GIGABYTE GA-965P-S3 - Posting Problems. Help

[vlotn]

I recieved my motherboard today being a complete noob to conroe. I hooked everything up, with the stock cpu fan, everything was going fine. I then went to post the setup. I turned it on and i heard the hard drives turn on and my video card fan turnon. I looked at my cpu fan and saw it not spining but it apeard to be trying to turn but it didnt. I immediatly cut the system off. Next i tried stripping the system down to hardly anything, same thing except now it would cut off after about 6 seconds of trying to post. then off for 3 seconds, then automatically back on for good. I dont know what is causing these bad problems, i think it might be the motherboard. I dont hear anything btw, no beeps, nothing on the screen, nothing signifying that is on besides the fans (other than the cpu fan).

What could be my problem? All of my power is pugged into the motherboard btw.

 

[vlotn]

Liberty 620watt
Corsair 2gig 6400 5-5-5-12
7800gtx
2xraptor's
e6600

 

[vlotn]

bump~

 

[jbhoo]

I have Exactly the same Problem!!!
Can someone give us some help ?

 

[Celeryman]

You guys memory is likely the culprit. The DS3 and the S3 try to boot the ram with only 1.8v initially. The fix is to find some cheap or generic ram that specs 1.8v default. Put the cheap ram stick in and boot, from there you can change the voltage in the bios and shut down the machine. Then stick your better ram sticks in and boot. That should solve the problem if it is indeed your ram.

 

[jbhoo]

Yes your right I found this topic in another thread.
My memory is mushkin 2gb kit Voltage 1.9
So i'm going to use a 1.8 stick to boot with.
One more question. How will that effect my overclocking, will I still be able to raise the voltage of the memory ?

 

[Celeryman]

Absolutely, when you put in your better ram, you can raise voltage all the way to 2.4 if I remember the menu options.

 

[CDigs]

Same problem with DQ6. Machine goes into continuous reboot cycle even before posting.

Tried with Kingston Value RAM DDR2-533 @1.8v and it was no go Requested RMA from GB.

 

[gRaps]

probably not the memory.

I have the DS3, and have the same ram except timing is 4-4-4-4-12.

ANd it posts fine W/o changing ram etc

 

[dakotagts]

try this take the board out and start with everything taken off, this is what I had to do.

I rehooked the cpu fan installed one stick of memory, messed fired it up with a screwdriver by touching the pos and neg power switch in the bottom area of the motherboard and I got a boot.

I think it came down to the cpu fan not being in full contact, or I had the power switch positive and negitve reversed. Try changing what looks logical on that, and see if that does anything.