Gigabyte 965P DS4 DOA ?

[Sleepyghost]

Perhaps pros around here can notice my problem easily, to me it is a mystery. Sorry if this has been covered many times already.

It's not booting into bios. Power comes on, all fans start but monitor stays blank. Could this be a dead board, memory issue or maybe even a dead processor?

This is my first intel board and I'm a worried about how tight the loading plate, once closed, pushes the processor into it's slot. One of the steps I will take later is check if the pins under CPU are still okay.

I have tested with two video cards and they both work in my older system. I have tried with two ram sticks in and with just one. The ram I have should work on this board accorrding to a memory thread on Xtreme Systems forums - even though it's default voltage is 1.9V and the DS4 has 1.8V as default. I don't have other memory to test with. PSU (revision A4) should be fine as this is no Asus board(reported problems with older PSU revisions).

I have the following:

Gigabyte 965P-DS4
Conroe E6400 & Scythe Ninja+
Corsair Twinx2x2048-6400 2GB 1.9V
Antec Neo HE 430W (ver. A4, the latest)
Asus 6600GT / Sapphire x1900xt
Seagate 7200.10 200GB

Thank you kindly for any advice. I'll try clearing the CMOS next.

 

[modestninja]

Try getting some other slower ram to test in there. I had the same issue with my DS3 and pc6400 ram. I tried putting in some slower ddr2 ram to test with and it posted and booted up without a problem. That's about the only way to tell whether it's the mobo or RAM.

PS: I you don't have any slow RAM around, 'rent' some from BB or another store with a decent return policy. Just make sure you return before the return period is up.

 

[ds2004]

Hi sleepyghost, did you have any luck with your problem? I'm experiencing the same thing. Power comes on, fans spin up (inc. CPU fan) but a blank screen on my display. I have:

Gigabyte 965P-DS4
Conroe E6400
Corsair Value Ram VS1GBKIT667D2 (DDR2-667 2x512MB)
Asus 7300GS PCIE
Antec Neo HE 430W
Seagate 72100.10 250GB

I've disconected everything that's not required to reach a startup screen, but still no joy. I'm not sure how to narrow it down to one component.

Thanks for any help.