Recent content by crimedawg

I wanted to thank everyone with their suggestions and advice on my problem. The board was RMAed and I repurchased from Newegg and just got it yesterday. This morning I plugged everything in and fired it up with no problems. So again, thanks for helping me isolate the mobo as the issue.

vailr, I am just using the stock heatsink with Radioshack thermal paste. I figured when I start wanting to OC, I could get something better, but the HS that comes with the CPU should be fine for a non-OC'ed system. It may have been the RAM when I first started trying to boot, but it has gotten...

No luck on shorting the pins. I even tried a couple other ones on the F_PANEL set since I planned on sending the board back anyway. I'm still getting the power on and off cycle so the board must be defective.

sfitzp4573, I had boxed it up to RMA but haven't sent it due to my lack of packing tape. Maybe worth a shot of pulling it back out to try that. I have no idea why shorting those pins would work, but what's the worst that could happen? My RMA is approved anyway and if this works, I can have my...

Well I was able to RMA through buy.com since the 14 days for a return is from when it was sent to the warehouse, not order date. So we'll see what happens when I get a new one. Thank you all very much for helping me out on this one. This is the first board I've ever got DOA so I guess I had it...

Lou, I was kind of thinking an overheat problem too which is why I reapplied new thermal paste and reseated CPU. But it's still power cycling. I will check again just to make sure the HS is attached correctly. Earlier today when it wasn't power cycling, I did try a PCI vid card and got no...

I did just find on the Corsair site that my RAM operates at 1.9V which may be causing me a problem there. I couldn't find anything on the PNY site about the voltage. But if the thing isn't going to stay powered up without RAM, there's got to be something else wrong.

b315653, I've heard that too which was why I went to Bestbuy today and picked up 2 sticks of PNY so that I could just get into the BIOS. How can I tell what the voltage is on the RAM? Would it be anywhere on the sticks themselves or just from the Corsair website? I don't know what the voltage of...

Simon, since the boards are arranged differently, what is the 10-pin set meant for? Are you essentially clearing your CMOS by doing this? What is the set labeled as so I could try to find the same thing on my board? I have 2 pins right next to the CMOS battery for clearing the CMOS. I did this...

The PSU has this connector on it, but where does it plug into? I cannot find anywhere on the vid card that would accept the connection. The manual for the vid card seems to be a general one for a bunch of different cards and says "If your card is equipped with a supplemental power adapter, we...

Thank you guys for your quick responses. Lou, if the vid card was bad, shouldn't I at least get beeps from the speaker? Or is it possible that a bad vid card would prevent the BIOS from even POSTing? I'll need to look around and see if I can find an old PCI card because this is my first...

I've been trolling for a few days trying to find out what could be going wrong to no avail. Here's the issue, hopefully someone out there will have some advice: My config is as follows: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 w/ stock HS Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 2 sticks of Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800MHz...