Power down after 30sec or so

[Guest]

I messed with the bios setting on an old GA-945P-s3, trying to get it to take my newer E8400 CPU.

I did not get that working and when I put the old CPU back in, and pulled the power/battery on the mother board to reset, system powers down, about the same time I get back int o the BIOS screen to reset.

Any idea what I can do?

thanks in advance

 

[d1rtyju1c3]

Shut the system down, remove battery for 30sec, re-install battery and power on the computer. Also bios ffd may support the E8400 according to gigabyte, you might try to update the bios. Remember dont update through windows use Q-flash in the bios and read the manual it will tell you how to update through Q-flash.

 

[Guest]

BY GUM IT WORKEd, the old intel 1.8 is back in and I have windows up.

what is bios ffd?

I'll read the manual and look at this q flash thingy

thanks again

But in closing that chip E8400 should work with that board GA945P-s3, correct?

 

[d1rtyju1c3]

That is a newer bios that supports the E8400, so it should work if the bios is updated to the ffd bios. Download and install CPU-Z in the motherboard tab it should tell you what bios you are using.
It may tell you what the bios is on the post screen or in the bios .

 

[Maziar]

E8400 will only work with the revision 3.3 of this motherboard(with a BIOS update)
http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-Gigabyte/GA-945P-S3%28rev._3.3%29.html
If you have rev 2.0/1.0 your are unfortunately out of luck.

 

[d1rtyju1c3]

Good eye I didnt see that.

 

[d1rtyju1c3]

The revision # is on the bottom left corner.

 

[Maziar]

Or you can check with CPU-Z if you don't want to open your chasis.

 

[Guest]

im rev 1.0ooks like a new mother board for me


For the E8400:

this

GA-EP45T-UD3LR w/ DualDDR3 2200+, 7.1 Audio, Gigabit Lan, PCI-E


or this

Gigabyte GA-EG45M-DS2H w/ DualDDR2 1066, 7.1 Audio, Gigabit Lan, 1394, PCI-E, HDMI, Blu-ray
SKU: MX22160 Part#: GA-EG45M-DS2H

 

[d1rtyju1c3]

GA-EP45T-UD#LR with some low voltage ddr3 would be my choice. If you ever decide to go i5/i7 you dont have to upgrade memory.

 

[Maziar]

Yes go with the first one,you get DDR3 along with an ATX board.