New System Woes

[Catch22.ian]

Hi all

Thought I would treat myself to a new System - After tom's £600 gamer review - I brought :

Gladiator Core i3 540 Pre-Built Overclocked Bundle

added a EVGA GTX460 SC EE G/card and a 520W Antec High Current Gamer PSU - Ialready had a HDD.

But there seems to be a problem the system - It won't boot straight off - just restarts - and when it does restart it's without the overclock.

when I go back into the bios and save the "aria" settings - it seems to work ok.

From then on- It seems stable - it's just seems to be the inital power on.

so the question is - should I RMA it ? - or fiddle with it a little 1st to see if I can stablise it myself.

any thoughts would be appreciated.

 

[SieB]

Just did a quick Google search and that motherboard seems to have cold boot problems, have you tried updating the BIOS?

 

[Catch22.ian]

I believe it's on the latest version already :-(

 

[SieB]

I believe it's on the latest version already :-(

Check to see if it is or not because a BIOS update could fix it but apart from that it looks like RMA unless someone else knows something that could help.

The Google search I did was "Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H cold boot problem" and as you can tell from the results it's a known prob, I haven't read any of the links though so give them a read as well in case someone has a fix there.

 

[Catch22.ian]

ok - update - there was a new version out f11 - which I applied - but appear to have lost all my overclocking settings.

Will have to try and get the clock settings off aria.

 

[SieB]

ok - update - there was a new version out f11 - which I applied - but appear to have lost all my overclocking settings.

Will have to try and get the clock settings off aria.

Make a thread in the aria section about the settings RawZ might be able to help you.

http://forum.overclock3d.net/index.php?/forum/102-aria-pc-technology-customer-care/

Did the BIOS update fix the problem?

 

[Catch22.ian]

I booted it up this morning and it booted fine - before I left for work.

So it could be the overclocking settings causing it to play up.

will try it again when I've got the settings from aria.

Thanks for your help

 

[Catch22.ian]

ok - Aria are going to send me some - settings in a file I can apply - but might need to be tweaked to make it stable.

will let you know How I get on

 

[Catch22.ian]

Before I had chance to apply the overclocking settings to the m/b - it failed with a primary BIOS failure :-( - so looks like it was faulty after all - will be RMA'ing it next week.

It does boot up not past the bios failure - but is very unstable.

 

[SieB]

Bad luck mate, at least you know it's just the board and nothing else hopefully you won't have to wait long to get a new one sent to you.

 

[Catch22.ian]

Hi all - thought I'd update my post.

The system board RMA took longer than expected for a couple of reasons.

1. my appendix decided to inflame itself and beg to be removed :-( - so was in hospital for a few days.

2. it was sent off over the BH period - just my luck.

Anyway - I have the system board back now - after contacting ARIA - it appears all they did was to update the BIOS again then re-apply the over clock.

I'm still experiencing the cold boot issues however.

not sure what to do next - RMA it again ? - or leave it as a annoyance.

 

[yggdrasil]

Hope you are all better dude, I have a mate with a sabortooth mobo and he also has EVGA 460's and same issues, It won't boot cold and some times wont boot at all for a while.

It has been returned with the video cards for testing, Do you have a another video card sitting around to test in it? see how that goes. I think it will fix it. Touch wood.

 

[Catch22.ian]

Things seem to go from bad to worse - I've RMA'd my M/B back to aria for the 2nd time due to the consistent cold boot issues.

It arrived at ARIA minus one of the SATA clips from the M/B - They were all on the board when I packaged it up - but it appears to be lost in transit - It wasn't in the box when it was unpacked at aria.

They'll still test it despite the missing clip - and if it fails try and send it back to Gigabyte.

They did say that Gigabyte might refuse to replace it as it's been physically damaged.

Looks like I might have to buy another M/B if they don't accept it - all because of a small piece of plastic :-( - Not happy.

I brought the 520W Antec High Current Gamer HCG-520 for my system - this couldn't be causing the cold boot issues could it ? - I thought 520W from Antec would be powerful enough.

 

[neoguyver1]

wrong post smiley edit!

 

[Lexxikonn]

I really hate having to RMA stuff... Really bad luck dude, genuinely sorry for ya.

 

[tonkin97]

i was going to say get a more powerfull psu, or the psu could be faulty. i had a issue with my old amd machien it started doing the cold boot thing about 2 years ago, i thought it was the board showing its age. but it was the psu in its death throws. only way to try it is get a other psu if your replacement still does the same.