I'm at my wits end here. I had a BIOS flash fail on my old X58 SLI LE. Tech support told me to RMA it. They were closed the week this happened--bad timing--I can forgive that, fine. After waiting two weeks I got my new board (same model) last night. After carefully putting the system back together on first boot the board made a very sick clicking noise and would not power on. I reset the power connections and checked the HSF on the CPU. On a second attempt, the components powered on normally without any bad noises but the board went straight to "FF."
I've followed an evga "FF" troubleshooting video, reseated everything except the CPU which I'll try again tonight. I've pulled all the RAM, the Video Card, and everything else and still the board goes straight to FF. I'm fairly confident when I remove and reseat the CPU this evening, and do the final step of dismounting the board and boot it outside of my case that I'll still get an FF code. For what it's worth, my old board never did function exactly perfectly. It was totally unstable with any kind of overclock, which I attributed to the RAM--but it was rock-solid when at stock settings except for one problem: the system could not restart. Whenever I shut down, I had to wait at least 2 minutes before the board would power itself up and POST. Restarting would almost always hang the system. This is why I decided to give the BIOS flash a go, and that ended up being a disaster.
I'm beginning to suspect that my PSU might be faulty, but this is going to be next to impossible for me to easily troubleshoot since I don't have a second unit to test with. I've bought Antec units for years and never had a problem though, and this unit was powering my previous board for over a year before the BIOS incident.
System Specs:
Antec TruePower TP-650 650W PSU
Intel i7 920 2.66GHz CPU @ Stock Settings
EVGA 141-BL-E757-TR LGA 1366 Intel X58 SLI LE Motherboard
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600 RAM (6 x 2GB)
EVGA 896-P3-1170 Geforce GTX 275 896MB Video Card
Cooler Master Intel i7 V8 120mm Rifle HSF
If anyone has any words of wisdom that can help prevent me having to go through a second RMA they would be greatly appreciated. As I've said, I've already done most of the troubleshooting listed in evga's "FF" FAQ video. I've left the CMOS battery out for a few minutes, cleared the CMOS several times, and removed and reseated all the components. I really can't believe that EVGA would send me a DOA RMA board, but I suppose that's a possibility. This is such a pain.
Thanks
I've followed an evga "FF" troubleshooting video, reseated everything except the CPU which I'll try again tonight. I've pulled all the RAM, the Video Card, and everything else and still the board goes straight to FF. I'm fairly confident when I remove and reseat the CPU this evening, and do the final step of dismounting the board and boot it outside of my case that I'll still get an FF code. For what it's worth, my old board never did function exactly perfectly. It was totally unstable with any kind of overclock, which I attributed to the RAM--but it was rock-solid when at stock settings except for one problem: the system could not restart. Whenever I shut down, I had to wait at least 2 minutes before the board would power itself up and POST. Restarting would almost always hang the system. This is why I decided to give the BIOS flash a go, and that ended up being a disaster.
I'm beginning to suspect that my PSU might be faulty, but this is going to be next to impossible for me to easily troubleshoot since I don't have a second unit to test with. I've bought Antec units for years and never had a problem though, and this unit was powering my previous board for over a year before the BIOS incident.
System Specs:
Antec TruePower TP-650 650W PSU
Intel i7 920 2.66GHz CPU @ Stock Settings
EVGA 141-BL-E757-TR LGA 1366 Intel X58 SLI LE Motherboard
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600 RAM (6 x 2GB)
EVGA 896-P3-1170 Geforce GTX 275 896MB Video Card
Cooler Master Intel i7 V8 120mm Rifle HSF
If anyone has any words of wisdom that can help prevent me having to go through a second RMA they would be greatly appreciated. As I've said, I've already done most of the troubleshooting listed in evga's "FF" FAQ video. I've left the CMOS battery out for a few minutes, cleared the CMOS several times, and removed and reseated all the components. I really can't believe that EVGA would send me a DOA RMA board, but I suppose that's a possibility. This is such a pain.
Thanks
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