Gigabyte: Award Bootblock

pdelre

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So I've been OCing a bit of my new PC and when I was working on the memory timings and upped the DRAM voltage (1.9v->2.1v) it stopped booting. When booting, the screen just says (doesn't get to the BIOS post screen):
Award Bootblock BIOS v1.0
Copyright © 2000, Award Software, Inc.


Doing some research online it seems that this is usually occompanied by a message about searching the HDD or Floppy drive for a BIOS flash update/backup. My message has no such message and will not boot to a floppy.

I've done the following:
-Reset the CMOS by both removing the battery and using the jumper.
-Reseated the Video and RAM.
-Tried the RAM in different slots.
-Booted with no RAM.
-Booted with HDD disconnected.

Any other thoughts?

GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 Socket T (LGA 775) Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Conroe 1.86GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6300
eVGA 512-P2-N573-AR GeForce 7900GTO 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X2048-6400
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer 70SB073A00000 7.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Card
 

insightdriver

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This might just be the reason why overclocking can void your warranty. If leaving the power disconnected and the battery pulled for over one half hour, when you try again and still get the error, I suggest you start looking for a new motherboard. 8O
 

pdelre

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Ya, I left it out for several hours without the powersupply pluged in. I've resolved the issue, but thanks for the added suggestions.

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=210365&highlight=