- May 23, 2010
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My system was not starting anymore. I made it run again by switching to the other BIOS, but is the BIOS the real problem?
Two years ago I built a system around the GA-X79-UD5 motherboard. No overclocking. It worked fine until this morning when it refused to start: front LED and fans would light/spin for less than a second, then everything stops for a few seconds, then the cycle repeats forever. No beeps, nothing on the screen. I checked the voltage on the cables and all looks fine for the brief moment when it's on.
I tried switching to the other bios (it's dual bios) and then it worked again
. Does this mean one bios is fried or is there a more subtle issue? I wonder how common this is. Can I do anything to prevent this other bios from dying too soon?
As a side note: After making the system boot again, I noticed the memory (1600MHz) was running at 1333MHz. I tried switching it to 1600MHz and noticed Google Chrome is constantly crashing. I assume it's because the turbo mode gets activated and pushes the RAM frequency up (am I right?), so I changed it back to 1333MHz and it appears to be working fine so far.
Mainly I'd like to figure out if it's a fried BIOS or something else. Partly I want to be prepared should this happen again.
The components:
Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5
Intel Core i7-3820 BOX
Corsair DDR3 32768MB (4 x 8192) 1600MHz CL10 Vengeance X79 Quad channel
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 2048MB DDR5 OC
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200rpm SATA3 64MB
OCZ Vertex 4 2.5 SATA3 128GB
CoolerMaster Silent Pro Gold 800W
CoolerMaster Hyper 412S
Two years ago I built a system around the GA-X79-UD5 motherboard. No overclocking. It worked fine until this morning when it refused to start: front LED and fans would light/spin for less than a second, then everything stops for a few seconds, then the cycle repeats forever. No beeps, nothing on the screen. I checked the voltage on the cables and all looks fine for the brief moment when it's on.
I tried switching to the other bios (it's dual bios) and then it worked again
. Does this mean one bios is fried or is there a more subtle issue? I wonder how common this is. Can I do anything to prevent this other bios from dying too soon?As a side note: After making the system boot again, I noticed the memory (1600MHz) was running at 1333MHz. I tried switching it to 1600MHz and noticed Google Chrome is constantly crashing. I assume it's because the turbo mode gets activated and pushes the RAM frequency up (am I right?), so I changed it back to 1333MHz and it appears to be working fine so far.
Mainly I'd like to figure out if it's a fried BIOS or something else. Partly I want to be prepared should this happen again.
The components:
Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5
Intel Core i7-3820 BOX
Corsair DDR3 32768MB (4 x 8192) 1600MHz CL10 Vengeance X79 Quad channel
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 2048MB DDR5 OC
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200rpm SATA3 64MB
OCZ Vertex 4 2.5 SATA3 128GB
CoolerMaster Silent Pro Gold 800W
CoolerMaster Hyper 412S
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