........

[Rag]

ah poor luck :/

 

if only it just needed a good nights rest and would be up and running tomorrow? wishful thinking...

[ken_cinder]

Changed the power supply, still nothing. DAMMIT!

[LoRd_SnOw]

Normally, switching the powersupply would solve the problem, i guess your motherboard fuzzed out then

 

just to see if your older parts are okay i would try putting another mobo in its place. Best of luck, i hope you get it working again.

[ken_cinder]

I ordered a replacement bios chip in hopes it's that. I had a bios chip go on another board years ago.

 

$15 and if it's that, I save myself buying another motherboard.

[Hera]

I really hope that works out for ya

[ken_cinder]

New motherboard came in, transplanted everything and I'm all good again.

 

Just wish I knew what was wrong with the other one, I paid damn good money for what was a high end board at the time!

[gavin19]

Glad your back on 'board', so to speak

[Jitway]

Too much UT is what is wrong board gotta tired of all the fragging going on.

[ken_cinder]

Too much UT is what is wrong board gotta tired of all the fragging going on.

 

Haven't played since we last had the server going. And this thing could handle 50 copies of UT running at the same time......lol

 

In hindsight, I can tell now that it was dying. I was having odd things happen for months. I'd reboot and I'd have my IDE devices missing (A hard drive and my DVD burner), another reboot and they'd come back.

 

I started getting wierd BSOD's out of nowhere regarding random hardware. 1 time it'd be a DLL for my video card, the next TCP.sys and the next something else.

[ken_cinder]

I swore I'd never buy another Gigabyte board again......WHY didn't I stick to that!

 

God this board is a big piece of $HIT! No extra hardware installed, MEMTEST86 checks RAM out fine, 2 different power supplies used and this piece of CRAP does nothing but constantly crash with random "causes" referenced by Windows (I don't think I've seen the same error twice FFS!)

 

NEVER EVER EVER AGAIN! This POS is going right back to Newegg TODAY. I should have learned my lesson years ago with the Gigabyte boards I've owned, that this company can't make anything well.

[Jitway]

Ya other board sounds like a memory problem with the bios. Had many a board do that to me...mostly after a good electrical storm or power surge from our crappy power company till I started investing in good battery backups and surge protector.

 

Now for gigabyte why oh why did you not learn the first time. I too have never had a good experience with them. Always swayed my customers from buying one. I usually got a asus or ecs and sometimes abit or mci. Had good luck with dfi lanparty boards too but they a bit pricey sometimes.

[ken_cinder]

I *think* I've got it mostly stabilized.

 

1: I don't think it's playing nice with SP3, I haven't had as much trouble after I reinstalled Windows with my SP2 disk.

 

2: How many f**king devices need to share the same IRQ!? Onboard video (Now disabled), all USB, Onboard Network and storage controller ALL making use of IRQ 10.........WTF?

 

3: Installed the ATI Southbridge Driver package (Seems this no longer comes bundled with the Catalysts.....hmm)

 

Mind you I thought I had it stable earlier too by disabling onboard network controller, and I come back a half hour later to a BSOD. We shall see.

[ken_cinder]

Here I had my hopes al up, I've got it to be not so much a pain in the ass, but it's still doing the random crash BS with random errors. I'm sick of debugging crash dumps that point to something different every time.

 

Thank god Newegg does RMA easily and I don't have to pay shipping back!

[Jitway]

Ya never had a problem with newegg and returns. Now get a decent motherboard this time.