Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 + E8500 C0 woes

Discussion in 'Gigabyte' started by Les Matthew, Mar 18, 2009.

  1. Les Matthew

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    I've had this motherboard running for about three months with an E6600
    crunching folding@home no problems with the F8 BIOS.

    I've also had the E8500 in an Asus P5K for the same period of time also
    crunching folding@home with no problems either.

    X38-DQ6 was flashed with the F8 BIOS when I initially installed the
    E8500 this morning, power on and all I get is all the fans
    start-stop-start-stop ad infinitum with no post or boot.

    So, flashed with the latest f9f beta BIOS and it still does the same.
    Power on, all fans spin up for a second then stop, rinse and repeat...

    Tried it with two different lots of memory,
    some corsair dominator CM2X1024-8500C5D and some corsair M2X1024-6400C4.

    CMOS has been cleared, cables etc checked also.

    The GA-X38-DQ6 PCB has "REV: 1.0" marked on it.

    Enermax 625Watt MODU82+ Psu
    Geforce 7900GS vid
    160GB WD HDD
    DVD-ROM
    floppy


    Not impressed, an Asus motherboard that cost half the price of of the
    Gigabyte
    runs with the E8500 aok and the X38-DQ6 barfs.


    Anybody got any ideas?

    les...
     
    Les Matthew, Mar 18, 2009
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