I am having a similar issue to Sphinx Drones with my brand-new X38-DQ6, Q6600 and DDR2 memory however mine does not POST at all and no video is initialized either!
The total hardware is:
Q6600 CPU
Gigabyte X38-DQ6 motherboard
G.Skill PC2-8000 2Gb (x2)
Radeon 1900XT
WD RE2 500Gb HDD
Enermax Liberty 650w PSU
everything is using stock settings but the system only powers on for about 5 seconds then powers off.. then repeats this cycle indefinitely until you cut the power. I have checked and rechecked all power connections and plugs, reseated the CPU and fan, tried both PCIE16 ports with the video card, tried the memory in singles and a pair as well as a single PC2-5300 stick as well. The system will not POST no matter what, even with basic memory and video-only connected. The older components worked (and still) fine in my ASUS VM-CSM board with Opteron 180.
In the Gigabyte forum on Tweaktown, someone suggested that many Gigabyte boards have BIOS-related issues in that they will not support factory-overclocked speeds of RAM out-of-the-box or lose any memory timing or voltage settings after a BIOS flash. The default voltage listed for this memory on the side is 2.1v and thus (supposedly) the system will not boot straight from the factory or in others' cases after they have updated the BIOS. But I have now also tried a standard PC2-5300 stick which should run at 1.8v, and this behaves exactly the same.
Does anyone have any other suggestions before I throw in the towel and RMA the board, memory and CPU (hopefully for an ASUS P5E WS-Pro)?
The total hardware is:
Q6600 CPU
Gigabyte X38-DQ6 motherboard
G.Skill PC2-8000 2Gb (x2)
Radeon 1900XT
WD RE2 500Gb HDD
Enermax Liberty 650w PSU
everything is using stock settings but the system only powers on for about 5 seconds then powers off.. then repeats this cycle indefinitely until you cut the power. I have checked and rechecked all power connections and plugs, reseated the CPU and fan, tried both PCIE16 ports with the video card, tried the memory in singles and a pair as well as a single PC2-5300 stick as well. The system will not POST no matter what, even with basic memory and video-only connected. The older components worked (and still) fine in my ASUS VM-CSM board with Opteron 180.
In the Gigabyte forum on Tweaktown, someone suggested that many Gigabyte boards have BIOS-related issues in that they will not support factory-overclocked speeds of RAM out-of-the-box or lose any memory timing or voltage settings after a BIOS flash. The default voltage listed for this memory on the side is 2.1v and thus (supposedly) the system will not boot straight from the factory or in others' cases after they have updated the BIOS. But I have now also tried a standard PC2-5300 stick which should run at 1.8v, and this behaves exactly the same.
Does anyone have any other suggestions before I throw in the towel and RMA the board, memory and CPU (hopefully for an ASUS P5E WS-Pro)?