GA-MA770T-UD3P problems

[jschaefer97]

These are the parts I have:

GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128392

AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103680

A-DATA 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211409

OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ500MXSP 500W ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341016

my friends 8800gts for the time being




I got my antec 300 today so I put everything together and got some rather frustrating results.

I did not order a new dvd drive because the ide one in my old system worked fine, and I was going to use my spare 80gb ide hdd until my western digital black 640gb drive gets here in a few days. So dvd drive and 80gb hdd on same ide ribbon each with own power connector as the second connector on the string going to the dvd drive had my case fans on it.

So, everything hooked up fine, powered on fine first try, posted, got to screen that said insert system disc and hit enter, i had a windows 7 disc in the dvd drive so i hit enter. and it tried and came up with nothing like there was no disc and just wouldn't do anything. Then i tried to eject the tray and no joy, the dvd drive was unresponsive, I also realized my power LED for my case went off when i tried to eject? but it was clearly still on.. and the power button no longer was responsive. So i turned it off via the switch on the psu and unplugged the drive and it booted to ubuntu (what was on the hard drive at that point) and it worked fine. But I have had no luck at all getting the dvd drive to work/install 7. when i had the dvd drive plugged in with no disc in it, it would not just boot the hdd to unbuntu.

So I decided to check the boot order and went into the BIOS, the boot order was default at (floppy>ls120>hard disc) no dvd drive on the list, so i set it to (cd>hard disc>unused) and saved and exited, and once I exited the BIOS the monitor would go to power save mode with no response.. and the power LED would turn off again leaving the front panel power button unresponsive..


So I don't know what to think of all this, is it the mother board? or the psu? anyone have any thoughts?


Thanks,

Jeremy

 

[Guest]

I pretty much just bought the same mb and processor. I didn't have this problem. The power supply "size wise" is fine since mine overclocked to 3.9ghz with 3 cores only pulls about 180W at load with everything else included. Maybe a little more. I suggest updating the bios if u can. USB drive should work although i havnt checked into it. The most recent one should be F5c. You can search it here http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/BIOS_List.aspx . Some of these are a shot in the dark, but you could try swapping ide cables. If the power supply is new, theres only a small chance its bad. If noone else offers any help and you can't figure it out, you could start RMAing items or pitch in 30$ and buy a sata dvd rom which is way better. The new Hard drive should be sata to so bye bye ide.

 

[Proximon]

It sounds like a combination of not having the jumpers on your IDE devices set correctly and the incorrect HD compatibility setting in your BIOS.

 

[bilbat]

Here's an IDE cable:
M|----------|------|D
M1---------2-----3D
The 'M' end is the motherboard connector; the 'D' end goes to the drives.
There are two kinds of cables: 'standard' (on which the drives are jumpered to identify them), and 'cable select' (on which the cable itself sorts out the drive IDs).
If there are no labels (often, a large plastic or fabric 'pull-tab') saying 'master' and 'slave' on connectors 2 and 3, you have a 'standard' cable - jumper as follows:
it doesnt matter what connector goes to what; your primary (boot) HDD will need to be jumpered as 'master' [MSTR] on the drive; your secondary (or ODD) gets jumpered as 'slave' [SLV] on the drive.
If there are labels saying 'master' and 'slave' on connectors 2 and 3, you have a 'cable select' cable - jumper as follows:
Both drives get jumpered as [CSEL] on the drive; your primary (boot), or only, in the case of just one, goes on connector 3, which should be labeled 'master'; your secondary (or ODD) goes on connector 2, which should be labeled 'slave'; connector 1 goes to your MOBO IDE port...

Now, boot, do a <DEL> to get into the BIOS, and go to the 'Integrated Peripherals' page - set 'Onboard SATA/IDE Device' to 'Enabled'; set 'Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode' to 'IDE'; go to the 'Advanced BIOS Features' page, select 'Hard Disk Boot Priority', and hit <ENTER>; select your boot drive from the list; set 'First Boot Device' to 'CDROM', 'Second Boot Device' to 'Hard Disk', and you should be good to go...