GIGABYTE GA-H81M-D2V Boot cycle

[RapidWolfGaming]

Hello, I'm having a problem with my motherboard I think it is to be, when I turn it on, it goes into a boot cycle, when I take a stick of 4GB RAM out it boots and then shut it down put it back in and then boots with 8GB of RAM, so If you can help me that would be excellent. If nothing works, I will just get my money back and get an Asus board.

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-H81M-D2V
CPU:I5 4460
Graphics card:r9 280
RAM:8GB ddr3 1600mhz ram
Thanks

-Jason

 

[turkey3_scratch]

You have a Haswell refresh CPU on an H81 board. Is the BIOS up to date?

 

[RapidWolfGaming]

Yes, It's updated to the latest BIOS update F6.

 

[joex444]

Assuming it's a Revision 1.0 motherboard, that BIOS should be OK. But really, for revision 1.0 there's only F4, F5, and F6 and since F4 supported the i5-4460, all Revision 1.0 boards support it. For Revision 2.0 and 2.1, there's only two BIOS versions - FB, and FC, and here FB also supported it, so all Gigabyte H81M-D2V boards on the market have always supported the i5-4460 out of the box. The only way the BIOS isn't correct is if you managed to put F6 onto a Revision 2.0/2.1 board, in which case you need to get version FC on it instead.

Have you tried running a memory test on each DIMM individually? Does it matter which one you pull in order to get it to boot with 4GB? It sounds like a memory issue of some sort. You're not running it out of specification, right?

 

[RapidWolfGaming]

Yes, I've tried memory tests and nothing came up, I reset the BIOS and it worked for a month and has started doing it a few days ago. Yeah, I've booted it with individual DIMMS swapped them over and still get the same thing, it just starts after I take one stick of RAM out and then put it back in once I've restarted with the 4GB stick in, I'm thinking It's not remembering the configuration.