[Solved] GA-P55M-UD2 first time continuos boot issues

I just built my machine and its running on the above mentioned GA-P55M-UD2 mobo. Everything appears to be plugged in correctly and where it is supposed to be. When I go to plug everything in and start it up the fans are running and the power on light flashes for 3 seconds then it shuts down and goes quiet. 3 seconds later this process will resume and continue doing this indefinatley. All this time nothing is being displayed to the monitor.

If i remove the 2 2gig sticks of memory nothing is displayed to the screen and the fans will continue to run. Might this be a problem with my mobo or memory?

Thanks

With the case I sadly won't be able to look on the other side of the board, but I will try placing the heatsink again.

The strange thing is though that it doesn't seem to be doing the reboot cycle if the memory is not in the board. Does this solution still make sense?

Still no luck

I have RMAed my board. I'll post on how succesful that is

Sounds like its a fairly common issue maybe. If you you guys are sending back any other component and that fixes it please post as well. Luckily newegg has a great policy...

I've been scouring the internet for a solution - I'm not sure if its the board.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messag [...] TARTPAGE=1

In there - someone with a similar build states replacing the ram solved his problem. I don't know the brand you have - but my cheap Crucial type is the same as theirs.

Yea, I'm thinking of going with one of those "approved" corsairs. There's a rebate today with http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] _-20145260

EDIT:Appears to be faulty Crucial ram.....can anyone confirm this?

I'm having the exact same problem.....same board with a Core i5. I'm glad I found this thread. Did you every get a new board and see if that fixed it?

It seems that the board freaks out with ram is installed, constantly restarting. I thought it was a heatsink issue for a while, but I have re-applied thermal paste and the re-installed the heatsink per Arctic Silver's guidelines more than a couple of times.

Bad batch of boards, maybe that is why Gigabyte is taking so long to respond to my question via their tech support zone.

Let me know if you got a new board and if it works.

P.s. - I'm using this Crucial RAM.

It is more than likely either the board or the ram..........

BrittMatt - that's unfortunate that you choose to RMA the board instead of the ram.....BUT at least we will all know which one is to blame after you get your new board and try it with the Crucial ram again. I hope it works out, but either way let us know! A lot of people are stumped by this mobo/ram combination.

When do you expect to be getting the new board in??

Have you come across this?
http://forums.anandtech.com/messag [...] id=2334826
I suppose there's no way into the BIOS, so you can't flash at this point, but, with these boards, it appears to be important to keep up with BIOS revisions as they become available - I try to keep 'em up-to-date here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/263130-30-mobos

Chito123 - Could you give a link to the ram that you have (from www.newegg.com)...because it sounds like the ram that fixed another's problem.

I think ram is the issue, I just want to see the exact ram you have that failed because in this post one had swapped the non-working Crucial ram for this Corsair ram. I just wanna make sure your ram isn't the same......cause that would throw a wrench in my whole "this Crucial ram is the problem" idea.

Thanks, funkswing

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 3x6g1600c9

This is the memory I have purchased.
I have tested my system with some other memory module (memory from an HP desktop with ddr3 8500), which ended up with the same result. (boot for 10 seconds then the pc turned off itself)

This is why i highly suspect it is not the problem of the memory, but rather it is the motherboard itself.

Paul Proteus -

Did you every pick up any of that Corsair XMS ram and get it working with the GA-P55M-UD2 board?

I thinking about going to microcenter and picking that ram up (CMX4GX3M2A1600C). I'm sick of having this brick lying around and it sounds like switching ram is the answer.


By the way, I'm having the same problem with the same cheap Crucial ram and that UD2 board.


Thanks

Yea, I ordered the same Ram as you this past Sunday - hopefully it gets in tomorrow (damn DHL giving it to UspS =/).

I have my hopes up - at least this seems to have been worked out. The first few days trying to figure this problem out almost made me rip my hair out.

Hmmm, i have the sme problem, i am using Geli DDR3 1333.
I am also getting the continual boot issue, and i am using the P55-UD4 board.

I used the following without any boot issues in a Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2:
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820231277