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  • Uranium-235
    Comrade Glimmer
    • Aug 2007
    • 5042
    • US

    #1

    Motherboard or IMC

    Wierd customers motherboard, possibly CPU issue. After all the troubleshooting I ended up with this:

    If you move the memory to a different slot, it boots. If you turn it off, it dosen't come on, and the system speaker makes a click every few seconds

    move it to a different slot, it comes on, turn it off, same thing. Added a stick of my own to the 8gb that it had, comes on. turn off, dosen't come back on. Take my stick out, comes on, I turn it off, it refuses to post, and clicks from the sys speaker every few seconds

    so basically, ANY change in memory location, size, stick, and it will boot, till you turn it off, then, no post (powers on, intel fan spins down properly). but no video, no HDD access, have to keep the power button down for it to turn off.

    could the cpus integrated memory controller be to blame, or is this motherboard? Its about a year old

    gigabyte b85m-ds3h-a, looked it up, could not find anyone else with this issue
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  • cpt.charlie
    Badcaps Veteran
    • Sep 2013
    • 270
    • Spain

    #2
    Re: Motherboard or IMC

    I would consider a bios update and reset just in case.

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    • Uranium-235
      Comrade Glimmer
      • Aug 2007
      • 5042
      • US

      #3
      Re: Motherboard or IMC

      well spank my ass and call my charlie, a bios update worked. Thanks!

      not sure why this started, it worked fine for a year
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      • ChaosLegionnaire
        HC Overclocker
        • Jul 2012
        • 3264
        • Singapore

        #4
        Re: Motherboard or IMC

        check the power supply as always. noisy power supplies esp. on the minor rails can cause flash rom corruption. that seems to be the issue with power supplies nowadays. everything is on the 12v rail and nobody bothers with designing the minor rails to deliver good clean power anymore.

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        • Uranium-235
          Comrade Glimmer
          • Aug 2007
          • 5042
          • US

          #5
          Re: Motherboard or IMC

          It has an EVGA 430w, which has a pfc for whatever that is worth on this thing. CapXon mains and some fair mid-stage caps

          the surge protection isn't even complete it has the caps but no MOV (saw on review)

          it has good ratings on newegg and other places. Still. If this continues, I'll replace it, hopefully if it does it again the corruption is not to the point I can't flash. Though i'm sure it has a flash recovery like renaming the file modelnumber.xx and burned to a cd or dvd
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