Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 RV2 Mobo help please

[belveder]

I just got this board as part of my new system and the bios / board is being a real in the butt, if anyone could please help it would be greatly appreciated. Have asked the same questions on other forums plus googled and keep finding other people having similar if not the same problems

One of my problems is that my memory is 1066 but the mobo runs at 800, have tried turning appropiate stuff up in the BIOS but then the computer will either give a BSOD at boot up or a long beep and reset the BIOS


In the bios DD2 1.8v is marked as FAIL and in red?


Also my video card is only running at 100MHZ which is nowhere near what it is supposd to be doing, have tried RivaTuner but it only worked till a reboot then I couldn't get it to work after that, it was as if the mobo was blocking it.

I can't run all 4 sticks of memory as the computer won't reboot, it switches of then I have to press the power button a lot of times (29 is the most so far) to get it going. If I take anyone of the memory sticks out it reboots ok. All the memory has been tested by memtest and on other pc's and is working well.

Have tried taking everything out of the pc except for the bare essentials and putting it back in one at a time to no avail.

These problems are extremely frustrating for me and the dealer I bought the stuff of and assembled the pc for me, we have even asked Gigabyte for help but with no replies.



My system

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 CPU
2 x Kingston Hyper 2 GB Kit memory 1066MHz
Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 RV2 Mobo
Razer Barracuda AC-1 Digital Audio Card
XFX PCIe 8800GTX xXx Video card
Thermaltake 1000W Toughpower PSU
WD 250GB SataII HD
2 x WD 500GB SATAII HD
Compro T750 HDTV Dual Tuner PCI Card
Thermaltake Bigwater 745 water cooling
Samsung 226BW 22" monitor
Samsung Syncmaster 913 19" monitor
Silverstone TJ07 Tower

 

[Blazer7]

Mr belvedere,

If your mem is rated for above 1.8V and you have adjusted your DDR voltage to much your mem?s specs then this is what?s causing the ?problem?. It is typical of Gigabyte BIOSs to give you this ?error? message but in reality it is not an error message at all, if you have adjusted you mem voltage that is.

If your DDR voltage is set to normal and you?re still getting this 1.8V fail message, then the first thing you should do is update your BIOS to the FBb beta. This is the latest BIOS for your board right now.

If you cannot boot with all 4 sticks then this may be some kind of incompatibility issue or wrong settings but the new BIOS may also fix this.

PS
We have a really great thread for the GA-N680SLI-DQ6 board here in the forums and I think that you should join us : http://forums.anandtech.com/me...AR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear

PSS
You can find the FBb beta BIOS here : http://forums.anandtech.com/me...AR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear

 

[belveder]

I have tried to put the memory settings to what the memory runs at but the Bios won't accept it, it either gives me a BSOD or I get beeps on startup, either the Bios resets itself.

Have tried the BIOS in Safe Mode & Optimal Mode with no other tweaks and this doesn't help

I'll try the thread and see what happens

Thanks

Actually I just realised it would be a waste of time me posting the same problem in two different threads on the same forum lol