Just got a new motherboard. Its a Gigabyte GA-970A-D3, Rev 3.0. Installed in on my PC.
When I turned it on for the first time, it did NOT go to the Gigabyte POST screen as expected. Instead it beeped once and just booted the operating system. In the OS, I saw that the OS recognized the attached hard disks, but did not recognize USB devices.
Rebooted it and got a similar result. It never displayed the POST screen, just booted.
Tried again, this time pressing the DEL key to try to go to the BIOS screen. Instead of the BIOS screen, it went to a blank blue screen. The system froze here, and could not be rebooted or powered off until the power supply was powered down.
Detached everything from the motherboard and tried with a minimal configuration - memory, video card, and keyboard. Got same results.
Tried reseeding the memory. Same result. Tried with only one memory module instead of two. Same result.
I decided to try to clear the CMOS. Turned off power, unplugged the PC, and connected the CLR_CMOS jumpers as instructed in the motherboard manual.
Since then, when I now power on, the PC beeps once and immediately goes to that blank blue screen. No POST, no booting, no nothing.
At this point, I'm not sure what to do. It seems likely to me that I got a bad board. But I'm not 100% sure. I guess it COULD be the PSU or possibly the CPU or memory.
I should say at this point -- the PSU was working fine with my old motherboard. And the CPU and memory were working fine on the previous motherboard.
I don't have another PSU to try. Just ordered one just to make sure that's not the problem. I wasn't sure what else to do.
Has anyone else experience something like this? Any ideas of what it might be and what I might try to fix it? Am I missing something here?
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3, Rev 3.0.
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
Video: ASUS EN210 SILENT/DI/1GD3/V2(LP) GeForce 210 1GB 64-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16
When I turned it on for the first time, it did NOT go to the Gigabyte POST screen as expected. Instead it beeped once and just booted the operating system. In the OS, I saw that the OS recognized the attached hard disks, but did not recognize USB devices.
Rebooted it and got a similar result. It never displayed the POST screen, just booted.
Tried again, this time pressing the DEL key to try to go to the BIOS screen. Instead of the BIOS screen, it went to a blank blue screen. The system froze here, and could not be rebooted or powered off until the power supply was powered down.
Detached everything from the motherboard and tried with a minimal configuration - memory, video card, and keyboard. Got same results.
Tried reseeding the memory. Same result. Tried with only one memory module instead of two. Same result.
I decided to try to clear the CMOS. Turned off power, unplugged the PC, and connected the CLR_CMOS jumpers as instructed in the motherboard manual.
Since then, when I now power on, the PC beeps once and immediately goes to that blank blue screen. No POST, no booting, no nothing.
At this point, I'm not sure what to do. It seems likely to me that I got a bad board. But I'm not 100% sure. I guess it COULD be the PSU or possibly the CPU or memory.
I should say at this point -- the PSU was working fine with my old motherboard. And the CPU and memory were working fine on the previous motherboard.
I don't have another PSU to try. Just ordered one just to make sure that's not the problem. I wasn't sure what else to do.
Has anyone else experience something like this? Any ideas of what it might be and what I might try to fix it? Am I missing something here?
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3, Rev 3.0.
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
Video: ASUS EN210 SILENT/DI/1GD3/V2(LP) GeForce 210 1GB 64-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16