gigabite GA-P55M-UD4 MOTHER BOARD TROUBLES

[jimpassi]

NO POST / GIGABITE SCREEN HARD DRIVE SEARCH
BIOS REPAIR THAN BLACK SCREEN EVERYTHING STILL RUNNING OK
NO BLUGING CAPS/ NO BURN MARKS ON MB
CHANGED VIDEO CARDS SAME THING
8 GIGS RAM DID NOT CHANGE
ANY IDEAS ANY ONE

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

Can you please clarify what you mean by, "BIOS REPAIR THAN BLACK SCREEN EVERYTHING STILL RUNNING OK," and also turn caps lock off.

The one thing I gather is that, if everything was still running okay, you probably wouldn't be posting here asking for help.

What actual steps have you taken, and why? What were your symptoms that lead you to take those steps in the first place?

 

[jimpassi]

Have you tried booting off of the windows DVD and doing a repair?

it has done a win repair on its own than black screen nothing after that
i switched ram slots 8 gigts G skill 4 gigs each from white slots to blue slots

 

[jimpassi]

now i get no video at all
no post beep
just black screen
i tryed win 7 disk changed ram slots tryed other video card
mb is out of case sitting out side with towel under it
any ideas i went to gigabite site could check warranty regstered but it would not let in in site
first time trying gigabite site

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

The first order of business is to get the hardware running. Since it sounds like you're almost there already, I would scale the system down to the least number of components to run. Essentially, unplug everything from the mainboard, except a single stick of RAM, a graphics card, the processor (and heat sink/ fan of course!) and the power supply. At this point, it is a good idea to power off the power supply if it has a physical switch, or pull the plug to it if it doesn't, then reset the CMOS via the jumper on the motherboard, or in the case you can't find the correct jumper, remove the button style battery and short the battery contacts to drain the CMOS chip. Replace the battery then, and power up the power supply, and finally the mainboard. Your graphics card, if equipped with a fan, should spin the fan up to 100% until it's on-board BIOS boots up and begins thermal throttling for it. If your graphics card doesn't throttle the fan eventually, and you remain with a blank screen, power down the system, power down the power supply, and try the other stick of RAM.