Redshirt #24
2[H]4U
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This UD5 I bought about a month ago does one extremely annoying thing: it randomly (usually when waking it up from sleep, but sometimes on a cold boot) will go into a loop where it powers on and off at about fifteen second intervals without ever making it to POST. Powering it off fully for about a minute will allow it to POST and boot normally, and it's generally fine once it boots (there's the odd lockup in Windows, but that's Windows).
From what little I've been able to find about this issue, it hints at it being either a motherboard or RAM issue...so by process of elimination I've
1. removed two of the four 4GB sticks of Corsair Vengeance DDR3 I was using;
2. updated the backup BIOS to F10 (and just recently updated the main BIOS to F12);
3. removed the CMOS battery entirely for about four hours to clear it, and left all CPU/memory/voltage settings the hell alone afterwards; and
3. replaced the RAM entirely with 16GB of Samsung LP DDR3, though it's apparently chugging along at 1.5v like the Corsair DDR3 was
all to no avail. I'm going to be swapping out the power supply for a 1000w I bought from matrix563 immediately after posting this, just to be absolutely sure that's not somehow messing things up, but am I likely right in assuming that the board is just plain screwed in the head?
From what little I've been able to find about this issue, it hints at it being either a motherboard or RAM issue...so by process of elimination I've
1. removed two of the four 4GB sticks of Corsair Vengeance DDR3 I was using;
2. updated the backup BIOS to F10 (and just recently updated the main BIOS to F12);
3. removed the CMOS battery entirely for about four hours to clear it, and left all CPU/memory/voltage settings the hell alone afterwards; and
3. replaced the RAM entirely with 16GB of Samsung LP DDR3, though it's apparently chugging along at 1.5v like the Corsair DDR3 was
all to no avail. I'm going to be swapping out the power supply for a 1000w I bought from matrix563 immediately after posting this, just to be absolutely sure that's not somehow messing things up, but am I likely right in assuming that the board is just plain screwed in the head?