OGIGABYTE 965P-DS3 Problem Analysis

gRaps

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I believe my board died about a week ago. I called the Gigabyte technicans and they said that the board is defective. THis is what they based their conclusion on. I had told the technician that my bios failed during a bios recovery. And after that, it doesn't post anymore. This is what they told me to do. Take out CMOS battery for 30 sec, take gfx card, ram, sound card, all other utlities away from motherboard, except for the power led/ SPEAKER/ etc cables and CPU.

ANy way after that the technician told me to turn it on, so i powered up the computer, and the technician asked me if there was any BEEPS. I told him i heard none,,,, except the fan on the CPU. he then told me to check if the speaker cable was plugged in, It was plugged in and i have heard beeps b4 the mobo died.

Now does this conclude that it is almost 100 % sure that my mobo is dead? Or is there sumthing else that is causing the problem?


My specs:

X1900XT
ANtec truepower 550W
Corsair PC6400 2gb 4-4-4-4-12.
C2D E6300
 

Mogadon

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How did the BIOS die during the update? Did you lose power to the computer?

If there was some problem during the BIOS update chances are it would result in a corrupted BIOS. Not sure if the chip is soldered in or not but if not then you you can contact Gigabyte and they should send you a new BIOS chip, probably free of charge. Then you can just pop the old one out and put the new one in.

Maybe someone here can confirm whether the chip is soldered in or not, i'm not at home now otherwise i'd check for you myself.
 

gRaps

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What is soldered?

and basically, i got an error message saying, Attempting to recover bios, and htne it just restarted it self. and now it never posts ne more ;O
 

erikistired

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once upon a time some motherboards would let you put a floppy disk in with the bios util/flash on it and it would fix itself. i haven't had to do this for a bit and i had to use a pci video card, but it worked. dunno if that's still supported or not. my board wasn't posting either, but it did all this anyway. i booted it up and it flashed itself and came back to life.