No POST. Gigabyte Board

[scca325is]

This board is less than two months old. It is a Giggbyte GA-EP45-UD. I have always bought Asus and this is my first Gigabyte. What happens with my first Gigabyte board? NO-POST!!. I checked all the connections, checked for heating issues and tripled checked the PSU. Everything is good. The system will boot up (no-beep) and before it posts it will try and load the backup BIOS from the HD. It fails and the system restarts. Any ideas? Bad board?

 

[pcgeek11]

Originally posted by: scca325is
This board is less than two months old. It is a Giggbyte GA-EP45-UD. I have always bought Asus and this is my first Gigabyte. What happens with my first Gigabyte board? NO-POST!!. I checked all the connections, checked for heating issues and tripled checked the PSU. Everything is good. The system will boot up (no-beep) and before it posts it will try and load the backup BIOS from the HD. It fails and the system restarts. Any ideas? Bad board?

I'm confused. Will it pass P.O.S.T. ( Power On Self Test )? You say it will boot in your message then you say it will not POST???? If it will not pass the POST it will Not Boot.

What do you see on the screen?
Can you get into the BIOS Setup screen?

pcgeek11

 

[scca325is]

Sorry. It will NOT POST. As soon as I press the power button, there is a message on the screen that says, "Attempting to load BIOS from HD". It does that for a few seconds and then the system restarts. There is no system beep.

 

[pcgeek11]

Thanks.

I have never seen anything like this... Why would it attempt to load the BIOS from the hard drive?

Have you tried resetting the BIOS with the MB Jumper? If not try that.

Try booting without the hard drive attached and see what happens then.

Contact Gigabyte and see what they tell you it should still be under warranty.

pcgeek11

 

[scca325is]

I have tried clearing the CMOS a few times with no success. I tried starting the system without the HD and other peripherals. Still nothing. I have never run into this before either.

 

[Lanyap]

Put your Gigabyte driver CD in the CD/DVD drive before you boot and see if will pick up the original BIOS. This is the fourth/last place he will look if all other BIOS images are corrupt.

Quad BIOS is a feature unique to GIGABYTE that includes DualBIOS? and Express BIOS Rescue Technology. This combination delivers a safety assurance mechanism that sports a total of 4 copies of BIOS distributed between the Flash ROM, hard-disk and driver CD. This feature helps to reduce the affects of virus attacks or firmware damage and provides multi-layer BIOS protection that assures greater PC platform stability. How does Quad BIOS work?

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Fil...quad_bios_work_dq6.htm