So I built my new rig lastnight. Everything installed fine. Installed windows xp, udpated all my drivers, played lost planet and other high end games.
I decided to look for any bios updates for my board (i should have left it alone). I downloaded the new version (f5). Used @bios to update the bios in windows, said it was successful and to reboot.
I rebooted and the first thing it did was turn off instead of rebooting.. So I turned it back on and this is what it does: Power supply comes on, fans and harddrive starts to spin up, no video yet, and then it just turns off for 3 seconds. Then it tries to come on again, does the same thing and turns off. It repeats this cycle endlessly.
I turned the pc off, unplugged power cable, put clear cmos jumper on for 10 mins, took it off, powered pc back on, still same result.
Tried with no sata drives hooked up, 1 stick of memory (tried each by themself), still no go.
Is it possible I am missing something or did Gigabytes own bios update make this board unbootable? Suggestions?
Thanks much
I decided to look for any bios updates for my board (i should have left it alone). I downloaded the new version (f5). Used @bios to update the bios in windows, said it was successful and to reboot.
I rebooted and the first thing it did was turn off instead of rebooting.. So I turned it back on and this is what it does: Power supply comes on, fans and harddrive starts to spin up, no video yet, and then it just turns off for 3 seconds. Then it tries to come on again, does the same thing and turns off. It repeats this cycle endlessly.
I turned the pc off, unplugged power cable, put clear cmos jumper on for 10 mins, took it off, powered pc back on, still same result.
Tried with no sata drives hooked up, 1 stick of memory (tried each by themself), still no go.
Is it possible I am missing something or did Gigabytes own bios update make this board unbootable? Suggestions?
Thanks much