Geesum, so I now have ANOTHER PC issue.... this is really grating me to bits!
My gaming rig, with no warning or anything, now when I turn it on it's starts at the POST screen and goes as far as showing the text "Memory" and then never doing it's thing counting the memory. Because it can't get past that it's hasn't yet loaded up the KB or mouse so that is nothing I can do.
I then tried taking out all the ram and re-insterting it, tried using 1 RAM stick in each one of the slots, tried exactly the same with other RAM sticks. All no different result.
So I reset the BIOS in the PC, now at least it shows a different startup screen (some horrid gigabyte thing) but again gets stuck so I believe it's exactly the same thing.
What would have happened here? Do I need to replace my mobo (AGAIN!)?
Do not allow your pet goblin to play with his soldering iron on your motherboard. I believe this is the source of the problems you are experiencing.
And it does indeed sound like a replacement is necessary :(
Although you can often figure out the problem yourself, I've always found it easiest just to go into a local PC shop, they have motherboards lying around with which they can test each component, and generally at no cost, although you are half obliged to buy the required component from them.
Ja, that dam goblin, I know I should have traded it for Gollum.
Shite, another dam mobo! Jislaiik, this is irritating me! Not the thing I want to spending hard earned moolah on right now.
Well what mobo is it? If it isn't an asus then I can understand why you having so many problems with it.
What PSU do you have? Often when you have a high spec pc with an el cheapo PSU the motherboard is bound to go at one point or another. And replacing that just leads to the next one going cause the rest of the parts are still the same.
LOL, the mobo is another Gigabyte, the 3rd that this PC has eaten.
The PSU is a 650watt Raidmax modular PSU.
The PC is running:
Core 2 Duo 2.4
8 Gigs Corsair dominator RAM (4 x 2 gig sticks)
8800GTX
1T seagate HDD
320G Seagate HDD
Creative X-Fi elite
Must be the $hi++y gigabyte mobo's then. that card is rather power hungry but you do have a decent PSU so that's certainly not the reason. Just to be certain, how many amps do you have on the +12v rails?
Gigabyte isn't all that bad. They do actually make good boards ;)
Still, I'm not sure if I'd ever buy anything other than an ASUS board - I'm completely smitten by their quality, features, and stability.
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