Computer will not power on after Upgrade

[sze5003]

Well I am up and running with the i7 6700k , 16gb of ram, and the gigabyte gaming 7 board. I have no internet coming from the Ethernet port so I'm using the install CD to install drivers. The BIOS is a bit of a pain and mouse is clunky. I'm on f7 bios by the way. Maybe I should update that when I have internet.

I may need to do a clean windows install too but I have 4 hard drives in this thing. I set the profile in bios to profile 1 and it set my ram to the speed of 3000.

 

[UsandThem]

In Gigabyte BIOS, the keyboard is your friend, not the mouse. Asus has them beat in that regard.

Install the drivers from the disc if you have to, but they are probably severely outdated compared to what's on the website.

But at least it is working!

A tip for you, but you don't have to do it if you don't want to, is some of the Gigabyte utilities are a little wacky/resource hogs. The only two I have installed after removing several of them are:

1. App center
2. SIV (System Information Viewer)

With those two you can check to see if your drivers are up-to-date, and in SIV you can mess around with your fan profiles and see your temps/specs.

The @Bios is ok, but I just flash from within the BIOS with the file one a USB drive.

 

[sze5003]

In Gigabyte BIOS, the keyboard is your friend, not the mouse. Asus has them beat in that regard.

Install the drivers from the disc if you have to, but they are probably severely outdated compared to what's on the website.

But at least it is working!

A tip for you, but you don't have to do it if you don't want to, is some of the Gigabyte utilities are a little wacky/resource hogs. The only two I have installed after removing several of them are:

1. App center
2. SIV (System Information Viewer)

With those two you can check to see if your drivers are up-to-date, and in SIV you can mess around with your fan profiles and see your temps/specs.

The @Bios is ok, but I just flash from within the BIOS with the file one a USB drive.

Thanks for the heads up. The audio on this thing is great. Man it's way better than my asrock and I'm using 2 speakers and a sub. I connected the port to the 5.1 jack but I can also use the 2.1 jack as well. At one point I had no audio after a reboot out of bios. Had to unplug and replug my cord.

I'll download those two apps soon. I kind of want to do a clean install of Windows and start fresh but I have a ton of apps installed on my data drive that are linked from my main ssd. Will have to sort that out.

The only thing I hated was the installation of the board in my case. I dropped a screw several times into the white shroud. Had to get it out slowly and then it fell into the case twice more.

Whoever decided to put that one upper left stand off hole so close to the shroud should be fired. It took me and my date who was over at the time a good 10 minutes trying to line things up and get that last screw in.

Oh and the back panel io led connecter, my god that was difficult to get connected. I have skinny fingers and I still couldn't get it until I ever so slowly lowered it into the pins. I'm pretty sure I'm certified now to remove a nuclear core or perform neurosurgery with how steady I had to be with my fingers.

Other than that the board seems like a solid build. The secure gpu connections are nice too. The debug and oc/eco button are nice as well to have. I'm also glad they included a pin holder for the power and reset switches, makes it much easier. I am stumped as to why my Psu does not have hd led cables. They must be buried somewhere in the wires at the bottom.

Next thing to add is a new gpu and im all set. Let's hope this board won't give me any trouble while I'm still within the 15/30 day window.

 

[UsandThem]

The Hdd LED cable to connect to F-Panel on the motherboard should come from your case cables, and not the PSU. Or did you mean something else?

 

[sze5003]

The Hdd LED cable to connect to F-Panel on the motherboard should come from your case cables, and not the PSU. Or did you mean something else?

Yea HDD led cables were the ones I could not find. They are probably hidden somewhere within my wire mess. I really should get a modular psu if I find a deal on one.

Have you used any of the over clocking features? Mine has this performance increase selection where you can choose a 20-100% performance rate. I wonder how safe that is. I might try and get this CPU to 4.5ghz although I'm sure it will be fine the way it is now.

 

[UsandThem]

Yeah, I messed around with it a little bit. They make it pretty easy to overclock with auto thing, and my board actually has a button I can push on the motherboard.

After trying it, I just moved it back to stock for now. I have a quiet home office, so I use Noctua fans spinning at relatively low RPMs so I don't hear fan noise while I work. I found I needed to increase the fan RPM with the overclock (nothing major, but enough where I began to hear them), and since I don't care about benchmarks, I just moved it back to stock. I do more photo/video editing than gaming at this point.

In 3-4 years, if needs to be overclocked to keep up with the latest/greatest, I might possibly move it back up. Honestly, if the i7-6700 was clocked the same as the 6700k, I most likely would have just saved the $40.

I guess I am really just not much into overclocking like I was when I first started out. Back when you were overclocking a Celeron 300 or a AMD Athlon days, the difference was huge. It sometimes made the difference between smooth gaming or stuttering. Now it's like "Yay, I get 125 FPS in the game instead of 115!"

Any current overclockers that reads this post and thinks it's such a waste to not overclock when it is so easy now, you will eventually get old too

 

[Bubblehappy]

Building a system when your date is over, I love it!

 

[UsandThem]

Building a system when your date is over, I love it!

I thought the same thing. That's what you call a keeper!

I don't think my wife would have agreed to marry me if I had involved her in my computer building/tinkering back in 2000

 

[sze5003]

Building a system when your date is over, I love it!

She was actually pretty interested in it. Kept trying to touch stuff while the mobo was out the case and hooked up for testing. I was so afraid she would short something or get her hair in something. Quite a few women are really surprised you can build a computer just from parts, at least to her it seemed cool.

Thanks for the help guys, appreciate everyone taking the time to point out these useful tips.

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

Ahh, geek love is in bloom!

I think my wife is pretty tired of my ability to build things from scratch. I have like 10 boxes of parts in my office that i use for various builds. She always says, "do you need ALL of this stuff?". My reply is generally "do you NEED that many shoes?"

Of course she didn't complain when I remodeled the bathroom from the ground up in 2 weekends...she's good with that skill.

 

[sze5003]

I did a clean install of Windows and downloaded all the drivers from gigabyte. I ran app center and updated everything.

Weird thing is the gigabyte SIV won't open. I click it and it seems to try to open but i don't see anything.

 

[UsandThem]

Are you opening it from the start menu? If so, it automatically minimizes down to your notification area

Click on app center there, and then you should be able to click on SIV to open it.

If that doesn't work, you might have to uninstall siv and the app center, and reinstall them.

You did install the Microsoft .Net thing before you installed the app center, right?

 

[sze5003]

I have tried uninstalling SIV and reinstalling it from the website as well as from the app center. Also uninstalled and reinstalled the app center.

I click app center and I know it opens because it's in the bottom right. I can use the live update and go to settings,etc.

When I click SIV I get the loading mouse icon then a small blip flash on the task bar for a second then nothing. I had task manager opened to see if it actually opens and I can see something under the app center process in task manager but then it quickly disappears.

.net was installed through windows and it said I had a newer version so it would not install the package from gigabyte website.

Tried searching in Google and didn't get any hits with a similar situation that's happening to me.

 

[UsandThem]

Yeah, I don't know what the issue would be then.

Are you doing all of this under an administrative account, and not just using a limited account putting the admin password in when installing or using?

 

[sze5003]

Yup it's the only account I have and it's admin. I'll try uninstalling app center again. I know when I first installed it via the download from the driver website it had asked me to update the app center. Maybe I should not have updated it.