crispyambulance
Veteran X
So, I built a new computer recently (as evidenced by the topic a little further down the page that I figured might be inappropriate for this and too old) with a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L and an E8400 (rest of specs at bottom). The build went mostly fine, except I had this issue where when I turned the computer off it would not post when next I hit the power switch. With some experimentation I found that if I turned off and on the power supply it would boot again, but, obviously, such was hardly convenient.
With some research I gathered that there have been BIOS problems with my motherboard and the e8400, so I attempted to reflash the BIOS (from version F6 to F8a) with Gigabyte's through-Windows utility which seemed to work OK. However, now that my booting problem was solved, I would enter values for the CPU settings, etc, trying to clock the thing around maybe 3.5GHz (which my computer did before the reflash), but when I restarted afterward, it said that the RAM was running at 800MHz, which was lower than what I specified. In Windows, then, I checked the CPU's clock with Orthos and CPU-Z, and it said a neat and default 3.00GHz.
I was perhaps slightly disturbed to say the least, so I spent the next however long messing with the BIOS more, but nothing worked. In fact, I don't know what setting I tripped, but the memory became clocked at 667MHz rather than 800MHz arbitrarily, and more fiddling was of no use.
After a time, I decided that maybe it was that I used a through-Windows utility to flash the thing, which appears on the internet to not be recommended. I then reflashed the BIOS with f8a, which ended up not helping either, and F6, wondering if my previously OC friendly version would still work, through the "Q-Flash" on my motherboard or whatever. The F6 version still had the same problem of ignoring my settings along with the booting issues, and at this point I just figured I'd redo F8a again, but the Q-Flash ceased detecting my thumb-drive which I installed from. With this I used the Windows-based utility again, which didn't fail, again, as far as I can tell, and the computer still sits at the default everything (though the memory is back at 800MHz, at least).
I have spent quite a bit of time searching on google and the like, and I couldn't find anything (I couldn't even find anything on my initial boot problems with BIOS F6; I had just heard of people having compatibility issues with the E8400 and my motherboard). I'm getting a little peevish, etc. Help would be greatly appreciated.
Specs:
Core 2 Duo E8400
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
Radeon HD3850 256MB
Fortron 450W power supply
2GB (among 2 sticks) Mushkin RAM
(Any more specifications will be gladly divulged).
Edit: Last night I attempted to reset the CMOS with a screwdriver and nothing.
Is it possible that I damaged something when updating the BIOS the first time? You think Newegg will buy this for an RMA? (I used Gigabyte's utility, etc.).
With some research I gathered that there have been BIOS problems with my motherboard and the e8400, so I attempted to reflash the BIOS (from version F6 to F8a) with Gigabyte's through-Windows utility which seemed to work OK. However, now that my booting problem was solved, I would enter values for the CPU settings, etc, trying to clock the thing around maybe 3.5GHz (which my computer did before the reflash), but when I restarted afterward, it said that the RAM was running at 800MHz, which was lower than what I specified. In Windows, then, I checked the CPU's clock with Orthos and CPU-Z, and it said a neat and default 3.00GHz.
I was perhaps slightly disturbed to say the least, so I spent the next however long messing with the BIOS more, but nothing worked. In fact, I don't know what setting I tripped, but the memory became clocked at 667MHz rather than 800MHz arbitrarily, and more fiddling was of no use.
After a time, I decided that maybe it was that I used a through-Windows utility to flash the thing, which appears on the internet to not be recommended. I then reflashed the BIOS with f8a, which ended up not helping either, and F6, wondering if my previously OC friendly version would still work, through the "Q-Flash" on my motherboard or whatever. The F6 version still had the same problem of ignoring my settings along with the booting issues, and at this point I just figured I'd redo F8a again, but the Q-Flash ceased detecting my thumb-drive which I installed from. With this I used the Windows-based utility again, which didn't fail, again, as far as I can tell, and the computer still sits at the default everything (though the memory is back at 800MHz, at least).
I have spent quite a bit of time searching on google and the like, and I couldn't find anything (I couldn't even find anything on my initial boot problems with BIOS F6; I had just heard of people having compatibility issues with the E8400 and my motherboard). I'm getting a little peevish, etc. Help would be greatly appreciated.
Specs:
Core 2 Duo E8400
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
Radeon HD3850 256MB
Fortron 450W power supply
2GB (among 2 sticks) Mushkin RAM
(Any more specifications will be gladly divulged).
Edit: Last night I attempted to reset the CMOS with a screwdriver and nothing.
Is it possible that I damaged something when updating the BIOS the first time? You think Newegg will buy this for an RMA? (I used Gigabyte's utility, etc.).
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