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I have a Gigabyte S3 Rev 1.0. Today I tried updating my Xt1650 Radeon Drivers to the latest version, but when it went to restart the system simply sat there. From windows to a black screen of death.

Eventually I hardbooted the computer, which of course wipes out my overclock. I went to reset everything, but instead of working, the system failed to POST. I am using the same settings as before: 266 FSB with 9 mutilpier, RAM at 1:1, graphics card set to 100 megahertz, and voltage adjusted to 1.35. Nothing else. All those creepy little things in BIOS? Disabled.

Still no post. I am writing this from that computer, just at factory settings.

Anyone know whats wrong? Have any advice?

Also, when I re-update to F9 BIOS, in My Documents I suddenly get a CW.ERR file. Whats this?

UPDATE: It posted at 266 again. But now I have all the overvoltage controls set to +.1, which I did not have before. And funny thing is, that when I boot up it still says its an F7 BIOS on the start screen.
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Even though I just put in F9, could it be that the CW.ERR file is actually an error stating that F9 was not put in?

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if you can boot into windows ok.. then use the @BIOS utility from gigabyte to download and install the latest BIOS.. F10 is the latest.

You can also use this utility to back up your BIOS on to either a floppy disk or a USB flash drive.. and then on boot press F2 to restore backup.

The reason why the mobo would fail to post depends on what your CPU and memory is.. would need that info before I can comment.

Reply to coronaz

RAM is a set of G.Skill at 2 gigs, running at 533 megahertz (although it could very well run up to 800 since its DDR2-800), and the processor is a E4300 now clocked at 266.
Vcore: 1.35
All settings in BIOS except memory overvoltage are set to +.1

I think I'd like to back down on all but the GPU overvoltage, as really, when this graphics card finally dies, I do desire to replace it (in fact that sooner it dies the better).

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