Hey guys,

Last night I was updating some drivers on my comp and rebooted, it went to the bio screen but just sat there forever, so I shut it down and when I turned it back on, it will fire up the fans and LEDs but then restart, and keeps on doing this.

Doesn't even allow the mouse or keyboard to turn on, let alone anything to pop up on the screen.

I checked around for similar issues and tried clearing my CMOS manually (hit the clear switch on my mobo, and also reseating the battery)

Nothing.

So then I unplugged the 8 pin CPU power cable and started it up and it DOESNT restart... But, obviously it wont do anything else..

I then tried the opposite and unplugged the vid card power, and the HDD's as well as the CD drive. Leaving only the CPU power connected + the mobo power connected, and it then goes back to looping again.

From the jist of it all, it seems like it could be the mobo, cpu, or the psu.... but everything gets power just fine and it seems to only get in the loop when the CPU is powered...

I even tried reseating the RAM, vid card, and the CPU + powersink but no avail.

Please help me out here guys!

SPECS:
ASUS Striker II Formula LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard

XFX PVT98FYDBU GeForce 9800 GTX Black Edition 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor

OCZ Platinum 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel

Have you tried to set bios to default?

I'm thinking it's not defaulting to the correct settings/speeds/voltages.

Quote: Originally Posted by Slaymate I'm thinking it's not defaulting to the correct settings/speeds/voltages.

Yeah it sounds like an Overclock problem, my Evga 780i does exactly that sometimes....

Try to unplug your power supply , take the battery out, hold reset button on mobo in for like 30 sec, put battery back in, hold reset for another 30 sec, plug psu back in, and try to start it.
Go straight into BIOS and choose default settings....

Sounds weird, but it works on my EVGA 780....

Quote: Originally Posted by BeetleMan Yeah it sounds like an Overclock problem, my Evga 780i does exactly that sometimes.... Try to unplug your power supply , take the battery out, hold reset button on mobo in for like 30 sec, put battery back in, hold reset for another 30 sec, plug psu back in, and try to start it. Go straight into BIOS and choose default settings.... Sounds weird, but it works on my EVGA 780....

Ya, my old 780i did that a few times. I just removed the battery and power for a few hours. When I tried it again it still wouldn't work, but a few hours later it would just started acting like it never had a problem. Of course it died a few months later but I just RMA'd it.

If your board is out of warranty then you should go with a P45 or X48 chipset unless your using SLI as DDR3 is pretty cheap at the moment. If you want SLI then the 790i with DDR3 is your best option short of building a i7 920 X58 PC

Turns out guys it's a RAM slot that went bad, caused my board or comp to short. How I found this out was I removed one RAM stick and it worked!

So then I swapped that RAM stick with the one I took out and it still worked, thus my RAM itself was fine, then when I put it back into the dual channel slot, it went right back to rebooting like mad.

So now I unfortunately have my 4gig on single channel, and I'll still need a new board eventually if i wanna upgrade more RAM but at least I don't absolutely NEED any new replacements right now.

Thanks for the feedback guys!