gigabyte ga965p board problem

[byThorbyOdin]

I'm trying to troubleshoot the issue I'm having and am hoping to leverage the expertise on this website. I recently bought a GA965P-DS3 rev3.3 board and am using it with a Conroe 6700 processor with 2G of Corsair 6400C4 800 RAM. I set stuff up with a PCI-Express video card and I just cant get it to display anything. The board and card are getting power (fans work) but cant get the BIOS setup to show up. I'm wondering if there is a board setting I'm missing (searched the manual, this forum and google w/o luck) or that the board is simply bad.

powered by a 500W supply

appreciate the help

 

[malphadour]

What card are you using?? Is it one of the cards that needs additional power and you maybe havnt connected an extra connector to it? Thats guess number one.

If this isnt the answer then I would diconnect everything from the board except the graphics card, cpu and ram, reset the bios with the jumper (which is right next to the battery, connect the two pins together for about a minute, or just remove battery) and then try booting again. If still no joy then I would suspect u have a faulty component somewhere.

 

[byThorbyOdin]

the video card is a Sapphire X1600 Pro HDMI card.

I verified there are no additional power cords

 

[byThorbyOdin]

okay I cleared the cache and retried - same result

 

[malphadour]

On the face of it sounds like u have a faulty piece of hardware somewhere.

 

[mGuyA]

Just to be sure - when you say fans work - the cpu fan is spinning? When I did my assembly I did not get the Intel heatsink seated properly - I saw boot, splash screen, power off. Could the cpu be overheating before the video signal gets to the monitor?

 

[mike2077]

I had that same issue with that board and RAM. Turns out I had a bad stick of RAM that was causing the problem. Try each stick, by itself in each slot. One of my sticks worked fine, but when the other was in, no display.

 

[firemist]

Have you tried both card outputs? I have a GA965P-DS3 rev 1.0 and an ATI 1600 that had DVI / VGA outputs and only one of the outputs displayed on initial startup. Had to use that one to setup the BIOS.

 

[byThorbyOdin]

Looks like it would be useful to take out one or both sticks of RAM (wonder it I'd get the BIOS screen with both sticks removed) and try it out again. I'll try that this evening...

My monitor does not have a DVI in - hence I'm out of luck trying out the other card out...

 

[firemist]

You will need some memory in the system to get to the board to post and get to the BIOS. But try each of the sticks seperately to see if one is bad. Do you have a speaker connected and if so do you get beep codes? No memory will generate a beep code as will a problem with the graphics board. You should be able to post with just CPU, PSU, mem, and display card and everything else pulled to help isolate the issue.

edit: You can also try resetting the BIOS to factory defaults

 

[byThorbyOdin]

I have removed all connections to the board except CPU, CPU fan, RAM, power on/off and graphics card. I have also tried resetting cache multiple times. I just cant seem to get a signal to the monitor

All fans spin and nothing happens.

 

[firemist]

You're doing the right things. Try a single memory stick. If that doesn't work pull all the memory and connect up a speaker try it and you should get a beep code (that will tell you the MB is alive or not). If you don't have a speaker then it is down to swapping parts. Can you get your hands on another card just to try?

 

[byThorbyOdin]

I'm trying to dig up a couple of extra graphics cards to eliminate that as a problem area. Will know this evening...

 

[mitt]

Did you connect both the 4 pin and the 24 pin cables from your PSU to the MB? I did not experiment myself, but a google search determined you need both for the board to start up (using a 775 chip).

mitt