Dead 965p-ds3. Help.

[newschool]

My 965p-sd3 rev3.3 wont boot at all anymore. cannot even enter bios.
When I turn on the computer, all the fans start for 0.5s then shutdown. If I try to start up again nothing happens. I have to disconnect power supply to have the same false boot cycle happens if I try again.

I removed the vga card, the cdrom, the hardrive and tryed only one RAM stick on different slots. So its the motherboard or the powersupply. The PS is a Corsair 520hx so great quality by seasonic. Its not hot, doesn't make noises and doesn't smell... Before I RMA the motherboard I want you opinions.

 

[Ricochet]

Have you tried flashing the BIOS? It's a small jumper (your manual will show you where it is). Also, you mentioned that you removed the VGA card. How are you connecting your monitor if you do this?

Edit: Whoops, I meant clear CMOS. Thanks for the correction, ionoxx.

 

[ionoxx]

Originally posted by: ricochet
Have you tried flashing the BIOS? It's a small jumper (your manual will show you where it is). Also, you mentioned that you removed the VGA card. How are you connecting your monitor if you do this?

That would be Clear CMOS... do that. Or unplug computer and remove the small battery for 10 minutes or so as well as changing that jumper from pin 1-2 to 2-3 for 10 seconds.

Leave your video card in, that will also prevent it from posting, but at that point you will get a post beep error.

 

[newschool]

My first reaction when the PC stopped to boot was to clear the CMOS, by shorting the small jumper under the PCI-E slot. I can say that the CMOS got cleard properly because normally I start the PC with the keyboard after clearing the CMOS I can't. But the motherboard didnt boot even with the CMOS cleared.

I removed the battery during the night and the problem was still here in the morning. I removed the graphic card just to check if it was part of the problem but it didnt change anything.

I dont even have post beeps, the motherboard is on for like 0.5s when I power on then it just shut down.

Thats why I think its either the motherboard or powersupply. Considering the RMA shipping cost for the MB is cheaper, I contacted gigabyte and they gave me a RMA number. Too bad I can't get a P35 board even if I asked to pay the price difference if there was one.

2 replies in less then one day, thanks guys its always a great forum here.

 

[newschool]

I just checked the shipping cost for my motherboard (I pay the shipping to gigabyte in california), and Im wondering if I should just get a P35 cheap board.

I live in Quebec, Canada and shipping is like 30$