975X with 6600 in restart loop

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kenc3dan

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My new MSI 975X just restarts over and over again.
Just got it and a 6600 and 2GB of 4-4-4-12 DDR2 800 RAM.
Worked for a few hours.
Now it doesn't even POST.
Powers up, powers down...repeat.
Arg!
Any ideas? I've disconnected everything and still no luck.
Thanks!
 
i bet u tried changing the memory divider right? well even if you didnt thers a ton of ppl having this problem and a ton of other problems with this board. Some ppl have got it to stop doin that temporarily by powering it off on the PSU while its in the reboot loop and then clearing the cmos. Thers a few of us trying to get this crap worked out and I will leave the link to the thread so you can read up and add your stuff to there too. Make sure to read thru the last 7 pages at least.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=110054&page=14

The way its looking right now the board is a complete piece of crap and needs a huge bios update to fix a ton of issues, anoyne who has not baught this board yet and is thinking about it I suggest you dont.
 
Did you try the "Stop on keyboard error" setting to don't stop booting for any errors ?
 
Core 2 Extreme said:
The way its looking right now the board is a complete piece of crap and needs a huge bios update to fix a ton of issues, anoyne who has not baught this board yet and is thinking about it I suggest you dont.
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That would be me! lol... im looking at the Foxconn 975X7AB now
 
Thanks for the help everyone. I can't actually ever get past POST or into the BIOS screen so I can't change any settings and hitting the BIOS reset switch doesn't help, nor does powering down during startup. Nor does removing the battery and letting it sit.
This thing is definitely screwed up from a hardware standpoint at a level someplace below the BIOS level, if that makes any sense. Got an Asus P5WDH today and that works fine with all the same parts. I can't see any alternative but to RMA the board and hope to get my money back or an exchange for an Asus. I say screw this thing but that's just a sample of one.
 
Did you plug in the 4 pin power connector to the motherboard right above the PCI Express slot, that might be the problem if you did not.
Mine is running fine except wired processor problems,like temperature are showing 123f then -123f then 42, 23, 3 etc.
 
Yup, got all of the power connectors going including the 4-pin molex one. RMA time for this sucker. Really happy with my new P5W DH Deluxe though!
Not liking the flaky nature of the Big Typhoon, there is simply no way to know how tight to make it, it torques the board big time even when mounted loosely just by sheer leverage. Gotta get a desktop case I suppose. :rolleyes:
 
MSI 975X Powerup Edition With new BIOS Beta 714 @ 2.55ghz E6300
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ya new bios helped a little not too much tho, still need to poweroff after goin into bios which is ghay as hell, ram timings jump around on their own, dual core center still miss reads half the things, ram only reads up to 3 gigs in bios, ide2 does not recognize ooptical devices, nothing has been fixed on the OC side but a 10fsb increase and there are still some other minor issues as well. I say they still got a ways to go before this thing is up to par.
 
The guy at Xtremesystems, left the memory on auto and got up to 430FSB.

I will try mine in the lunch break. I was using 1:1 setting, in the BIOS for memory. Should i disable some thing else besides Spread Spectrum in BIOS.
 
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