Motherboard Dead?? 965P DS3

[gRaps]

Ok, what i did was kind of dumb, so its probably not a mystery why my motherboard died. but still..

anyway, i had some ram problems, so i was running memtest. Then i put 2 ram sticks side by side, and left 2 slots empty. I know now that my motherboard doesn't allow that, so well it booted up fine, then it ran memtest with the ram in the wrong slots. Comp crashed, and then after the next boot. A screen comes up saying " Attempting to recover bios........." Unfortunately, it didnt' finish recovering, and the pc shut off. Now when i try to turn on the PC , with the ram in the RIGHT slots, this is what i get.

No output response from video card to monitor, empty screen. The fans all work on the mobo, psu, video card, cpu etc.

My psu is 550 w Antec truepower
Ram : XMS2 PC6400 2gb corsair
x1900xt
c2d E6300
MOtherboard = 965P DS3

Now is there a way to fix my mobo or is it dead. OR is it a ram problem?

 

[customcoms]

do a cmos clear and put the ram in the right slots, try to boot up with the bare essentials. Make sure all your power cables are plugged in. This board has 2 bios's so your should be able to salvage it (although their may be more wrong b/c I doubt running ram the way you did, which is in single channel mode, did anything bad to the board)

 

[donnyjepp]

try resetting the cmos--bridge the 2 pins between the battery and the video card slot labeled CLR_CMOS for 5-10 seconds.

 

[gRaps]

i am not sure if i am doing the CLR_CMOS correctly.

anyways this is how i cleared cmos. Turned off power, put the jumper in the two pin thingy just above the battery. Tried to turn on the comp, but it doesn't work. So i take the jumper out, take out Videocard, cuz its blocking the pin slot, turn on the comp, and then put the jumper in for about 10 sec. I turned of my comp and then pulled out the jumper and reinstalled the video card. I tried to turn on comp, but still the same thing occurs. Did i clear cmos correctly?

now i know there might be another way to clr cmos, by taking out the battery, but i tried and i have no idea how to take out the battery so dun't wanna risk it unless some 1 can explain it to me.

 

[donnyjepp]

as long as you are bridging that jumper for 5-10 seconds it will reset the CMOS. You don't usually have to power it up or anything like that. I have been using a long skinny flat-head screwdriver for it and it works fine.

 

[Bitty]

You should turn off your machine and unplug it from the wall. Wait 15 seconds. Using something like a flat-bladed screwdriver or jumper, short the two pins for 5-10 seconds. Remove the jumper, if used. Plug back into the mains, turn on and go in to the BIOS and redo your settings or just leave it at defaults to see if it boots okay.

 

[gRaps]

ok, i did that , however i still get a blank screen.

is this a video card problem , ram or mobo?

 

[dakotagts]

call gigabyte, they are good about helping you with things. I have had some issues and they talked me through it. You have an onboard video driver so its not an issue with the card... yet. specially since you had a boot where you could see a screen.

 

[Madellga]

Booting with RAM on the wrong slots should not damage the board, but there are some clues on your post that show your actions might have caused damage.

0) Always unplug from the mains

1) When changing RAM, you have also to turn off the PSU or unplug from the mains (if doesn't have a switch)

2) Never turn on your computer with the Clear Bios jumper shorted.

As a last thing, Try taking the battery out

 

[winr]

Originally posted by: Madellga
Booting with RAM on the wrong slots should not damage the board, but there are some clues on your post that show your actions might have caused damage.

0) Always unplug from the mains

1) When changing RAM, you have also to turn off the PSU or unplug from the mains (if doesn't have a switch)

2) Never turn on your computer with the Clear Bios jumper shorted.

As a last thing, Try taking the battery out

I would also try taking the battery out, I had a board that would not post.

I left the battery out overnight and it booted up, go figure.



Good luck.

 

[gRaps]

how do i go about taking out the battery? i tried but it just wouldnt' budge

 

[Coquito]

Originally posted by: gRaps
how do i go about taking out the battery? i tried but it just wouldnt' budge

There's a little metal lever inside the cylinder that holds the battery. Squeeze it down, & the battery should move a little, giving you enough space to grab the battery & pull it out.

 

[skinnyj]

Originally posted by: Madellga
Booting with RAM on the wrong slots should not damage the board, but there are some clues on your post that show your actions might have caused damage.

0) Always unplug from the mains

1) When changing RAM, you have also to turn off the PSU or unplug from the mains (if doesn't have a switch)

2) Never turn on your computer with the Clear Bios jumper shorted.

As a last thing, Try taking the battery out

thank you... im reading this like why in the hell would that damage your board it just means that it wouldnt run in dual channel.

 

[gRaps]

ok , i tried putting a jumper on the thingy, and taking out the battery

I have concluded that only the mobo is wrong.

Video card runs normally, fans work it gets hot.
CPU same thing
Powersupply, i use 550 W antec, and it powers everything, shoudlnt' be a problem
RAM, maybe it is also this but if it got hot when i booted my computer and left it on for like half an hour, does that mean that the ram is working properly?, just that the mobo isn't doing its job

 

[customcoms]

How can you conclude any of this without another motherboard to play with? Fans spinning means NOTHING. That board has an automatic backup bios, and in the process of rewriting it, something could ahve gone wrong and your original bios is corrupt; however, gigabyte indicates from their site their that it should then boot from the back up. I would strip the system down to basics (one ram stick in slot, a gpu and a cpu with the fans), and call gigabyte. Not to sound mean, but its obvious that you have little experience with building a pc, and these are NEW boards and NEW bios's and not many problems have been fixed/found out yet etc. So most of us can't really help you too much, other than feeding you the basic info for starting down the troubleshooting path (i.e things I would do with my rig if I had these problems). Plus, not many people have these boards!

And this board doesn't have onboard graphics, so the op has to use a video card. You could try a PCI (read not a PCI-Express) GPU and see what happens...