Stuck on POST

[ShaunB-91]

Afternoon all/Morning Yanks,

 

My rig gets stuck on the Gigabyte POST screen almost everytime I turn my rig on now. Its fine once I press restart but after powering off and turning on again I get the problem again. Does anybody have any idea what this is? My rig specs are in my profile...

 

Thanks

[killcomic]

Used to happen to me when one of my drives was on it's way to HDD heaven. 

Got any USB storage devices attached? Could be that too.

[ShaunB-91]

Please don't say that! I've got the Corsair 128GB pen drive thing attached so I could try without?

 

Edit: What tools are there that can test SSD's?

[DigitalHermit]

 

 

What do you mean by stuck?

 

Have you tried clearing the CMOS?

[ShaunB-91]

What do you mean by stuck?

 

Have you tried clearing the CMOS?

It just stays on the Gigabyte screen and won't go to Windows.

 

I've not no but I shouldn't need to as nothing has changed/tinkered with and the rig isn't OC'ed.

[RamboOC]

Try booting with one ram stick at a time and no HDD's/ SSD's connected. Try booting it up as bearbone as possible with only necessary things connected, this way it could hep out to rule out the problem. 

[DigitalHermit]

It just stays on the Gigabyte screen and won't go to Windows.

 

I've not no but I shouldn't need to as nothing has changed/tinkered with and the rig isn't OC'ed.

 

Try doing that anyway... Then disconnect all storage devices and see if the "No boot device detected." or something similar comes up...

 

I've had my Gigabyte board go bad when I switched PSUs... A simple CMOS reset fixed the problem...

[ShaunB-91]

Cheers I'll give them a go. (Cursing PC's at this point, bloody troubleshooting haha).

[RamboOC]

I would like to add that you can also try Totally ressetting the bios on a gigabyte board by holding to power button for 30 seconds. The backup bios will replace the default bios.

 

had the same problem on a gigabyte h61 board and a celeron 

[ShaunB-91]

I would like to add that you can also try Totally ressetting the bios on a gigabyte board by holding to power button for 30 seconds. The backup bios will replace the default bios.

 

had the same problem on a gigabyte h61 board and a celeron 

Hello fellow OC3D'er.

[DigitalHermit]

I would like to add that you can also try Totally ressetting the bios on a gigabyte board by holding to power button for 30 seconds. The backup bios will replace the default bios.

 

had the same problem on a gigabyte h61 board and a celeron 

 

I did not know about that...

 

Does this work with all Gigabyte motherboards? And will it work using the front I/O power button?

[ShaunB-91]

I'm not sure, I've never heard of doing that with the Z8Z board tbh.

[RamboOC]

I did not know about that...

 

Does this work with all Gigabyte motherboards? And will it work using the front I/O power button?

 

All gigabyte motherboards with dual bios have this (i think it started in 2005) 

edit: yes it works with the fromt i/o button

when bios gets corrupted it should automatically flash the bios from the backup chip onto the main chip, but it does not always work so manual flash is needed

Hello fellow OC3D'er.

 

Hey!