- Mar 31, 2013
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Greetings everyone,
I'll firstly begin by giving a little background info as to how this started. I built this rig back in late 2015 and noticed something odd with the boot a few months later. The PC, occasionally, would turn on, then off, then back on again and remain that way without any problems. This issue continued from there on out, gradually getting worse. Fast forward to today and it repeats this loop about 20 times or so before finally staying on.
Now here's where the mistake was, I did a bit of research on how to alleviate this and it led me to believe that the issue was with the motherboard or the PSU. I've tried resetting the CMOS battery to no avail. When that failed, I foolishly updated the motherboard BIOS -- ignoring the warning about flashing the BIOS on Gigabyte's website, thinking that would fix the problem. After successfully installing the newest F7 BIOS version, the PC rebooted only to be frozen on the Windows 10 logo screen. I attempted to flash an older BIOS, version F3, which was the previous version that was installed on the motherboard, however, since this version was older, it prompted a message stating that the version could not overwrite the newest one.
Is there a way to force install the older version? If so, how, and will this allow me to boot normally again?
My last resort is to RMA the board since I am still under warranty.
Thanks in advance!
Current Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1150
GPU: Zotac GeForce GTX 980 4GB AMP! Edition
PSU: Cooler Master Silent Pro M2 850W 80+ Silver Certified
Memory: 2x Corsair Vengeance 4GB DDR3
Link to motherboard: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4953#bios
UPDATE EDIT: Attempted to use FPT (Intel Flash Programming Tool) with version F3, but gave me this error after launching it with a bootable. Am I SOL, or just not doing this correctly?
Sidenote: Not sure if my looping issue would affect the bootable in anyway after setting the boot priority. Also, the BIOS settings don't seem to save when I change the boot priority, I hit save and exit, but the next time I enter the BIOS menu it resets to default.
I'll firstly begin by giving a little background info as to how this started. I built this rig back in late 2015 and noticed something odd with the boot a few months later. The PC, occasionally, would turn on, then off, then back on again and remain that way without any problems. This issue continued from there on out, gradually getting worse. Fast forward to today and it repeats this loop about 20 times or so before finally staying on.
Now here's where the mistake was, I did a bit of research on how to alleviate this and it led me to believe that the issue was with the motherboard or the PSU. I've tried resetting the CMOS battery to no avail. When that failed, I foolishly updated the motherboard BIOS -- ignoring the warning about flashing the BIOS on Gigabyte's website, thinking that would fix the problem. After successfully installing the newest F7 BIOS version, the PC rebooted only to be frozen on the Windows 10 logo screen. I attempted to flash an older BIOS, version F3, which was the previous version that was installed on the motherboard, however, since this version was older, it prompted a message stating that the version could not overwrite the newest one.
Is there a way to force install the older version? If so, how, and will this allow me to boot normally again?
My last resort is to RMA the board since I am still under warranty.
Thanks in advance!
Current Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1150
GPU: Zotac GeForce GTX 980 4GB AMP! Edition
PSU: Cooler Master Silent Pro M2 850W 80+ Silver Certified
Memory: 2x Corsair Vengeance 4GB DDR3
Link to motherboard: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4953#bios
UPDATE EDIT: Attempted to use FPT (Intel Flash Programming Tool) with version F3, but gave me this error after launching it with a bootable. Am I SOL, or just not doing this correctly?
Sidenote: Not sure if my looping issue would affect the bootable in anyway after setting the boot priority. Also, the BIOS settings don't seem to save when I change the boot priority, I hit save and exit, but the next time I enter the BIOS menu it resets to default.
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