Hello all, I'm hoping someone out there can help me out with a strange issue.
I have the GA-N680SLI-DQ6 (Rev 2) with the Q6600 processor, OCZ gameXstream 700W power supply, Corsair TWIN2X2048-8500C5D RAM, along with an eVGA 8800GTS. All these products are brand new about 4 days ago.
The board worked just fine for several days, installed XP Pro quickly, seemed very stable running at stock BIOS settings. But now when I boot the computer I get a couple of 'BOCK' noises out the speaker and it shuts down just as my raptor drives start spining up. If I short the CMOS clear pins and restart the computer, I can get into windows and things seem fine (other than two of the four LAN ports do not show up). Upon windows shutdown and restart, I again have to short the CMOS pins together to get going again.
I have checked the BIOS battery and it does read 3V, I have tried to follow the instructions on Gigabytes website about loading the BIOS, then select 'optomized defaults' in the BIOS setup, and then save and exit with no help.
That's about all I can think of, any thoughts?
TIA
I should note that if I try to reload the BIOS from Qflash, I get a checksum error during post the next time I reboot. If I hit F1 from there, it boots fine, but again, I have to clear the CMOS at the next restart to get going.
I have the GA-N680SLI-DQ6 (Rev 2) with the Q6600 processor, OCZ gameXstream 700W power supply, Corsair TWIN2X2048-8500C5D RAM, along with an eVGA 8800GTS. All these products are brand new about 4 days ago.
The board worked just fine for several days, installed XP Pro quickly, seemed very stable running at stock BIOS settings. But now when I boot the computer I get a couple of 'BOCK' noises out the speaker and it shuts down just as my raptor drives start spining up. If I short the CMOS clear pins and restart the computer, I can get into windows and things seem fine (other than two of the four LAN ports do not show up). Upon windows shutdown and restart, I again have to short the CMOS pins together to get going again.
I have checked the BIOS battery and it does read 3V, I have tried to follow the instructions on Gigabytes website about loading the BIOS, then select 'optomized defaults' in the BIOS setup, and then save and exit with no help.
That's about all I can think of, any thoughts?
TIA
I should note that if I try to reload the BIOS from Qflash, I get a checksum error during post the next time I reboot. If I hit F1 from there, it boots fine, but again, I have to clear the CMOS at the next restart to get going.
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