Recent content by Proximon

Sounds like a memory issue to me. I don't see that you ran a memory test?

You haven't mentioned the checklist: Do This First! Also, your list is incomplete. PSU?

This post is still just as true as when it was created, that's why it's stickied at the top of this forum: Do This First!

Sounds like a loose part, now fixed then :)

This seems the most reasonable thing to do. Since it's a fairly new BIOS it could be a bug in the code I suppose. You might want to post on an ASUS support forum if such exists... they might just send you a beta BIOS to try. But only once you try the above.

I have no good news for you. You used a program designed to permanently erase files. The whole point is you can't recover them. Yes you might be able to still recover them, if you told eraser to not do the job it was designed to do. The only thing you could possibly do is recover from a...

Honestly before I got to the end I started worrying about rootkits. I think you should take steps to deal with that possibility. That said, we who have built many computers have all experienced the phenomenon of doing some simple upgrade in a case and accidentally knocking a part loose. You...

There, moved. Now perhaps you will tell us what hardware, what OS, etc.

This question would be a lot easier to answer if you supplied a lot more information. You can't expect a high effort answer on a low effort post. And, it's in the wrong forum.

Well, what are the CPU temps?

I have nothing against Gigabyte. Motherboards have a lot of parts that can potentially fail. I think I read once that honest new board failure runs around 8% for many companies... but don't quote me. What I mean by "honest" is that a lot of user/assembler errors get blamed on the MB incorrectly...

It rebooted even without drives attached, so it's not SATA cables. Damaged CPUs tend to not work at all. We are pretty much out of other options. I doubt your PSU is a culprit.

With a defective MB part, it's not that it has to get "hot". It's just that it passes a temp where it functions properly. If the time involved is always about the same, as you say a "couple minutes" then it does sound more like a MB issue. If the time was random, then it would seem more like a...

Sorry, was on vacation. You aren't seeing temp issues, so the next step would probably have to be swapping out the RAM for something known to be good, or testing the RAM in another machine. Still sounds like a heat issue. Maybe something on the board is faulty and overheating? Yeah that would fit.

Need more info. Did you install the OS fresh? What OS? Does it reboot without the storage attached? Just sitting idle in UEFI? http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems