Now I'm really sorry I didn't pay the 20 buck test thing with directron
If, by this, you are saying that your vendor would have tested your components 'all at once' to ensure that they are both functional and compatible, yes, you shot yourself in the foot for twenty bucks! I've never heard of 'em, but, if their prices are anyplace close to comparable to what I pay at NewEgg, I'd switch my business to them
just because they offer that service! I, too, have had great luck with GB, and think they make simply the best boards available...
Yep that's what I'm saying. Great place, have had few problems with them, sometimes phone contact can be..annoying but once you get to the right place they are helpful have great selection and run great sales, I got this board for 170 a lot cheaper than anyplace else.
I've always had such excellent experiences with gigabyte products, this is terrifically disappointing especially since this was for a friend; who now looks at me like I lied to him, LOL.
Just tell your buddy you think it's probably because
he's bad luck!
LOL he's sitting next to me laughing right now.
You don't want to use insulating washers on the standoffs. The standoff mounting holes are designed to be part of the MOBO's grounding solution - if you examine them, you'll see a ring of radially oriented solder pads surrounding them - that's to ensure good contact to your case's ground plane. Another precaution I always take, is to 'scrape off' a screw hole on the PSU (usually use an emery board to remove the paint) and run an actual grounding jumper, with soldered ring lugs (and green wire - it's got to be green, so the electrons know which way to 'march'
), from the PSU shell to the case, once again, to be sure of my ground plane.
I'm kinda dire about memory other than mushkin, G.Skill, or OCZ - but, that said, Corsair seems to be redeeming themselves in the DDR3 market. I recently was working on a problem for someone, looked up some Corsair and Kingston DDR3, and the
only spec
either one listed was "CAS7" -
no voltage,
no 'rest of the timings', and. worst of all,
no way to find
any of it on their support sites from the part number! Ackk!
ok, I'll yank the washers off there, ok that grounding scheme sounds like a pita, maybe a piece of foil instead? LOL
A few checks on 'first start' milestones: Did you:
Try it with just one (first one, then, the other) stick of RAM? (and try the one stick in different slots, to eliminate possibility of a bad slot connector?)
That's standard troubleshooting operation, I wish I had another stick of ram to test with. I've had good luck with IBM (which I'm not even sure is made anymore), mushkin, corsair and generally kingston, pny is ok in a pinch but I don't like the fact that every chip seems to have a different manufacturer of the chips.
Start with a CMOS reset, followed by a "Load Optimized Defaults"? (Ack, that's right - you've got no video!!!)
Yeah i've tried the button on the board, pulling the battery and the ac cord for twenty minutes and I even tried another video card in the soup, no luck.
What CPU are you using - possible problem with no 'micro-code' support with newer CPUs on older BIOS? I have heard of people doing 'blind flashes' with no video, and I know the procedure, but I'm
really hesitant to recommend it to anyone - the whole idea just makes me cringe! Maybe, once everything else fails - probably something to try once you've arranged the RMA
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