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bad motherboard?

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wheatthins

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I am having a problem with a motherboard in a new system... or at least I think it is the motherboard. I recently bought a new Intel Pentium D 820 dual core along with an intel motherboard (D945GNTLR) and DD2 667 Gold Series OCZ memory (dual-channel).
With both DIMMs of memory installed, the system fails to boot or even display anything on the monitor. So then I tried taking out one of the DIMMs and the system begins boot but hangs after displaying the SVGA BIOS information. The text on the screen seems courrupted sometimes with random characters all around the screen. The problem seems to clear up when the power button on the case is pressed for a moment. Twice (out of about 50 tries) it did make it all the way up to BIOS which seemed to have everything correct for the one DIMM installed.
I talked to OCZ tech support and they have no reason to believe the memory is not compatible with the mobo. However, since this is a new system it could be any part that is faulty.
Does it sound like a bad motherboard? Or is there anything else I could try to narrow it down some more?
 
PSU up to the task? Tried clearing the CMOS? If you get to the bios again, try setting the system to fail safe/optimal defaults or setting ram timings manually and boosting the default vDIMM.
 
You can use a screw driver to short the power pins on the board to eliminate a bad power button on the case. If you have power and reset buttons on the mainboard that is even better obviously 🙂
 
Yea, the second time I made it into BIOS I set the timing for RAM but the results didn't change.

I never thought to short the power with a screw driver but i'll give that a try... How do you reset the CMOS?

Also, I was thinking the problem could be something is grounded and shouldn't be. I am going to try posting outside the case to check this.
 
Look on the motherboard or in the manual to locate the clear CMOS jumper on the motherboard. Use the jumper to short the pins and that will clear the CMOS.
 
CMOS is "usually" right near the Battery on ur Mainboard......locate the battery and if u can see the little letters that say CMOS on the board then that jumper is CMOS move it over to the adjacent pins and turn the pc on.......then move the jumper back to the original 2 pins.....then turn it on
 
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